Highest rated movie: Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman (2006)
Lowest rated movie: Timeline (2003)
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Movies starring Richard Donner have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 68%.
Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman - released in 2006 - is Richard Donner's highest rated movie, with a score of 80% based on 112 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Richard Donner is Timeline - released in 2003 - with a score of 47% based on 551 reviews.
Richard Donner (born April 24, 1930) is an American film director, film producer, and comic book writer. The production company The Donners' Company is owned by Donner and his wife, producer Lauren Shuler Donner. After directing the horror film The Omen, Donner became famous for the hailed creation of the first modern superhero film, Superman, starring Christopher Reeve. The influence of this film eventually helped establish the superhero concept as a respected film genre. Donner later continued reinvigorating the buddy film genre with Lethal Weapon (1987) and its sequels.
In 2000, he received the President's Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films. He was also nominated for Best Director in 1978 for Superman. Film historian Michael Barson writes that Donner had "emerged as one of Hollywood's most reliable makers of action blockbusters.
Richard Donner has acted in films with Steve Kahan, Paul Tuerpe, Margot Kidder and Mel Gibson.
Richard Donner has worked with these film directors: Tom Donahue, Richard Lester, Kevin Burns and J.M. Kenny.
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