A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
William F. Gibson
William Ford Gibson
Birthplace:
Conway, South Carolina, United States of America
Born:
March 17, 1948
William Ford Gibson is an American and Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were bleak, noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans—a "combination of lowlife and high tech"—and helped to create an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s.
Novel:
???? Neuromancer
Screenplay:
1995 Johnny Mnemonic
???? Neuromancer
Short Story:
1995 Johnny Mnemonic
1999 New Rose Hotel
???? Neuromancer
Story:
1993 Tomorrow Calling
1995 Johnny Mnemonic
1999 New Rose Hotel
???? Neuromancer
Executive Producer:
???? Neuromancer
Novel:
2022 The Peripheral
???? Neuromancer
Writer:
1993 The X-Files
2022 The Peripheral
???? Neuromancer
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.