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