George Lucas
1944-05-14 ( 80 years old ) in Modesto, California, USA

George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur. Lucas is known for creating the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises and founding Lucasfilm, LucasArts and Industrial Light & Magic. He served as chairman of Lucasfilm before selling it to The Walt Disney Company in 2012. After graduating from the University of Southern California in 1967, Lucas co-founded American Zoetrope with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. Lucas wrote and directed THX 1138 (1971), based on his earlier student short Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB, which was a critical success but a financial failure. His next work as a writer-director was the film American Graffiti (1973), inspired by his youth in early 1960s Modesto, California, and produced through the newly founded Lucasfilm. The film was critically and commercially successful, and received five Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. Lucas's next film, the epic space opera Star Wars (1977), had a troubled production but was a surprise hit, becoming the highest-grossing film at the time, winning six Academy Awards and sparking a cultural phenomenon. Lucas produced and co-wrote the sequels The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983). With director Steven Spielberg, he created, produced and co-wrote the Indiana Jones films Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Temple of Doom (1984), The Last Crusade (1989) and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). He also produced and wrote a variety of films and television series through Lucasfilm between the 1970s and the 2010s. In 1997, Lucas rereleased the Star Wars trilogy as part of a special edition featuring several alterations; home media versions with further changes were released in 2004 and 2011. He returned to directing with a Star Wars prequel trilogy comprising The Phantom Menace (1999), Attack of the Clones (2002), and Revenge of the Sith (2005). He last collaborated on the CGI-animated television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008–2014, 2020), the war film Red Tails (2012), and the CGI film Strange Magic (2015). Lucas is one of history's most financially successful filmmakers and has been nominated for four Academy Awards. His films are among the 100 highest-grossing movies at the North American box office, adjusted for ticket-price inflation. Lucas is considered a significant figure of the 20th-century New Hollywood movement. Description above from the Wikipedia article George Lucas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Music by John Williams 2024-11-01
Jim Henson Idea Man 2024-05-18
Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain 2023-12-08
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford 2023-12-01
Samuel L. Jackson: Did I Stutter? 2023-07-08
A Disturbance in the Force: How the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened 2023-03-11
Harrison Ford: Hollywood Hero 2023-02-01
Willow: Behind the Magic 2023-01-25
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return 2022-09-07
If These Walls Could Sing 2022-09-03
Under the Helmet: The Legacy of Boba Fett 2021-11-12
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age 2021-05-07
The Skywalker Legacy 2020-03-18
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound 2019-10-25
Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge - Adventure Awaits 2019-09-29
The Phantom Menace 20 Years Later 2019-05-19
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies 2017-11-12
Spielberg 2017-10-05
Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel 2015-12-15
Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond 2015-12-10
Sean Connery: In His Own Words 2015-08-18
Raiders, Raptors and Rebels: Behind the Magic of ILM 2015-07-19
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles 2014-12-12
A Night at the Movies: George Lucas & The World of Fantasy Cinema 2014-11-25
And the Oscar Goes To... 2014-02-01
Face of Unity 2014-01-01
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster 2013-07-19
From Morf to Morphing: The Dawn of Digital Filmmaking 2013-04-05
Milius 2013-03-09
Close Up 2012-09-30
Side by Side 2012-08-19
A Conversation with the Masters: The Empire Strikes Back 30 Years Later 2011-09-16
Hollywood between Paranoia and Sci-Fi: The Power of Myth 2011-05-06
Project Happiness 2011-05-01
Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible 2010-11-12
The People vs. George Lucas 2010-03-14
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel 2009-09-12
Waking Sleeping Beauty 2009-09-05
The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped 2008-09-23
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't 2008-06-03
Mardik: From Baghdad to Hollywood 2008-04-01
Heckler 2007-11-04
Fog City Mavericks 2007-10-24
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange' 2007-10-23
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick 2007-10-23
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 2007-10-23
The Pixar Story 2007-08-28
Journey Through the Labyrinth 2007-08-01
Robot Chicken: Star Wars 2007-07-17
Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed 2007-05-28
Star Warriors 2007-01-01
Creatures from Star Wars 2006-12-12
The Sci-Fi Boys 2006-04-27
Hollywood's Greatest Villains 2005-12-01
The Chosen One 2005-11-09
Star Wars: Within a Minute - The Making of Episode III 2005-11-01
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema 2005-09-13
Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us 2005-07-05
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 2005-05-17
Alien Planet 2005-05-14
Lucas, Coppola & Kurosawa 2005-03-29
Clone Wars: Bridging the Saga 2005-03-22
George Lucas: Creating an Empire 2005-01-27
Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa 2005-01-01
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing 2004-10-12
The Characters of Star Wars 2004-09-21
When Star Wars Ruled the World 2004-09-18
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope 2004-09-14
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy 2004-09-12
Tell Them Who You Are 2004-09-06
Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138' 2004-08-14
Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing 2004-05-01
The Music of 'Indiana Jones' 2003-10-21
Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy 2003-10-21
Films Are Not Released, They Escape 2002-11-12
State of the Art: The Pre-Visualization of 'Episode II' 2002-11-12
From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II' 2002-11-12
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome 2001-11-25
The Beginning: Making Episode I 2001-10-16
Kurosawa 2000-12-24
Hollywood's Master of Myth: Joseph Campbell - The Force Behind Star Wars 1999-07-18
From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic 1999-06-15
The Mythology of Star Wars 1999-01-01
The Making of 'American Graffiti' 1998-09-15
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs 1998-01-01
Men in Black 1997-07-02
Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery 1997-02-06
The Harryhausen Chronicles 1997-01-01
The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' 1996-10-01
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies 1995-06-05
Beverly Hills Cop III 1994-05-24
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects 1994-05-22
Young Indy Around the World 1993-04-21
The Magical World of Chuck Jones 1992-10-23
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991-11-27
Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros. 1991-09-14
Hook 1991-04-10
Making of 'Dreams' 1990-11-02
Martin Scorsese Directs 1990-06-16
Willow: The Making of an Adventure 1988-04-26
Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth 1988-01-02
Citizen Steve 1987-01-01
The Making of Captain EO 1986-09-12
The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom' 1984-12-04
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 1984-05-23
From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga 1983-12-03
Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi 1983-11-21
The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' 1981-11-28
The Making of The Empire Strikes Back 1980-09-22
Star Wars: Music by John Williams 1980-05-18
The Making of Star Wars 1977-09-16
George Lucas: Maker of Films 1971-04-01
Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138' 1971-03-01
Filmmaker 1968-12-01
The New Cinema 1968-01-01
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