An evening with director John Singleton

Producer, director and screenwriter John Singleton has helped to create some of the more prominent and esteemed black films in the past decade. He exploded onto the screen with his first film, Boyz N the Hood, a tough, intelligent, plan-speaking look at friends in gang-ridden South Central L.A. He earned Oscar nominations for best original screenplay and best director, becoming the youngest director and the first African American filmmaker to do so.

Singleton has claimed numerous awards, including the LAFCA New Generation Award, the MTV Movie Award for Best New Filmmaker, the New York film Critics Award for Best new Director, the Special Award for Directorial Debut of the Year and the ShoWest Award for Screenwriter of the Year. His complete body of work was saluted by the Directors Guild of America in 2013.