Antoine Fuqua

Antoine Fuqua born May 30 1965 is an American director He began his career directing music videos for artists such as Toni Braxton Coolio Stevie Wonder and Prince His first feature film was the John Wooproduced action film The Replacement Killers 1998 starring Chow Yun Fat He then directed the crime thriller Training Day 2001 for which star Denzel Washington won an Academy Award for Best Actor His next films were the action war drama Tears of the Sun 2003 the Arthurian legend film King Arthur 2004 the conspiracy action thriller Shooter 2007 the crime film Brooklyns Finest 2009 and the action thrillers Olympus Has Fallen 2013 and The Equalizer 2014 the latter of which again paired Fuqua with Denzel Washington He has also directed the biopics Emancipation 2022 about an escaped slave named Peter and Michael 2026 about the popstar Michael Jackson