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How Sinners director Ryan Coogler went from a broke college football student with $200k debt to making a $370M Oscar-winning film


The director, 39, won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for the movie, making him the second black writer to win the award, following Jordan Peele , who won in 2018 for Get Out.

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