Antoine Fuqua (born January 19, 1966) is an American director of films and music videos.
He is best known for his works in the action and thriller genres and his collaborations with actor Denzel Washington, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the Fuqua-directed Training Day.
Filmography:
- The Replacement Killers (1998)
- Bait (2000)
- Training Day (2001)
- Tears of the Sun (2003)
- King Arthur (2004)
- Shooter (2007)
- Brooklyn's Finest (2009)
- Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
- The Equalizer (2014)
- The Equalizer 2 (2018)
- The Equalizer 3 (2023)
- Southpaw (2015)
- The Magnificent Seven (2016)
- Infinite (2021)
- The Guilty (2021)
- Bullet Train (2022, producer only)
- Emancipation (2022)
- Michael (2025)
Tropes that apply to his works:
- Dirty Cop: Plays a prominent role in both Training Day (produced in response to the Rampart scandal) and Brooklyn's Finest.
- Production Posse:
- Four of his films have featured Denzel Washington, while Ethan Hawke and Melissa Leo feature in three each and Mark Wahlberg and Jake Gyllenhaal have starred in two each.
- Harry Gregson-Williams has scored four of Fuqua's films, Mark Mancina and Marcelo Zavros have each scored three, while James Horner and Hans Zimmer have scored two of his films each (both of Horner's collaborations with Fuqua would prove to be among his final films).
- On the production side, he usually works with cinematographer Mauro Fiore, editors Conrad Buff IV and John Refoua, and production designer Naomi Shohan.
- Rated M for Manly: Several of his works, such as The Replacement Killers, Shooter, Olympus Has Fallen, The Magnificent Seven (2016), and The Equalizer.
- The Remake: The Magnificent Seven (2016) serves as both a remake of The Magnificent Seven (1960) and Seven Samurai, and The Guilty (2021) is a remake of the 2018 film of the same name.
