Dee Rees is an award-winning filmmaker and writer whose films, including the Academy Award-nominated historical epic Mudbound, explore a wide variety of subjects, including Black womanhood, history, and conflict.
Dee Rees
Nashville, Tennessee
Films
The Last Thing He Wanted
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(2020)
A veteran D.C. journalist (Anne Hathaway) loses the thread of her own narrative when a guilt-propelled errand for her father thrusts her from byline to unwitting subject in the very story she's trying to break. Adapted from Joan Didion's namesake novel.
Mudbound
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(2017)
Two men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi, where they struggle to deal with racism and adjust to life after the war. Nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay. Dee Rees is the first Black woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for writing since Suzanne de Passe in 1973 for Lady Sings the Blues. Mudbound also marks the first time a woman (Rachel Morrison) has ever been nominated for best cinematography in the Academy’s 90+ year history.
Bessie
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(2015)
The story of legendary blues performer, Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s. Winner of four Emmys and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Pariah
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(2011)
A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
