George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and entrepreneur. Lucas is best 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. 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.
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where was the movie american graffiti filmed at
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Petaluma, "Mel's Drive-In" in San Francisco, Sonoma, Richmond, Novato, and the "Buchanan Field Airport" in Concord were some of the locations.
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1973
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who were the actors in this film?
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Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Harrison Ford, Charles Martin Smith and Cindy Williams, to name a few.
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when was the last actor mentioned born?
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August 22nd, 1947.
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"Van Nuys", a district of Los Angeles, California.
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Bill Hudson
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Brooklyn, New York
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which books did he write?
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He co-authored with science-fiction writer Harry Turtledove for the novel "The Two Georges”.
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1995
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It is an "alternate history" and "detective thriller".
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which awards did the aforementioned movie win?
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It won "Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy)" at the 31st Golden Globe Awards.
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George Lucas
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George Lucas (born 1944) is an American film director. George Lucas may also refer to:
George Lucas (disambiguation) | Introduction
George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and entrepreneur. Lucas is best 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. 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.
George Lucas | Introduction
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), "The Temple of Doom" (1984), "The Last Crusade" (1989) and "The 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.
George Lucas | Introduction
This is George Lucas's filmography, including those films that he was involved with as director, writer, executive producer or actor.
George Lucas filmography | Introduction
At this point, Lucas had no desire to return to "Star Wars", and had unofficially canceled the sequel trilogy.
George Lucas | 1977–1993: Hiatus from directing, "Indiana Jones"
Marcia Lou Lucas (née Griffin; born October 4, 1945) is an Oscar-winning American film editor who was most well known for her work on the early 1970s films of Martin Scorsese. Lucas won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing in 1977 for "Star Wars", which was written and directed by her first husband, George Lucas. She returned to edit "Return of the Jedi" (1983), but decided to divorce George by the end of the year, citing his workaholism.
Marcia Lucas | Introduction
Following the release of the first "Star Wars" film, Lucas worked extensively as a writer and producer, including on the many "Star Wars" spinoffs made for film, television, and other media. Lucas acted as executive producer for the next two "Star Wars" films, commissioning Irvin Kershner to direct "The Empire Strikes Back", and Richard Marquand to direct "Return of the Jedi", while receiving a story credit on the former and sharing a screenwriting credit with Lawrence Kasdan on the latter. He also acted as story writer and executive producer on all four of the "Indiana Jones" films, which his colleague and good friend Steven Spielberg directed.
George Lucas | 1977–1993: Hiatus from directing, "Indiana Jones"
In 1977, Lucas was awarded the Inkpot Award. The American Film Institute awarded Lucas its Life Achievement Award on June 9, 2005. This was shortly after the release of "", about which he joked stating that, since he views the entire "Star Wars" series as one film, he could actually receive the award now that he had finally "gone back and finished the movie." Lucas was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Directing and Writing for "American Graffiti" and "Star Wars". He received the Academy's Irving G. Thalberg Award in 1991. He appeared at the 79th Academy Awards ceremony in 2007 with Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola to present the Best Director award to their friend Martin Scorsese.
George Lucas | Awards and honors
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 "", 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 the 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.
George Lucas | Introduction
In addition to any of his own involvement, Lucas has numerous "Based on characters created by", "Based on Star Wars created by", "Based on Indiana Jones created by", "Very Special Thanks" and "Special Thanks" credits in various films, TV series and video games.
George Lucas filmography | Other works
Lucas was passionate and interested in camerawork and editing, defining himself as a filmmaker as opposed to being a director, and he loved making abstract visual movies that create emotions purely through cinema.
Non-narrative film | George Lucas
Navy students who were being taught documentary cinematography, Lucas directed the short film "", which won first prize at the 1967–68 National Student film festival. Lucas was awarded a student scholarship by Warner Bros. to observe and work on the making of a film of his choosing. The film he chose was "Finian's Rainbow" (1968) which was being directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who was revered among film school students of the time as a cinema graduate who had "made it" in Hollywood. In 1969, Lucas was one of the camera operators on the classic Rolling Stones concert film "Gimme Shelter".
George Lucas | 1965–1969: Early career
"21-87" would have a profound influence on director George Lucas and on Walter Murch, an editor and designer with whom Lucas worked. Lucas described it as "the kind of movie I wanted to make — a very off the wall, abstract kind of film". In response, Lucas created the pure cinema, short, 16mm movies: "6-18-67", "", and "Look at Life". The later "", an experimental science fiction short, takes place in a dystopian future on May 14, 2187. Lucas expanded the latter into "THX 1138". His later works "American Graffiti" and "Star Wars" has shown "21-87"'s influence. Lucas and Lipsett would never meet.
21-87 | Influence on George Lucas
The People vs. George Lucas is a 2010 documentary comedy film directed by Swiss director Alexandre O. Philippe. It explores the issues of filmmaking and fanaticism pertaining to the "Star Wars" franchise and its creator, George Lucas. The film combines filmmaker and celebrity interviews with fan films, mainly taken from the 2010 online video "Star Wars Uncut", which were submitted via the film's site. Interviewees include a variety of figures such as Neil Gaiman, MC Frontalot and Gary Kurtz. Lucas appears frequently in archival footage, but is never interviewed directly. The film discusses the extent to which the "Star Wars" franchise is an artistic creation of Lucas and subject to his vision versus a social phenomenon that belongs to the general public of fans and their participatory/remix culture.
