Steven Allan Spielberg\u00a0KBE\u00a0(born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker. A major figure of the\u00a0New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern\u00a0blockbuster, Spielberg is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the\u00a0history of cinema\u00a0and is the\u00a0highest-grossing film director of all time.\u00a0Among other\u00a0accolades, he has received three\u00a0Academy Awards, four\u00a0Golden Globe Awards\u00a0and three\u00a0BAFTA Awards, as well as the\u00a0AFI Life Achievement Award\u00a0in 1995, an\u00a0honorary knighthood\u00a0in 2001, the\u00a0Kennedy Center Honors\u00a0in 2006, the\u00a0Cecil B. DeMille Award\u00a0in 2009, the\u00a0Presidential Medal of Freedom\u00a0in 2015, and the\u00a0National Medal of Arts\u00a0in 2023. According to\u00a0Forbes, he is the wealthiest\u00a0celebrity.<\/p>\n
Spielberg was born in\u00a0Cincinnati, Ohio, and grew up in\u00a0Phoenix, Arizona.\u00a0He moved to\u00a0California and studied film in college. After directing several episodes for television, including\u00a0Night Gallery\u00a0and\u00a0Columbo, he directed the television film\u00a0Duel (1971), which Barry Diller approved. He made his theatrical debut with\u00a0The Sugarland Express\u00a0(1974), also beginning his decades-long collaboration with composer\u00a0John Williams, with whom he has worked for all but five of his theatrical releases. He became a household name with the summer blockbuster\u00a0Jaws\u00a0(1975). He continued directing acclaimed\u00a0escapist box-office hits with\u00a0Close Encounters of the Third Kind\u00a0(1977),\u00a0E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and the original\u00a0Indiana Jones\u00a0trilogy (1981\u20131989). He also explored drama in\u00a0The Color Purple\u00a0(1985) and\u00a0Empire of the Sun\u00a0(1987).<\/p>\n
In 1993, Spielberg directed back-to-back hits with the science fiction thriller\u00a0Jurassic Park, the\u00a0highest-grossing film\u00a0at the time, and the\u00a0epic historical drama\u00a0Schindler’s List, which has often been ranked among the\u00a0greatest films ever made. He won the\u00a0Academy Award for Best Director\u00a0for the latter as well as for the World War II epic\u00a0Saving Private Ryan\u00a0(1998). Spielberg has since directed the science fiction films\u00a0A.I. Artificial Intelligence\u00a0(2001),\u00a0Minority Report\u00a0(2002),\u00a0War of the Worlds\u00a0(2005) and\u00a0Ready Player One\u00a0(2018); the historical dramas\u00a0Amistad\u00a0(1997),\u00a0Munich (2005),\u00a0War Horse\u00a0(2011),\u00a0Lincoln\u00a0(2012),\u00a0Bridge of Spies\u00a0(2015) and\u00a0The Post\u00a0(2017); the comedies\u00a0Catch Me If You Can\u00a0(2002) and\u00a0The Terminal\u00a0(2004); the animated film\u00a0The Adventures of Tintin\u00a0(2011); the musical\u00a0West Side Story\u00a0(2021); and the family drama\u00a0The Fabelmans\u00a0(2022).<\/p>\n
Spielberg co-founded\u00a0Amblin Entertainment\u00a0and\u00a0DreamWorks Pictures, and he has served as a producer for many successful films and television series, among them\u00a0Poltergeist\u00a0(1982),\u00a0Gremlins\u00a0(1984),\u00a0Back to the Future\u00a0(1985),\u00a0An American Tail\u00a0(1986),\u00a0Who Framed Roger Rabbit\u00a0(1988),\u00a0Animaniacs\u00a0(1993),\u00a0Freakazoid!\u00a0(1995),\u00a0Twister\u00a0(1996),\u00a0Band of Brothers\u00a0(2001) and\u00a0Transformers\u00a0(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.\u00a0Seven of\u00a0his films\u00a0have been inducted into the\u00a0National Film Registry\u00a0by the\u00a0Library of Congress\u00a0as being “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant”.\u00a0In 2013,\u00a0Time\u00a0listed him among the\u00a0100 most influential\u00a0people. In 2023, Spielberg was the recipient of the first-ever Time\u00a0100 Impact Award\u00a0in the US.<\/p>\n
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