Writer & Director, Moonlight
Barry Jenkins: Biography at a Glance
- Barry Jenkins won the Academy Award for Best Writing - Adapted Screenplay for the critically acclaimed film Moonlight, which he also directed.
- Moonlight won Best Picture at the Academy Awards and Golden Globes and earned 8 Academy Award nominations, 10 Broadcast Critics Choice Awards nominations, 6 Golden Globe nominations, and 4 BAFTA nominations.
- Jenkins also directed the Academy Award-nominated film If Beale Street Could Talk.
- He was named one of TIME magazine's 100 Most Influential People.
- Other projects include an adaptation of National Book Award winner Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad for television and a biopic about iconic choreographer Alvin Ailey.
- Jenkins is a sought-after speaker on storytelling, creativity, and black history and culture.
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Biography
Academy Award winner Barry Jenkins’ feature film debut, Medicine for Melancholy, was hailed as one of the best films of the year by The New York Times and received several Independent Spirit and Gotham Award nominations. Along with playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, Jenkins received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his second feature, the Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning Best Picture Moonlight. As well as earning eight Academy Award nominations, ten Broadcast Critics Choice Awards nominations, six Golden Globe nominations and four BAFTA nominations, Moonlight won Best Picture and Director at the Gotham Awards and Best International Film by the British Independent Film Awards. In addition to NYFCC and NBR awarding Jenkins Best Director and LAFCA naming him Best Director and the film Best Picture, Jenkins received a DGA Best Director nomination and won the WGA Award for Best Original Screenplay. His third feature, the adaptation of James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk, went on to receive three Academy Award nominations and won Best Picture at the Independent Spirit Awards. Jenkins also received the Independent Spirit Award for Best Director. Jenkins’s Walt Disney Studio’s MUFASA: The Lion King went on to become the sixth biggest release of thye year, with over $700M at the global box office. Jenkins directed Zendaya in A24’s Ronnie Spector biopic. He also co-wrote and directed Glen Powell in The Natural Order. Other work includes a biopic of famed choreographer Alvin Ailey for Searchlight Pictures.
As a producer, Jenkins and his production company PASTEL have championed emerging filmmakers, producing Charlotte Wells’ acclaimed debut Aftersun and Eva Victor’s celebrated debut Sorry, Baby, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where Victor won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. Jenkins also wrote and produced Rachel Morrison’s debut feature The Fire Inside, based on the life of Olympic gold medal–winning boxer Claressa “T-Rex” Shields.
For television, Jenkins was showrunner and co-wrote and directed all ten episodes of the critically acclaimed adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s National Book Award winning novel, The Underground Railroad. The show won the BAFTA for Best International Series and a Golden Globe for Best Limited Series/Anthology/Motion Picture Made for Television and garnered seven Primetime EMMY nominations, a PGA nomination and WGA nomination, while Jenkins won the DGA for Best Director for a TV Movie/Limited Series. Jenkins executive-produced HBO’s True Detective: Night Country, starring Jodie Foster and written and directed by Issa Lopez, which received 19 Emmy nominations. He also directed an episode in the first season of the Netflix Original Series Dear White People.
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