The People vs. George Lucas | Introduction
Lucas had already publicly spoken about making both a prequel and sequel trilogy; the prequels he would go on to write and direct himself 20 years later, and episodes 7 through 9 were made by the Walt Disney Company after the studio purchased Lucasfilm in 2012. Back in 1981, Kasdan surmised that "they'll probably shoot the before-Luke trilogy next, about young Darth and young Ben. But with George, you can't be sure. For myself, I can only say this will be my last Star Wars movie. On the other hand, you never know. I didn't think I'd be working on this one."
Lawrence Kasdan | "Star Wars: Episode VI — Return of the Jedi"
George Lucas has been credited for perfecting the genre by writing and directing "American Graffiti" (1973).
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Lucas saw many inspiring films in class, particularly the visual films coming out of the National Film Board of Canada like Arthur Lipsett's "21-87", the French-Canadian cameraman Jean-Claude Labrecque's cinéma vérité "60 Cycles", the work of Norman McLaren, and the documentaries of Claude Jutra. Lucas fell madly in love with pure cinema and quickly became prolific at making 16 mm nonstory noncharacter visual tone poems and cinéma vérité with such titles as "Look at Life", "Herbie", "", "The Emperor", "Anyone Lived in a Pretty (how) Town", "Filmmaker", and "6-18-67". He was passionate and interested in camerawork and editing, defining himself as a filmmaker as opposed to being a director, and he loved making abstract visual films that created emotions purely through cinema.
George Lucas | 1965–1969: Early career
A complete list of film performance and model credits can be found at Lucas Entertainment.com, including those directed, written or produced by Lucas.
Michael Lucas (director) | Adult films
George Lucas in Love is a 1999 American parodical short film directed by Joe Nussbaum. A parody of "Shakespeare in Love", it depicts a young George Lucas and his real-life inspirations behind the characters and plot of "Star Wars". Upon its release, the film was widely passed around Hollywood offices and served as Nussbaum’s break into the film industry. Lucas himself reacted to the film positively.
George Lucas in Love | Introduction
Director Alexandre Philippe, a lifetime "Star Wars" fan from his early childhood, has said that the film was not meant to be one-sided against Lucas, although the title has often created that interpretation. He instead aimed at showing both sides evenhandedly to explore to what extent the Star Wars franchise is controlled by Lucas versus something morally held by the public. Philippe feels that Lucas is a relatively talented director and an "ideas man" based on the original "Star Wars" trilogy, "THX 1138" (1971) and "American Graffiti" (1973). However, Philippe disliked the changes made by Lucas in re-releases of the original trilogy as well as the prequel trilogy.
The People vs. George Lucas | Background and contents
In 1994, Lucas began work on the screenplay of the first prequel, tentatively titled "Episode I: The Beginning". In 1997, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of "Star Wars," Lucas returned to the original trilogy and made numerous modifications using newly available digital technology, releasing them in theaters as the "Star Wars Special Edition". For DVD releases in 2004 and Blu-ray releases in 2011, the trilogy received further revisions to make them congruent with the prequel trilogy. Besides the additions to the "Star Wars" franchise, Lucas released a "Director's Cut" of "THX 1138" in 2004, with the film re-cut and containing a number of CGI revisions.
George Lucas | 1993–2012: Return to directing, "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones"
Lucas was deeply influenced by the Filmic Expression course taught at the school by filmmaker Lester Novros which concentrated on the non-narrative elements of Film Form like color, light, movement, space, and time. Another inspiration was the Serbian montagist (and dean of the USC Film Department) Slavko Vorkapić, a film theoretician who made stunning montage sequences for Hollywood studio features at MGM, RKO, and Paramount. Vorkapich taught the autonomous nature of the cinematic art form, emphasizing kinetic energy inherent in motion pictures.
George Lucas | Early life
Having lost much of his fortune in a divorce settlement in 1987, Lucas was reluctant to return to "Star Wars". However, the prequels, which were still only a series of basic ideas partially pulled from his original drafts of "The Star Wars", continued to tantalize him with technical possibilities that would make it worthwhile to revisit his older material. When "Star Wars" became popular once again, in the wake of Dark Horse's comic book line and Timothy Zahn's trilogy of spin-off novels, Lucas realized that there was still a large audience. His children were older, and with the explosion of CGI technology he began to consider directing once again.
George Lucas | 1993–2012: Return to directing, "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones"
In 1969, Lucas co-founded the studio American Zoetrope with Coppola, hoping to create a liberating environment for filmmakers to direct outside the perceived oppressive control of the Hollywood studio system. Coppola thought Lucas's "Electronic Labyrinth" could be adapted into his first full-length feature film, which was produced by American Zoetrope as "THX 1138", but was not a success. Lucas then created his own company, Lucasfilm, Ltd., and directed the successful "American Graffiti" (1973). Lucas then set his sights on adapting Flash Gordon, an adventure serial from his childhood that he fondly remembered. When he was unable to obtain the rights, he set out to write an original space adventure that would eventually become "Star Wars".
George Lucas | 1969–1977: "THX 1138", "American Graffiti", and "Star Wars"
Taylor found George Lucas an elusive person to consult, leading Taylor to make his own decisions as how to shoot the picture after multiple readings of the script. Differences of opinion between the director and cinematographer led to 20th Century Fox, for whom Taylor had shot "The Omen", intervening to retain him on the picture. After the experience of working on "Star Wars", Taylor decided he would never work again with Lucas. His last film credit was "Don't Get Me Started" released in 1994, but he continued to work on commercials for some time afterwards.
