Chris Columbus

Chris Columbus was born on Sep 10, 1958 in USA. Chris Columbus's big-screen debut came with Reckless directed by James Foley in 1984. Chris Columbus is known for The Lighthouse directed by Robert Eggers, Robert Pattinson stars as Thomas Howard and Willem Dafoe as Thomas Wake. Chris Columbus has got 6 awards and 21 nominations so far. The most recent award Chris Columbus achieved is Art Directors Guild. The upcoming new movie Chris Columbus plays is The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two which will be released on Nov 25, 2020.

Born in Pennsylvania and raised in Ohio, Chris Columbus was first inspired to make movies after seeing "The Godfather" at age 15. After enrolling at NYU film school, he sold his first screenplay (never produced) while a sophomore there. After graduation Columbus tried to sell his fourth script, "Gremlins", with no success, until Steven Spielberg optioned it; Columbus moved to Los Angeles for a year during rewrites on the project in Spielberg's bungalow at Universal. After writing two more scripts for Spielberg, "The Goonies" and "Young Sherlock Holmes", Columbus' own directing career was launched a few years later with "Adventures in Babysitting". He is best known to audiences as the director of the runaway hit "Home Alone", written and produced by John Hughes its sequel "Home Alone 2", and most recently "Mrs. Doubtfire".