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