George Lucas

Extracted Attributes

• Gender

  Male

• Education

  University of Southern California, Modesto Junior College

• Full Name

  George Walton Lucas Jr.

• Citizenship

  United States

• Occupations

  Film director, screenwriter, producer, entrepreneur

• Date of Birth

  1944-05-14

• Notable Works

  Star Wars franchise, Indiana Jones franchise, American Graffiti, THX 1138

• Place of Birth

  Modesto, California, United States

• Emmy Awards Won

  2 awards

• Companies Founded

  Lucasfilm, Industrial Light & Magic, Skywalker Sound, LucasArts, THX

• Philanthropic Endeavors

  George Lucas Educational Foundation, Lucas Museum of Narrative Art

• Academy Awards Nominated

  4 nominations

Timeline

• George Lucas is born in Modesto, California. (Source: undefined)

  1944-05-14

• Graduates from the University of Southern California. (Source: undefined)

  1967-01-01

• Co-founds the production company American Zoetrope with Francis Ford Coppola and marries Marcia Griffin. (Source: undefined)

  1969-01-01

• Releases feature directorial debut film, THX 1138. (Source: undefined)

  1971-01-01

• Releases American Graffiti through his newly established company, Lucasfilm. (Source: undefined)

  1973-01-01

• Releases Star Wars (A New Hope), becoming the highest-grossing film of its time and winning six Academy Awards. (Source: undefined)

  1977-01-01

• Executive produces and co-writes the sequel Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back. (Source: undefined)

  1980-01-01

• Creates the story and character for Raiders of the Lost Ark, beginning the Indiana Jones franchise with Steven Spielberg. (Source: undefined)

  1981-01-01

• Executive produces Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi and divorces Marcia Griffin. (Source: undefined)

  1983-01-01

• Establishes the George Lucas Educational Foundation. (Source: undefined)

  1991-01-01

• Returns to full-time directing with Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, pioneering digital cinema projection. (Source: undefined)

  1999-01-01

• Releases Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, the first major live-action feature shot entirely on digital media. (Source: undefined)

  2002-01-01

• Releases Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. (Source: undefined)

  2005-01-01

• Sells Lucasfilm Ltd. to The Walt Disney Company for retirement from corporate life. (Source: undefined)

  2012-01-01

• Marries business leader Mellody Hobson. (Source: undefined)

  2013-01-01

George Lucas

George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and philanthropist. He created the Star Wars franchise and its fictional universe, the Indiana Jones franchise, and founded Lucasfilm, LucasArts, Industrial Light & Magic and THX. Lucas also served as chairman of Lucasfilm before selling it to The Walt Disney Company in 2012. The recipient of two Emmy Awards and nominations for four Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, he is considered to be one of the most significant figures of the 20th-century New Hollywood movement, and a pioneer of the modern blockbuster. Despite this, he has remained an independent filmmaker for most of his career. After graduating from the University of Southern California in 1967, Lucas moved to San Francisco and co-founded American Zoetrope with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. He wrote and directed THX 1138 (1971), based on his student short Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB, which was a critical success but a financial failure. His next work as a writer-director was 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 Director and Best Picture. Lucas's next film, the epic space opera Star Wars (1977), later retitled A New Hope, 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 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), and served as an executive producer, with a cursory involvement in pre and post-production, on The Dial of Destiny (2023). In 1997, Lucas re-released the original Star Wars trilogy as part of a Special Edition featuring several modifications; 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 movie and television series of the same name, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008–2014, 2020), the war film Red Tails (2012) and the jukebox musical fantasy CGI-animated film Strange Magic (2015). Lucas is also known for his collaboration with composer John Williams, who was recommended to him by Spielberg, and with whom he has worked for all films in the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises. He also produced and wrote a variety of films and television series through Lucasfilm between the 1970s and the 2010s. Lucas is one of history's most financially successful filmmakers. He directed or wrote the story for ten of the 100 highest-grossing movies at the North American box office, adjusted for ticket-price inflation. Through his companies Industrial Light and Magic and Skywalker Sound, Lucas was involved in the production of, and financially benefited from, almost every big-budget film released in the U.S. from the late 1980s until selling to Disney in 2012. In addition to his career as a filmmaker, Lucas has founded and supported multiple philanthropic organizations and campaigns dedicated to education and the arts, including the George Lucas Educational Foundation, which has been noted as a key supporter in the creation of the federal E-Rate program to provide broadband funding to schools and libraries, and the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, a forthcoming art museum in Los Angeles developed with his wife, Mellody Hobson.

