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