Gilbert Taylor | Later work in colour
George Lucas has stated that he was influenced by "60 Cycles" when he directed his 1966 student film "".
60 Cycles | Influence
Kasdan launched his directing career after writing "The Empire Strikes Back", and he wasn't interested in writing another "Star Wars" movie. But Lucas had supported him on "Body Heat" as an uncredited producer, so when Lucas asked him to write the screenplay for the third chapter (then titled "Revenge of the Jedi"), Kasdan felt obliged to repay the favor. He spent the summer of 1981 writing the shooting script, based on a story by Lucas. "In both the "Star Wars" movies it's really George's story," Kasdan said. "I came into "Empire" after there was already a draft. On "Jedi", George had done a draft, which we changed radically.
Lawrence Kasdan | "Star Wars: Episode VI — Return of the Jedi"
Director George Lucas, as a teenager in San Francisco during the early 1960s, saw many exhilarating and inspiring abstract 16mm movies and nonstory noncharacter 16mm visual tone poems screened at cinematic artist Bruce Baillie's independent, underground Canyon Cinema shows; along with some of Baillie's own early visual motion pictures, Lucas became inspired by the work of Jordan Belson, Bruce Conner, Will Hindle, and others. Lucas then went on to enroll as a film student at USC School of Cinematic Arts, where he saw many more inspiring cinematic works in class, particularly the visual movies coming out of the National Film Board of Canada like Arthur Lipsett's "21-87", the French-Canadian cameraman Jean-Claude Labrecque's cinéma vérité "60 Cycles", the work of Norman McLaren, and the visualist cinéma vérité documentaries of Claude Jutra.
Non-narrative film | George Lucas
Kershner directed "The Empire Strikes Back", the sequel of the 1977 hit film "Star Wars". Kershner was a surprising choice for such a movie. According to Kershner himself, he once asked writer-producer George Lucas, "Of all the younger guys around, all the hot-shots, why me?" Lucas replied, "Well, because you know everything a Hollywood director is supposed to know, but you're not Hollywood." Kershner, who was an appealing directorial candidate to Lucas because of his concern for character development, was at first reluctant to direct the film. When asked by Lucas to work on the project over lunch, Kershner refused.
Irvin Kershner | "The Empire Strikes Back"
One of George Lucas' early short films was "", later remade into the 1971 feature film "THX 1138". After the film, references to 1138 (and sometimes to THX) are scattered throughout Lucas' films, Lucasfilm productions and LucasArts computer games.
1138 (number) | George Lucas and LucasArts
Lipsett's meticulous editing and combination of audio and visual montage was both groundbreaking and influential. His film "21-87" was a profound influence on director George Lucas, who stated that it was "the kind of movie I wanted to make — a very off the wall, abstract kind of film." Lucas used thematic approaches from "21–87" in "THX 1138", his "Star Wars" films and also "American Graffiti". Lucas has said that his use of the term "The Force" in "Star Wars" was "an echo of that phrase in "21-87"". Lucas never met Lipsett, but tributes to "21–87" appear in several places in "Star Wars".
Arthur Lipsett | Influence on George Lucas
Lucas worked as a creative consultant on the "Star Wars" sequel trilogy's first film, "The Force Awakens". As creative consultant on the film, Lucas' involvement included attending early story meetings; according to Lucas, "I mostly say, 'You can't do this. You can do that.' You know, 'The cars don't have wheels. They fly with antigravity.' There's a million little pieces ... I know all that stuff." Lucas' son Jett told "The Guardian "that his father was "very torn" about having sold the rights to the franchise, despite having hand-picked Abrams to direct, and that his father was "there to guide" but that "he wants to let it go and become its new generation." Among the materials turned over to the production team were rough story treatments Lucas developed when he considered creating episodes "VII"–"IX" himself years earlier; in January 2015, Lucas stated that Disney had discarded his story ideas.
George Lucas | 2012–present: Semi-retirement
Nothing was new. George was going right against that." The designers started working with the director before "Star Wars" was approved by 20th Century-Fox. For four to five months, in a studio in Kensal Rise, England, they attempted to plan the creation of the props and sets with "no money." Although Lucas initially provided funds using his earnings from "American Graffiti", it was inadequate. As they could not afford to dress the sets, Christian was forced to use unconventional methods and materials to achieve the desired look. He suggested that Lucas use scrap in making the dressings, and the director agreed.
Star Wars (film) | Design
Willard Miller Huyck, Jr. (born September 8, 1945) is an American screenwriter, director and producer, best known for his association with George Lucas.
Willard Huyck | Introduction
Possibly Perri's best-known title sequence project came about in 1976 when his friend James Nelson was working on post-production for a new space fantasy film, "Star Wars". Nelson recommended Perri to director George Lucas, who invited Perri to Industrial Light & Magic, Lucasfilm's post-production operation at Van Nuys, California. Lucas briefed Perri to take inspiration from old 1930s cinema serials such as "Flash Gordon" and "Buck Rogers" that had inspired Lucas to write much of his "Star Wars" story. After struggling to come up with a concept that Lucas liked, Perri eventually developed a concept for presenting a textual introduction based on the opening credits of the 1939 Cecil B.
