![]() He started young, and he left us too young, when he died Monday at 51. Like Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing,” “Boyz” was not nominated for best picture. This was a quarter-century before #OscarSoWhite hashtag started holding the Academy to task for slighting voices of color. John Singleton had just turned 24 when the Academy Award nominations were announced in January 1992, making him the youngest filmmaker ever to compete for a best director statue - as well as the first African-American to do so.
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