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