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