Director John Singleton has died after being taken off life support, his spokesperson Shannon Barr told USA TODAY Monday.

Screenwriter and director John Singleton’s ‘Boyz n the Hood’ led to an Academy Award for Best Director, making him the first African-American ever nominated.

His first film, which he began shooting when he was in his early 20s, earned an Oscar nomination for best director — the first for an African-American.

John Singleton's mom claims one of his baby mamas did nothing to help him the night before he died.

John Singleton, American film director and screenwriter whose films often examined urban and racial tensions. He was best known for his directorial debut, Boyz n the Hood (1991). Other films included Poetic Justice (1993), Shaft (2000), and 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003). Learn more about Singleton’s life and career.

Singleton was the first black filmmaker to be nominated for a Best Director Oscar in 1991 — he was only 24 at the time

John Singleton, a versatile director who made a splash with "Boyz n the Hood" and went on to a variety of projects — including "2 Fast 2 Furious" — has died after suffering a stroke. He was 51.

John Singleton, Writer: Boyz n the Hood. Son of Danny Singleton, a mortgage broker, and Sheila Ward, a pharmaceutical company sales executive, and raised in separate households by his unmarried parents, John Singleton attended the Film Writing Program at USC, after graduating from high school in 1986. While studying there, he won three writing awards from the university, which led to a …

Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas are proud new parents.

Joe Jonas debuted his new hot pink hair recently—and it's all in the name of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which kicked off on Oct. 1.