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