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Kemp Powers is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. He is best known for his play One Night in Miami and the 2020 film adaptation of the same name, as well as for co-directing the animated films Soul (2020) and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023).
Feb 18, 2021 · DOUBLE MEANING With Pixar’s Soul and Amazon’s One Night in Miami..., Kemp Powers shows his range. By Patti Perret/Amazon Studios.
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Kemp Powers is Pixar’s first Black director. Kemp Powers, the history-making screenwriter behind two of 2020’s most celebrated films, is his own competition. “One Night in Miami,” a dramatization of the real-life gathering of four Black icons – Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown at the Hampton House in 1964 – was ...
7 Photos. Kemp Powers is known for One Night in Miami... (2020), Soul (2020) and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). More at IMDbPro.
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Apr 21, 2021 · The original story ran on February 2, before Kemp Powers was nominated for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. Also worth noting—he co-directed Pixar’s Soul, which is nominated for Best Animated Feature. After nearly two decades as a news reporter, Kemp Powers knew a good story when he found one. Discovering that four cultural icons ...
Feb 3, 2021 · JULY 27 – AUGUST 28, 2022. TOTAL RUN TIME: approx. 85 minutes with no intermission. Buy Tickets. For Kemp Powers, 2021 has already been quite the year—and it’s only February.
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Dec 3, 2020 · Kemp Powers is the co-director of “Soul” and screenwriter of “One Night in Miami,” but his collaborators may not know just how much of himself is in those films.
