Reginald Hudlin

Reginald Hudlin is an American director, writer, and producer from East St. Louis, Illinois, who works with his older brother Warrington as the Hudlin Brothers. His Harvard student short House Party won awards and became his first feature, the 1990 teen comedy House Party, which his brother produced. He made the 1992 romantic comedy Boomerang, with Eddie Murphy, and wrote the animated film Bebe's Kids that year. Later he directed The Great White Hype (1996), The Ladies Man (2000), and Serving Sara (2002). He directed a segment of the HBO anthology Cosmic Slop (1994) and spent three years directing and producing The Bernie Mac Show. He headed entertainment at BET from 2005 to 2008 and started the BET Hip Hop Awards. He wrote Marvel's Black Panther comics, produced Django Unchained, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, and has held an executive producer role on the NAACP Image Awards since 2013.