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• George Lucas

  George Walton Lucas, Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an Americanfilmmaker. The creator of _Star Wars_, he executive-produced its first sixfilms. Close friends with fellow filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas worked on the _Indiana Jones_ franchise with Spielberg after meeting him through his own directorial debut, _THX 1138_, and the films _The Rain People_ and _Apocalypse Now_, directed by Coppola. With the latter's backing, Lucas made _American Graffiti_, and subsequently relied on its success to create _Star Wars_. Although it suffered significant setbacks and failed to achieve what Lucas wanted, the film was an immense success. Lucas thus continued to tell his mythology, producing the thirdsaga film in 1983.

• George Lucas filmography - Wikipedia

  # George Lucas filmography Español Português Romnă Русский Edit links Article Talk Read Edit View history Tools Actions Read Edit View history General What links here Related changes Upload file Permanent link Page information Cite this page Get shortened URL Switch to legacy parser Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikidata item Appearance From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George Lucas George Lucas (born 1944) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, editor, and entrepreneur. A member of the New Hollywood movement, his best-known work includes both the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises and establishing Lucasfilm. [...] Lucas made his feature film debut in 1971 with THX 1138, an expansion of his student short Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB made at the University of Southern California. Two years later, he wrote and directed American Graffiti, based on his own experience of cruising "Cruising (driving)") and years as a teenager. He then wrote and directed the space opera Star Wars "Star Wars (film)") (1977): it became the highest grossing film of all time and launched an eponymous franchise. Although Lucas did not direct the following two films in the Original Trilogy—The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983)—he was heavily involved in creative control. Some two decades later, he returned to full-time directing and wrote all three entries in the prequel trilogy: The Phantom Menace [...] three entries in the prequel trilogy: The Phantom Menace (1999), Attack of the Clones (2002), and Revenge of the Sith (2005).

• George Lucas

  Lucas was born on May 14, 1944, in Modesto, California, a small agricultural city in the Central Valley "Central Valley (California)"). He is the son of Dorothy Ellinore Lucas (née Bomberger) and George Walton Lucas Sr., and is of German, Swiss German, English, Scottish, and distant Dutch and French descent. He grew up in Modesto, and his family attended Disneyland during its opening week in July 1955, and Lucas would remain enthusiastic about the park. He was interested in comics and science fiction, including television programs such as the Flash Gordon "Flash Gordon (serial)") serials. Long before Lucas began making films, he yearned to be a racecar driver, and he spent most of his high school years racing on the underground circuit at fairgrounds and hanging out at garages. On June [...] Lucas is a major collector of the American illustrator and painter Norman Rockwell. A collection of 57 Rockwell paintings and drawings owned by Lucas and fellow Rockwell collector and film director Steven Spielberg were displayed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum from July 2, 2010, to January 2, 2011, in an exhibition titled Telling Stories. Lucas has said that he is a fan of Seth MacFarlane's hit TV show Family Guy. MacFarlane has said that Lucasfilm was extremely helpful when the Family Guy crew wanted to parody their works. Lucas supported Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the run-up for the 2016 U.S. presidential election. ## Filmography Main article: George Lucas filmography Directed features [...] | George Lucas | | Lucas at the 2025 San Diego Comic-Con | | Born | George Walton Lucas Jr. (1944-05-14) May 14, 1944 (age 82) Modesto, California, U.S. | | Education | Modesto Junior College University of Southern California (BFA) | | Occupations | Film director screenwriter producer entrepreneur | | Years active | 1965–present | | Works | Full list | | Spouses | Marcia Griffin ​ ​ (m. 1969; div. 1983)​ Mellody Hobson ​ (m. 2013)​ | | Children | 4, including Amanda "Amanda Lucas (fighter)") and Katie | | Awards | Full list |

