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Monday, 15 April, 2002, 09:34 GMT 10:34 UK
George Lucas honoured by Bafta
![]() Lucas's Indiana Jones films made a star of Harrison Ford (R)
Film director and producer George Lucas has been given the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film, by the Los Angeles arm of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta).
At a ceremony on Friday, the creator of Star Wars was honoured for his work with the UK film industry.
The 11th annual Britannia Awards was hosted by actress and writer Carrie Fisher, who starred in the original Star Wars trilogy. Accident Steven Spielberg, who was Lucas's collaborator on the Indiana Jones trilogy, was last year's recipient of the Britannia Award.
Lucas's success in the film industry came after a serious car accident promoted a change in his original career plan to be a professional racing driver. After attending the University of Southern California film school he wrote and directed 1973's American Graffiti, which won a Golden Globe and five Academy Award nominations. Epic He then began writing the screenplay for Star Wars but the concept was turned down by a number of studios before Twentieth Century Fox offered to back it - in return for Lucas's agreement to forgo his directing salary.
As well as continuing to extend the Star Wars story with prequels and sequels, Lucas created the Indiana Jones series, another huge international hit, with Steven Spielberg. In 1992 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gave Lucas the Irving G Thalberg Award for his lifetime achievement. The cable and satellite channel Home Box Office was also given a Britannia Award for excellence in TV at Friday's ceremony.
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