John Singleton

John Daniel Singleton was an American director, screenwriter and producer, born in Los Angeles on 6 January 1968 and died on 28 April 2019. 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. He went on to write and direct Poetic Justice (1993), Higher Learning (1995), Rosewood (1997), Shaft (2000), Baby Boy (2001) and the action films 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) and Four Brothers (2005).