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