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