George Lucas

Directing · 2.9 popularity

Age

Movies

120

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

120 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

Jim Henson Idea Man

20247.9

Willow: Behind the Magic

20234.3

The Pixar Story

20077.5

Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford

20237.7

Under the Helmet: The Legacy of Boba Fett

20216.9

Music by John Williams

20248.1

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

20196.9

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

19917.9

Waking Sleeping Beauty

20097.2

Spielberg

20177.5

Side by Side

20127.3

The Beginning: The Making of Star Wars Episode I

20017.3

Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy

20047.6

Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery

19978.0

Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age

20217.9

Harrison Ford: Hollywood Hero

20238.0

Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies

20175.4

Citizen Steve

19876.0

R2-D2: Beneath the Dome

20016.7

The Emperor

19677.0

Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects

19949.0

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

20026.8

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

20047.0

Megadoc

20256.5

The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't

20087.2

The Magical World of Chuck Jones

19928.0

Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond

20157.1

Hollywood's Greatest Villains

20059.5

Drew: The Man Behind the Poster

20137.0

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

20037.1

Within a Minute: The Making of Star Wars Episode III

20057.2

Heckler

20075.9

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

19997.8

Martin Scorsese Directs

19909.0

When Star Wars Ruled the World

20048.8

Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy

20037.9

Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed

20077.2

Alien Planet

20057.3

Close Up

20129.5

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

20146.5

George Lucas: Creating an Empire

20055.0

Star Wars: Music by John Williams

19807.3

Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi

19838.9

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

19958.0

Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel

20156.3

If These Walls Could Sing

20226.5

A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope

20047.6

The Making of Star Wars

19777.1

Milius

20137.1

Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema

20056.6

SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back

19808.3

The Making of 'American Graffiti'

19987.8

Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible

20106.7

The Happiest Story on Earth: 70 Years of Disneyland

2025

Samuel L. Jackson: Did I Stutter?

20239.0

The People vs. George Lucas

20106.3

Face of Unity

2014

Willow: The Making of an Adventure

19887.3

From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga

19837.4

Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel

20096.0

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

19847.6

The Harryhausen Chronicles

19977.0

Filmmaker

19687.3

The Making of Captain EO

19866.9

Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge - Adventure Awaits

20196.1

Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros.

19916.8

Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs

19983.0

Films Are Not Released, They Escape

20026.0

The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'

19817.4

Fog City Mavericks

20078.5

Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'

20076.1

The Chosen One

20056.0

The Making of The Empire Strikes Back

19808.0

The New Cinema

1968

Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001

20076.2

The Unauthorized Star Wars Story

1999

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

20056.8

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

20047.0

The Sci-Fi Boys

20067.0

The Visions of Stanley Kubrick

20076.9

The Music of 'Indiana Jones'

20036.2

George Lucas: Maker of Films

19718.0

Mardik: From Baghdad to Hollywood

2008

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

19967.4

Sean Connery: In His Own Words

20156.0

The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped

20086.6

The Characters of Star Wars

20046.8

Journey Through the Labyrinth

20071.0

Tell Them Who You Are

20046.1

Young Indy Around the World

19932.0

Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years

20036.3

Project Happiness

20116.0

Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa

2005

From Morf to Morphing: The Dawn of Digital Filmmaking

20014.8

Making of 'Dreams'

19908.0

Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'

19716.7

Clone Wars: Bridging the Saga

20055.5

The Mythology of Star Wars

19997.4

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

20115.5

Creatures from Star Wars

20067.0

Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth

19888.8

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

2011

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

20026.0

Star Warriors

20075.8

The Phantom Menace 20 Years Later

2019

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

1999

Lucas, Coppola & Kurosawa

2005

Raiders, Raptors and Rebels: Behind the Magic of ILM

2015

Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing

20047.3

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

20141.2

Gungan Saga

2026