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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ryan Coogler, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2028Black Panther 3 — Writer, Director
• Eyes of Wakanda — Executive Producer
• Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time — Executive Producer
• Ironheart — Executive Producer
• 2025Sinners — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2024Megalopolis — Thanks
• 2023Anthem — Producer
• 2023Creed III — Producer, Story
• 2023Stephen Curry: Underrated — Producer
• Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever — Self (voice), Self - Director / Co-Writer, Executive Producer, Thanks
• 2022Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — Story, Screenplay, Director, Lyricist, Songs
• 2021Homeroom — Executive Producer
• 2021Judas and the Black Messiah — Producer
• 2021Space Jam: A New Legacy — Producer
• 2020Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King — Self - Director, "Black Panther" (archive footage)
• Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian — Self - Director, Black Panther (archive footage)
• 2018Black Panther — Writer, Director
• 2018Creed II — Executive Producer
• 2016Moonlight — Thanks
• 2015Creed — Director, Screenplay, Story
• HitRECord on TV with Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Self, Director
• 2014The Day the Series Stopped — Executive Producer
• 2013Clapping for the Wrong Reasons — Thanks
• 2013Fruitvale Station — Director, Screenplay
• 2012It's Just Art, Baby — Assistant Camera
• 2011Fig — Director
• 2011The Sculptor — Director, Writer
• 2010Gap — Director, Screenplay
• 2010Get Some — Boom Operator, Sound Mixer, Sound Editor
• 30 for 30 — Executive Producer
• 2009Locks — Producer, Sound Designer, Director, Writer, Sound Editor
• 2009On The Grind — Additional Camera, Grip
• Doppelgänger — Producer
• Untitled Sundance Institute Project — Executive Producer

Appearances as themselves (20)

• 2025Blues in the Night: The Music of Sinners — Self
• 2025Dancing with the Devil: The Making of Sinners — Self
• Good Hang with Amy Poehler — Self - Guest
• Hollywood Black — Self
• 2024Utan ord – i filmmusikens värld — Self
• 2023Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — Self
• 202220/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda — Self
• Sherri — Self - Guest
• Directors on Directors — Self
• 2021Regard Noir — Self
• Elvis Goes There — Self
• 2019Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound — Self
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
• 2015From Rocky to Creed: The Legacy Continues — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• The Daily Show — Self - Guest
• Good Morning America — Self - Guest
• The Oscars — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee