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