What films has Ryan Coogler directed?

Fruitvale Station, Creed, Black Panther, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Sinners.

Where is Ryan Coogler from?

Oakland, California, where his first feature, Fruitvale Station, is set.

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Ryan Coogler

Filmmaker, Black Panther and Sinners, co-founder of Proximity Media · b. 1986

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BORN: 1986
ERA: 2013 to Present
KNOWN FOR: Filmmaker, Black Panther and Sinners, co-founder of Proximity Media

§ THE SHORT VERSION

Ryan Coogler, born in Oakland in 1986, is the filmmaker behind Fruitvale Station, Creed, Black Panther and Sinners. Black Panther earned more than a billion dollars worldwide and was the first superhero film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Born in Oakland in 1986. Played football, studied film at USC, and made his first feature about a killing at a train station in his own city.

FROM FRUITVALE TO WAKANDA

Highlights.

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Fruitvale Station won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at Sundance (2013)

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Black Panther, first superhero film nominated for Best Picture

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Sinners (2025), an original film that became a box office event

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Co-founded Proximity Media

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§ QUESTIONS PEOPLE ASK

What films has Ryan Coogler directed?: Fruitvale Station, Creed, Black Panther, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Sinners.
Where is Ryan Coogler from?: Oakland, California, where his first feature, Fruitvale Station, is set.
Why was Black Panther historic?: It earned more than a billion dollars worldwide and became the first superhero film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Fruitvale Station won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at Sundance in 2013. Creed followed, then Black Panther, which earned more than a billion dollars worldwide and became the first superhero film nominated for Best Picture.

SINNERS

His 2025 film Sinners, set in the Mississippi Delta and built on the blues, was an original story that became a box office event. He runs Proximity Media with his partners so the next filmmakers have a door.

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