• George Lucas | American Film Institute

  With 1,500 employees, Lucas is Chairman of the Board of Lucasfilm, a banner that includes Industrial Light & Magic, Skywalker Sound, LucasArts Entertainment Company and Lucas Licensing. A man with an exceptional moral center, Lucas’ sense of right and wrong defines him as much as his professional triumphs. A strong believer in giving back to society–and remembering his own frustrating early school years–in 1991 he founded the George Lucas Educational Foundation, bringing fun and creativity to the learning process. And he continues to generously support the USC School of Cinema-Television. [...] Over the next six years, Lucas continued to explore the psychological archeology of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, et al. With the success of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK and RETURN OF THE JEDI, the man who envisioned himself an independent, cinema verite documentarian had undeniably become a filmmaker for the masses. While Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford are forever linked to the enormously popular INDIANA JONES trilogy, it is George Lucas who created the iconic character and story. [...] Lucas’ impact on modern filmmaking is nothing short of astounding. Starting in 1971 with THX 1138–and continuing on through AMERICAN GRAFFITI, the INDIANA JONES trilogy and, of course, the STAR WARS series–Lucas has forever changed our perception of the reach and power of cinema. Lucas’ pioneering filmmaking advances– from non-linear picture editing with EditDroid, digital sound editing with SoundDroid and his incomparable THX sound system in 1982; to computer graphics with his Pixar computer in 1985; to his revolutionary digital projection on THE PHANTOM MENACE in 1999 and the first live-action all digital film, ATTACK OF THE CLONES, in 2002–have cemented his leadership role in digital technology.

• George Lucas | Kennedy Center

  In 1981, he created the classic adventurer Indiana Jones, and co-wrote and executive-produced the successful series consisting of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), a franchise that has won eight Academy Awards(r). Later, a television series, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, was honored with 12 Emmy Awards. Lucas has also served as executive producer on such widely varied films as Willow, which was based on his original story and directed by Ron Howard; and Tucker: The Man And His Dream, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. As executive producer, Lucas's films also include Akira Kurosawa's Kagemusha (1980) and Labyrinth (1986) among others. [...] In 2012, Lucas retired from corporate life. Lucasfilm Ltd. was acquired by the Walt Disney Company, with Lucas' longtime collaborator Kathleen Kennedy named as his successor. Over the years, Lucas has received some of the entertainment industry's highest honors, including the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the American Film Institute's Lifetime achievement Award and the Lifetime achievement Award from the Visual Effects Society. He also received an honorary doctorate in fine arts from the USC School of Cinematic Arts and the prestigious NAACP Vanguard Award, given to the person whose groundbreaking work increases understanding and awareness of racial and social issues. Lucas was honored in 2004 with the nation's highest award for [...] Lucas pioneered the development of digital Cinema in multiple areas: editing, sound, scanning, projection, and camera technology. He returned to directing in 1999 with Star Wars Saga: Star Wars : Episode I The Phantom Menace, the year's biggest box-office hit, which was also the first major live-action film to be projected digitally. Three years later, Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones broke new ground as the first major movie shot using entirely digital media. In 2005, Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith was the top-grossing film that year worldwide.

• Award

  AFI Life Achievement Award

• Image

  

• Gender

  male

• Educated At

  University of Southern California

• Instance Of

  Q5

• Occupation

  screenwriter

• Citizenship

  United States

• Date Of Birth

  5/14/1944

• Notable Work

  Star Wars

• Place Of Birth

  Modesto