Cameron Crowe

Cameron Crowe is an American filmmaker and journalist who started out at Rolling Stone magazine, where he was its youngest contributor and wrote about rock bands on tour. Born in Palm Springs, California, he turned his book Fast Times at Ridgemont High into his first screenplay, released as a film in 1982. He went on to write and direct the romances Say Anything... (1989), Singles (1992) and Jerry Maguire (1996), and his screenplay for Almost Famous (2000), which drew on his years as a teenage music journalist, brought him an Academy Award. His later directing work includes Vanilla Sky (2001), Elizabethtown (2005), We Bought a Zoo (2011) and Aloha (2015), along with 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, and his stage musical version of Almost Famous earned him a Tony Award nomination for Best Original Score.