George Lucas

Directing · 3.3 popularity

Age

Movies

119

Born: May 14, 1944
From: Modesto, California, USA

Biography

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.

Works

119 films

Minions & Monsters

20266.4

Men in Black

19977.2

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

20057.5

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

19847.3

Hook

19916.8

Beverly Hills Cop III

19945.9

The Robot Chicken: Star Wars

20077.2

American Graffiti

19737.0

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

20257.5

Willow: Behind the Magic

20234.3

Jim Henson Idea Man

20247.9

The Pixar Story

20077.5

Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford

20237.7

Music by John Williams

20248.1

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

20196.9

Waking Sleeping Beauty

20097.2

Under the Helmet: The Legacy of Boba Fett

20216.9

Harrison Ford: Hollywood Hero

20238.0

The Beginning: The Making of Star Wars Episode I

20017.3

From Puppets to Pixels: The Making of Star Wars Episode II

20026.8

Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy

20047.6

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

19917.9

Spielberg

20177.5

Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery

19978.0

Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects

19949.0

Citizen Steve

19876.0

Drew: The Man Behind the Poster

20137.0

George Lucas: Creating an Empire

20055.0

Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age

20217.9

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

20037.1

Side by Side

20127.3

Hollywood's Greatest Villains

20059.5

Fog City Mavericks

20078.5

Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed

20077.2

The Magical World of Chuck Jones

19928.0

If These Walls Could Sing

20226.5

Megadoc

20256.5

The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't

20087.2

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

20047.0

R2-D2: Beneath the Dome

20016.7

The People vs. George Lucas

20106.3

Alien Planet

20057.3

From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic

19997.8

Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies

20175.4

Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond

20157.1

Martin Scorsese Directs

19909.0

Samuel L. Jackson: Did I Stutter?

20239.0

Within a Minute: The Making of Star Wars Episode III

20057.2

Star Wars: Music by John Williams

19807.3

Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel

20156.3

When Star Wars Ruled the World

20048.8

The Making of 'American Graffiti'

19987.8

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

20146.5

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

19958.0

Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy

20037.9

The Harryhausen Chronicles

19977.0

Heckler

20075.9

A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope

20047.6

Sean Connery: In His Own Words

20156.0

The Emperor

19677.0

SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back

19808.3

The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'

19817.4

Close Up

20129.5

Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi

19838.9

The Making of Star Wars

19777.1

The Happiest Story on Earth: 70 Years of Disneyland

2025

Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'

20076.1

Milius

20137.1

Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible

20106.7

Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge - Adventure Awaits

20196.1

Films Are Not Released, They Escape

20026.0

Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel

20096.0

Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros.

19916.8

Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema

20056.6

From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga

19837.4

The Making of Captain EO

19866.9

Willow: The Making of an Adventure

19887.3

Face of Unity

2014

The Visions of Stanley Kubrick

20076.9

Journey Through the Labyrinth

20071.0

The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'

19847.6

The New Cinema

1968

The Music of 'Indiana Jones'

20036.2

Filmmaker

19687.3

The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'

19967.4

Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'

20047.0

Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa

2005

Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'

19716.7

Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us

20056.8

Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs

19983.0

The Making of The Empire Strikes Back

19808.0

Project Happiness

20116.0

The Mythology of Star Wars

19997.4

The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped

20086.6

The Chosen One

20056.0

The Unauthorized Star Wars Story

1999

Tell Them Who You Are

20046.1

Hollywood between Paranoia and Sci-Fi: The Power of Myth

20115.5

The Characters of Star Wars

20046.8

Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001

20076.2

George Lucas: Maker of Films

19718.0

Clone Wars: Bridging the Saga

20055.5

Mardik: From Baghdad to Hollywood

2008

From Morf to Morphing: The Dawn of Digital Filmmaking

20014.8

The Sci-Fi Boys

20067.0

Creatures from Star Wars

20067.0

Young Indy Around the World

19932.0

A Conversation with the Masters: The Empire Strikes Back 30 Years Later

2011

Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years

20036.3

Lucas, Coppola & Kurosawa

2005

Star Warriors

20075.8

Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth

19888.8

Making of 'Dreams'

19908.0

Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing

20047.3

Raiders, Raptors and Rebels: Behind the Magic of ILM

2015

The Phantom Menace 20 Years Later

2019

Hollywood's Master of Myth: Joseph Campbell - The Force Behind Star Wars

1999

A Night at the Movies: George Lucas & The World of Fantasy Cinema

20141.2

State of the Art: The Pre-Visualization of 'Episode II'

20026.0