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