Dustin Lance Black

Biography

Dustin Lance Black (born June 10, 1974) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and LGBT rights activist. He is known for writing the film Milk, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2009. He has also subsequently written the screenplays for the film J. Edgar and the 2022 crime miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven.

Known For

Milk

as Castro Clone

Late Night with Seth Meyers

as Self

The Case Against 8

as Self

The Out List

as Himself

8: The Mormon Proposition

as Narrator

Visible: Out on Television

as Self

Question Time

as Himself - Panellist

The Singing Forest

as Bill

Hollywood to Dollywood

as Self

Compared To What: The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank

as Self