Dan Perri | "Star Wars"
In the film, George Lucas (Martin Hynes) is a 1967 USC college student, suffering from writer's block as he attempts to write a movie about a young space farmer with a bad crop of "space wheat". Taking a break from his work, George goes on to encounter classmates and teachers who resemble and will influence the eventual creation of, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Vader, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Jabba the Hutt, R2-D2, and C-3PO. Lucas is surrounded by inspiration, but he sees nothing. Even his wise advisor, who suspiciously looks and speaks like Yoda, is unable to help him. Eventually, young Lucas meets his muse, a young woman (with a very unusual hairdo) named Marion (Lisa Jakub) who is "kind of leading a student rebellion".
George Lucas in Love | Plot
Philippe thought that fans deserved a complete re-mastering and re-release of the original series in current formats (DVD, Blu-ray, etc.) without any changes. Philippe also stated that, to his knowledge, Lucas has never seen the documentary. However, Philippe has said that he would love to hold a private screening at Skywalker Ranch. The film begins with a brief history of Lucas' career leading up to the release of "Star Wars" in 1977. The rest of the film is structured by inter-cutting interviews with many different fans, academics, film critics, former colleagues of Lucas, well-known writers in the science fiction/fantasy genre and others.
The People vs. George Lucas | Background and contents
Howard G. Kazanjian (born July 26, 1942) is an American film producer best known for the "Star Wars" films "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) and "Return of the Jedi" (1983) and the "Indiana Jones" film "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981). Kazanjian also was Vice President of Lucasfilm, Ltd., and is a published non-fiction author.
Howard Kazanjian | Introduction
"Salt Lake City Weekly" ran a negative review by Bryan Young, who commented that the "film comes off as a one-sided attack" and that it's "not hard to talk to people who love "Star Wars"... the filmmakers should have tried harder to provide that balance."
The People vs. George Lucas | Critical reception
George Lucas", which premiered at the 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival. Hess attended the festival as a musician and panelist.
MC Frontalot | Film and television
He attended Modesto Junior College, where he studied anthropology, sociology, and literature, amongst other subjects. He also began shooting with an 8 mm camera, including filming car races. At this time, Lucas and his friend John Plummer became interested in Canyon Cinema: screenings of underground, avant-garde 16 mm filmmakers like Jordan Belson, Stan Brakhage, and Bruce Conner. Lucas and Plummer also saw classic European films of the time, including Jean-Luc Godard's "Breathless", François Truffaut's "Jules et Jim", and Federico Fellini's "8½". "That's when George really started exploring," Plummer said. Through his interest in autocross racing, Lucas met renowned cinematographer Haskell Wexler, another race enthusiast.
George Lucas | Early life
Jonathan Lucas (born October 29, 1975) is an American film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his collaborative work with Scott Moore, which includes "The Hangover", "21 & Over" and "Bad Moms".
Jon Lucas | Introduction
Wexler, later to work with Lucas on several occasions, was impressed by Lucas' talent. "George had a very good eye, and he thought visually," he recalled. At Plummer's recommendation, Lucas then transferred to the University of Southern California (USC) School of Cinematic Arts. USC was one of the earliest universities to have a school devoted to motion picture film. During the years at USC, Lucas shared a dorm room with Randal Kleiser. Along with classmates such as Walter Murch, Hal Barwood, and John Milius, they became a clique of film students known as The Dirty Dozen. He also became good friends with fellow acclaimed student filmmaker and future "Indiana Jones" collaborator, Steven Spielberg.
George Lucas | Early life
Freiheit (German for "freedom") is a 1966 short film by George Lucas, made while he was a student at the University of Southern California's film school. His third film, it was the first to contain a narrative.
Freiheit (film) | Introduction
A DVD with audio commentary by the director and producer, a behind-the-scenes featurette and several other MediaTrip short films, including "Evil Hill", "Film Club" and "Swing Blade", was released in 2001; "George Lucas in Love" itself is also included in Cinema16's DVD of American Short Films, released in the United Kingdom in 2006. Nussbaum would later direct films such as: "Sleepover", "" and "Sydney White" starring Amanda Bynes.
George Lucas in Love | Reception
In "Mythmaker: The Life and Work of George Lucas," filmmaker John Milius described Marcia's contributions to Milius's own films and those of George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Martin Scorsese, calling her one of the best editors he knew.
Marcia Lucas | Personal life and legacy
While "Return of the Jedi" (1983) was in production, Lucas decided not to pursue further "Star Wars" films. Lucasfilm produced the John Korty-directed animated film "Twice Upon a Time" (1983). 1985 saw the release of Paul Schrader's "". The next year, Jim Henson's "Labyrinth" and an adaptation of Marvel Comics' "Howard the Duck" were released. Ron Howard directed the fantasy film "Willow" in 1988; the same year the children's animated film "The Land Before Time" was released. In 1992, after viewing an early computer-generated imagery test created by Industrial Light & Magic for "Jurassic Park", Lucas announced his intentions to produce a "Star Wars" prequel trilogy.
