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- Antoine Fuqua is an American film director, known for his work in the film Training Day as well as The Replacement Killers, Tears of the Sun, King Arthur, Shooter, Brooklyn's Finest, Olympus Has Fallen and The Equalizer.
He has directed music videos for such artists as Arrested Development, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Toni Braxton, Pras Michel and Usher. He was nominated for MTV's Best Rap Video for Heavy D & the Boyz. He also won two Music Video Production Awards: The Young Generators Award, for his work on Coolio's rap video "Gansta Paradise" and the Sinclair Tenebaum Olesiuk and Emanual Award for the trailer to the hit feature film Esprits rebelles (1995). Among his many commercial credits are Wings for Men, Big Star Jeans, Miller Genuine Draft, Reebok, Toyota, Armani and Stanley Tools.- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous - Attended West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia on an athletic scholarship for basketball. He studied electrical engineering (focusing on electromagnetism and signal processing) before moving back to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (this move was brief and only to figure out his true calling) and then to New York, New York to work in film.- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- Antoine Fuqua is an American film director and film producer. His first feature film was the action film Un tueur pour cible (1998), starring Chow Yun Fat. He then directed the crime thriller Training Day (2001), for which star Denzel Washington won an Oscar, the action war drama Les larmes du soleil (2003), the Arthurian legend film Le Roi Arthur (2004), the conspiracy action thriller Shooter, tireur d'élite (2007), the crime film L'élite de Brooklyn (2009), and the action thrillers La Chute de la Maison Blanche (2013), Equalizer (2014), which pairs Fuqua with Denzel Washington again, and La rage au ventre (2015) with Jake Gyllenhaal, Forest Whitaker and Rachel McAdams.
He is perhaps best known for the award-winning film Training Day (2001). Fuqua was scheduled to direct Prisoners (2013), based on a storybook from Aaron Guzikowski, but left the project.
Fuqua also directed Les Sept Mercenaires (2016), a modern-day remake of the 1960 western of the same name (Les 7 mercenaires (1960)) and Akira Kurosawa's Les 7 Samouraïs (1954), on which the western was based.- IMDb mini biography by: Pedro Borges
- SpouseLela Rochon(April 9, 1999 - present) (2 children)
- Children
- RelativesHarvey Fuqua(Aunt or Uncle)
- Most of his films contain politically driven elements and themes.
- The main characters secretly hide their past
- Hard characters, hard conflict scene, and hard film setting
- Neutral dark tone
- His movies often feature a shot that is or turns upside-down.
- Was originally set to direct American Gangster (2007) in 2004 with Denzel Washington and Benicio Del Toro starring, but production was halted one month before shooting after Universal Pictures canceled the film over budget concerns.
- Was offered the chance to direct Man on Fire (2004) but turned it down as he was busy working on King Arthur (2004).
- Nephew of Harvey Fuqua(of The Moonglows).
- Was discovered by producer Jerry Bruckheimer who offered him the chance to direct rapper Coolio's music video for his song 'Gangsta's Paradise' from the film 'Dangerous Minds' (1995) which Bruckheimer produced.
- His wife, Lela Rochon, gave birth to their 1st child, a daughter Asia Fuqua on July 28, 2002.
- Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.
- But I like to go to movies with my son because it's still fun; it reminds me of why I make movies.
- Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.
- 'Cause movies are human drama, that's it.
- What I learned is, don't forget who you are, because that's what's going to make you a filmmaker.
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