Roger John Christian (born 25 February 1944) is an English film director, screenwriter, art director, and set decorator. He won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction - Set Decoration for his work on the original Star Wars (1977), with a second Oscar nomination for his work on Alien (1979). After directing the well-regarded shorts Black Angel (1980) and The Dollar Bottom (1981), Christian made his feature debut with the science-fiction horror film The Sender (1982). He is also known for directing the period biopic Nostradamus (1994) and the L. Ron Hubbard adaptation Battlefield Earth (2000), and was a second unit director on the Star Wars films Return of the Jedi (1983) and The Phantom Menace (1999).
From Wikipedia › · CC BY-SA
FriSatSun
