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