Cameron Crowe
Crowe's debut screenwriting effort, Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), grew out of a book he wrote while posing for one year undercover as a student at Clairemont High School in San Diego. Later, he wrote and directed the romance films Say Anything... (1989), Singles (1992), and Jerry Maguire (1996). Crowe's seminal work is the autobiographical film Almost Famous (2000), which is loosely based on his early career as a teen writer for Rolling Stone. For his screenplay, he won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
His later films have had varying degrees of success. He directed the psychological thriller Vanilla Sky (2001), the romantic comedy Elizabethtown (2005), the family-friendly We Bought a Zoo (2011), the romantic comedy Aloha (2015), and the music documentaries Pearl Jam Twenty (2011) and The Union (2011). He produced David Crosby: Remember My Name (2019), and created the Showtime series Roadies (2016).
Crowe has written three books, Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1981), Conversations with Wilder (1999), and The Uncool: A Memoir (2025). In 2022 he adapted Almost Famous into a stage musical on Broadway, for which he received a Tony Award for Best Original Score nomination.
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