Ava DuVernay
American film director
0.94body-of-work score · ranked #927 of 2631 directors · 1 film in our library
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- August 24, 1972 · Long Beach
- Nationality
- United States
- Work
- film director, screenwriter, film producer, television producer
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 1
2014 · United States / United Kingdom · drama, biography
Oscar Best Picture nominee 2014 · Rolling Stone 100 Best of the 21st Century #46 · Film Comment year-end poll 2014 #23
0.943 citations
Complete filmography
All 7 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 2008This Is the Life
- 2010I Will Follow
- 2012Middle of Nowhere
- 2014Selma
- 2016The 13th
- 2018A Wrinkle in Time
- 2023Origin