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