"I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies."
John Daniel Singleton (January 6, 1968 – April 29, 2019) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor.
He's probably best known for directing Boyz n the Hood and Shaft (2000). For the former, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director at age 24; he remaines the youngest nominee.
From 1996–97 he was married to Ghanaian actress, director, and writer Akosua Busia, with whom he had a daughter.
Singleton suddenly suffered a stroke on April 17, 2019. He eventually died of complications following the incident 11 days later at the age of 51.
Filmography as director:
- Boyz n the Hood (1991)
- "Remember the Time" (1992)
- Poetic Justice (1993)
- Higher Learning (1995)
- Rosewood (1997)
- Shaft (2000)
- Baby Boy (2001)
- 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
- Four Brothers (2005)
- Abduction (2011)
- Snowfall (2017–19)
