Birthday: September 10, 1958
Screenwriter/Director Chris Columbus sold his first movie script for Jocks while still a film student at New York University; although heavily rewritten by others for the screen, this piece got Columbus' foot in the big-time door. His breakthrough script for producer Steven Spielberg was for Gremlins, and was allegedly inspired by its writer's dreams of mice at his fingers. The ...more- 2001
- British Academy of Film and Television
- Best British Film
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- nom
- 2011
- Ripley's Believe It or Not!
- Director
- 2010
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
- Director
- 2010
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
- Producer
- 2010
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
- Screenwriter
- 2009
- I Love You, Beth Cooper
- Director














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