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Kevin Smith was born to a postal worker and a homemaker and studied at the HenryHudsonRegionalHigh School. He then went on to study at the Vancouver Film School and The New School where he got in touch with Scott Mosier who would go on to become a lifelong partner in his projects as a producer and even as an actor. Inspired by the movie Slacker, he started work on his first movie Clerks which was then released. It was featured at the Sundance Film Festival where it was honored with the Filmmaker’s Trophy. It was then acquired by Miramax and was featured at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1994. It also won not one but two awards at this festival including the International Critics’ Week Prize and Prix de la Jeunesse. The film was then released in the US and went on to become a commercial and critical success, grossing over three million dollars even though it hardly played on fifty screens at the same time.

Kevin Smith then released his second movie, Mallrats, which was also a commercial success in the home video market. It was followed by what many regard as one of his best films to date, Chasing Amy. This film earned over twelve million dollars at the box office on a budget of just a quarter a million and was ranked as one of the best movies of the year by the critics. It also won not one but two Independent Spirit Awards. In 1996, he was hired to write a script for the Superman movie and is even featured on the animated movie, Superman: Doomsday released in 2007. He then worked on the movie Overnight Delivery, starring Reese Witherspoon.

In 1999, Kevin Smith released his fourth movie, Dogma which was a comedy starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. It earned thirty million dollars at the box office and premiered at the Cannes Film Festival that year. His next movie was Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back which starred two characters who had appeared in all of his previous movies. This movie also earned around thirty million dollars in the box office and also starred Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. His next movie was Jersey Girl starring Liv Tyler and Ben Affleck and it earned thirty six million dollars. In 2006, he released Clerks II and it won an MTV Movie Award and an award at the Edinburgh Film Festival. It was also premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and it starred Rosario Dawson and Jeff Anderson.

Kevin Smith then released the movie Zack and Miri Make a Porno in 2008 which was followed by Cop Out in 2010, starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan. The same year, he began work on his next movie, RedState. This was a unique movie in that it was a horror film unlike his previous movies.

Aside from working on movies, Kevin Smith is also a renowned comic book writer known for his work on comics such as the Clerks comic, Daredevil comics, Spider-Man comics, Black Cat comics and Batman comis amongst many others. He has won awards for this work including the Harvey Award for the Best New Talent and thus is someone to watch live for the most hilarious routines by the man who played Silent Bob through Kevin Smith tickets.