Ryan Kyle Coogler (born May 23, 1986), is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is a recipient of four NAACP Image Awards and four Black Reel Awards, and has been nominated for two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Grammy Award. He won the top audience and grand jury awards in the U.S. dramatic competition at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival for his first feature film, Fruitvale Station (2013), with Michael B. Jordan (a frequent collaborator, Melonie Diaz, Kevin Durand, Chad Michael Murray, Ahna O’Reilly, Octavia Spencer.
He has since co-written and directed the seventh film in the Rocky series, Creed (2015), with Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad, Tony Bellew, and Graham McTavish; and the Marvel film Black Panther (2018), with Chadwick Boseman, Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Sterling K. Brown, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, and Andy Serkis; the latter of which broke numerous box office records and became the highest-grossing film of all time by a black director. He also directed the sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022), with much of the original cast along with Florence Kasumba, Dominique Thorne, Michaela Coel, Mabel Cadena, Tenoch Huerta Mejía, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
Coogler has also been an executive producer or producer on Steven Caple Jr.’s Creed II (2018), with Jordan, Stallone, Thompson, Wood Harris, Rashad, Florian Munteanu, and Dolph Lundgren; Shaka King’s Judas and the Black Messiah (2021), with Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield, Jesse Plemons, Dominique Fishback, Ashton Sanders, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Lil Rel Howery, Algee Smith, Dominique Thorne, and Martin Sheen; Malcolm D. Lee’s Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021), with LeBron James, Don Cheadle, Khris Davis, Sonequa Martin-Green, and Cedric Joe, the voices of Jeff Bergman, Eric Bauza, and Zendaya; and Creed III (2023), with Jordan (who also directed), Thompson, Jonathan Majors, Harris, Mila Davis-Kent, Munteanu and Rashad.
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- Fruitvale Station (2013) – director, writer
- Creed (2015)* – director, co-writer
- Black Panther (2018)* – director, co-writer
- Creed II (2018) – directed by Steven Caple Jr. – executive producer
- Homeroom (2021) – directed by by Peter Nicks – executive producer – documentary
- Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021) – directed by Malcolm D. Lee – co-producer
- Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) – directed by Shaka King – co-producer
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)* – director, co-writer
- Creed III (2023) – directed by Michael B. Jordan – producer, co-story
- Stephen Curry: Underrated (2023) – directed by Peter Nicks – producer – documentary
- Untitled Upcoming Film (2025) – director, writer, co-producer
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