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