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Kemp Powers (born October 30, 1973) 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).
Kemp Powers is an award-winning filmmaker who wrote and co-directed Soul (2020) and One Night in Miami (2020), and directed Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). Learn more about his biography, credits, videos, photos, and trivia on IMDb.
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Dec 21, 2020 · Kemp Powers’s long journey to becoming Pixar’s first Black writer-director. By Michael Cavna. December 21, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. EST. Kemp Powers is the co-director of Pixar's upcoming movie...
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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.
May 31, 2023 · Kemp Powers is one of the three directors of the animated sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. He talks about the film's length, story, animation, music, and Easter eggs in an exclusive interview with Collider.
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Mar 27, 2021 · Kemp Powers, who wrote the play One Night in Miami — which was adapted into a film — will answer questions about Sir Barry Gibb, a founder of the Bee Gees, who lives in Miami.
And here’s what you need to know about Kemp Powers. He spent 17 years as a journalist before making the leap to theater and film. And in 2021, he captured two Oscar nominations — one for Soul, and the other for One Night in Miami, a screenplay he adopted from the play he wrote.
