Steven Lisberger

Steven Lisberger earns my lasting respect for one bold swing: Tron in 1982. Imagining a world inside a computer, and committing it to film with those glowing circuits, was visionary at a time the tools barely existed. I see him as a spiritual ancestor of today's CG-saturated cinema, a dreamer who arrived too early and paid for it commercially. As a New Yorker who directed, wrote, and animated, he embodied the restless multi-hyphenate creator. I have a soft spot for artists who absorb the bruises of being ahead of their time, and Lisberger is exactly that kind of pioneer to me.

Name (English)

Steven Lisberger

Name (Japanese)

スティーブン・リズバーガー

Reading

すてぃーぶん・りずばーがー

Born

April 24, 1951 (age 75)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Rabbit

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

film director / film producer / screenwriter / animator / writer

• Official sitehttps://stevenlisberger.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Lisberger
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%96%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%82%BA%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AC%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1378661

Tags

• New York
• film director
• film producer
• screenwriter

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.