Dustin Lance Black | |
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Born | [1] | June 10, 1974
Education | University of California, Los Angeles (BA) |
Occupation(s) | Screenwriter, film director, film producer |
Years active | 2000–present |
Notable work | Big Love (2006–09) Milk (2008) 8 (2011) |
Board member of | American Foundation for Equal Rights |
Spouse | |
Children | 2 |
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Dustin Lance Black (born June 10, 1974)[1] is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and LGBT rights activist. He is known for writing the film Milk, for which he won the Oscars for best original screenplay in 2009. He has also subsequently written the screenplays for the film J. Edgar and the 2022 crime miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven.
Black is a founding board member of the American Foundation for Equal Rights[2] and writer of 8, a staged reenactment of the federal trial that led to a federal court's overturn of California's Proposition 8.[3]
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