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Steven Allan Spielberg (/ˈspiːlbɜːrɡ/ SPEEL-burg; born December 18, 1946) 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; born December 18, 1946) 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 Oscars
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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
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
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 Beginning: Making Episode I
Star Wars: Music by John Williams
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
The Music of 'Indiana Jones'
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
The Bloody Hundredth
Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins
Five Came Back
Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'
Music by John Williams
Return to Jurassic Park
The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'
The Sound of 'Indiana Jones'
Production Credits
The Color Purple
Poltergeist
Tiny Toons Looniversity
Poltergeist
Maestro
Twisters
The Goonies
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous: Hidden Adventure
The Challenger
True Grit
Cowboys & Aliens
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
The Mask of Zorro
The Land Before Time
Schindler's List
Amazing Stories
Smash
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Halo
The Adventures of Tintin
Men in Black: International
Men in Black II
Band of Brothers
Joe Versus the Volcano
Night Gallery
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous
Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero
Saving Private Ryan
Arachnophobia
Eagle Eye
Music by John Williams
Lincoln
1941
The Pacific
The Bloody Hundredth
Catch Me If You Can
Jurassic World
Hook
The Flintstones
The Fabelmans
The Legend of Zorro
Why We Hate
Jaws
The Name of the Game
Lego Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Brick
Flags of Our Fathers
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Men in Black 3
The BFG
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
The Haunting
Life on Our Planet
Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai
Casper
Bridge of Spies
Bumblebee
The French Dispatch
The Fixer
The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
The Post
Masters of the Air
War of the Worlds
Jurassic Park III
Letters from Iwo Jima
Amazing Stories
Roller Coaster Rabbit
Transformers One
Deep Impact
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
Columbo
Three O'Clock High
Under the Dome
Extant
Jurassic World Rebirth
Memoirs of a Geisha
Real Steel
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Back to the Future Part II
Fudge
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Transformers
Transformers: The Last Knight
Super 8
An American Tail
Oslo
West Side Story
War Horse
Back to the Future Part III
All the Way
Jurassic World: Chaos Theory
United States of Tara
Monster House
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
Family Dog
Jurassic Park
Ready Player One
seaQuest DSV
Twister
The Color Purple
The Psychiatrist
The Money Pit
Shrek
Munich
Five Came Back
The Last Days
Cape Fear
The Turning
Balto
Animaniacs
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The Lovely Bones
Jurassic World Dominion
Roger Rabbit: Dolor de Barriga
Trail Mix-Up
First Man
Return to Jurassic Park
Back to the Future
Falling Skies
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Minority Report
Untitled Transformers/G.I. Joe Crossover Movie
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Young Sherlock Holmes
Men in Black
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Gremlins
Transformers: Age of Extinction
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