George Lucas - Milestones

• 2005: Helmed "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith," the final film in the Star Wars saga
• 2003: Announced plans to consolidate his film production company, his special effects house and video game company under the name Lucasfilm Ltd. and relocate most of the company's 2,000 employees to the company's planned Digital Arts Center campus at San Francisco's Presidio in 2005
• 2002: Helmed "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones" (filmed in 2000)
• 1997: Rereleased a digitally enhanced "Star Wars" trilogy
• 1997: Returned to directing, wrapping principal photography on "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace" (released in 1999)
• 1992: Created and executive produced TV series, "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" (ABC)
• 1991: Value of the "Star Wars" brand reemerged when Bantam Books published Timothy Zahn's "Heir to the Empire", and it surprisingly soared to No 1 on THE NEW YORK TIMES hardcover-fiction list
• From 1990 to 1991: Devoted a year to creating The George Lucas Educational Foundation to provide computer-based technologies for schools to spur learning among teens (date approximate)
• 1989: Completed trilogy with Spielberg, "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", also provided story and served as executive producer
• 1984: Reteamed with Spielberg for "Indian Jones and the Temple of Doom"; again wrote story and executive produced
• 1981: Wrote story and executive produced, "Raiders of the Lost Ark"; first collaboration with director Steven Spielberg
• 1980: Formed Sprocket Systems Inc., a research and post-production company
• 1977: Third and last directing assignment before taking 20 year sabbatical, "Star Wars"; film earned 11 Oscar nominations including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay
• 1975: Formed Industrial Light & Magic, a special effects subsidiary of Lucasfilm
• 1973: Formed Star Wars Corp.
• 1973: Co-produced first feature, "American Graffiti"; also directed and co-wrote; film received five Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay
• 1971: Wrote and directed first feature film, "THX-1138"
• 1971: Incorporated Lucasfilm Ltd.
• 1969: Appointed vice-president of Coppola's newly-formed American Zoetrope company
• 1968: Won Warner Bros scholarship; spent six months as observer-administrative assistant to Francis Ford Coppola on "Finian's Rainbow"
• 1967: Received Grand Prize for Film, National Student Film Festival, for short version of "THX-1138"
• 1966: Began film career as assistant editor for US Information Agency
• 1962: Badly injured in car crash
• Won numerous motor racing trophies while a teenager
• Executive produced series of "Young Indiana Jones" TV-movies for the Family Channel
• Split off the non-filmmaking sides of Lucasfilm (including ILM, a computer game division and a theater sound systems group), named it LucasArts and gave much of it to his employees in the 1980s