Directing

Charles Burnett

born 1944 · Directing

58.2avg grm

7titles

8honors

Honors

8

2018Academy Honorary Award

1991Independent Spirit Award — Best Screenplay

1991Independent Spirit Award — Best Director

1991Maya Deren Award

1990National Society of Film Critics Award — Best Screenplay

Bio

Charles Burnett is an American film director, producer, writer, editor, actor, photographer, and cinematographer. His most popular films include Killer of Sheep (1977), My Brother’s Wedding (1983), To Sleep with Anger (1990), The Glass Shield (1994), and Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007). He has been involved in other types of motion pictures including shorts, documentaries, and a TV series. Considered by the Chicago Tribune as “one of America’s very best filmmakers”, and by the New York Times as “the nation’s least-known great filmmaker and most gifted black director”, Charles Burnett has had a long and diverse filmmaking career.

Filmography

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2020s1 title

Is That Black Enough for You?!?2022 · as Self56.5

2010s1 title

These Amazing Shadows2011 · as Self58.9

2000s1 title

The Blues2003 · as Director · series62.3

1990s2 titles

Independent Lens1999 · as Director · series63.8 T

To Sleep with Anger1990 · as Director54.8

1980s1 title

My Brother's Wedding1983 · as Director56.6

1970s1 title

Killer of Sheep1978 · as Director54.5

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Charles Burnett

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born1944

known forDirecting

titles on site7

avg GRM58.2

honors8 · Academy Honorary Award, 2018

Charles Burnett is an American film director, producer, writer, editor, actor, photographer, and cinematographer. His most popular films include Killer of Sheep (1977), My Brother’s Wedding (1983), To Sleep with Anger (1990), The Glass Shield (1994), and Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007). He has been involved in other types of motion pictures including shorts, documentaries, and a TV series. Considered by the Chicago Tribune as “one of America’s very best filmmakers”, and by the New York Times as “the nation’s least-known great filmmaker and most gifted black director”, Charles Burnett has had a long and diverse filmmaking career.

Filmography

ranked on this site

2020s

1 title

56.5Is That Black Enough for You?!?2022 · as Self

2010s

1 title

58.9These Amazing Shadows2011 · as Self

2000s

1 title

62.3The Blues2003 · as Director · series

1990s

2 titles

63.8Independent Lens1999 · as Director · series T

54.8To Sleep with Anger1990 · as Director

1980s

1 title

56.6My Brother's Wedding1983 · as Director

1970s

1 title

54.5Killer of Sheep1978 · as Director

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