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