USC Will Celebrate John Singleton All Year Long – Film News in Brief
variety.comRSVP required. Singleton, a TV and film director, screenwriter, producer and USC alumnus, died April 29, 2019 at the age of 51.
He graduated in 1990 from the SCA’s Filmic Writing program, which is now called the John Wells Division of Writing for Screen & Television.
While at USC, he won the Jack Nicholson Screenwriting Award, given to a promising film school student, two years in a row: first in 1988 for his script “Twilight Time,” then the following year for the script of “Boyz n the Hood,” which he wrote as his senior thesis on a campus library computer.
The tribute events will kick off Friday, September 9 with a screening of Singleton’s debut film “Boyz n the Hood,” for which he earned two Oscar nominations in Best Director and Original Best Screenplay.
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