John Singleton

**John Daniel Singleton** (January 6, 1968 – April 28, 2019) was an American movie director, screenwriter, and producer. He was best known for directing _Boyz n the Hood_ (1991). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, becoming the first African American and youngest person to have ever been nominated for the award, at age 24. His other works included _Poetic Justice_ (1993), _Higher Learning_ (1995), and _Baby Boy_ (2001).

## Death

On April 17, 2019, Singleton had a massive stroke and was hospitalized in the intensive care unit in Los Angeles. On April 25, it was reported that he was in a coma. On April 29, he was said to be on life-support, but he actually died on April 28 at the age of 51 at Cedars-Sinai Hospital.

### Filmography

|Year|Title|width="65"|Director|width="65"|Writer|width="65"|Producer|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1991|_Boyz n the Hood_||||Nominated- Academy Award for Best Director Nominated- Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay||||
|1993|_Poetic Justice_||||||||
|1995|_Higher Learning_||||||||
|1997|_Rosewood_||||||||
|2000|_Shaft_||||||||
|2001|_Baby Boy_||||||||
|2003|_2 Fast 2 Furious_||||||||
|2005|_Four Brothers_||||||||
|2011|_Abduction_||||Final Film||||

|Year|Title|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- |
|width="50%"|**Producer only** {| class="wikitable"||
|2005|_Hustle & Flow_||
|2006|_Black Snake Moan_||
|2007|_Illegal Tender_|Also music supervisor|
|2008|_The Making of 'Illegal Tender_'|Documentary short|
|}|width="50%"|**Executive producer** {| class="wikitable"|
|1998|_Woo_||
|2004|_Time Out_|Short film|
|2014|_Through a Lens Darkly_|Documentary|
|}|width="50%"||

#### Acting credits

|Year|Title|Role|Notes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1991|_Boyz n the Hood_|Mailman|||
|1994|_Beverly Hills Cop III_|Fireman|||
|1995|_Your Studio and You_|Himself|Short film; Uncredited||
|2000|_Shaft_|Bored Cop with Tea Cup|rowspan=2|Uncredited|
|2001|_Baby Boy_|Man Selling Bootleg Movies|||
|2002|_8 Mile_|Bouncer|||
|2003|_Baadasssss!_|Detroit J|||

#### Other credits

|Year|Title|Credit|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2002|_sIDney_|Mentor to the director|Short|

### Television

|Year|Title|width="65"|Director|width="65"|Executive Producer|width="65"|Writer|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2009|_81st Academy Awards_||||Segment: The Biggest Movie Event of the Year"||||
|2010|_30 for 30_||||Episode "Marion Jones: Press Pause"||||
|2015|_Empire_||||Episode "Dangerous Bonds"||||
|2016|_American Crime Story_||||Episode "The Race Card"||||
|rowspan="3"|2017|_L.A. Burning: The Riots 25 Years Later_||||Documentary television film|||
|_Rebel_||||Director (episode "Pilot"); Executive producer (3 episodes)|||||
|_Billions_||||Episode "Victory Lap"|||||
|2017–19|_Snowfall_||||Co-creator; Director (2 episodes); Writer (2 episodes)||||

#### Acting credits

|Year|Title|Credit|Notes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2013|_The Game_|rowspan=2|Himself|2 episodes|
|2014|_Real Husbands of Hollywood_|2 episodes|||

#### Other credits

|Year|Title|Credit|Notes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1986|_Pee-wee's Playhouse_|rowspan=2|Production assistant||
|1988|_Beach Boys: Endless Summer_||||

## Other websites

- The Films of John Singleton

## Infobox (person)

- **image**: John Singleton 2000.jpg
- **name**: John Singleton
- **caption**: Singleton in 2000
- **birth name**: John Daniel Singleton
- **birth place**: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- **death place**: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- **death cause**: Stroke#Ischemic, Acute ischemic stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage and hypertension
- **resting place**: Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
- **years active**: 1986–2019
- **children**: 7