Fuqua is the director behind such films as Training Day, The Magnificent Seven, The Equalizer, The Equalizer 2, Southpaw, Olympus Has Fallen, Brooklyn’s Finest, Shooter, Tears of the Sun, and King Arthur. He directed and executive produced the documentary American Dream/American Knightmare on the legendary Marion “Suge” Knight and directed the blues documentary, Lightning in a Bottle, executive produced by Martin Scorsese. Fuqua served as executive producer on FOX’s successful medical drama The Resident that ran for six seasons. He directed and executive produced the critically acclaimed documentary What’s My Name: Muhammad Ali, for HBO, which was a winner at the 2020 PGA Awards in the Outstanding Sports Program category and the 2020 Sports Emmys in the Outstanding Long Sports Documentary category.
In 2021, his HBO sports documentary The Day Sports Stood Still also received a Critics Choice Documentary Award nomination and a Sport’s Emmy Long Form Writing nomination. His company produced Quibi’s movie in chapter #FreeRayshawn, starring Laurence Fishburne and Stephan James, which won two Emmy awards. The series also won a 2021 NAACP Image Award for “Outstanding Short Form Series – Comedy or Drama.” Recent projects include Netflix’s The Guilty, Paramount+ series “Mayor of Kingstown,” Hulu docuseries, “Legacy: The True Story of the LA Lakers” which most recently received the Sports Emmy for Outstanding Documentary series, Amazon’s “The Terminal List” and Apple’s Emancipation. Upcoming projects include the Michael, the Michael Jackson biopic, Nelson Mandela documentary, “The Terminal List” Season 2 and its prequel series, “The Terminal List: Dark Wolf.” Rob Peace premiered last year at Sundance Film Festival where it received exceptional reviews. Most recently, Fuqua was nominated for NAACP’s Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture for “The Equalizer 3” and was previously awarded the African American Film Critics Association’s Beacon Award on behalf of Emancipation.
