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American filmmaker (born )

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, ) 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 ^[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 , Lucas moved to San Francisco and co-founded American Zoetrope with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola.

He wrote and directed THX (), based on his s