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 ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Sinners
2025
Director, Writer, Producer
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is wait...

Megalopolis
2024
Thanks
Genius artist Cesar Catilina seeks to leap the City of New Rome into a utopian, idealistic future, while his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero, remain...

Stephen Curry: Underrated
2023
Producer
The remarkable coming-of-age story of Stephen Curry—one of the most influential, dynamic, and unexpected players in basketball history—and his rise fr...

Creed III
2023
Producer, Story
After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed has thrived in his career and family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damian A...

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2023
as Self
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...

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022
Story, Screenplay, Director
Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M’Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s dea...

20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda
2022
as Self
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; ...

Space Jam: A New Legacy
2021
Producer
When LeBron and his young son Dom are trapped in a digital space by a rogue A.I., LeBron must get them home safe by leading Bugs, Lola Bunny and the w...

Regard Noir
2021
as Self

Judas and the Black Messiah
2021
Producer
Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—fal...

Homeroom
2021
Executive Producer
Following the class of 2020 at Oakland High School in a year marked by seismic change, exploring the emotional world of teenagers coming of age agains...

Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
2020
as Self - Director, "Black Panther" (archive footage)
A tribute to Chadwick Boseman, celebrating his life and legacy.

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
2019
as Self
The history of cinematic sound, told by legendary sound designers and visionary filmmakers.

Creed II
2018
Executive Producer
Between personal obligations and training for his next big fight against an opponent with ties to his family's past, Adonis Creed is up against the ch...

Black Panther
2018
Writer, Director
King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Chall...

Moonlight
2016
Thanks
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecsta...

Creed
2015
Director, Screenplay, Story
The former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his late friend and former rival Apoll...

From Rocky to Creed: The Legacy Continues
2015
as Self
In this one-hour documentary event narrated by Michael B Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, the filmmakers and past cast members share Rockys Cinderella stor...

Fruitvale Station
2013
Director, Screenplay
Oakland, California. Young Afro-American Oscar Grant crosses paths with family members, friends, enemies and strangers before facing his fate on the p...

Fig
2011
Director
In South Los Angeles, a young mother's love for her daughter is put to the test.

Locks
2009
Producer, Sound Designer, Director
A young man in Oakland, California, wakes with a heavy heart and decides to take a walk through the neighborhood to the local barbershop.
Bitter Root
N/A
Producer
In 1920s Harlem, a fractured family of once-great monster hunters must face an unimaginable evil that has descended upon New York City.
Black Panther 3
N/A
Writer
Rumored third installment in Marvel Studios’ Black Panther franchise.

A Vicious Circle
N/A
Producer
Assassins from the future hunt each other through time. Described as "John Wick meets Looper".
Sinners 2
N/A
Producer, Characters
Sequel to the 2025 film Sinners. Plot TBA.
Doppelgänger
N/A
Producer
An original take on the spy thriller. Plot TBA.

Wrong Answer
N/A
Director, Producer
Follows math teacher Damany Lewis amid the fallout of the 2006 Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal, an episode that saw eleven teachers indicted o...