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