Lee Daniels

Lee Daniels is an American film and television producer, director and screenwriter. His first producer credit was Monster's Ball (2001), for which Halle Berry won the Academy Award for Best Actress, making Daniels the first African-American film producer to solely produce an Oscar-winning film. He made his directorial debut with Shadowboxer in 2005 and has since then directed the films Precious (2009), The Paperboy, The Butler (2013) and The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021). Of these, Precious was the most critically acclaimed, and was nominated for six Academy Awards, including two nominations for Daniels, for Best Director and Best Picture. Other films he has produced include The Woodsman (2004), Tennessee (2008), Pimp (2018) and Concrete Cowboy (2020).

24 December 1959

Born on the same birth date (24 December 1959): Chris Blackhurst

Born on the same birth day (24 December): Bobby Henrich • Constance of Austria • Hamid Karzai • John Critchinson • Johnny Gruelle • Mariana of Austria • Neil Turbin • Nicholas Meyer • Nick Kent • Valentim Loureiro

Born in the same month (December 1959): Deborah Estrin • Gerina Dunwich • Greg Matthews • H. D. Kumaraswamy • Iván Vallejo • Jackie Fox • Kelefa Diallo • Kåre Thomsen • Michael P. Anderson • Wang Lijun • Wolf Hoffmann