Rick Famuyiwa

Directing

Rick Famuyiwa

Born 1973-06-18 · USA

Rick Famuyiwa (born June 18, 1973) is a Nigerian-American filmmaker and television director. He is best known for the films The Wood(1999), Brown Sugar (2002), and Dope (2015), as well as for his work on the television series The Mandalorian, for which he directed six episodes and served as an executive producer for the third season. His films have been nominated for or won multiple awards, including in 2008, when he received an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture for the film Talk To Me (2007). Description above from the Wikipedia article Rick Famuyiwa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Dope poster
7.0

Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A chance invitation to an underground party leads him into an adventure that could allow him to go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself.

Dope

2015

Dope poster
7.0

Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A chance invitation to an underground party leads him into an adventure that could allow him to go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself.

Dope

2015

Brown Sugar poster
6.6

Sidney and Dre can attribute their lifelong friendship and the launch of their careers to one single childhood instant... witnessing the birth of hip-hop on a New York street corner. Now some 15 years later, she is a revered music critic at a national magazine and he is a successful, though unfulfilled, hip-hop record company executive. Both come to realize that their true life passions will only be fulfilled by remembering what they learned that day on the corner.

Brown Sugar

2002

Brown Sugar poster
6.6

Sidney and Dre can attribute their lifelong friendship and the launch of their careers to one single childhood instant... witnessing the birth of hip-hop on a New York street corner. Now some 15 years later, she is a revered music critic at a national magazine and he is a successful, though unfulfilled, hip-hop record company executive. Both come to realize that their true life passions will only be fulfilled by remembering what they learned that day on the corner.

Brown Sugar

2002

Our Family Wedding poster
5.6

The weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding is comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay to rest their feud.

Our Family Wedding

2010

Our Family Wedding poster
5.6

The weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding is comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay to rest their feud.

Our Family Wedding

2010

The Wood poster
6.7

In the panicky, uncertain hours before his wedding, a groom with prenuptial jitters and his two best friends reminisce about growing up together in the middle-class African-American neighborhood of Inglewood, California. Flashing back to the twenty-something trio's childhood exploits, the memories capture the mood and nostalgia of the '80s era.

The Wood

1999

The Wood poster
6.7

In the panicky, uncertain hours before his wedding, a groom with prenuptial jitters and his two best friends reminisce about growing up together in the middle-class African-American neighborhood of Inglewood, California. Flashing back to the twenty-something trio's childhood exploits, the memories capture the mood and nostalgia of the '80s era.

The Wood

1999

Talk to Me poster
6.8

The story of Washington D.C. radio personality Ralph "Petey" Greene, an ex-con who became a popular talk show host and community activist in the 1960s.

Talk to Me

2007

No artwork available
NR

Depicts Dennis Rodman’s madcap adventure with his skittish assistant GM across two whirlwind mythic days in Sin City in the middle of the 1998 NBA Finals and details a budding friendship that neither one of them ever thought was possible but will end up solving both of their problems.

48 Hours in Vegas

No artwork available
NR

Depicts Dennis Rodman’s madcap adventure with his skittish assistant GM across two whirlwind mythic days in Sin City in the middle of the 1998 NBA Finals and details a budding friendship that neither one of them ever thought was possible but will end up solving both of their problems.

48 Hours in Vegas

Confirmation poster
6.9

Judge Clarence Thomas' nomination to the United States' Supreme Court is called into question when former colleague, Anita Hill, testifies that he had sexually harassed her.

Confirmation

2016

Ugo: A Homecoming Story poster
NR

Greek-Nigerian NBA superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo returns to Nigeria for the first time.

Ugo: A Homecoming Story

2024

No artwork available
NR

A young African princess named Sadé finds out that she has magical powers, which must be used to save her kingdom.

Sadé

No artwork available
NR

A young African princess named Sadé finds out that she has magical powers, which must be used to save her kingdom.

Sadé

Blacktop Lingo poster
4.5

A series of vignettes, focused on a group of young men playing basketball in Inglewood, California.

Blacktop Lingo

1996

Blacktop Lingo poster
4.5

A series of vignettes, focused on a group of young men playing basketball in Inglewood, California.

Blacktop Lingo

1996

We Will Be Monsters poster
2.5

The Bride of Frankenstein goes on a globe-trotting quest to rescue fellow Monsters, such as Dracula, the Wolf Man and the Mummy.

We Will Be Monsters

2021

We Will Be Monsters poster
2.5

The Bride of Frankenstein goes on a globe-trotting quest to rescue fellow Monsters, such as Dracula, the Wolf Man and the Mummy.

We Will Be Monsters

2021

No artwork available
NR

Explore archival footage of the Basketball Hall of Famer's on-court heroics, as well as interviews with Johnson, his family, teammates and business associates.

Untitled Rick Famuyiwa Project