FILM DIRECTOR

Dustin Lance Black

1975 - Today

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Dustin Lance Black (born June 10, 1974) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and LGBTQ rights activist. He is known for writing the film Milk, for which he won the Oscar for best original screenplay in 2009. He also wrote the screenplay for the film J. Edgar and the 2022 crime miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven. Black is a founding board member of the American Foundation for Equal Rights and writer of 8, a staged re-enactment of the federal trial that led to a federal court's overturn of California's Proposition 8. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2024). Dustin Lance Black is the 1,949th most popular film director (down from 1,896th in 2024), the 15,990th most popular biography from United States (down from 15,671st in 2019) and the 576th most popular American Film Director.

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Among people born in 1975, Dustin Lance Black ranks 683. Before him are Peter Iwers, Natalia Mohylevska, Liliana Gafencu, Greig Fraser, Rahman Rezaei, and Jean-Paul Abalo. After him are Julie Ann Emery, Robert Bartko, Washington Luiz Pereira dos Santos, Joshua Gomez, Shuhei Terada, and Malik Zidi.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Dustin Lance Black ranks 576. Before him are William Malone (1953), Mark Dindal (1960), Ryan Coogler (1986), Sean McNamara (1962), Alex Kendrick (1970), and David Robert Mitchell (1974). After him are Scott Silver (1964), Boaz Yakin (1965), Debra Granik (1963), Wes Ball (1980), Mike Mitchell (1970), and Miranda July (1974).

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