Yance Ford is an African-American producer and director. His most notable work is the 2017 true-crime documentary film, Strong Island. The film is about the murder of his brother William Ford, which occurred in 1992. It premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. In 2018, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for producing Strong Island. As such, he was the first openly transgender man to be nominated for any Academy Award, and the first openly transgender director to be nominated for any Academy Award.