In 1986, John Singleton crafted the idea for the coming-of-age drama Boyz n the Hood as part of his application for film school. Four years later upon graduation, he sold the script to Columbia ...

Before her quick scenes in Boyz n the Hood as Tre’s mom, Bassett was using her acting chops in TV series and TV movies. (She was in a few episodes of The Cosby Show and in an episode of 227.) ...

Singleton eventually made his own movie, "Boyz N the Hood," a searing coming-of-age story set in a neighborhood overrun with gangs, drugs and automatic weapons.Originally released 25 years ago, on ...

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When John Singleton’s first film, “Boyz N the Hood,” was released on July 12, 1991, it immediately made him a household name in many Black communities across the country.The movie was so ...

"Boyz N the Hood" was nominated for two Academy Awards, one for Best Director and the other for Best Original Screenplay, in 1992. It won a New York Film Critics Circle Award in 1991 for Best New ...

“Boyz n the Hood” wasn’t the first John Singleton film I saw in theaters — that distinction goes to his 1993 romance “Poetic Justice” — but it’s the one that’s stayed with me the ...

John Singleton was just 23 years old when he wrote and directed “Boyz n the Hood,” becoming the first African American – and the youngest person ever – to receive an Oscar nomination for ...

John Singleton, the Oscar-nominated director and screenwriter of ‘Boyz n the Hood,’ died Monday. He was 51.Singleton was hospitalized more than a week ago after reportedly suffering a major ...

Boyz n the Hood seemed to be the answer. "I said, 'A-ha, it's contemporary, it's not period. It's a black story, but I believe there's a chance to pull in a white audience, too,'" Price remembers ...

When “Boyz n the Hood” was released in 1991 with Fishburne as Furious Styles, the coming-of-age drama earned nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Director at the 64th Acade… ...

After Boyz n the Hood, Cuba Gooding Jr. went on to appear in A Few Good Men, The Tuskegee Airmen, Outbreak, and a career-defining role in Jerry Maguire for which he won the Academy Award for Best ...