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Steven Spielberg is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Co-Director, Editor and Second Unit American born on 18 december 1946 at Cincinnati (USA)

Steven Spielberg

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Birth name Steven Allan Spielberg
Nationality USA
Birth 18 december 1946 (77 years) at Cincinnati (USA)
Creator of DreamWorks SKG
Creator of Amblin Entertainment
Creator of Amblimation
Creator of DreamWorks Animation
Creator of Amblin Partners
Awards Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Daytime Emmy Award, Academy Award for Best Director

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American director, producer and screenwriter. Spielberg is considered as one of the founding pioneers of the New Hollywood era, as well as being viewed as one of the most popular and influential directors and producers in film history. In a career spanning 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 humanistic issues such as the Holocaust (in Schindler's List), the transatlantic slave trade (in Amistad), war (in Empire of the Sun, Saving Private Ryan, and War Horse), and terrorism (in Munich). He is one of the co-founders of DreamWorks Studios.

His other films include Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the Indiana Jones film series, and A.I. Artificial Intelligence. 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, originated and came to epitomize the blockbuster movie.

The unadjusted gross of all Spielberg-directed films exceeds $9 billion worldwide, making him the highest-grossing director in history. His personal net worth is estimated to be more than $3 billion.

Biography

Marriages and children
Spielberg first met actress Amy Irving in 1976 at the suggestion of director Brian De Palma, who knew he was looking for an actress to play in Close Encounters. After meeting her, Spielberg told his co-producer Julia Phillips, "I met a real heartbreaker last night." Although she was too young for the role, she and Spielberg began dating and she eventually moved in to what she described as his "bachelor funky" house. They lived together for four years, but the stresses of their professional careers took a toll on their relationship. Irving wanted to be certain that whatever success she attained as an actress would be her own: "I don't want to be known as Steven's girlfriend," she said, and chose not to be in any of his films during those years.

As a result, they broke up in 1979, but remained close friends. Then in 1984 they renewed their romance, and in November 1985, they married, already having had a son, Max Samuel. After three and a half years of marriage, however, many of the same competing stresses of their careers caused them to divorce in 1989. They agreed to maintain homes near each other as to facilitate the shared custody and parenting of their son. Their divorce was recorded as the third most costly celebrity divorce in history.

Spielberg subsequently developed a relationship with actress Kate Capshaw, whom he met when he cast her in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. They married on October 12, 1991. Capshaw is a convert to Judaism. They currently move among their four homes in Pacific Palisades, California; New York City; Quelle Farm, Georgica Pond in East Hampton, New York, on Long Island; and Naples, Florida.

There are seven children in the Spielberg-Capshaw family:


Jessica Capshaw (born August 9, 1976) – daughter from Kate Capshaw's previous marriage to Robert Capshaw
Max Samuel Spielberg (born June 13, 1985) – son from Spielberg's previous marriage to actress Amy Irving
Theo Spielberg (born August 21, 1988) – son adopted by Capshaw before her marriage to Spielberg, who later also adopted him
Sasha Rebecca Spielberg (born May 14, 1990, Los Angeles)
Sawyer Avery Spielberg (born March 10, 1992, Los Angeles)
Mikaela George (born February 28, 1996) – adopted with Kate Capshaw
Destry Allyn Spielberg (born December 1, 1996)
Religion
Spielberg grew up in a Jewish household, including having a bar mitzvah ceremony in Phoenix when he turned 13. He grew away from Judaism after his family moved to various cities during his high school years, where they became the only Jews in the neighborhood. Before those years, his family was involved in the synagogue and had many Jewish friends and nearby relatives.

He remembers his grandparents telling him about their life in Russia, where they were subjected to religious persecution, causing them to eventually flee to the United States. He was made aware of the Holocaust by his parents, who he says “talked about it all the time, and so it was always on my mind.” His father had lost between sixteen and twenty relatives during the Holocaust.

Spielberg "rediscovered the honor of being a Jew," he says, before he made Schindler's List, when he married Kate Capshaw. Until then, having become a filmmaker, he only felt his connection to Judaism when he visited his parents. He says he made the film to partly to create “something that would confirm my Judaism to my family and myself.”


Kate is Protestant and she insisted on converting to Judaism. She spent a year studying, did the “mikveh,” the whole thing. She chose to do a full conversion before we were married in 1991, and she married me after becoming a Jew. I think that, more than anything else, brought me back to Judaism.

