Singleton became the first African American to be nominated for a Best Director Academy Award (as well as a nomination in the Best Writing category). Screening at the prestigious Un Certain Regard category in Cannes, it not only enjoyed enormous critical success, but was also one of the most profitable films that year and remains a film with a lasting and singular impact on Hollywood and the nation. John Singleton’s extraordinary film debut-at the age of twenty-three-was based on the director’s own experience of growing up in South Central Los Angeles.
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