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