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