2. Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson is the director for The Lovely Bones, which has inspired us
for our film. He was born in 1961 and is recognised as a New Zealand
film director. Besides this he is also a screenwriter, producer and actor.
He is well known for the trilogy he made of The Lord of the Rings.
He created several ‘splatstick’ horror comedies which made him
internationally known and has been very successful ever since.
Throughout his career he has won the BAFTA, Golden Globe, Saturn
Award for Best Director, three Academy Awards and an Award for Best
Director.
Some of the films he’s directed are Meet the Feebles, Braindead,
Forgotten Silver, The Frighteners, King Kong, The Lovely Bones, The
Hobbit trilogy. Alongside these films, he’s produced District 9 and The
Adventures of Tintin.
The Lovely Bones
The Lovely Bones was first released in the United States in 2009 and the
idea was triggered by Alice Sebold bestselling book. As the film wasn’t as
successful and large as his other films, he said it was a welcome relief.
The film was nominated as a Best Picture Oscar contender however it
has gained poor feedback and received 32% rotten on the film review
site, Rotten Tomatoes.
3. George Lucas
George Lucas was born in 1944 and is known as an
American film director and he is a screenwriter, producer
and entrepreneur. He started directing and producing in
1965. The most popular film he has directed and produced
is the Star Wars trilogy and was the archaeologist-
adventurer character in the film Indiana Jones. Besides this
he is the chairman and founder of LucasFilm which is an
American film production company which began in 1971.
He has become extremely successful and is now generating
a net profit of $3.2billion.
During his career he has created nine short films and six big
feature films. George Lucas In love and Freiheit are just two
of the nine films he’s created.
He has won the Lifetime Achievement Award and has been
nominated for four Academy Awards, best directing and
writing for several films.
4. Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg was born in 1946 and is most known for being an
American film director, producer, screenwriter and video game
designer as well as being an entrepreneur. Steven Spielberg is most
known from his adventurous films which include Jurassic Park, ET,
Saving Private Ryan, Jaws and Catch Me If You Can.
He became very successful and gained new box office records and
the films that he directed generated over $8.3million worldwide.
His most recent success in the awards criteria was winning the
Golden Globe Best Animated Feature Film, 2PGA Awards, American
Film Institute a BAFTA Award, Emmy Award and Motion Picture
Sound Editors Award.
