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