Ava DuVernay Net Worth
Ava DuVernay Net Worth and Salary: Ava DuVernay is an American director, screenwriter and film distributor with a net worth of $60 million. Ava DuVernay was born in Los Angeles, California in August 1972. She became the first African-American woman to receive the Best Director Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. DuVernay also became the first black female director to be nominated for a Golden Globe for the Selma Award. She also became the first black female director to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar for Selma. She is a graduate of UCLA. DuVernay was a CBS News intern during the OJ Simpson murder trial. She then became a junior publicist and worked at FOX before starting her own agency, The DuVernay Agency, which became known as DVA Media + Marketing. In 2006, she directed and wrote the film Saturday Night Life. In 2008, she directed and produced her first feature film, This Is Life. DuVernay directed and created the 2011 film I Will Follow. She won the American Director Award for “Drama in the Wild” at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. In 2013, she directed an episode of the TV series Scandal. DuVernay directed and co-wrote the 2014 film Selma, which won her the African American Film Critics Association Award for Best Director and the Black Film Critics Award for Best Director. She has also been nominated for a Golden Globe, Critics’ Choice Film Award, NAACP Image Award, and Selma Satellite Award.
Warner Bros deal: In November 2018, Ava signed a multi-year, exclusive production deal with Warner Bros. worth $100 million. Ava and her company, Forward Movement, will produce TV and film projects for the studio to compete with Netflix.
