The 'Apollo 13' director celebrated the real-life astronaut's 'intellect, courage and commitment to duty' after his death.

The director, 71, told Vulture in an interview published on Aug. 13 that he needed some convincing from his dad, Rance Howard ...

In an interview about the making of the 1995 hit, director Ron Howard has admitted he had doubts about casting his mother in ...

Tom Hanks has paid tribute to Jim Lovell, the NASA astronaut he portrayed in Ron Howard’s 1995 film Apollo 13, who has died ...

Jim Lovell, the NASA astronaut who commanded the famous Apollo 13 mission around the moon and back, has died, NASA has ...

Apollo 13 director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer paid tribute today to Jim Lovell, commander of the ill-fated moon ...

Apollo 13, director Ron Howard's Oscar-winning dramatization of NASA's ill-fated mission to send astronauts Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon), and Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) to the Moon ...

There’s a difference between being an Oscar-winning director and directing an Oscar-winning movie, not that Ron Howard cares ...

Director Ron Howard's harrowing true tale of the unlucky Apollo 13 mission to the moon in 1970 still stands as one of the finest space survival movies of all time and a testament to the ...

Key Points Apollo 13, Ron Howard's docudrama about a disastrous mission to the moon, turns 30 this month. Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton led the cast, each playing the real-life astronauts ...

Ron Howard hasn't had much lately at the box-office, despite his efforts. In The Heart Of The Sea wasn't exactly warmly received at the box-office and came under $10,000,000 short of its budget.

Both men are genuine film-making legends, and having worked on true story adaptations before - Howard: Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, Morgan: The Queen, Frost/Nixon - they certainly know what they ...