in his first major role, Singleton was around 11 years old when his mother sent him to live with his father. Like Tre Styles, the film’s protagonist, played by Cuba Gooding Jr. John Singleton Was a Beacon of Authenticityīoyz, of course, was his story. Singleton, who died on Monday at 51, said that was the best compliment he ever received for Boyz n the Hood, a film that earned $57.5 million at the domestic box office and received Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Director Singleton was the first African American and the youngest person to ever be nominated in the latter category.Īt a time when Hollywood-and white America as a whole-didn’t concern itself with the young Black men growing up in inner cities, John Singleton brought their stories-his stories-to the big screen.
“During the movie, he kept saying, ‘That’s my story. “He really liked it,” she told Singleton. She went on to say how much she loved the film, and that her boyfriend did as well. “You could tell he did time.” The man, whose eyes were red and watery, did not open his mouth. “He was an OG, a gangster dude,” Singleton told me during a 2006 interview I did for a Boyz n the Hood oral history originally published in King magazine. A woman and her boyfriend then approached the filmmaker. Wearing a hat that read “South Central LA,” Singleton thanked the audience for their support.
At one point in the evening, he arrived at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, the theater he frequented as a kid. Along with a few USC friends and some cast members, Singleton stopped at local theaters to gauge the audience’s reaction to the movie. On the night Boyz n the Hood opened in theaters in July 1991, the film’s 23-year-old writer-director John Singleton rented a limousine and rode around his native Los Angeles.
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