Biography
Joslyn Barnes is a film producer and writer. Known for Bamako (2006), The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011), Cemetery of Splendour (2015), White Sun (2016), Zama (2017), Strong Island (2017) for which she received an Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking and an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature nomination, and Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018) for which she received an Oscar nomination again for Best Documentary Feature. Barnes also produced and co-wrote the 2024 drama Nickel Boys (adapted from Colson Whitehead's titular novel), along with co-writer and director RaMell Ross, and was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joslyn Barnes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay · 2025 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Picture · 2025 · nominated
- European Film Award — Best Documentary · 2020 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Documentary Feature Film · 2019 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Documentary Feature Film · 2018 · nominated
Filmography29 titles
Angels Are Made of Light
Capernaum
Prayers for the Stolen
Shadow World
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
President
This Is Congo
Gunda
The Time That Remains
White Sun
Concerning Violence
The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan
Bamako
Trouble the Water
Nickel Boys
Cameraperson
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Soundtrack for a Revolution
Strong Island
Harvest
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Cemetery of Splendor
Salt of This Sea
Eami
That Summer
Dum Maaro Dum
The Narrow Frame of Midnight
Sollers Point
Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other