He credits her with fueling his family's current level of observance and for keeping the “momentum flowing" in their lives, as they now observe Jewish holidays, light candles on Friday nights, and give their children Bar and Bat Mitzvahs. "This shiksa goddess has made me a better Jew than my own parents."

Producing Schindler's List in 1993 also renewed his faith, Spielberg says, but "it really was the fact that my wife took a profound interest in Judaism." He waited ten years after being given the story in 1982 to make the film, as he did not yet feel "mature" enough. He first wanted to have a family, "to figure out what my place was in the world. . . . When my first son, [Max] was born, it greatly affected me. . . . A spirit began to ignite in me, and I became a Jewish dad. . ."

He said that making the film became a “natural experience” for him, adding, "I had to tell the story. I've lived on its outer edges." The film, writes biographer Joseph McBride, thereby became the "culmination" of Spielberg's long personal struggle with his Jewish identity. Some claim the film has made Spielberg "the one true heir to the great Jewish moguls who created Hollywood," most of whom had actively avoided depicting Jews or the Holocaust in their films.


Wealth
Forbes magazine places Spielberg's personal net worth at $3 billion.


Recognition
In 2002, Spielberg was one of eight flagbearers who carried the Olympic Flag into Rice-Eccles Stadium at the Opening Ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. In 2006, Premiere listed him as the most powerful and influential figure in the motion picture industry. Time listed him as one of the 100 Most Important People of the Century. At the end of the 20th century, Life named him the most influential person of his generation. In 2009, Boston University presented him an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.

According to Forbes‍ '​ Most Influential Celebrities 2014 list, Spielberg was listed as the most influential celebrity in America. The annual list is conducted by E-Poll Market Research and it gave more than 6,600 celebrities on 46 different personality attributes a score representing "how that person is perceived as influencing the public, their peers, or both." Spielberg received a score of 47, meaning 47% of the US believes he is influential. Gerry Philpott, president of E-Poll Market Research, supported Spielberg's score by stating, "If anyone doubts that Steven Spielberg has greatly influenced the public, think about how many will think for a second before going into the water this summer."


Politics
Spielberg usually supports U.S. Democratic Party candidates. He has donated over $800,000 to the Democratic party and its nominees. He has been a close friend of former President Bill Clinton and worked with the President for the USA Millennium celebrations. He directed an 18-minute film for the project, scored by John Williams and entitled The American Journey. It was shown at America's Millennium Gala on December 31, 1999, in the National Mall at the Reflecting Pool at the base of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Spielberg resigned as a member of the national advisory board of the Boy Scouts of America in 2001 because of his disapproval of the organization's anti-homosexuality stance.
In 2007 the Arab League voted to boycott Spielberg's movies after he donated $1 million for relief efforts in Israel during the 2006 Lebanon War.
On February 20, 2007, Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen invited Democrats to a fundraiser for Barack Obama.
In February 2008, Spielberg pulled out of his role as advisor to the 2008 Summer Olympics in response to the Chinese government's inaction over the War in Darfur. Spielberg said in a statement that "I find that my conscience will not allow me to continue business as usual." It also said that "Sudan's government bears the bulk of the responsibility for these on-going crimes, but the international community, and particularly China, should be doing more.." The International Olympic Committee respected Spielberg's decision, but IOC president Jacques Rogge admitted in an interview that "[Spielberg] certainly would have brought a lot to the opening ceremony in terms of creativity." Spielberg's statement drew criticism from Chinese officials and state-run media calling his criticism "unfair".
In September 2008, Spielberg and his wife offered their support to same-sex marriage, by issuing a statement following their donation of $100,000 to the "No on Proposition 8" campaign fund, a figure equal to the amount of money Brad Pitt donated to the same campaign less than a week prior.
Hobbies

In June 1982 Steven Spielberg spent $60,500 to buy a Rosebud sled from the 1941 film Citizen Kane – one of three balsa sleds used in the closing scenes and the only one that was not burned. Spielberg had paid homage to the Orson Welles classic in the final shot of the government warehouse in his 1981 film, Raiders of the Lost Ark. "When you look at Rosebud, you don't think of fast dollars, fast sequels and remakes," Spielberg said. "This to me says that movies of my generation had better be good." In 1994 Spielberg also purchased an original script for Welles's 1938 radio broadcast The War of the Worlds – Welles's own directorial copy and one of only two radioscripts known to survive. Spielberg adapted The War of the Worlds for a feature film in 2005.

