Ryan Coogler

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1986 age 0

   Born

2. 2015 age 29

   CreditCreeddirector

   CreditCreedscreenwriter

3. 2018 age 32

   CreditBlack Pantherdirector

   CreditBlack Pantherscreenwriter

   CreditCreed IIexecutive producer

4. 2021 age 35

   CreditSpace Jam: A New Legacyproducer

5. 2022 age 36

   CreditBlack Panther: Wakanda Foreverdirector

   CreditBlack Panther: Wakanda Foreverscreenwriter

6. 2023 age 37

   CreditCreed IIIproducer

7. 2025 age 39

   CreditSinnersdirector

   CreditSinnersproducer

   CreditSinnersscreenwriter

• MJMichael B. Jordan6 titles
• LGLudwig Göransson5 titles
• WHWood Harris4 titles
• TTTessa Thompson3 titles
• SSSylvester Stallone3 titles
• SOSev Ohanian3 titles
• PRPhylicia Rashad3 titles
• KFKevin Feige2 titles
• DGDanai Gurira2 titles
• WDWinston Duke2 titles

• Because people would talk about grief, oftentimes saying, ‘y’all got hit with a wave.’ But the grief can carry you or you can feel like you’re drowning in it.

  Ryan Coogler, CC BY-SA 4.0

• You don’t know what your life is going to bring. You don’t know what’s going to happen.

  Ryan Coogler, CC BY-SA 4.0

• As filmmakers, you'll see actors working on a movie. Next thing you know, they're dating. Just because it's long hours, you're remote on location, and you end up becoming close with these people. You got no other choice but to. Sometimes that can get complicated.

  Ryan Coogler, CC BY-SA 4.0

• People are prisoners of their own perspectives.

  Ryan Coogler, CC BY-SA 4.0

• It was a priority for us that we make the film something that could work for audiences as a piece of filmmaking, as a piece of cinema, as a piece of entertainment.

  Ryan Coogler, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I definitely want to push myself. I definitely want to be on the outside edge of what’s comfortable for me creatively, on the outside edge of what I’ve done before. I want to be pushing my own boundaries, but I try not to compare my films to my other films because I think that’s probably not a healthy way to look at it.

  Ryan Coogler, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

United States

Languages

English

Years active

2009–

Notable works

Sinners, Black Panther, Space Jam: A New Legacy

Education

California State University, Sacramento, Saint Mary's College High School, Saint Mary's College of California, USC School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California