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American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1968–2019)

Person · Open Library

Born
1960
Works
42

Top works

  • Economic relations between Britain and Australasia, 1945-1970
  • Learning in Likely Places: Varieties of Apprenticeship in Japan (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)
  • The erosion of the Commonwealth economic network and Britain's growing interest in joining the EEC, 1950-70
  • Band Theory and Electronic Properties of Solids (Oxford Master Series in Condensed Matter Physics)
  • Crises and Disasters, 1900-2010

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Type
Group
Country
UA
Active from
2004

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Listeners
655
Total plays
1,350

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

    · 1996 · cited 200,187x

  2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 41,528x

  3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

    · 2000 · cited 36,305x

  4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

    · 2007 · cited 34,190x

  5. The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)

    · 1992 · cited 28,820x

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Key facts

Born
John Daniel Singleton , ( 1968-01-06 ) January 6, 1968, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Died
April 28, 2019 (2019-04-28) (aged 51), Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting place
Forest Lawn Memorial Park , Hollywood Hills, California , U.S.
Education
Pasadena City College , University of Southern California
Occupations
Director screenwriter producer
Years active
1988–2019
Spouse
Akosua Busia ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1996 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1997 ) ​

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Official website

The Films of John Singleton

johnsingletonfilms.com

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Wikidata facts

Image
John Singleton 2000.jpg
Height
1.68
Number of children
1
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date of birth
1968-01-06
Commons category
John Singleton
date of death
2019-04-29
birth name
John Daniel Singleton
name in native language
John Singleton
start of work period
1991-00-00
end of work period
2019-00-00
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John Daniel Singleton (January 6, 1968 – April 28, 2019) was an American director, screenwriter, and producer. He made his feature film debut writing and directing Boyz n the Hood (1991), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, becoming, at age 24, the first African American and youngest nominee in the category.

Singleton went on to write and direct other films, such as the romantic drama Poetic Justice (1993), the socially conscious college-based drama Higher Learning (1995), the historical drama Rosewood (1997), the crime film Shaft (2000), the coming-of-age drama Baby Boy (2001) and the action films 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), and Four Brothers (2005). In television, he co-created the television crime drama Snowfall and directed episodes of shows such as Empire, Rebel and the fifth episode of The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story. He was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special for the latter.

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