Ryan Coogler

Overview

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Acting
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Birthday
May 23, 1986 (39 years old)

Ryan Coogler

Known For

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
0h 58m
Movie 2023

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Follow the production of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” as the cast and crew take on the incredible challenge of remembering T’Challa with a chapter befitting the late king. Through intimate behind-the-scenes footage and interviews, watch Shuri take on the mantel of Wakanda’s hero and face a new foe from the ocean’s depths in Namor.

20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda
0h 43m
Movie 2022

20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda

Exploring the evolution of Black Panther from the comic emerging in the 1960s to the film the world fell in love with in 2018; director Ryan Coogler; Whoopi Goldberg interviews Chadwick Boseman's widow, Simone Ledward Boseman.

Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
0h 40m
Movie 2020

Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King

A tribute to Chadwick Boseman, celebrating his life and legacy.

Biography

Ryan Kyle Coogler (born May 23, 1986) is an American filmmaker. He has received ten NAACP Image Awards and four Black Reel Awards. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Grammy Award. He made his feature-length debut with the independent film Fruitvale Station (2013), which won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award for U.S. dramatic film at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. It also won Best First Film at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Since then, he has co-written and directed films such as the Rocky series spinoff Creed (2015) and the Marvel film Black Panther (2018), the latter of which broke numerous box office records and became the highest-grossing film of all time by an African American director. Coogler also co-wrote and directed its sequel, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) and wrote, co-produced, and directed the supernatural horror film Sinners (2025). All of Coogler's films have received widespread acclaim and commercial success. Critics have hailed his work for centring on often overlooked cultures and characters—most notably African Americans. He frequently collaborates with actor Michael B. Jordan and composer Ludwig Göransson, who have, respectively, appeared in and composed all of his films. In 2013, he was included on Time's list of the 30 people under 30 who are changing the world. In 2018, he was named the runner-up of Time's Person of the Year and 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; the first film it produced was Judas and the Black Messiah (2021). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ryan Coogler, licensed under CC-BY-SA, is a full list of contributors on Wikipedia.