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