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