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Actor Known for Marvel's "Black Panther" and "Us"

Director, Producer & Screenwriter; Known for "The Wood" and "Brown Sugar"

Academy Award Nominee, Director of "Selma", Founder of ARRAY

Director, Cinematographer & Screenwriter Known for "Do the Right Thing" and "Juice"

Academy-Award Winning Actor, Known for "Get Out," "Black Panther" & "Judas and the Black Messiah"

Film Director Known for "Ride Along" & "Think Like A Man"

Grammy & Tony Award-Winning Actress & Singer-Songwriter; Known for "The Color Purple," "Wicked" & Portraying Harriet Tubman in "Harriet"; Vice President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts

Actress, Writer, Director & Producer Known for HBO's "Insecure" & "Awkward Black Girl"

Former Artistic Director of The Public Theater; Two-Time Tony Award-Winning Director; Director of "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" and "Rustin"

Writer, Producer

Filmmaker, Producer, Actor & Academy Award-Winning Screenwriter; Known for "Get Out" & "Us"

Actor, Director & Producer Known for "Devil in a Blue Dress"

Actress Known for "Scary Movie," "The Best Man" & "Ally McBeal"; First African American to Win a New York Film Critics Circle Award

Actor, Director & Comedian; Known for "Scary Movie" & "White Chicks"

Oscar Winning Writer, ’12 Years a Slave,’ ‘American Crime’

Actor, Writer, Producer, Director & CEO, Tyler Perry Studios; Philanthropist & Founder, Perry Foundation

Director, Film Produce & Actor; Best Known for Directing "Straight Outta Compton," "The Italian Job" & "The Fate of The Furious"

Actress, Writer & Producer; Best Known for "All American"

Director, Writer & Producer Known for "Precious," "Empire," "The United States vs. Billie Holiday" & "The Deliverance"; Founder, Lee Daniels Entertainment

Emmy Award-Winning Writer, "Boardwalk Empire," "The Sopranos"