Ryan Coogler

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 featurelength 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 Times 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 worlds most influential people In 2018 Coogler was named the runnerup for Times 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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Ryan Coogler licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia