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John Singleton: Director John Singleton
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The first inch of this footage began taking shape in 1986, in the hands of high school senior John Singleton, at Pasadena City College. This story probably sounds like it's about a monster the caliber of Charles Manson. In truth it's about a young director with a vivid imagination and a yearning to tell a good story. To look at Singleton you see an attractive, unassuming, young man peering from behind wire rimmed glasses. He seems like the kind of person you've gone to school with forever. Attentive and studious, always so quiet, the wallflower scholar.
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Becoming, at the age of 24, the youngest individual and the first African American ever to be nominated for a Best Director Academy Award, John Singleton made movie history with Boyz 'N the Hood, his astonishing 1991 directorial debut. An intensely personal portrait of life and death in South Central L.A. that was inspired by the director's own experiences, the film earned Singleton comparisons to past wunderkind Orson Welles and heralded him as one of Hollywood's most important new directors.
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Terrence Howard returned to the Sundance Film Festival after a day away to film Four Brothers, his new movie with director John Singleton. Howard has been the toast of the festival, as the movie he stars in, Hustle & Flow, about a pimp's midlife crisis, was bought for distribution. He sent along this postcard with USA TODAY.
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In addition to those nominations, Singleton was ... honored with the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best First-Time Director. Singleton followed Boyz 'N the Hood with Poetic Justice in 1993. Starring Janet Jackson as its heroine, a South Central L.A. hairdresser coping with the shooting death of her boyfriend, the film boasted magnetic performances from its entire cast, which also included rapper Tupac Shakur as Jackson's love interest.
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As a producer, director, and screenwriter, Singleton recently produced a Latin flavored project entitled “Illegal Tender.” Filming took place in Puerto Rico and is slated for release in March 2007 with Universal Pictures. He ... produced and funded the independent film, Hustle and Flow, staring Terrence Howard and Anthony Anderson a film that went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Song of 2005.
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Columbia Pictures bought Singleton's script and a couple weeks after college, at the age of 22, Singleton directed Boyz N the Hood on a $7 million budget. Singleton, 35, describes this film as his calling card into the movie industry and credits his first feature for launching his career as a director.
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