Singleton, whose subsequent films include Poetic Justice, Rosewood and 2 Fast 2 Furious, has some tantalizing prospects on the horizon. In 2002, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. The film was both a critical and commercial success, and 24-year-old Singleton became both the first African-American and the youngest person ever to be nominated for the Best Director Oscar. This powerful drama, set in crime-riddled South Central L.A., became a benchmark for a new wave of black American cinema in the early 1990s and, in addition to boasting commanding turns from Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett, helped to launch the screen careers of a remarkable constellation of talent, including Cuba Gooding Jr., Ice Cube, Nia Long, Morris Chestnut, and Regina King. Jmarks the 25th anniversary of the American theatrical release of Boyz N The Hood, John Singleton’s debut as writer-director.
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Singleton passed away far too young at 51, and we extend our condolences to his family, friends and colleagues. (As Ashley Clark notes in his intro below, he became the first African-American and youngest person to be nominated for this award.) What followed was a diverse career as both director and producer - in addition to his own films, such as Shaft, he produced Craig Brewer’s first two features, Hustle and Flow and Black Snake Moan and executive produced Thomas Allen Harris’s Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People - and working across franchise blockbusters as well as independent documentaries.
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Made when he was only 24-years-old, Boyz in the Hood - tough, indelible, richly observed and disarmingly sensitive - was a landmark work that garnered Singleton a Best Director Oscar nomination. Originally published on June 13, 2016, the following report of John Singleton’s Q&A with Walter Mosley preceding the 25th anniversary release of the director’s Boyz in the Hood is being reposted today alongside the tremendously sad news that Singleton passed away in Los Angeles following a stroke.