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Happy Birthday, Steven Spielberg!
Steven Spielberg - Director, screenwriter, and producer who is consistently considered as one of the leading pioneers of the New Hollywood era, as well as being viewed as one of the most popular and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. In a career spanning more than four decades, his films have covered many themes and genres. His early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as archetypes of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years, his films began addressing humanistic issues such as the Holocaust, the transatlantic slave trade, war, and terrorism. He is one of the co-founders of DreamWorks Studios.
His films Jaws, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and Jurassic Park each achieved box office records, with each film becoming the highest-grossing film made at the time. To date, the unadjusted gross of all Spielberg-directed films exceeds $8.5 billion worldwide. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan. His other notable films include Duel, The Sugarland Express, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark and its sequels, The Goonies, Gremlins, An American Tail, Back to the Future, The Color Purple, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Always, The Adventures of Tintin, War Horse, and Lincoln. He also produced the animated series "Tiny Toon Adventures", "Animaniacs", "Pinky and the Brain", "Freakazoid!", and "Toonsylvania".
In 1997, he was chosen by Entertainment Weekly as the most powerful person in entertainment. In 1999, he was named Best Director of the 20th Century in an Entertainment Weekly on-line poll, substantially beating out runners-up Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick. In 2005, he was ranked #1 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Greatest directors ever!". He is the most represented filmmaker on the American Film Institute's 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time, with five films on the list and three in the top ten. He has eight films listed in the 5th edition of "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die". He directed six of the American Film Institute's 100 Most Heart-Pounding Movies. He is one of only 7 directors to win the Golden Globe, Director's Guild, BAFTA, and Oscar for the same movie, winning for Schindler's List. He has won three Academy Awards, and has been nominated for seven Academy Awards for the category of Best Director, winning two of them. Nine of the films he directed were up for the Best Picture Oscar. In 1987, he was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for his work as a creative producer. In 1995, he received the AFI Life Achievement Award. In 2005, he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, the first year it considered non-literary contributors. On January 10, 2003, he received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Blvd.
Steven Spielberg - Director, screenwriter, and producer who is consistently considered as one of the leading pioneers of the New Hollywood era, as well as being viewed as one of the most popular and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. In a career spanning more than four decades, his films have covered many themes and genres. His early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as archetypes of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years, his films began addressing humanistic issues such as the Holocaust, the transatlantic slave trade, war, and terrorism. He is one of the co-founders of DreamWorks Studios.
His films Jaws, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and Jurassic Park each achieved box office records, with each film becoming the highest-grossing film made at the time. To date, the unadjusted gross of all Spielberg-directed films exceeds $8.5 billion worldwide. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan. His other notable films include Duel, The Sugarland Express, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark and its sequels, The Goonies, Gremlins, An American Tail, Back to the Future, The Color Purple, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Always, The Adventures of Tintin, War Horse, and Lincoln. He also produced the animated series "Tiny Toon Adventures", "Animaniacs", "Pinky and the Brain", "Freakazoid!", and "Toonsylvania".
In 1997, he was chosen by Entertainment Weekly as the most powerful person in entertainment. In 1999, he was named Best Director of the 20th Century in an Entertainment Weekly on-line poll, substantially beating out runners-up Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick. In 2005, he was ranked #1 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Greatest directors ever!". He is the most represented filmmaker on the American Film Institute's 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time, with five films on the list and three in the top ten. He has eight films listed in the 5th edition of "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die". He directed six of the American Film Institute's 100 Most Heart-Pounding Movies. He is one of only 7 directors to win the Golden Globe, Director's Guild, BAFTA, and Oscar for the same movie, winning for Schindler's List. He has won three Academy Awards, and has been nominated for seven Academy Awards for the category of Best Director, winning two of them. Nine of the films he directed were up for the Best Picture Oscar. In 1987, he was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for his work as a creative producer. In 1995, he received the AFI Life Achievement Award. In 2005, he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, the first year it considered non-literary contributors. On January 10, 2003, he received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Blvd.
