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