Star Wars Day Star Wars Day "Star Wars" Day, May4, celebrates George Lucas' "Star Wars". It is observed by fans of the media franchise. Observance of the commemorative day spread quickly through media and grassroots celebrations. The date was chosen for the pun on the catchphrase "May the Force be with you" as "May the Fourth be with you". Even though the holiday was not created or declared by Lucasfilm, many "Star Wars" fans across the world have chosen to celebrate the holiday. It has since been embraced by Lucasfilm as an annual celebration of "Star Wars". Apocryphally, the reference was first used
Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003 TV series) edited as feature-length films. Since release, the series has received critical acclaim and won multiple awards, including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program twice for both of its volumes. The success of "Star Wars: Clone Wars", which "Star Wars" creator George Lucas referred to as the "pilot series", led to a second "Clone Wars" series — the CGI-animated "" — which was produced by Lucasfilm Animation and ran from 2008 to 2014 before being resurrected for the 2019 launch of Disney's streaming service. That series' canonicity eventually superseded that of the "Clone Wars" micro-series after The Walt Disney