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