Lucasfilm | Independent era (1971–2012)
Spielberg later recalled that when Lucas first approached him for "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "George said if I directed the first one then I would have to direct a trilogy. He had three stories in mind. It turned out George did not have three stories in mind and we had to make up subsequent stories." Both men later attributed the film's tone, which was darker than "Raiders of the Lost Ark", to their personal moods following the breakups of their relationships. In addition, Lucas felt "it had to have been a dark film. The way "Empire Strikes Back" was the dark second act of the "Star Wars" trilogy." Spielberg had said "The danger in making a sequel is that you can never satisfy everyone.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Development
In 1974, Marcia Lucas and Fields were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for their work on "American Graffiti". After "American Graffiti" was released, Martin Scorsese asked Marcia to edit his first studio film, "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" (1974). Sandra Weintraub recalled, "We knew her, and we liked her, and she was in the union. It was good for her to get away from George and his house. Here she was, a wonderful editor working on her husband's films. I don't think she got taken seriously." As Marcia was editing the film in Los Angeles, George joined her and sequestered himself in a hotel room as he wrote the first draft for "Star Wars" (1977).
Marcia Lucas | Feature film editing
The film is dedicated to interviewee Jason Nicholl, a blogger at nukethefridge.com who died before the film's release. The film was released on DVD on October 25, 2011. In June 2014, it was reported that a sequel was in development.
The People vs. George Lucas | Introduction
He was animator (a) or character animator (ca) in the following films. In many he is credited as Dick Lucas. *
Dick N. Lucas | Films
"All films, he was producer unless otherwise noted."
Lucas Foster | Filmography
James Lucas is a British/New Zealand screenwriter and film director. He is best known for co-writing and producing the British short drama film "The Phone Call" (2013), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 87th Academy Awards; the win was shared with the film's director and co-writer Mat Kirkby. Lucas was born in High Wycombe, England and grew up in Christchurch, New Zealand before moving back to London, where he has lived for the last 20 years.
James Lucas (screenwriter) | Introduction
By May 1974, he had expanded the script into the first draft of a screenplay, but found that the script had grown too long for a single film. Subsequent drafts evolved into the script of the original film. Lucas negotiated to retain the sequel rights. Tom Pollock, then Lucas' lawyer writes: "We came to an agreement that George would retain the sequel rights. Not all the [merchandising rights] that came later, mind you; just the sequel rights. And Fox would get a first opportunity and last refusal right to make the movie." Lucas was offered $50,000 to write, another $50,000 to produce, and $50,000 to direct the film; his directing compensation was later increased to $100,000.
Star Wars Trilogy | Background
George Lucas said in a 1999 interview on the UK's "The Big Breakfast" television show that "Hardware Wars" was his favorite "Star Wars" parody. In 2003, the film was honored by Lucasfilm when it was given the Pioneer Award at that year's Official "Star Wars" Fan Film Awards. In August 2010, "Time" magazine listed it as one of the Top 10 "Star Wars" fan films.
Hardware Wars | Reception
During the speech, Spielberg and Coppola talked about the joy of winning an Oscar, making fun of Lucas, who has not won a competitive Oscar.
George Lucas | Awards and honors
Rasmus Ludwig Emanuel Tirzitis (born 31 July 1986) is a Swedish film director and editor from Trångsund, Stockholm. He is best known as the director and producer of which is a fan film, created by fans of George Lucas' "Star Wars" saga. Tirzitis graduated from the Stockholm Film School in Stockholm in 2008. He has both directed and edited directorial debut Vilsen (2016).
Rasmus Tirzitis | Introduction
Lipsett's "21-87", a 1963 Canadian short abstract collage film of discarded footage and city street scenes, had a profound influence on Lucas and sound designer/editor Walter Murch. Lucas greatly admired pure cinema and at film school became prolific at making 16 mm nonstory noncharacter visual tone poems and cinéma vérité, with such titles as "Look at Life", "Herbie", "", "The Emperor", "Anyone Lived in a Pretty (how) Town", "Filmmaker", and "6-18-67". Lucas's aesthetic and style was also strongly influenced for the "Star Wars" films. Lucas tributes to "21-87" appear in several places in "Star Wars", with the phrase, "the Force", said to have been inspired by "21-87".
Non-narrative film | George Lucas
George Lucas was the first Hollywood filmmaker to credit Campbell's influence. Lucas stated, following the release of the first "Star Wars" film in 1977, that its story was shaped, in part, by ideas described in "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" and other works of Campbell's. The linkage between "Star Wars" and Campbell was further reinforced when later reprints of Campbell's book used the image of Luke Skywalker on the cover. Lucas discusses this influence at great length in the authorized biography of Joseph Campbell, "A Fire in the Mind": It was not until after the completion of the original "Star Wars" trilogy in 1983, however, that Lucas met Campbell or heard any of his lectures.
Joseph Campbell | Film and television
Many major American motion pictures have done away with opening credits, with many films, such as "Van Helsing" in 2004 and "Batman Begins" in 2005, not even displaying the film title until the closing credits begin. George Lucas is credited with popularizing this with his "Star Wars" films which display only the film's title at the start. His decision to omit opening credits in his films "Star Wars" (1977) and "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) led him to resign from the Directors Guild of America after being fined $250,000 for not crediting the director during the opening title sequence. However, Hollywood had been releasing films without opening credits for many years before Lucas came along, most notably "Citizen Kane", "West Side Story", "" and "The Godfather".
