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