2023Winner
Best Director
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Kemp Powers
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
October 30, 1973
Biography
Kemp Powers is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. He is best known for his play One Night in Miami and the 2020 film adaptation of the same name, as well as for co-directing the animated films Soul (2020) and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). His screenplay for One Night in Miami... earned him a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination at the 93rd Academy Awards, while his work on Soul made him the first African-American to co-direct a Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar feature. Powers was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 96th Academy Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kemp Powers, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Representative Works
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: "I'mma Do My Own Thing" - Interdimensional Destiny
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: Across the Worlds: Designing New Dimensions
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Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2020Winner
Best Director
Soul
2027Nominee
Best Picture
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
Career Highlights
2020Highlight
Best Writing
One Night in Miami...
2023Highlight
Best Performance
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: Obscure Spiders and Easter Eggs
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Soul
One Night in Miami...