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American filmmaker (born 1944)

This article is about the American film director. For other people named George Lucas, see George Lucas (disambiguation).

George Walton Lucas Jr.^[1] (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and philanthropist.

He created the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises and founded Lucasfilm, LucasArts, Industrial Light & Magic and THX. He served as chairman of Lucasfilm before selling it to The Walt Disney Company in 2012.^[2] Nominated for four Academy 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 away from Hollywood for most of his career.^[3]

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 113