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American filmmaker who created Star Wars and Indiana Jones — and who built Industrial Light & Magic as the most innovative visual effects company in history — before selling Lucasfilm to Disney for $4B in 2012.
American visual effects company founded by George Lucas in 1975 to create the effects for Star Wars — and which went on to create the visual effects for the Jurassic Park, Terminator, Indiana Jones, and dozens of other defining films — becoming the most important technology company in cinema history.
Peter Jackson is a New Zealand filmmaker who directed the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies and is known for pioneering large-scale digital and practical effects filmmaking.