With a net worth of $60 million, Ava DuVernay is an accomplished American who has worked as a director, producer, screenwriter, and former publicist.
The Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival, a Golden Globe nomination for Best Director, and an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture all owe Ava DuVernay, the first black woman to win the award.
The films “I Will Follow” (2010) and “Middle of Nowhere” (2012) were written, directed and produced by Ava DuVernay, along with the documentaries “This is the Life” (2008) and “13th” (2016), and “Selma” (2014) and “A Wrinkle in Time” (2018). She also created the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) series “Queen Sugar” (2016–present), the OWN anthology series “Cherish the Day” (2020
Starting as a publicist, Ava founded The DuVernay Agency in 1999.
Ava was named one of “The Most Influential People in the World” by “Time” magazine in 2017 and was later elected to the board of governors by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in 2020.