Ryan Coogler has attended three colleges; Saint Mary’s College of California,
After Saint Mary’s canceled its football program in March 2004, Coogler transferred and earned a scholarship to Sacramento State
Following his graduation from Sacramento State, he was accepted into the highly competitive three-year master’s program at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where he made a series of short films.
Ryan Coogleris an American director, producer, and screenwriter. He is a recipient of four NAACP Image Awards, four Black Reel Awards, and an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture.
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 at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, for Best First Film.
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.
Coogler, his wife, Zinzi Coogler, and Sev Ohanian founded the multimedia company Proximity Media to create event-driven content across various platforms in 2021.
He also co-wrote and directed its sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022).