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Ryan Kyle Coogler (born May 23, 1986) is an American filmmaker. He has received an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, four Black Reel Awards, a Grammy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and ten 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 nominations for the Academy Award 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 2018, Coogler was named the runner-up of 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 multimedia production company Proximity Media. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ryan Coogler, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Ryan Coogler
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The story follows Arthur Morgan, a senior member of the Van der Linde gang, as the age of outlaws comes to an end. On the run from the law after a failed robbery, the gang struggles to survive while internal conflicts, loyalty, and changing times threaten to tear them apart. Arthur is forced to confront his past choices, morality, and what kind of legacy he will leave behind. Years later, the story centers on John Marston, a former outlaw trying to live a quiet life. He is coerced by the government into hunting down the remaining members of his old gang in exchange for his family’s freedom. As John tracks them across the fading frontier, he faces the consequences of his past and the cost of redemption in a world that no longer has room for men like him.
