Dustin Lance Black (born June 10, 1974) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and LGBT rights activist. He is known for writing the film Milk, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2009. He has also subsequently written the screenplays for the film J. Edgar and the 2022 crime miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven.

Filmography

• 2025Rock Out — Director
• 2023Rustin — Screenplay
• 2022Mama's Boy — Self, Book
• Under the Banner of Heaven — Executive Producer, Director, Writer, Teleplay, Story, Creator
• When We Rise — Executive Producer, Writer, Director, Creator
• 2017When We Rise: The People Behind The Story
• 2015Prophet's Prey — Executive Producer
• 2015The Text — Director, Writer
• 20128 — Self, Writer
• 2011J. Edgar — Writer
• 20108: The Mormon Proposition — Narrator
• 2010Virginia — Director, Writer
• 2008Milk — Castro Clone, Writer, Executive Producer
• 2008Pedro — Story, Screenplay
• Big Love — Writer, Staff Writer, Executive Story Editor
• 2003The Singing Forest — Bill
• 2002Becoming Men — Producer
• 2002On the Bus — Self, Director
• 2000The Journey of Jared Price — Director, Producer, Screenplay

Appearances as themselves (11)

• King of Drag — Self - Guest Judge
• Visible: Out on Television — Self
• 2019The Spark: The Origins of Pride — Self
• 2018The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom — Self
• 2014Compared To What: The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• 2014The Case Against 8 — Self
• 2013The Out List — Himself
• 2011Hollywood to Dollywood — Self
• 2011Illegal Love — Self
• Question Time — Himself - Panellist