20 Facts About Rick Famuyiwa

Rick Famuyiwa was born on June 18,1973 and is a Nigerian-American filmmaker and television director.

Rick Famuyiwa is best known for the films The Wood, Brown Sugar, and Dope, as well as for his work on the television series The Mandalorian, for which he directed five episodes and served as an executive producer for the third season.

Rick Famuyiwa's films have been nominated for or won multiple awards, including in 2008, when he received an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture for the film Talk To Me.

The son of Nigerian immigrants, Famuyiwa is a second-generation American.

In 1996, prior to graduation, Rick Famuyiwa created a 12-minute short film entitled Blacktop Lingo that garnered critical positive feedback and led to his invitation to the Sundance Filmmaker's Institute.

In 1997, during his time at the Sundance Director's Lab, Rick Famuyiwa put the finishing touches on The Wood, his first feature film.

In 1999, Rick Famuyiwa married Glenita Mosley whom he met at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Rick Famuyiwa's first feature film, The Wood is a semi-autobiographical account of his upbringing in Inglewood.

Rick Famuyiwa employed a predominantly African American cast in Brown Sugar, lifelong friends Dre, played by Taye Diggs, and Sidney, played by Sanaa Lathan, cross paths and although each has their respective responsibilities and obligations to their significant others, they ultimately find that their affections for one another extend beyond platonic friendship.

Rick Famuyiwa first became attached to the project two years prior, in 2008, when the presidential campaign was in full swing.

Dope, both written and directed by Rick Famuyiwa, is a coming-of-age film that premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, winning the Best Editing award for the work of editor Lee Haugen.

In June 2016, Rick Famuyiwa was announced as the director for The Flash after Seth Grahame-Smith dropped from the project.

Rick Famuyiwa gave a statement to The Hollywood Reporter on the matter:.

In July 2018, Rick Famuyiwa was announced to produce a film called Sade, written by Ola Shokunbi and Lindsey Reed Palmer and centered on an African princess.

The film would be produced by Walt Disney Pictures with Rick Famuyiwa producing under his company Verse.

In 2003, Rick Famuyiwa served on a panel of directors for a discussion conducted by the Directors Guild of America African American Steering Committee.

In sum, it was hard for Rick Famuyiwa to have others take him seriously at times.

In 2003, after completing work on Brown Sugar Rick Famuyiwa was nominated by the NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Motion Picture.

In 2008, while working on Our Family Wedding, Rick Famuyiwa was recognized for his work on Kasi Lemmons' Talk To Me by the NAACP Image Awards.

The Association nominated Talk To Me for Outstanding Motion Picture and Rick Famuyiwa won for Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture.