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