Future Black History Month: Ryan Coogler's Stunning Storytelling
This year, we’re celebrating an extended Black History Month by highlighting a variety of rising forces who are creating history in real time. Writer/director Ryan Coogler made his feature debut with 2013's Fruitvale Station, the true story of the final day in the life of 22-year-old Oscar Grant III, who was murdered, unarmed, by police in public. As Coogler was making the film, he worked in a San Francisco juvenile hall as a youth counselor. He grew up in Oakland, Calif. watching his father work do juvenile hall work; his mother worked as a community organizer.
The sobering, widely admired Fruitvale Station led to Creed, a 2015 reunion between young star Michael B. Jordan and Coogler, now 29. The Rocky spinoff earned Sylvester Stallone a Golden Globe win and a Best Supporting Actor nod at the upcoming Academy Awards; Coogler and Jordan were conspicuously absent from the Oscar nominees, along with a great many talented people of color.
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