Born in Miami in 1979 and trained at Florida State University, Barry Jenkins made his first feature, Medicine for Melancholy, in 2008, and then waited eight years before Moonlight (2016), co-written with Tarell Alvin McCraney from his play. Moonlight won the Oscar for best picture and, with McCraney, for best adapted screenplay. He then made If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) from James Baldwin and the series The Underground Railroad (2021), which brought him an Emmy nomination and a Peabody award.
Filmography
- Medicine for Melancholy (2008)
- Moonlight (2016)
- If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)