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