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John Singleton became the youngest person ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and the first African American to receive that nomination, at age 24. He was nominated in the same year for Best Original Screenplay for the same film.
Singleton attended the USC School of Cinema-Television, graduating in 1990. He enrolled in the Filmic Writing program under Margaret Mehring, a program designed to place students directly into Hollywood as writer-directors.
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) was the highest-grossing film of Singleton's career, earning over $236 million worldwide. It was also the highest-grossing installment in the Fast and Furious franchise at the time of its release.
Singleton co-created Snowfall, a crime drama series for FX that premiered on the 5th of July 2017. He co-wrote the first two episodes with Eric Amadio and Dave Andron and directed the finales of the first two seasons.
Singleton died on the 28th of April 2019 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles at the age of 51. The official cause of death was acute ischemic stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage, and hypertension. He had suffered a stroke on the 17th of April 2019.
Singleton frequently cast musicians in prominent roles, including Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, Janet Jackson, Q-Tip, Busta Rhymes, Tyrese Gibson, Snoop Dogg, Ludacris, and Andre 3000. He described himself as the first filmmaker from the hip-hop generation.