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