Steven Spielberg
Biography
Steven Allan Spielberg (/ˈspiːlbɜːrɡ/ SPEEL-burg; 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 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.
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Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1946-12-18
Place of birth
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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Cast
The Blues Brothers
1980
7.72
Remembering Stanley Kubrick
1999
0.00
TVTV: Video Revolutionaries
2018
0.00
The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson
1990
6.80
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
1976
6.00
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006
8.50
Vanilla Sky
2001
6.81
Gremlins
1984
7.13
Close Up
2012
9.00
Paul
2011
6.73
Spielberg on Spielberg
2007
7.50
Kurosawa
2000
6.70
The Sci-Fi Boys
2006
7.00
The Stories of West Side Story
2022
7.80
UFO's Are Here!
1977
0.00
Inventing David Geffen
2012
7.57
The Making of '1941'
1996
6.60
Voices from the List
2004
6.75
The Magical World of Chuck Jones
1992
8.00
Looking Back to the Future
2009
8.40
Milius
2013
7.10
In the Teeth of Jaws
1997
8.00
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021
4.50
The Moviemakers: Spielberg
2023
5.40
The Making of Poltergeist
1982
8.00
George Lucas: Creating an Empire
2005
0.00
Albert Brooks: Defending My Life
2023
7.30
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
7.20
The Fabelmans: A Family in Film
2023
7.20
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster
2013
7.00
Your Studio and You
1995
6.80
The Making of 'Jaws'
1995
6.70
Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
2012
6.50
The Concert for Valor
2014
8.60
Jaws: The Restoration
2012
6.00
Fallen Kingdom: Malcolm's Return
2018
6.00
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
2013
6.00
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
6.99
Oprah & The Color Purple Journey
2023
4.50
The Bloody Hundredth
2024
7.30
Back to Room 666
2008
5.50
Jaws
1975
7.70
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
2007
6.90
Back in Time
2015
6.54
Stanley Kubrick in Focus
2012
6.00
Mike Nichols: An American Master
2016
6.30
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
2004
6.00
The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
1995
7.20
The Beginning: Making Episode I
2001
7.30
Room 666
1982
6.45
Mifune: The Last Samurai
2016
7.10
Music by John Williams
2024
8.00
Directed by John Ford
1971
6.80
Robert Capa: In Love and War
2003
7.00
Five Came Back
2017
7.89
Kubrick Remembered
2014
6.50
Spielberg
2017
7.60
Score: A Film Music Documentary
2017
7.10
Everything Is Copy
2015
7.40
Martin Scorsese Directs
1990
9.00
David Lean: A Life in Film
1985
6.00
Warner at War
2008
7.00
The Making of Back to the Future
1986
7.57
Something Evil
1972
5.37
The Making of 'The Goonies'
1985
6.70
The Untameable Kirk Douglas
2017
6.20
The Sound of 'Indiana Jones'
2003
6.00
The Music of 'Indiana Jones'
2003
6.20
Peter Falk Versus Columbo
2019
7.40
Forever Hollywood
1999
8.00
Trumbull Land
2018
7.50
Spielberg on Kubrick
1999
6.50
The 'E.T.' Journals
2012
10.00
Three Kinds of Close Encounters
2017
6.00
Return to Jurassic Park
2011
6.60
Lost in the Garden of the World
1975
0.00
New England Our Way
1974
0.00
Tales from the Future
2010
7.50
The Joe Spinell Story
2001
5.70
Double Dare
2004
6.70
The Making of 'The Lost World'
1997
6.80
American Beauty: Look Closer...
2000
7.54
Blacks and Jews
1997
6.00
Lincoln: An American Journey
2013
5.50
Jaws: The Inside Story
2010
7.30
A Century of Cinema
1994
8.00
The Universal Story
1996
7.70
Searching for Orson
2006
5.50
Men in Black
1997
7.21
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997
6.55
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001
6.50
Austin Powers in Goldmember
2002
5.99
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
2021
7.11
Fog City Mavericks
2007
8.50
Altman
2014
6.46
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
2001
0.00
The Middle Passage
1997
0.00
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
2025
8.20
The Making of 'The Color Purple'
2003
0.00
Creating A.I.
6.00