John Singleton
John Daniel Singleton ( born January 6, 1968 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer.
Life
Singleton was born the son of a mortgage broker and an industrial clerk. After the divorce of their parents they moved him to mutually until he started studying at the University of Southern California. From 1996 to 1997 Singleton was married to actress Akosua Busia.
Work
After winning numerous awards for his screenplays written in the study, he received a contract with Creative Artists Agency already in the second year of study. Singleton was nominated for the 1992 Best Director for his first film Boyz n the Hood at the Academy Awards. At 24 he was the youngest and also the first African-American director, in Hollywood was bestowed this honor. The success of social study, which is mainly based on experiences from his youth in the world torn apart by race riots South Central LA, put it on a par with the young Orson Welles and made him one of the most important new directors in Hollywood and New Black Cinema.
In the successor Poetic Justice from 1993 with Janet Jackson and Tupac Shakur, he remained true to the genre. The historical thriller Rosewood with Jon Voight and Ving Rhames in 1997 is regarded by film critics as singletons strongest work, but remained largely scorned by the public. His film Shaft - Any questions? of 2000 with Samuel L. Jackson was so far be the most expensive project and gave rather a mixed response. With Baby Boy in 2001, he returned to the roots of his first work, without being able to order or with the subsequent films, 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) and Four Brothers (2005) Connecting to the success of Boyz n the Hood.
Occasionally, Singleton has a cameo in his films, such as in Shaft as a bored cop or in Boyz n the Hood as a postman.