The document discusses three famous film directors: Peter Jackson, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg. Peter Jackson is known for directing The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Lovely Bones. George Lucas founded LucasFilm and directed the popular Star Wars trilogy. Steven Spielberg is renowned for directing blockbuster adventure films such as Jurassic Park, E.T., Saving Private Ryan, Jaws, and Catch Me If You Can.

1. Film Directors

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.