Opening credits | Trends of the 2000s
In January 2012, Lucas announced his retirement from producing large blockbuster films and instead re-focusing his career on smaller, independently budgeted features. In June 2012, it was announced that producer Kathleen Kennedy, a long-term collaborator with Steven Spielberg and a producer of the "Indiana Jones" films, had been appointed as co-chair of Lucasfilm Ltd. It was reported that Kennedy would work alongside Lucas, who would remain chief executive and serve as co-chairman for at least one year, after which she would succeed him as the company's sole leader. With the sale of Lucasfilm to Disney, Lucas is currently Disney's second largest single shareholder after the estate of Steve Jobs.
George Lucas | 2012–present: Semi-retirement
The narrative of the film shows the complex relationship between Lucas and his fans, as well as how and why exactly the elements of the "Star Wars" franchise have appealed to so many people so deeply.
The People vs. George Lucas | Background and contents
Lucas described the film as "almost an afterthought." Howard Roffman, president of Lucas Licensing, said of the decision, "Sometimes George works in strange ways." Producer Catherine Winder said the sudden decision added to an already large challenge of establishing a show "of this sophistication and complexity," but she felt it was a good way to start the series, and thought budgetary constraints forced the production team to think outside the box in a positive way. The story of the kidnapped Hutt was inspired by the Sonny Chiba samurai film titled "Shogun's Shadow".
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (film) | Development
As with the previous film, Lucas personally financed "Return of the Jedi". Lucas also chose not to direct "Return of the Jedi" himself, and started searching for a director. Although Lucas' first choice was Steven Spielberg, their separate feuds with the Director's Guild led to his being banned from directing the film. Lucas approached David Lynch, who had been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for "The Elephant Man" in 1980, to helm "Return of the Jedi", but Lynch declined, saying that he had "next door to zero interest". David Cronenberg was also offered the chance to direct, but he declined the offer to make "Videodrome" and "The Dead Zone".
Return of the Jedi | Development
Although uncredited, George Lucas, who was studying film at University of Southern California (USC) at the time, was the second unit cameraman on this film. Portions of this film also appear in the Saul Bass pitch video for the Bell System logo redesign.
Why Man Creates | Production
"The A.V. Club" says this reputation is likely how he was noticed by director George Lucas when Lucas was forming his "Star Wars" crew. He recorded sound on set for "Star Wars" (1977), which won the Academy Award for Best Sound and BAFTA Award for Best Sound; he was not named in the award citations and his work was uncredited. However, he was included when the Academy Award winners were invited to a celebratory lunch with the British royal family at Buckingham Palace. His first film was "Paranoiac" in 1963, and his last credited work was "Lost in Space" in 1998.
Ken Nightingall | Career
"Star Wars" creator George Lucas has admitted to being inspired significantly by the period works of Akira Kurosawa, and many thematic elements found in "Star Wars" bear the influence of Chanbara filmmaking. In an interview, Lucas has specifically cited the fact that he became acquainted with the term "jidaigeki" while in Japan, and it is widely assumed that he took inspiration for the term Jedi from this.
Jidaigeki | Influence
Other successful projects where Lucas acted as an executive producer and occasional story writer in this period include Kurosawa's "Kagemusha" (1980), Lawrence Kasdan's "Body Heat" (1981), "" (1984), "" (1985), Jim Henson's "Labyrinth" (1986), Godfrey Reggio's "Powaqqatsi" (1986), Don Bluth's "The Land Before Time" (1988), and the "Indiana Jones" television spinoff "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" (1992–96). There were unsuccessful projects, however, including "More American Graffiti" (1979), Willard Huyck's "Howard the Duck" (1986), which was the biggest flop of Lucas's career, Ron Howard's "Willow" (1988), Coppola's "" (1988), and Mel Smith's "Radioland Murders" (1994). The animation studio Pixar was founded in 1979 as the Graphics Group, one third of the Computer Division of Lucasfilm.
George Lucas | 1977–1993: Hiatus from directing, "Indiana Jones"
He felt his major contribution to Lucas' series was developing character. "George is one of the good guys," Kasdan said in 1981. "But he and I have some disagreements, too. George thinks if you play the commercial movie game, a very expensive game, you have to play for big stakes."
Lawrence Kasdan | "Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back"
In 2004, "The George Lucas Director's Cut" of the film was released. Under Lucas' supervision, the film underwent an extensive restoration and digital intermediate process by Lowry Digital and Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), where the film's original negative was scanned, digital color correction was applied, and a brand new digital master was created. Computer-generated imagery and audio/video restoration techniques were also applied to the film. At Lucas' request, the previsualization team at Skywalker Ranch, working in concert with ILM, planned and executed a single day shoot, which would form the basis for new digital visual effects, mostly to expand scenes by extending crowds, filling out settings, and adding detail to the backgrounds of many scenes.
THX 1138 | 2004 director's cut
By 1993, it was announced, in "Variety" among other sources, that Lucas would be making the prequels. He began penning more to the story, indicating that the series would be a tragic one, examining Anakin Skywalker's fall to the dark side. Lucas also began to change the prequels status relative to the originals; at first, they were supposed to be a "filling-in" of history tangential to the originals, but now he saw that they could form the beginning of one long story that started with Anakin's childhood and ended with his death. This was the final step towards turning the film series into a "Saga".
George Lucas | 1993–2012: Return to directing, "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones"
Lucas permitted Brooks to make a spoof of the film under "one incredibly big restriction: no action figures." Contemporary animated comedy TV series "Family Guy", "Robot Chicken", and "The Simpsons" have produced episodes satirizing the film series. "Star Wars", together with Lucas, is the subject of the 2010 documentary film "The People vs. George Lucas" that details the issues of filmmaking and fanaticism pertaining to the film franchise and its creator. Many elements of the film have also endured presence in popular culture. The iconic weapon of choice of the Jedi, the lightsaber, was voted as the most popular weapon in film history in a survey of approximately 2,000 film fans.
