Antoine Fuqua

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

7

Gender

Male

Birthday

1966-01-19 (58 years old)

Place of Birth

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Also Known As

  • 安东尼·福奎阿

Antoine Fuqua

Biography

Fuqua began his career directing music videos for popular artists such as Toni Braxton, Coolio, Stevie Wonder, and Prince. From 1998 onwards, he began directing feature films, although he has worked on a few music videos since then. In a tribute article for TIME magazine, Fuqua expressed his early respect for Kurosawa as a filmmaker and how Kurosawa influenced his own perspective on filmmaking stating: "(screenwriter Hashimoto's) … working with Akira Kurosawa and Hideo Oguni, was so beautiful and poetic and powerful and heartbreaking. It was all about justice, it was all about sacrifice, and it made me want to be one of those guys".

His first feature film was the John Woo-produced action film The Replacement Killers (1998), starring Chow Yun Fat. He then directed the crime thriller Training Day (2001), for which star Denzel Washington won an Academy Award for Best Actor. His next films were the action war drama Tears of the Sun (2003), the Arthurian legend film King Arthur (2004), the conspiracy action thriller Shooter (2007), the crime film Brooklyn's Finest (2009), and the action thrillers Olympus Has Fallen (2013) and The Equalizer (2014), the latter of which again pairs Fuqua with Denzel Washington.

He co-created the comic-book miniseries After Dark with Wesley Snipes, which was written by Peter Milligan and illustrated by Jeff Nentrup. Fuqua was scheduled to direct Prisoners, based on a storybook from Aaron Guzikowski, but left the project. He was slated to direct Tupac Shakur's official biopic. The project was postponed to allow Fuqua to direct rapper Eminem's second feature film, Southpaw. However, Eminem put Southpaw on hold to focus on music and was replaced with Jake Gyllenhaal. In 2010, CBS Films hired Fuqua to direct a new movie based on a Vince Flynn novel, Consent to Kill. In May 2014, 20th Century Fox set Fuqua to direct a drug-smuggling thriller film Narco Sub, which is scripted by David Guggenheim.

Known For

Bait
5.7%

Bait

Mar 17, 2000

Geeking Out
5.3%

Geeking Out

Jul 24, 2016

Ghost of the Mountains
5.9%

Ghost of the Mountains

Jun 30, 2017

On the Lot
5.8%

On the Lot

May 22, 2007

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Acting

2018
American Dream/American Knightmare as Self (interviewer)
2017
Ghost of the Mountains as Narrator (voice)
2016
Geeking Out as Self
2011
The 'Scarface' Phenomenon as Self
2007
On the Lot
2004
The Making of King Arthur as Self
2000
Bait as Man (uncredited)

Creator

Directing

The Street as Director
Untitled Jack Johnson Project as Director
Siege of Bethlehem as Director
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Director
Narco Sub as Director
Untitled Denzel Washington Hannibal Project as Director
Troublemaker: The Story Behind the Mandela Tapes as Director
Tyson as Director
2025
Michael as Director
2023
The Equalizer 3 as Director
2022
Emancipation as Director
2022
Legacy: The True Story of the LA Lakers as Director
2022
The Terminal List as Director
2021
The Guilty as Director
2021
Infinite as Director
2021
The Day Sports Stood Still as Director
2019
What's My Name | Muhammad Ali as Director
2018
American Dream/American Knightmare as Director
2018
The Equalizer 2 as Director
2017
The Gift as Director
2016
Ice as Director
2016
The Magnificent Seven as Director
2015
Southpaw as Director
2014
The Equalizer as Director
2013
Olympus Has Fallen as Director
2010
Brooklyn's Finest as Director
2007
Shooter as Director
2006
The Call as Director
2004
King Arthur as Director
2004
Lightning in a Bottle as Director
2003
Tears of the Sun as Director
2001
Training Day as Director
2000
Bait as Director
1998
The Replacement Killers as Director
1992
Inside Out 4 as Director

Production

Untitled Antoine Fuqua and Todd Komarnicki Film as Producer
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Producer
Untitled Denzel Washington Hannibal Project as Producer
Tyson as Executive Producer
The Terminal List: Dark Wolf as Executive Producer
2024
Rob Peace as Producer
2023
The Equalizer 3 as Producer
2022
Emancipation as Executive Producer
2022
Legacy: The True Story of the LA Lakers as Executive Producer
2022
Bullet Train as Producer
2022
The Terminal List as Executive Producer
2021
Mayor of Kingstown as Executive Producer
2021
The Guilty as Producer
2021
Infinite as Executive Producer
2021
The Day Sports Stood Still as Producer
2020
#FreeRayshawn as Executive Producer
2018
The Equalizer 2 as Producer
2015
Southpaw as Producer
2013
Olympus Has Fallen as Producer
2010
Brooklyn's Finest as Executive Producer
2005
Bastards of the Party as Executive Producer
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