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