Star Wars (film) | In popular culture
Following the release of "Revenge of the Sith"—the completion of the original and prequel "Star Wars" series—on June 9, 2005, George Lucas was presented with the 33rd American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award. The institute honored his "astonishing contributions to the art and technology of filmmaking, as well as the impact of the epic Star Wars series". Despite being the prequel trilogy's best reviewed and received film, it received fewer award nominations than the previous films. It became the only "Star Wars" film not to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects; however, it was nominated for Best Makeup (Dave Elsey and Nikki Gooley), losing to "".
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith | Accolades
Lamont Johnson, director of "", was also considered. Lucas eventually chose Richard Marquand. Lucas may have directed some of the second unit work personally as the shooting threatened to go over schedule; this is a function Lucas had willingly performed on previous occasions when he had only officially been producing a film (e.g. "More American Graffiti", "Raiders of the Lost Ark"). Lucas did operate the B camera on the set a few times. Lucas himself has admitted to being on the set frequently because of Marquand's relative inexperience with special effects. Lucas praised Marquand as a "very nice person who worked well with actors".
Return of the Jedi | Development
A list of books and essays about George Lucas:
George Lucas bibliography | Introduction
This part of the script was changed by the film's writer, George Lucas.
Iain McCaig | Biography
William Hornbeck (August 23, 1901 – October 11, 1983) was an American film editor and film industry executive. In a 1977 poll of film editors, he had been called "the best film editor the industry has produced." He was nominated four times for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, and won the award for "A Place in the Sun" (1951). Other important credits include "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946), "Giant" (1956), and "I Want to Live!" (1958). He edited films from notable directors including Zoltan Korda, Frank Capra, and George Stevens. Universal Pictures almost brought him on board to completely re-edit George Lucas' "American Graffiti".
William Hornbeck | Introduction
The concept of the Force, so prominent in "Star Wars" and its sequels and prequels, is said to have been inspired by the short film.
21-87 | Influence on George Lucas
In his fourth draft of "Star Wars", George had originally written for Obi-Wan Kenobi to survive his lightsaber duel with Darth Vader by retreating through a blast door that would slam shut behind him. However, Marcia suggested to her husband that he should kill off Kenobi and have him act as a spiritual guide to Luke.
Marcia Lucas | Feature film editing
Lucas went on to note that Lambero's credit as the assistant director would not have happened if the film had entirely been shot in Spain.
Savage Gringo | Director credit
George Lucas claims he became a fan of "Star Trek" when broadcast in the late 1960s which played an influence on the development of "Star Wars". Lucas claimed he also visited "Star Trek" conventions. The biggest similarity comes from post-George Lucas, director J. J. Abrams who directed 2 films for each franchise and produced 3. First he directed "Star Trek" (2009) and "Star Trek Into Darkness" (2013), and produced of "Star Trek Beyond" (2016) as well as the previous 2, and later jumped to producing 3 "Star Wars", directing "" (2015) and "Rise of Skywalker" (2019), and producing "The Last Jedi" (2017) set between both.
Star Wars sources and analogues | "Star Trek"
★ George Lucas - Producer, Lucasfilm
21st Young Artist Awards | Outstanding Contribution to Youth Through Motion Pictures
John Meredyth Lucas (May 1, 1919 – October 19, 2002) was an American writer, director and producer, primarily for television.
John Meredyth Lucas | Introduction
Pollock, Dale (May 31, 1999). "Skywalking: The Life and Films of George Lucas". Da Capo Press. .
John Korty | Bibliography
Lucas Foster is an American film producer whose films include "Mr. & Mrs. Smith", "Man on Fire", and "Equilibrium". He is also one of the co-founders of HeadcaseVR, a virtual reality company.
Lucas Foster | Introduction
"It was basically because the camera was too heavy", she recalled. Ron Colby, producer on "The Rain People", described Lucas's work habits: "George was around in a very quiet way. You'd look around and suddenly there'd be George in a corner with his camera. He'd just kind of drift around. But he shot the camera, did his own sound. He was very much a one-man band". Lucas would spend nearly every day shooting the documentary, while working on the script for "THX 1138" at night. Coppola was tolerant of the documentary's production process, although occasionally appeared unhappy when the camera invaded his privacy.
Filmmaker (film) | Production
Lucas's original screenplay was selected by the Writers Guild of America as the 68th greatest of all time. In 1989, the United States Library of Congress named "Star Wars" among its first selections to the National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"; at the time, it was the most recent film to be selected and it was the only film from the 1970s to be chosen. Although Lucas declined to provide the Library with a workable copy of the original film upon request (instead offering the Special Edition), a viewable scan was made of the original copyright deposit print.
Star Wars (film) | Recognition
Filmmaker, or "Filmmaker: a diary by george lucas", is a 32-minute documentary made in 1968 by George Lucas about the making of Francis Ford Coppola's "The Rain People".
