Ryan Coogler
Directing
Born 1986-05-23
Oakland, California, USA
54 credits
Academy Awards 1
BAFTA Awards 1
Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Original and Adapted Screenplay 1
Black Reel Award for Outstanding Director 1
Time 100 1
Producers Guild Stanley Kramer Award 1
Awards
Won 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 won · 5 nominated
- 2026 Best Writing, Original Screenplay Won Sinners
- 2023 Best Original Song Nominated Lift Me Up
- 2021 Best Picture Nominated Judas and the Black Messiah
- — Best Writing, Original Screenplay Nominated Sinners
- — Best Picture Nominated Sinners
- — Best Director Nominated Sinners
BAFTA Awards 1 won
- 2026 Best Original Screenplay Won Sinners
Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Original and Adapted Screenplay 1 won
- 2026 Best Original and Adapted Screenplay Won Sinners
Black Reel Award for Outstanding Director 1 won
- 2026 Outstanding Director Won Sinners
Time 100 1 won
- 2018 Time 100 Won
Producers Guild Stanley Kramer Award 1 won
- 2014 Producers Guild Stanley Kramer Award Won Fruitvale Station
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Ryan Kyle Coogler (born May 23, 1986) is an American filmmaker. His accolades include an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Grammy Award, a Golden Globe Award, ten Black Reel Awards, and fourteen NAACP Image Awards.
Coogler directed a few short films at the USC School of Cinematic Arts before his feature-length debut with Fruitvale Station (2013). He then transitioned to directing and writing franchise films, including the Rocky series spinoff Creed (2015), as well as the Marvel films Black Panther (2018) and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022). Coogler also produced the historical drama Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) and the supernatural horror film Sinners (2025), which he also wrote and directed. He received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture for both films, while for Sinners he was also nominated for Best Director and won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
In 2013, he was included on Time's list of the 30 people under 30 who are changing the world. In 2016, he was included in the annual Time 100 list of the world's most influential people. In 2018, Coogler was named the runner-up for Time's Person of the Year, and he was included in the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. In 2021, Coogler, his wife Zinzi Coogler, and Sev Ohanian founded the multimedia production company Proximity Media.
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Filmography
Directing
12 credits
Sinners
Black Panther
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Creed
HitRECord on TV with Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Fruitvale Station
Black Panther 3
Locks
Wrong Answer
The Sculptor
Fig
Gap
Acting
28 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Daily Show
Sherri
Golden Globe Awards
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Good Morning America
The Oscars
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever
Hollywood Black
Directors on Directors
HitRECord on TV with Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Locks
Elvis Goes There
Regard Noir
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
From Rocky to Creed: The Legacy Continues
Get Some
Dancing with the Devil: The Making of Sinners
20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda
Utan ord – i filmmusikens värld
On The Grind
It's Just Art, Baby
Producing
17 credits
Sinners
Ironheart
Eyes of Wakanda
Creed III
Creed II
30 for 30
Space Jam: A New Legacy
Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever
Judas and the Black Messiah
Stephen Curry: Underrated
Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time
Anthem
Locks
Untitled Sundance Institute Project
The Day the Series Stopped
Homeroom
Doppelgänger
Writing
10 credits
Sinners
Black Panther
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Creed III
Creed
Fruitvale Station
Black Panther 3
Locks
The Sculptor
Gap
Other credits
5 credits
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Moonlight
Megalopolis
Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever
Clapping for the Wrong Reasons
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