About Dustin Lance Black
Dustin Lance Black is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and LGBTQ rights activist. He is known for writing the film Milk, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2009. He also wrote the screenplay for the film J. Edgar and the 2022 crime miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven. Black first visited San Francisco in the early 1990s, while AIDS was devastating the city's gay community. Black is an old friend of Milk producer Dan Jinks, who signed on to the biopic after he called Black to congratulate him and discovered that the project did not have a confirmed producer. On February 22, 2009, Black won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Milk at the 81st Academy Awards.
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