Barry Jenkins
Barry Jenkins is an award-winning writer and director based in San Francisco. He is best known for writing and directing the 2016 film Moonlight, which won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The website ‘They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?’ lists Moonlight as the 22nd most acclaimed film of the 21st century. In 2022, Sight and Sound crowned Moonlight the 60th greatest film of all time based on responses from 1,639 critics. His following film, ‘If Beale Street Could Talk,’ was also met with critical acclaim and was nominated for three Academy Awards, winning one. His feature film debut, Medicine for Melancholy, was released in theaters by IFC Films and hailed as one of the best films of 2009 by A.O. Scott of The New York Times. Filmmaker also named Jenkins one of their “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” Other projects include the shorts Tall Enough and A Young Couple, and the television series ‘The Underground Railroad.’
Another Young Couple
Adventures of Christopher Bosh in the Multiverse
(Star King Zorzdon Pxxa)
Barry Jenkins' Criterion Closet Visit
(Himself)
The Daily Show
(Self)
Trailblazer Honors
(Self - Speaker)
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
(Self)
Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'
(Self)
Bottomless Brunch at Colman's
(Self)
Medicine for Melancholy
(Director)
The Gaze
(Director)
Aftersun
(Producer)
Sun Don't Shine
(Thanks)
A Young Couple
(Director)
My Josephine
(Director)
The High Five
(Producer)
Little Brown Boy
(Director)
I Wish You Would
(Executive Producer)
Medicine for Melancholy
(Writer)
Tall Enough
(Director)
Moonlight
(Director)
Weapons and Their Names
(Associate Producer)
Chlorophyl
(Writer)
Chlorophyl
(Director)
King's Gym
(Director)
One Shot
(Director)
My Josephine
(Writer)
Moonlight
(Screenplay)
Another Young Couple
(Director)
If Beale Street Could Talk
(Director)
If Beale Street Could Talk
(Screenplay)
Remigration
(Writer)
Remigration
(Producer)
The Intuitionist
(Director)
The Intuitionist
(Writer)
Neighbors
(Thanks)
Reagan
(Thanks)
Remigration
(Director)
If Beale Street Could Talk
(Producer)
Little Brown Boy
(Writer)
Tall Enough
(Writer)
Untitled Alvin Ailey Project
(Director)
Untitled Alvin Ailey Project
(Executive Producer)
The Fire Inside
(Producer)
The Fire Inside
(Writer)
Charm City Kings
(Story)
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
(Executive Producer)
Untitled Barry Jenkins 'Virunga' Adaptation
(Writer)
Mufasa: The Lion King
(Director)
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
(Producer)
Dear White People
(Director)
The Underground Railroad
(Executive Producer)
The Underground Railroad
(Director)
The Underground Railroad
(Teleplay)
True Detective
(Executive Producer)
The Underground Railroad
(Creator)