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American filmmaker

Date of Birth: 24 August 1972
Age: 54 years old
In the rating: #49 Filmmaker

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Ava Marie DuVernay is an American filmmaker, television producer, and film publicist. She won the directing award in the U.S. dramatic competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for her second feature film Middle of Nowhere, becoming the first black woman to win the award. For her work on Selma (2014), DuVernay became the first black woman to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director, and also the first black female director to have her film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. In 2017, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for her film 13th (2016).

DuVernay's 2018 Disney children's fantasy film A Wrinkle in Time made her the first black woman to direct a live-action film earning $100 million at U.S. box office but had losses of up to $131 million. The film received mixed reviews, with critics taking issue with the film's heavy use of CGI. The following year, she created, co-wrote, produced and directed the Netflix drama limited series When They See Us, based on the 1989 Central Park jogger case, which has earned critical acclaim. The series was nominated for 16 Emmy Awards including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series and won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Limited Series. In 2021, she co-created an autobiographical miniseries with former NFL player Colin Kaepernick titled Colin in Black & White.

In 2017, DuVernay was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.

In 2020, DuVernay was elected to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences board of governors as part of the directors branch.

Early life and education

Ava Marie DuVernay was born on August 24, 1972, in Long Beach, California. She was raised by her mother, Darlene (née Sexton), an educator, and her stepfather, Murray Maye. The surname of her biological father, Joseph Marcel DuVernay III, originates with Louisiana Creole ancestry. She grew up in Lynwood, California. She has four siblings.

During her summer vacations, she would travel to the childhood home of her father, which was not far from Selma, Alabama. DuVernay said that these summers influenced the making of Selma, as her father had witnessed the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches.

In 1990, DuVernay graduated from Saint Joseph High School in Lakewood. At the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), she was a double BA major in English literature and African-American studies. Ava is an honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.

Career

Despite the acclaim DuVernay has garnered in the film and television industries, DuVernay did not pick up a camera until age 32. DuVernay's first interest was in journalism, a choice influenced by an internship with CBS News. She was assigned to help cover the O.J. Simpson murder trial. DuVernay became disillusioned with journalism, however, and decided to move into public relations, working as a junior publicist at 20th Century Fox, Savoy Pictures, and a few other PR agencies. She opened her own public relations firm, The DuVernay Agency, also known as DVAPR, in 1999.

Through DVAPR she provided marketing and PR services to the entertainment and lifestyle industry, working on campaigns for movies and television shows, such as Lumumba, Spy Kids, Shrek 2, The Terminal, Collateral, and Dreamgirls.

Other ventures launched by DuVernay include Urban Beauty Collective, a promotional network that began in 2003 and had more than 10,000 African-American beauty salons and barbershops in 16 U.S. cities, expanded to 20 in 2008. They were mailed a free monthly Access Hollywood-style promotion program called UBC-TV, the African-American blog hub Urban Thought Collective in 2008, Urban Eye, a two-minute long weekday celebrity and entertainment news show distributed to radio stations, and HelloBeautiful, a digital platform for millennial women of color.

Film

In 2005, over the Christmas holiday, DuVernay decided to take $6,000 and make her first film, a short called Saturday Night Life. Based on her mother's experiences, the 12-minute film was about an uplifting trip by a struggling single mother (Melissa De Sousa) and her three kids to a local Los Angeles discount grocery store. The film toured the festival circuit and was broadcast on February 6, 2007, as part of Showtime's Black Filmmaker Showcase.

DuVernay next explored making documentaries, because they can be done on a smaller budget than fiction films, and she could learn the trade while doing so. In 2007, she directed the short Compton in C Minor, for which she "challenged herself to capture Compton in only two hours and present whatever she found." The following year, she made her feature directorial debut with the alternative hip hop documentary This Is the Life, a history of LA's Good Life Cafe's arts movement, in which she participated as part of the duo Figures of Speech. This is the Life won audience awards at the ReelWorld Film Festival in Toronto, the Los Angeles Pan-African Film Festival, the Hollywood Black Film Festival, and the Langston Hughes African American Film Festival in Seattle.

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Date of Birth 24 August 1972

Age 54 years old

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Taurus	100%
Capricorn	80%
Cancer	80%
Pisces	76%
Virgo	76%
Scorpio	72%
Aries	72%
Libra	68%
Gemini	68%
Sagittarius	60%
Aquarius	56%
Leo	56%

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Pig	92%
Tiger	88%
Rat	84%
Snake	80%
Rooster	76%
Goat	76%
Dragon	76%
Bull	76%
Rabbit	68%
Monkey	64%
Horse	60%

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Zodiac Compatibility	%
Horse	96%
Boar	92%
Virgin	92%
Eagle	92%
Lynx	88%
Swan	84%
Pike	84%
Elk	84%
Wolf	84%
Fox	80%
Serpent	76%
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Aurochs	76%
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Stork	56%
Raven	56%

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Osiris	96%
Mut	96%
Geb	88%
Isis	84%
Nile	84%
Anubis	80%
Horus	76%
Thoth	76%
Amun-Ra	76%
Bastet	64%
Set	64%
Sekhmet	56%

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Holly	96%
Hazel	88%
Ivy	84%
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Alder	80%
Elder	76%
Reed	76%
Oak	76%
Willow	76%
Ash	64%
Birch	64%
Rowan	56%

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Zodiac Compatibility	%
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Kanya	92%
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Vrishchika	84%
Tula	84%
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Dhanu	76%
Mithuna	76%
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Carnation	96%
Rose	96%
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Camellia	92%
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Edelweiss	84%
Lotus	84%
Orchid	84%
Freesia	84%
Tulip	84%
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Lily of the valley	84%
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Lily	84%
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Purslane	80%
Foxglove	80%
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Peony	76%
Daisy	76%
Chamomile	76%
Dahlia	76%
Magnolia	76%
Poppy	76%
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Gentian	64%
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Thistle	56%

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Libra — 1st decan	96%
Leo — 2nd decan	96%
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Virgo — 2nd decan	92%
Leo — 3rd decan	92%
Leo — 1st decan	92%
Cancer — 2nd decan	92%
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Capricorn — 2nd decan	84%
Sagittarius — 1st decan	84%
Scorpio — 3rd decan	84%
Gemini — 3rd decan	84%
Gemini — 1st decan	84%
Taurus — 1st decan	84%
Aries — 2nd decan	84%
Aquarius — 3rd decan	80%
Capricorn — 1st decan	80%
Scorpio — 2nd decan	80%
Cancer — 1st decan	80%
Taurus — 2nd decan	80%
Aquarius — 2nd decan	76%
Aquarius — 1st decan	76%
Sagittarius — 3rd decan	76%
Sagittarius — 2nd decan	76%
Scorpio — 1st decan	76%
Gemini — 2nd decan	76%
Taurus — 3rd decan	76%
Aries — 3rd decan	76%
Aries — 1st decan	76%
Pisces — 2nd decan	64%
Pisces — 1st decan	64%
Pisces — 3rd decan	56%

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