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