Steven Spielberg
Gender: Male
Born: 18th December 1946 (currently 65 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Biography, Tiny Toon Adventures
Movies: Your Studio and You, Room 666, The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing, The Blues Brothers, Austin Powers: Goldmember, Directed by John Ford, Survivors of the Holocaust, Saving Private Ryan: Bonus Material, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Austin Powers: Goldmember, Vanilla Sky, Men in Black, Something Evil, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Jaws, Gremlins, Minority Report: Bonus Material, Forever Hollywood, Fog City Mavericks, Close Encounters: Proof of Alien Contact, Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures, Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust, Directors: Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as archetypes of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years, his films began addressing such issues as the Holocaust, slavery, war and terrorism. He is considered one of the most popular and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. He is also one of the co-founders of DreamWorks movie studio.
Spielberg won the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindler's List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998). Three of Spielberg's films—Jaws (1975), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and Jurassic Park (1993)—achieved box office records, each becoming the highest-grossing film made at the time. To date, the unadjusted gross of all Spielberg-directed films exceeds $8.5 billion worldwide. Forbes puts Spielberg's wealth at $3.0 billion.
Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to a Jewish family. His mother, Leah Adler (née Posner), was a restaurateur and concert pianist, and
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