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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
Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV
Primetime Glick
Challenger: The Final Flight
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
Mr. Scorsese
The Tracey Ullman Show
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
The Making of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
In the Teeth of Jaws
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
LIGHT & MAGIC
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
Star Wars: Music by John Williams
The Beginning: Making Episode I
The Music of 'Indiana Jones'
Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins
Five Came Back
Music by John Williams
Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'
The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Bloody Hundredth
Return to Jurassic Park
The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'
The Sound of 'Indiana Jones'
Production Credits
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Schindler's List
Jurassic Park
Family Dog
The Name of the Game
The Legend of Zorro
Animaniacs
The Terminal
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company
The French Dispatch
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Cape Fear
Poltergeist
Men in Black: International
Letters from Iwo Jima
Transformers One
Music by John Williams
Untitled Transformers/G.I. Joe Crossover Movie
Deep Impact
The Land Before Time
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
Smash
The Bloody Hundredth
The BFG
The Challenger
Jurassic World Dominion
Jurassic Park III
Lincoln
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
The Mask of Zorro
Extant
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
War Horse
Flags of Our Fathers
The Goonies
Why We Hate
The Last Days
Hook
The Color Purple
Men in Black 3
Gremlins
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Harry and the Hendersons
Three O'Clock High
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Night Gallery
Life on Our Planet
The Lovely Bones
Oslo
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous: Hidden Adventure
Eagle Eye
An American Tail
Ready Player One
Masters of the Air
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Band of Brothers
True Grit
The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper
Tummy Trouble
Lego Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Brick
Twisters
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Munich
Saving Private Ryan
Halo
Joe Versus the Volcano
Amazing Stories
Back to the Future Part II
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Return to Jurassic Park
Five Came Back
Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai
Bumblebee
Jurassic World
Amazing Stories
The Post
Back to the Future Part III
Men in Black
Catch Me If You Can
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous
Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero
Minority Report
seaQuest DSV
Falling Skies
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
The Color Purple
Cowboys & Aliens
Casper
West Side Story
The Haunting
The Fixer
Young Sherlock Holmes
The Psychiatrist
The Fabelmans
Arachnophobia
Fudge
1941
Memoirs of a Geisha
Under the Dome
Columbo
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
War of the Worlds
All the Way
Super 8
Jurassic World: Chaos Theory
Roller Coaster Rabbit
The Flintstones
Real Steel
Transformers: The Last Knight
Maestro
Balto
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Tiny Toons Looniversity
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Monster House
Transformers
The Turning
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Men in Black II
The Pacific
United States of Tara
Shrek
Jurassic World Rebirth
Poltergeist
Jaws
Trail Mix-Up
Back to the Future
The Adventures of Tintin
Bridge of Spies
Twister
First Man
The Money Pit
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