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Steven Allan Spielberg (/ˈspiːlbɜːrɡ/ SPEEL-burg) is an American filmmaker. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, Spielberg is widely regarded as one of the greatest film directors of all time and is the most commercially successful director in film history. Several of Spielberg's works are considered among the greatest films in history, and some are among the highest-grossing films ever. Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. He moved to California and studied film in college. After directing several episodes for television, including Night Gallery and Columbo, he directed the film Duel (1971), which Barry Diller approved. He made his theatrical debut with The Sugarland Express (1974) and became a household name with the summer blockbuster Jaws (1975). He directed more escapist box office successes with Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and the original Indiana Jones trilogy (1981–1989). He explored drama in The Color Purple (1985) and Empire of the Sun (1987). In 1993, Spielberg directed the science fiction thriller Jurassic Park, the highest-grossing film ever, and the epic historical drama Schindler's List, which has often been listed as one of the greatest films ever made. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for the latter and the World War II epic Saving Private Ryan (1998). Spielberg has since directed the science fiction films A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Minority Report (2002), War of the Worlds (2005) and Ready Player One (2018); the historical dramas Amistad (1997), Munich (2005), War Horse (2011), Lincoln (2012), Bridge of Spies (2015) and The Post (2017); the comedies Catch Me if You Can (2002), and The Terminal (2004); the animated film The Adventures of Tintin (2011); the musical West Side Story (2021); and the family drama The Fabelmans (2022). Spielberg co-founded Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks and has produced many successful films and television series, including Poltergeist (1982), Gremlins (1984), Back to the Future (1985), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), and Band of Brothers (2001). He has also collaborated extensively with the composer John Williams, with whom he has worked on all but five of his feature films. Among other accolades, he has received three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and two BAFTA Awards, as well as the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1995, the Knight Commander of the British Empire in 2001, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2006, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2009 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015. Seven of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". In 2013, Time listed him as one of the 100 most influential people, and in 2023, Spielberg was the recipient of the first-ever 100 Impact Award in the US. Description above from the Wikipedia article Steven Spielberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Steven Allan Spielberg (/ˈspiːlbɜːrɡ/ SPEEL-burg) is an American filmmaker. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, Spielberg is widely regarded as one of the greatest film directors of all time and is the most commercially successful director in film history. Several of Spielberg's works are considered among the greatest films in history, and some are among the highest-grossing films ever. Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. He moved to California and studied film in college. After directing several episodes for television, including Night Gallery and Columbo, he directed the film Duel (1971), which Barry Diller approved. He made his theatrical debut with The Sugarland Express (1974) and became a household name with the summer blockbuster Jaws (1975). He directed more escapist box office successes with Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and the original Indiana Jones trilogy (1981–1989). He explored drama in The Color Purple (1985) and Empire of the Sun (1987). In 1993, Spielberg directed the science fiction thriller Jurassic Park, the highest-grossing film ever, and the epic historical drama Schindler's List, which has often been listed as one of the greatest films ever made. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for the latter and the World War II epic Saving Private Ryan (1998). Spielberg has since directed the science fiction films A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Minority Report (2002), War of the Worlds (2005) and Ready Player One (2018); the historical dramas Amistad (1997), Munich (2005), War Horse (2011), Lincoln (2012), Bridge of Spies (2015) and The Post (2017); the comedies Catch Me if You Can (2002), and The Terminal (2004); the animated film The Adventures of Tintin (2011); the musical West Side Story (2021); and the family drama The Fabelmans (2022). Spielberg co-founded Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks and has produced many successful films and television series, including Poltergeist (1982), Gremlins (1984), Back to the Future (1985), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), and Band of Brothers (2001). He has also collaborated extensively with the composer John Williams, with whom he has worked on all but five of his feature films. Among other accolades, he has received three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and two BAFTA Awards, as well as the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1995, the Knight Commander of the British Empire in 2001, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2006, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2009 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015. Seven of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". In 2013, Time listed him as one of the 100 most influential people, and in 2023, Spielberg was the recipient of the first-ever 100 Impact Award in the US. Description above from the Wikipedia article Steven Spielberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Saturday Night Live
Golden Globe Awards
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Oscars
The Early Show
CBS News Sunday Morning
The Kennedy Center Honors
60 Minutes
Honest Trailers
Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV
Primetime Glick
Challenger: The Final Flight
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
The Tracey Ullman Show
Mr. Scorsese
Schindler's List
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Vanilla Sky
Men in Black
The Blues Brothers
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Gremlins
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Jaws
Austin Powers in Goldmember
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
Paul
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
Nickelodeon Studios Opening Day Celebration!
The Concert for Valor
In the Teeth of Jaws
The Making of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
LIGHT & MAGIC
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford
The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
The Music of 'Indiana Jones'
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
The Beginning: Making Episode I
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
Star Wars: Music by John Williams
Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins
Five Came Back
Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'
Music by John Williams
The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Bloody Hundredth
The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'
The Sound of 'Indiana Jones'
Return to Jurassic Park
Production Credits
Lego Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Brick
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
Men in Black 3
1941
Bridge of Spies
First Man
Twister
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
The Post
Tiny Toons Looniversity
Jurassic World: Chaos Theory
Return to Jurassic Park
Twisters
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
The Pacific
The Lovely Bones
Night Gallery
Roger Rabbit: Tummy Trouble
The Land Before Time
Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai
The Challenger
Real Steel
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Jurassic World
The Flintstones
Animaniacs
Eagle Eye
Schindler's List
The Fabelmans
Columbo
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
The Name of the Game
Roller Coaster Rabbit
West Side Story
All the Way
Super 8
Maestro
Cowboys & Aliens
Trail Mix-Up
Back to the Future Part II
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Minority Report
Monster House
Masters of the Air
Extant
Halo
The Turning
Lincoln
An American Tail
Life on Our Planet
seaQuest DSV
Catch Me If You Can
The Last Days
The Legend of Zorro
Family Dog
The Terminal
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The Mask of Zorro
Band of Brothers
Jurassic Park III
Poltergeist
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Young Sherlock Holmes
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
War of the Worlds
The French Dispatch
Joe Versus the Volcano
Amazing Stories
The Goonies
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
Men in Black: International
The Psychiatrist
Music by John Williams
Gremlins
Five Came Back
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
United States of Tara
Fudge
Under the Dome
The Money Pit
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Oslo
Cape Fear
The Fixer
Shrek
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous
The Bloody Hundredth
Jurassic Park
Untitled Transformers/G.I. Joe Crossover Movie
Three O'Clock High
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
War Horse
Balto
Arachnophobia
Smash
Munich
Ready Player One
Casper
Transformers One
Back to the Future Part III
Memoirs of a Geisha
Jurassic World Rebirth
The Haunting
Harry and the Hendersons
The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper
True Grit
Back to the Future
Hook
Falling Skies
Transformers
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Men in Black II
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company
Flags of Our Fathers
The Color Purple
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Bumblebee
The Color Purple
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous: Hidden Adventure
Why We Hate
Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero
The BFG
Poltergeist
Letters from Iwo Jima
Men in Black
Transformers: The Last Knight
Jurassic World Dominion
Jaws
The Adventures of Tintin
Deep Impact
Amazing Stories
Saving Private Ryan
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