Antoine Fuqua is an American film director and producer. Initially active as a music video director, he has worked primarily in the action and thriller film subgenres. Fuqua's movies consistently perform well at the box office; he is best known for his Academy Award-winning film Training Day (2001). Before launching into feature films in 1998, he began his career directing music videos for popular artists such as Toni Braxton, Coolio, Stevie Wonder and Prince.

Fuqua began his career directing music videos for popular artists such as Toni Braxton, Stevie Wonder, and Prince. He directed Michelle Pfeiffer in the video Gangsta's Paradise by Coolio, and which was used to promote Jerry Bruckheimer's hit film Dangerous Minds.

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.

In March 2011, Fuqua signed on to direct a film featuring the romantic love story between Consort Yang Yuhuan and Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang dynasty. As reported in March 2013, he has stated that he was awaiting the film project to go through the appropriate Chinese government channels before directing the historical epic film, currently known as The Tang Dynasty.

His 2016 film was a remake of the action Western The Magnificent Seven (2016). The Magnificent Seven is a remake of the 1960 Western of the same name and Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, on which the Western was based. Denzel Washington plays the lead role of Sam Chisolm. Fuqua was also an executive producer of the 2016 television remake of Roots. His Fuqua Films company is signing a deal with the Weinsteins in 2016.

On August 10, 2016, Deadline Hollywood reported that Fuqua was in talks to direct a new Scarface film. In January 2017, Fuqua left the project. On February 10, 2017, it was announced that the film would be written by the Coen brothers. On March 30, 2018, it was announced that Fuqua would direct the new film with Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer writing the screenplay. On May 14, 2020, it was announced that Fuqua was no longer directing and that Luca Guadagnino has signed on to direct the film with the script still being written by the Coen brothers as previously confirmed.

In early 2018, Fuqua became listed as one of the executive producers of the Fox medical drama series The Resident. In summer 2018, his thriller sequel The Equalizer 2 (2018) was released, with Denzel Washington returning in the starring role. In February 2019, it was announced that Chris Evans had entered negotiations to star in the sci-fi film titled Infinite, with Fuqua directing for film release in August 2020.

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