Mr. Ryan Kyle Coogler

Mr. Ryan Kyle Coogler was born on May 23, 1986, in Oakland California to Joselyn Thomas and Ira Coogler. He started college at Saint Mary’s College of California on a football scholarship intending to major in Chemistry. His English professor, Rosemary Graham is credited with encouraging his pursuit of a career in screenwriting. Unfortunately, the Saint Mary football program was canceled leading him to transfer and earn a scholarship to play for Sacramento State. There, he had a successful football career, majored in finance, and took all the film classes he could. After graduating, he went on to attend USC School of Cinematic Arts, where he directed four short films. Of these films, three were nominated for a number of awards, two of which were won.

Coogler’s first feature-length film was called Fruitvale Station, originally Fruitvale, which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, winning the top audience and grand jury awards, just one of the many it later received. He also is credited as a co-writer and director of Creed in 2015 and most recently, the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film, Black Panther. The film is a commercial and critical success. In addition to his films, Coogler has executively produced the ESPN 30 for 30 film, The Day the Series Stopped. He is currently working on both a graphic and young adult novel. He also has an upcoming film, Wrong Answer. His career has already been extremely successful as he holds the title of winner and has been nominated for a number of prestigious film awards.

As an American film director and screenwriter, Mr. Coogler has been named as 30 people under 30 who are changing the world. He is definitely a director on the rise and is in the middle of making history. Black Panther accumulated $242 million domestically and $184.6 million internationally in its opening weekend. The firm has broken box office records, outranked all other superhero movies on Rotten Tomatoes and scored an A+ grade from audience polled by CinemaScore. At such a young age, Mr. Coogler has already shown himself to be one of the biggest up and coming directors in Hollywood and Black STEAMer continuously on the rise.

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