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