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    John Singleton

    American film director, screenwriter, and producer

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  1. John Daniel Singleton (January 6, 1968 – April 28, 2019) was an American director, screenwriter, and producer. He made his feature film debut writing and directing Boyz n the Hood (1991), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, becoming, at age 24, the first African American and youngest person to have ever been ...

  2. John Singleton. Writer: Boyz n the Hood. Son of Danny Singleton, a mortgage broker, and Sheila Ward, a pharmaceutical company sales executive, and raised in separate households by his unmarried parents, John Singleton attended the Film Writing Program at USC, after graduating from high school in 1986.

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  3. Apr 3, 2014 · John Singleton was born on January 6, 1968, in Los Angeles, California. His 1991 feature film debut, Boyz n the Hood, garnered an Academy Award nomination for Best Director.

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  5. Apr 29, 2019 · John Singleton, African-American Film Pioneer, Dies at 51 ... John Daniel Singleton was born on Jan. 6, 1968, in Los Angeles. His mother was a pharmaceutical sales executive, and his father, Danny ...

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  6. Apr 29, 2019 · John Singleton was the first African-American nominated for an Academy Award for best director for his 1991 movie “Boyz n the Hood.” He was also nominated for best screenplay that year.

  7. Apr 29, 2019 · Published 4:54 PM PDT, April 29, 2019. NEW YORK (AP) — Director John Singleton, who made one of Hollywood’s most memorable debuts with the Oscar-nominated “Boyz N the Hood” and continued over the following decades to probe the lives of black communities in his native Los Angeles and beyond, has died. He was 51.

  8. Apr 29, 2019 · John Singleton, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind films like Boyz n the Hood, Rosewood and Four Brothers, died Monday after suffering a stroke.He was 51. Singleton was hospitalized April 17th ...

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