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