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Roger Ross Williams

Roger Ross Williams

Roger Ross Williams (born September 16, 1962; Easton) is an American documentary director, producer and writer and the first African American director to win an Academy Award (Oscar), with his short film "Music by Prudence"; this film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film in 2009.

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Known For

  • God Loves Uganda
  • Discovered at Sundance
  • Tutu: The Essence of Being Human
  • Amazing Families
  • Moroccan Style
  • First Off The Tee
  • Boys Will Be Girls
  • Power, Privilege & Justice
  • Secret Son
  • Challenge America With Erin Brockovich
  • Time
  • Reagan: A Life In Pictures
  • Blackface
  • Life, Animated
  • Love to Love You, Donna Summer
  • Music by Prudence
  • New York Underground
  • The Lives They Lived
  • Gospel of Intolerance
  • Jaiquan's Sketch
  • Stamped from the Beginning
  • American Jail
  • Take Back the Harbor
  • Land of the Lost Sidekicks
  • The Apollo
  • Traveling While Black
  • Cassandro