David Oyelowo

Co-Founder, Yoruba Saxon · 1 appearance on the record.

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David Oyelowo is a British-American actor and filmmaker known for portraying Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma. He also co-founded the production company Yoruba Saxon and the streaming platform Mansa.

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2 assertions · 2 opinions · 2 insights · 2 what ifs · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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No argument clarity score for David Oyelowo: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,607 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

What they said8 Episodes1

Everything David Oyelowo said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight

David Oyelowo: Excellence is the most effective weapon against prejudice

“The best weapon, in my view, against prejudice is excellence. If you constantly remain on the undeniable path of excellence, you literally shame people into giving you your opportunities, into making the opportunities that you create yourself.”

David Oyelowo Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:34 a16z Podcast | Mastering the Game (with David Oyelowo)

What-if

Oyelowo: A decade ago, Queen of Katwe would feature a white savior

“It's because Of Tendo Nagenda being at the center of getting this made, that my character isn't a white missionary which is what it would, which is what it has been up until, you know, when I say a white savior, that's how this film would have got made 10 year…”

David Oyelowo Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:49 a16z Podcast | Mastering the Game (with David Oyelowo)

Insight

Oyelowo: Obama's presidency drove Hollywood's wave of African-American history films

“You know, I think those films got made because this country, as it still is, reeling from the fact that we've had an African American president for eight years.”

David Oyelowo Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:45 a16z Podcast | Mastering the Game (with David Oyelowo)

Opinion

Oyelowo: Positive depictions of African communities remain rare in cinema

“As you can probably tell from watching the film, these are images we don't tend to get to see, of people we don't tend to get to see in this way.”

David Oyelowo Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 0:56 a16z Podcast | Mastering the Game (with David Oyelowo)

Opinion

Oyelowo: Female directors are essential to centering female perspectives in film

“I think that a female director directing this is why you have an eleven-year-old girl as the center of the story. That's why we need female directors. That's why we need different voices telling these stories.”

David Oyelowo Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:30 a16z Podcast | Mastering the Game (with David Oyelowo)

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Oyelowo: Lupita Nyong'o's star power was essential for Disney greenlighting Katwe

“She is one of the reasons the movie gets made, because when you don't have someone like that, that gives a company like Disney the confidence to make the film, because that, you know, at the end of the day, you want people in these movies that draw a crowd, an…”

David Oyelowo Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:23 a16z Podcast | Mastering the Game (with David Oyelowo)

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Oyelowo: Hollywood had no comparable films for Queen of Katwe

“What we tend to do in Hollywood is we think about comps. What is the film like? We just don't have comps.”

David Oyelowo Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:09 a16z Podcast | Mastering the Game (with David Oyelowo)

What-if

Oyelowo: Disney's 'Queen of Katwe' wouldn't exist without Tendo Nagenda

“There is no way, I think, that this film will be getting made if he didn't make it his passion and he didn't walk it down the halls to get it made.”

David Oyelowo Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:00 a16z Podcast | Mastering the Game (with David Oyelowo)

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
a16z Podcast \| Mastering the Game (with David Oyelowo)	Jan 2, 2019	14m

David Oyelowo

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