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