---
name: "Dee Rees"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dee-rees"
fi1m_id: "dee-rees"
imdb_id: "nm2011696"
tmdb_id: 472630
wikidata_id: "Q5249943"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "7 February 1977"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T11:33:38.971019+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Dee Rees

## Identity

Dee Rees

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dee-rees
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dee-rees
- **IMDb ID:** nm2011696
- **TMDB ID:** 472630
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5249943
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dee_Rees, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5249943, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2011696/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/472630

Director. Born 7 February 1977 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 7 February 1977, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- **Also known as:** Diandrea Rees, Diandra Rees
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dee_Rees, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5249943, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2011696/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/472630

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Masters of the Air*](https://film.one/tv/masters-of-the-air.md) (66)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Dee Rees is an American film and television director and screenwriter. She graduated from Florida A&M University and New York University's graduate film programme, and was a Sundance Screenwriting and Directing Lab Fellow. Her early work includes the short film *Pariah* (2007) and the documentary *Eventual Salvation* (2008).

Rees made her feature debut with *Pariah* (2011), which she also wrote. She directed the television film *Bessie* (2015) and the features *Mudbound* (2017) and *The Last Thing He Wanted* (2020). With Virgil Williams she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for *Mudbound*, becoming the first African-American woman nominated in a writing category. She won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Miniseries or TV Film for *Bessie*.

Rees has directed episodes of series including *Empire* (2015), *Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams* (2017), *Space Force* (2020), *Upload* (2020) and *Saint X* (2023). She directed two episodes of the series *Masters of the Air* (2024) and received a teleplay credit on one of them.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Masters of the Air* (2024), Fi1m 66, Teleplay, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/masters-of-the-air.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Masters of the Air* (2024), series, Director, Teleplay — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/masters-of-the-air.md)
- *Saint X* (2023), series, Executive Producer, Director
- *Little Richard: I Am Everything* (2023), Executive Producer
- *Space Force* (2020), series, Director
- *Upload* (2020), series, Director
- *The Last Thing He Wanted* (2020), Director, Producer, Screenplay
- *The Box* (2018), Director, Writer
- *Mudbound* (2017), Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer
- *Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams* (2017), series, Writer, Director
- *When We Rise* (2017), series, Director
- *Bessie* (2015), Director, Screenplay, Story
- *Empire* (2015), series, Director
- *Boys On Film 9: Youth in Trouble* (2013), Director, Writer
- *Pariah* (2011), Director, Writer
- *Eventual Salvation* (2009), Executive Producer, Editorial Manager, Director, Sound Editor, Sound Designer
- *Colonial Gods* (2009), Writer, Director
- *Pariah* (2007), Director, Writer
- *Orange Bow* (2006), Director
- *An Uncivil War*, Director, Screenplay

## Gallery

- ![Pariah, Dee Rees, Nekisa Cooper, Spirit Awards on Vimeo Pariah WINNER of the Independent Spirit Awards Best Feature Made under 500K and better known as the John (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/3780895/gallery-45c8795d188c.jpg) Pariah, Dee Rees, Nekisa Cooper, Spirit Awards on Vimeo Pariah WINNER of the Independent Spirit Awards Best Feature Made under 500K and better known as the John (2012) — RealTVfilms, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Dee_Rees_on_RealTVfilms.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Dee Rees](https://film.one/media/person/3780895/gallery-3e7a9ff426cb.jpg) Dee Rees — PunkToad from oakland, us, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Spike_Lee%2C_Dee_Rees_and_David_Carr_%286747939623%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Dee Rees](https://film.one/media/person/3780895/gallery-803008459b59.jpg) Dee Rees — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2018: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Mudbound*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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