John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American filmmaker, actor and composer. Although Carpenter has worked with various film genres, he is associated most commonly with horror, action, and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s. Carpenter is generally recognized as one of the greatest masters of the horror genre. At the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, the French Directors' Guild presented Carpenter with the Golden Coach Award, lauding him as "a creative genius of raw, fantastic, and spectacular emotions." Most films of Carpenter's career were initially commercial and critical failures, with the notable exceptions of Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), Escape from New York (1981), and Starman (1984). However, many of Carpenter's films from the 1970s and the 1980s have come to be considered as cult classics, and he has been acknowledged as an influential filmmaker. The cult classics that Carpenter has directed include Dark Star (1974), Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), The Thing (1982
John Howard Carpenter (nacido el 16 de enero de 1948) es un cineasta, actor y compositor estadounidense. Aunque Carpenter ha trabajado con diversos géneros cinematográficos, se asocia más comúnmente con películas de horror, acción y ciencia ficción de los años 1970 y 1980. Carpenter es generalmente reconocido como uno de los mayores maestros del género horror. En el Festival de Cine de Cannes de 2019, la Guardia de Directores franceses le presentó a Carpenter el Premio Golden Coach, alabándolo como "un genio creativo de emociones crudas, fantásticas y espectaculares". La mayoría de las películas de la carrera de Carpenter fueron inicialmente fracasos comerciales y críticos, con las notables excepciones de Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), Escape from New York (1981), y Starman (1984). Sin embargo, muchas de las películas de Carpenter de los años 1970 y 1980 han venido a ser consideradas como clásicas, y ha sido reconocido como un cineasta influyente.