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