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