Cameron Crowe

13 films directed 1 Awards 4 Nominations

Biography

Cameron Bruce Crowe (born July 13, 1957) is an American screenwriter and film director.

Before moving into the film industry, Crowe was a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine, for which he still frequently writes. Crowe has made his mark with character-driven, personal films that have been generally hailed as refreshingly original and devoid of cynicism. Michael Walker in The New York Times called Crowe "something of a cinematic spokesman for the post-baby boom generation" because his first few films focused on that specific age group, first as highers and then as young adults making their way in the world.

Crowe's debut screenwriting effort, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, grew out of a book he wrote while posing for one year undercover as a student at Clairemont High School in San Diego, California, where he met Geraldine Edwards, who was a student there, and who he later based his Penny Lane character on in Almost Famous, when he discovered she was going backstage to rock and roll concerts. Later, he wrote and directed one more high school saga, Say Anything, and then Singles, a story of Seattle twentysomethings that was woven together by a soundtrack centering on that city's burgeoning grunge music scene.

Most directed genres

Recurring actors

Awards and nominations

2023 Tony Award for Best Original Score Nominated
2001 Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
2001 Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay Nominated
1997 Academy Award for Best Picture Nominated
1997 European Film Award for Best Non-European Film Nominated

The career in numbers

US$ 338 mi Total budget from 7 film(s) with data
US$ 762 mi Total box office from 9 film(s) with data
US$ 48 mi Average budget from 7 film(s) with data
US$ 85 mi Average box office from 9 film(s) with data
6.8 Average rating from 9 film(s) with data
2.2× Return on investment from 7 film(s) with data

Budget and box office do not exist for every film in our records. Averages are computed over the films that carry the figure, and the count beside each one says how many.

Films directed

Film	Year	Budget	Box office	Rating
Heartbreakers Beach Party	2024	—	—	6.2
Aloha	2015	US$ 37 mi	US$ 26 mi	5.5
We Bought a Zoo	2011	US$ 50 mi	US$ 120 mi	6.8
Pearl Jam Twenty	2011	—	US$ 471,334	7.8
Pearl Jam: The Fans Are Alright	2011	—	—	9.2
The Union	2011	—	—	10.0
Elizabethtown	2005	US$ 57 mi	US$ 52 mi	6.2
Vanilla Sky	2001	US$ 68 mi	US$ 203 mi	6.8
Almost Famous	2000	US$ 60 mi	US$ 47 mi	7.5
Jerry Maguire	1996	US$ 50 mi	US$ 274 mi	7.0
Singles	1992	—	US$ 18 mi	6.4
Say Anything...	1989	US$ 16 mi	US$ 20 mi	7.0
Untitled Joni Mitchell Biopic	—	—	—	—

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