Academy Award-winner Barry Jenkins’ feature film debut, Medicine for Melancholy, was hailed as one of the best films of 2009 by The New York Times and received several Independent Spirit and Gotham Award nominations. In 2017, along with playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, Jenkins received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay with his second feature, Moonlight, winner of both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Picture. As well as earning eight Academy Award nominations, ten Broadcast Critics Choice Awards nominations, six Golden Globe nominations, and four BAFTA nominations, Moonlight won Best Picture and Director at the Gotham Awards and Best International Film from the British Independent Film Awards. In addition to NYFCC and NBR awarding Jenkins Best Director and LAFCA naming him Best Director and the film Best Picture, Jenkins received a DGA Best Director nomination and won the WGA Award for Best Original Screenplay. His third fea- ture, the adaptation of James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk, went on to receive three Academy Award nominations and won Best Picture at the Independent Spirit Awards. Jenkins also received the Independent Spirit Award for Best Director. Jenkins’ next directorial feature film projects include a follow-up to The Lion King for Walt Disney Studios and a biopic of famed choreographer Alvin Ailey for Searchlight Pictures. Jenkins serves as a producer on Aftersun from Scottish filmmaker Charlotte Wells. For television, Jenkins was showrunner and co-wrote and directed all ten episodes of the critically acclaimed adaptation series of The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead’s National Book Award-winning novel, for Amazon. The show won the BAFTA for Best Interna- tional Series and a Golden Globe for Best Limited Se- ries/Anthology/Motion Picture Made for Television. It also garnered seven Primetime EMMY nominations, a PGA nomination, and a WGA nomination, while Jen- kins won the DGA for Best Director for a TV Movie/Limited Series. In addition, Jenkins directed an episode in the first season of the Netflix Original Series Dear White People. Other upcoming work includes a script based on the life of Clarissa “T-Rex” Shields, the first American female Olympic boxing champ, as well as an adaptation of Netflix’s original documentary Virunga, about the bat- tle to save the Congo’s mountain gorilla population. Special Guests 2022 Luis Mandoki Jerry Schatzberg Maribel Verdú Laurent Cantet Frank Marshall Claire Denis Special Guests in Other Editions Ira Sachs Liv Tyler Alexander Payne James Ivory Ava DuVernay Leos Carax Kathleen Kennedy Jodie Foster James Ivory Ciro Guerra en Rosalie Varda J. M. Coetzee Luc Dardenne Robert Redford Alfonso Cuarón Damien Chazelle Paul Weitz Patrice Leconte Julie Bertuccelli Carol Littleton John Bailey Olivier Assayas Lynne Ramsay Al Gore Michel Hazanavicius Bob Rafelson Fred Kelemen Aaron Eckhart Casey Affleck Giada Colagrande Audrey Tautou Isabelle Huppert Tim Roth Rodrigo García Peter Greenaway Pawel Pawlikowski Pierre Rissient Amos Gitai Juliette Binoche Edward James Olmos Robert Rodriguez John Sayles Alejandro Jodorowsky Danny Trejo Bruno Dumont Quentin Tarantino Pablo Larraín José María Prado Whit Stillman Dieter Kosslick Geraldine Chaplin Seifollah Samadian Gregory Nava Sally Potter Abbas Kiarostami Damián Alcázar Demián Bichir Elena Anaya Thierry Frémaux Marisa Paredes Michel Gondry Volker Schlöndorff Luis Valdez Béla Tarr Lucrecia Martel Javier Bardem Edgar Ramírez Fernando Trueba Doris Dörrie Serge Bromberg Terry Gilliam Julio Alemán Kelly Reichardt Jennifer Lawrence Steven Soderbergh Michael Nyman Nicolas Philibert Todd Haynes Stephen Frears Héctor Babenco Gael García Bernal Carlos Reygadas Alejandro González Iñárritu Cristian Mungiu Bertrand Tavernier Arthur Penn Jean-Claude Carrière Guillermo del Toro Mike Hodges Diego Luna Tommy Lee Jones Valeria Sarmiento Raúl Ruiz Gus Van Sant Manoel De Oliveira Fernando Vallejo Julia Ormond Salma Hayek Werner Herzog Barbet Schroeder Barbet Schroeder Guillermo del Toro Alfonso Cuarón Casey Affleck Barbet Schroeder Guillermo del Toro Alfonso Cuarón Casey Affleck Barbet Schroeder Guillermo del Toro Alfonso Cuarón Casey Affleck
Academy Award-winner Barry Jenkins’ feature film debut, Medicine for Melancholy, was hailed as one of the best films of 2009 by The New York Times and received several Independent Spirit and Gotham Award nominations. In 2017, along with playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, Jenkins received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay with his second feature, Moonlight, winner of both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Picture. As well as earning eight Academy Award nominations, ten Broadcast Critics Choice Awards nominations, six Golden Globe nominations, and four BAFTA nominations, Moonlight won Best Picture and Director at the Gotham Awards and Best International Film from the British Independent Film Awards. In addition to NYFCC and NBR awarding Jenkins Best Director and LAFCA naming him Best Director and the film Best Picture, Jenkins received a DGA Best Director nomination and won the WGA Award for Best Original Screenplay. His third fea- ture, the adaptation of James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk, went on to receive three Academy Award nominations and won Best Picture at the Independent Spirit Awards. Jenkins also received the Independent Spirit Award for Best Director. Jenkins’ next directorial feature film projects include a follow-up to The Lion King for Walt Disney Studios and a biopic of famed choreographer Alvin Ailey for Searchlight Pictures. Jenkins serves as a producer on Aftersun from Scottish filmmaker Charlotte Wells. For television, Jenkins was showrunner and co-wrote and directed all ten episodes of the critically acclaimed adaptation series of The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead’s National Book Award-winning novel, for Amazon. The show won the BAFTA for Best Interna- tional Series and a Golden Globe for Best Limited Se- ries/Anthology/Motion Picture Made for Television. It also garnered seven Primetime EMMY nominations, a PGA nomination, and a WGA nomination, while Jen- kins won the DGA for Best Director for a TV Movie/Limited Series. In addition, Jenkins directed an episode in the first season of the Netflix Original Series Dear White People. Other upcoming work includes a script based on the life of Clarissa “T-Rex” Shields, the first American female Olympic boxing champ, as well as an adaptation of Netflix’s original documentary Virunga, about the bat- tle to save the Congo’s mountain gorilla population.
