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