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