John Hughes

Birth Name:

John Wilden Hughes

Birth Place:

Lansing, Michigan, United States

Profession

Writer, Producer, Director, Actor, Soundtrack, Music department

Winner of a ShoWest Award for Producer of the Year in 1991
Before getting into directing, was a writer for "National Lampoon" magazine in the 1970s
Quote: "I stumbled into this business, I didn't train for it․ I yelled 'Action!' on my first two movies before the camera was turned on․"
Famous for his 1980s teenage films such as "Sixteen Candles," "Pretty in Pink" and "She's Having a Baby․"
Many of his films are set in the North Shore suburbs of Chicago
Sometimes wrote using his pen name, Edmond Dantes
Said to have inspired the Brat Pack movement in the 1980s

1993Stinker Award - Worst Resurrection of a TV Show:Nominated
1997Stinker Award - Worst Screenplay for a Film Grossing More than $100 Million Using Hollywood Math:Nominated
2007Felix - Best Original Screenplay:Nominated

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