Steven Spielberg

Known for DirectingBorn 1946-12-18 (age 79)Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Steven Allan Spielberg KBE (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 and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema and is the highest-grossing film director of all time. Among other accolades, he has received three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and three BAFTA Awards, as well as the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1995, an honorary knighthood in 2001, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2006, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2009, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015, and the National Medal of Arts in 2023. According to Forbes, he is the wealthiest celebrity. 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 television film Duel (1971), which Barry Diller approved. He made his theatrical debut with The Sugarland Express (1974), also beginning his decades-long collaboration with composer John Williams, with whom he has worked for all but five of his theatrical releases. He became a household name with the summer blockbuster Jaws (1975). He continued directing acclaimed escapist box-office hits with Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and the original Indiana Jones trilogy (1981–1989). He also explored drama in The Color Purple (1985) and Empire of the Sun (1987). In 1993, Spielberg directed back-to-back hits with the science fiction thriller Jurassic Park, the highest-grossing film at the time, and the epic historical drama Schindler's List, which has often been ranked among the greatest films ever made. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for the latter as well as for 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 Pictures, and he has served as a producer for many successful films and television series, among them Poltergeist (1982), Gremlins (1984), Back to the Future (1985), An American Tail (1986), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Animaniacs (1993), Freakazoid! (1995), Twister (1996), Band of Brothers (2001) and Transformers (2007). Several of Spielberg's works are considered among the greatest films in history, and some are among the highest-grossing films of all time. Seven of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". In 2013, Time listed him among the 100 most influential people. In 2023, Spielberg was the recipient of the first-ever Time 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.Read more

Movies & web series

The 'E.T.' Journals

Close Up

Spécial cinéma

The Making of 'The Color Purple'

People's Choice Awards

Martin Scorsese Directs

The Concert for Valor

Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai

Band of Brothers

Animaniacs

Fog City Mavericks

50 Films to See Before You Die

Jurassic World: Chaos Theory

Schindler's List

Into the Breach: Saving Private Ryan

The Making of Poltergeist

Marty, Life Is Short

Halo

Mr. Scorsese

Tiny Toons Looniversity

Forever Hollywood

A Century of Cinema

Music by John Williams

Steven Spielberg, the “New Hollywood” Prodigy

Life on Our Planet

Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous

Saving Private Ryan

Transformers One

The Dinosaurs

TVTV: Video Revolutionaries

Back to the Future

Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book

Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand

AFI's Master Class - The Art of Collaboration: Steven Spielberg and John Williams

Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero

A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics

Five Came Back

Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age

John Candy: I Like Me

Into the West

The Force Is with Them: The Legacy of 'Star Wars'

Masters of the Air

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: The 20th Anniversary Celebration

LIGHT & MAGIC

Catch Me If You Can

Hamnet

In the Teeth of Jaws

Blacks and Jews