Filmmaker (film) | Introduction
After graduating with a bachelor of fine arts in film in 1967, he tried joining the United States Air Force as an officer, but he was immediately turned down because of his numerous speeding tickets. He was later drafted by the Army for military service in Vietnam, but he was exempted from service after medical tests showed he had diabetes, the disease that killed his paternal grandfather. In 1967, Lucas re-enrolled as a USC graduate student in film production. He began working under Verna Fields for the United States Information Agency, where he met his future wife Marcia Griffin. Working as a teaching instructor for a class of U.S.
George Lucas | 1965–1969: Early career
In 2001 Lucas received an Obie Award for his direction of Harry Kondoleon's "Saved or Destroyed" at the Rattlestick Theater. He won the 2003 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay for "The Secret Lives of Dentists". His "Small Tragedy" was awarded an Obie as Best American Play in 2004. Lucas's other awards include the Excellence in Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award; and Outer Critics Circle, L.A. Drama Critics Circle, Drama-Logue and Lambda Literary Awards. Fellowships include those from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Craig Lucas | Awards
The director of each film is indicated in parenthesis:
George Tomasini | Filmography as film editor
Before Lucas chose to direct the prequels, "Return of the Jedi" director Richard Marquand expressed interest on directing one of the prequel films, up until his death in 1987. The popularity of the franchise had been prolonged by the "Star Wars" Expanded Universe, so that it still had a large audience. A theatrical rerelease of the original trilogy in 1997 'updated' the 20-year-old films with the style of CGI envisioned for the new episodes.
Star Wars prequel trilogy | Background
For example, the holding cell of Princess Leia in "" on the "Death Star" is cell No. 2187. The reference was continued in the 2015 movie "", with a character named FN-2187.
Arthur Lipsett | Influence on George Lucas
Christian recounted in 2014: "George came to the set I was doing, it was an old salt factory design and he helped me shovel salt, just like two students in plaid shirts and sneakers. And we spoke and he looked at the set and couldn't believe it wasn't real." They had a conversation with Lucas on what he would like the film to appear like, with them creating the desired sets. Christian said that Lucas "didn't want anything [in "Star Wars"] to stand out, he wanted it [to look] all real and used. And I said, 'Finally somebody's doing it the right way.'" Lucas described a "used future" concept to the production designers in which all devices, ships, and buildings looked aged and dirty.
Star Wars (film) | Design
"The Force Awakens", directed by J. J. Abrams, was released on December 18, 2015. Kathleen Kennedy executive produced the film and its sequels. The new sequel trilogy was jointly produced by Lucasfilm and The Walt Disney Company, which had acquired Lucasfilm in 2012. During an interview with talk show host and journalist Charlie Rose that aired on December 24, 2015, Lucas likened his decision to sell Lucasfilm to Disney to a divorce and outlined the creative differences between him and the producers of "The Force Awakens". Lucas described the previous six "Star Wars" films as his "children" and defended his vision for them, while criticizing "The Force Awakens" for having a "retro feel", saying, "I worked very hard to make them completely different, with different planets, with different spaceships – you know, to make it new." Lucas also drew some criticism and subsequently apologized for his remark likening Disney to "white slavers".
George Lucas | 2012–present: Semi-retirement
Huyck and Lucas met as students at the film school of the University of Southern California, and became members of Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope group of filmmakers. Along with his wife Gloria Katz, Huyck worked on writing the screenplays of films including "American Graffiti", "Lucky Lady", "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom", and "Radioland Murders", and performed uncredited work on the original "Star Wars". He also directed four films he co-wrote with Gloria Katz: "Messiah of Evil", "French Postcards", "Best Defense", and "Howard the Duck". The latter film is considered to be one of the worst films ever made and earned Huyck a Razzie nomination for Worst Director at the 7th Golden Raspberry Awards, though it has since become a cult classic.
Willard Huyck | Career
The contest’s grand prize is the George Lucas Selects Award, which is presented to the film Lucas himself selects as his favorite. The Audience Choice Award is selected by the worldwide internet audience, as all contest finalists are available to view online at Atom.com. The Pioneer Award is given to a film that either defined, changed, or influenced the genre. Other awards are given by a jury of people selected from employees of Atom.com and Lucasfilm. Beginning in 2004, some of the major awards were sponsored by Lucasfilm licensees.
The Official Star Wars Fan Film Awards | Categories
"George was open to it and ready to have it happen," he said. "Over the three "Star Wars" films, he saw a trajectory. "The Empire Strikes Back" was the second act, and traditionally, the second act is when things start to go bad. George had made his [most important] decision when he hired Irvin Kershner to direct, even though Kershner and I were acting as his tools."Once involved in the saga I related to it strongly because it's elemental stuff. But I sometimes kid around and say it's about Hollywood. It's about imposing your fantasies upon others. A Jedi knight has the ability to take a weaker mind and control it, and that's what Hollywood's about.
Lawrence Kasdan | "Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back"
On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes the film has a rating of 72%, based on 25 reviews, with an average rating of 6.7/10. On Metacritic, the film has a score of 55 out of 100, based on 7 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". The "New York Post" ran a positive review by Kyle Smith in which the film received three out of four stars. AMC critic Josh Bell wrote, ""People" is a skillfully edited, wide-ranging look at a subject that's very close to many movie fans' hearts, part of an ongoing debate that will only gain more attention as Lucas continues to tinker with his creations." Independent critic Christian Toto praised the film and wrote that "the Force is strong with this one".
The People vs. George Lucas | Critical reception
He resides in Marin County.
George Lucas | Personal life