# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-stephenson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:12:03.898Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-stephenson"
name: "John Stephenson"
slug: "john-stephenson"
description: "John Stephenson, is a British director and a former vice-president and creative supervisor for Jim Henson's Creature Shop. He was nominated for a BAFTA film award in 1985 for Dreamchild and in 1991, he won an Academy Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences."
tagline: "British director"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1962"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.61
  momentum:             1.224489795918367
  historical:           6.342909333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0827268/"
    handle:    "nm0827268"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stephenson_(effettista)"
    title: "John Stephenson (effettista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%AC)"
    title: "جون ستيفنسون (مخرج)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85)"
    title: "جون ستيفنسون (مخرج افلام)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stephenson_(director)"
    title: "John Stephenson (director)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%81%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جان استفنسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stephenson_(effets_sp%C3%A9ciaux)"
    title: "John Stephenson (effets spéciaux)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3182519"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1387618"
    title: "John Stephenson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump