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