Producer, director and screenwriter JOHN SINGLETON most recently wrote, produced and directed Shaft, starring Samuel Jackson. Before that, he directed Rosewood starring Jon Voight and Ving Rhames. Prior to that he wrote, produced and directed High Learning starring Omar Epps and Laurence Fishburne, and wrote, produced and directed Poetic Justice starring Janet Jackson.
While Singleton was attending the Filmic Writing Program at USC he won three writing awards from the university, which led to a contract with Creative Artists Agency during his sophomore year. Singleton exploded onto the scene with his first film, Boyz N the Hood (1991), a tough, intelligent, plainspeaking look at friends in gang-ridden South Central L.A. that earned him Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Director, becoming the first African-American (and the youngest filmmaker ever) to do so.
Singleton has won numerous awards such as the LAFCA New Generation Award in 1991, the MTV Movie Award for Best New Filmmaker 1992, the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best New Director (Boyz N the Hood) 1991, and finally the ShoWest Award for Screenwriter of the year, and the Special Award for Directorial Debut of the year, 1992.
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