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Black Directors: The Official Top 100 Narrative Feature Films

Ranked by average rating. The list was extracted largely thanks to this megalist of films directed by Black directors. It will be updated on a monthly basis and is an official list progress project on all-time stats pages for Pro and Patron . (See all films that have entered.)

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ELIGIBILITY RULES:

• This list includes Black co-directors or any Black directors on a diverse team.
• Films must be feature-length (more than 40 minutes), with a theatrical and/or festival release.
• Documentaries of any kind, short films, theater/stage, TV movies, TV series or miniseries, and episodes are excluded.
• There is a 1,000 minimum ratings threshold.

This list is by no means a definitive canon of Black directors in film history.…

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  • Nickel Boys

    27

  • Judas and the Black Messiah

    19

  • Saint Omer

    86

  • Exhibiting Forgiveness

    88

  • American Fiction

    90

  • A Thousand and One

    78

  • Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)

    96

  • Earth Mama

    98

  • On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

    85

  • On the Count of Three

    63