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