The Big Picture: Cameron Crowe Career & Biographical Notes: Has written the screenplay for every one of the six films that he has directed Shares a birthday with Harrison Ford Has a cameo in Steven Spielberg's 2002 film, Minority Report Leads the charge for keeping The Wild Life off of DVD

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Cameron Crowe Trivia Quizzes
at HowWellDoYouKnow.com:

• Almost Famous
• Elizabethtown
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High
• Jerry Maguire
• Say Anything...
• We Bought a Zoo

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Recent Movies:

Film	Date	Rating	Screens	Opening	Total	Box Office
Elizabethtown	10/14/05	PG-13	2517	10.62	26.84	Info
Vanilla Sky	12/14/01	R	2742	25.02	100.61	Info

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Awards:

2000
Almost Famous

• Win: Best Original Screenplay, Academy Awards
• Win: Best Screenplay, Online Film Critics Association
• Win: Best Director, Boston Film Critics
• Win: Best Screenplay, Boston Film Critics
• Win: Best Original Screenplay, Broadcast Film Critics Association
• Runner-Up: Best Screenplay, Golden Globes
• Runner-Up: Best Screenplay, BOP's Calvin Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Director, BOP's Calvin Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Online Film Critics Association
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Chicago Film Critics
• Runner-Up: Best Original Screenplay, Writers' Guild
• Runner-Up: Best Original Screenplay, Las Vegas Film Critics
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Las Vegas Film Critics
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Directors' Guild

1996
Jerry Maguire

• Runner-Up: Best Original Screenplay, Academy Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Directors' Guild
• Runner-Up: Best Original Screenplay, Writers' Guild

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