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Jul 9, 2024 · Steven Spielberg, American movie director and producer whose films—which ranged from science-fiction fare, including Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and E.T. (1982), to historical dramas, notably Schindler’s List (1993) and Lincoln (2012)—enjoyed both unprecedented popularity and critical success.
Steven Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on December 18, 1947. He was the oldest and the only son of four children. His father, Arnold, was an electrical engineer who worked in what was then the newly emerging field of computers.
Steven Allan Spielberg (/ ˈ s p iː l b ɜːr ɡ /; born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, he is the most commercially successful director in film history.
Steven Spielberg. Producer: Schindler's List. One of the most influential personalities in the history of cinema, Steven Spielberg is Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world.
As an adult, in the ’80s, you’ll remember: “Everybody grabbed this guy and threw him up on their shoulders and carried him into the locker room.” But you just stay there, bawling by yourself, not...
Nov 16, 2022 · The Fabelmans, a story about adult lives, is in some ways a companion piece to E.T., which also has a broken family at its center. The children who connected with E.T. at the time of its...
Nov 23, 2022 · As an adult, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker has spent his career recapturing the unique flavor of his family’s unhappiness—and then inserting it into blockbusters about robots, aliens and...
Nov 1, 2005 · Before Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List, before the trio of Oscars, director Steven Spielberg's most impressive work was not an entire film—not Jaws or even E.T.—but the opening 40 ...
Jan 8, 2017 · January 8, 2017. With many Spielberg movies, the audience is the child harbored in the adult—the viewer open to fear, excitement, and exaltation. Illustration by Paul Rogers. A boy, asleep in...
Sep 14, 2022 · Steven Spielberg’s life has always hovered just outside of his films. In E.T. he filtered his feelings about his parents’ divorce through the eyes of a child who meets an alien.
