Ava DuVernay

Maltin on Movies

Leonard Maltin

Comedy, Jessie, Leonard, On, Tv & Film, Maltin, Movies

4.2 • 662 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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A born storyteller and natural entrepreneur, Ava DuVernay has achieved many milestones: the first black woman to be named Best Director at the Sundance Film Festival (for Middle of Nowhere), the first to have a feature nominated for Best Picture (Selma), and the first to pilot a big-budget blockbuster, A Wrinkle in Time. She created the hit series Queen Sugar and directed the powerful Netflix miniseries When They See Us. How she found time in her schedule to chat with Leonard and Jessie we’ll never know, but they discovered that aside from her great achievements, Ava is equally happy to talk about her early inspirations and lifelong love of movies.

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0:56.2	Ava DuVernay is one of the busiest people in show business, and we were grateful that she
1:00.6	made time to talk with us.
1:02.3	I didn't want to eat up any of that time rattling off her credits or her many milestones,
1:06.8	but they really ought to be mentioned.
1:09.0	She was the first black woman to win the directing award in the U.S. drama competition
1:13.3	at the Sundance Film Festival for her feature Middle of Nowhere.
1:17.5	For Selma, she became the first black female director to have her film nominated for
1:22.0	an Academy Award as Best Picture.
1:24.9	In 2017, she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature for 13th.
1:31.3	She was also the first black woman to direct a big-budget Hollywood movie, A Rinkle in Time.
1:36.6	She created the series Queen Sugar and her powerful miniseries, When They See Us,
1:41.5	based on the 1989 Central Park Jogger case, set records for the millions of
1:46.8	people who saw it on Netflix. She is clearly a remarkable woman, and we were thrilled to speak
1:52.5	with her, even for an abbreviated episode of our podcast. Hi, I'm Leonard Malton.
2:05.5	And I'm Jesse Malton.
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