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Ron Howard has won two Academy Awards, seven Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Grammy Awards. He also received the National Medal of Arts in 2003 and was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 2013. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Ron Howard won the Academy Award for Best Director for A Beautiful Mind in 2001. The film also won Best Picture that year, and Howard was nominated alongside Peter Jackson, Ridley Scott, Robert Altman, and David Lynch.
Ron Howard played Opie Taylor, the son of Sheriff Andy Taylor, for all eight seasons of The Andy Griffith Show from 1960 through 1968. He was credited as "Ronny Howard" throughout the series and reprised the role in the 1986 NBC television movie Return to Mayberry.
Ron Howard made his directorial debut with Grand Theft Auto in 1977, a low-budget comedy and action film. He co-wrote the script with his father, Rance Howard, and secured the opportunity through a deal with producer Roger Corman.
Howard officially replaced directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller on the 22nd of June 2017, two days after they were let go from the project. Lucasfilm reportedly dismissed them over their encouragement of significant actor improvisation, which was seen as shifting the story off-course. Howard stepped in with approximately three and a half weeks of filming remaining plus five weeks of reshoots.
Imagine Entertainment is a film and television production company co-chaired by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. The company has produced films including Friday Night Lights and 8 Mile, as well as television series such as 24 and Arrested Development.