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