Cameron Crowe

Cameron Bruce Crowe (born July 13, 1957) is an American filmmaker and journalist. He has received many accolades, including an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Grammy Award, and a Tony Award nomination. Crowe started his career in 1973 as a contributing editor and writer at Rolling Stone magazine, where he covered many rock bands on tour. Crowe's debut screenwriting effort, Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), grew out of a book he wrote while posing for one year undercover as a student at Clairemont High School in San Diego. Later, he wrote and directed the romance films Say Anything... (1989), Singles (1992), and Jerry Maguire (1996). Crowe's seminal work is the autobiographical film Almost Famous (2000), which is loosely based on his early career as a teen writer for Rolling Stone. For his screenplay, he won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. His later films include the psychological thriller Vanilla Sky (2001), the romantic comedy Elizabethtown (2005), the family-friendly We Bought a Zoo (2011), the romantic comedy Aloha (2015), and 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 (2016). Crowe has written three books, Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1981), Conversations with Wilder (1999), and The Uncool: A Memoir (2025). In 2022, he adapted Almost Famous into a stage musical on Broadway, for which he received a Tony Award for Best Original Score nomination.