Spielberg is a major collector of the American illustrator and painter Norman Rockwell. A collection of 57 Rockwell paintings and drawings owned by Spielberg and fellow Rockwell collector and film director George Lucas were displayed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum from July 2, 2010 to January 2, 2011 in an exhibition titled Telling Stories.

Spielberg is an avid film buff, and, when not shooting a picture, he will indulge in "movie orgies" (watching many over a single weekend). He sees almost every major summer blockbuster in theaters if not preoccupied and enjoys most of them; "If I get pleasure from anything, I can't think of it as dumb or myself as shallow [...] I'll probably go late to that movie and go, 'What the dickens was everybody complaining about, that wasn't so bad!'".

Since playing Pong while filming Jaws in 1974, Spielberg has been an avid video gamer. Spielberg played many of LucasArts adventure games, including the first Monkey Island games. He owns a Wii, a PlayStation 3, a PSP, and Xbox 360, and enjoys playing first-person shooters such as the Medal of Honor series and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. He has also criticized the use of cut scenes in games, calling them intrusive, and feels making story flow naturally into the gameplay is a challenge for future game developers.


Stalking
In 2001, Spielberg was stalked by conspiracy theorist and former social worker Diana Napolis. She accused him, along with actress Jennifer Love Hewitt, of controlling her thoughts through "cybertronic" technology and being part of a satanic conspiracy against her. Napolis was committed to a mental institution before pleading guilty to stalking, and released on probation with a condition that she have no contact with either Spielberg or Hewitt.

Spielberg was a target of the 2002 white supremacist terror plot.

Jonathan Norman was arrested after making two attempts to enter Spielberg's Pacific Palisades home in June and July 1997. Norman was jailed for 25 years in California. Spielberg told the court: "Had Jonathan Norman actually confronted me, I genuinely, in my heart of hearts, believe that I would have been raped or maimed or killed.

Best films

Jurassic World (2015)
(Executive Producer)
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
(Executive Producer)
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
(Executive Producer)
Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
(Executive Producer)
Jurassic Park (1993)
(Director)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
(Second Unit Director)

Usually with

Frank Marshall
Frank Marshall
(45 films)
John Williams
John Williams
(40 films)
George Lucas
George Lucas
(19 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Steven Spielberg (158 films)

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YearNameJobRoles
2023Indiana Jones and the Dial of DestinyDirector, Executive Producer
2021The French DispatchThanks
2021West Side StoryDirector, Producer
2020The Trial of the Chicago 7Producer
2019CatsExecutive Producer
2019Men in Black: InternationalExecutive Producer
2018The Adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the SunProducer
2018Ready Player OneDirector, Novel, Producer
2018The PostDirector, Producer
2018BumblebeeExecutive Producer
2018First ManExecutive Producer
2018Jurassic World: Fallen KingdomExecutive Producer
2017Transformers: The Last KnightWriter, Executive Producer
2017SpielbergActorSelf
2016The BFGDirector, Producer
2016All the WayExecutive Producer
2016De PalmaActorSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
2015Jurassic WorldExecutive Producer
2015PoltergeistOriginal Film Writer
2015American SniperProducer
2015Bridge of SpiesDirector, Producer
2015Hitchcock/TruffautActorHimself
2015Back in TimeActorSelf
2015Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson WellesActorSelf - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2014Transformers: Age of ExtinctionExecutive Producer
2014InterstellarProducer
2014The Hundred-Foot JourneyProducer
2013Drew: The Man Behind the PosterActorHimself
2012LincolnDirector, Producer
2012Men in Black 3Executive Producer
2011PaulActorSelf
2011The Adventures of TintinDirector, Producer
2011War HorseDirector, Producer
2011Cowboys & AliensExecutive Producer
2011Real SteelExecutive Producer
2011Super 8Producer
2011Transformers: Dark of the MoonExecutive Producer
2010HereafterExecutive Producer
2010True GritExecutive Producer
2010The Pacific (TV miniseries)Executive Producer
2009Transformers: Revenge of the FallenActor, Executive Producer
2009The Lovely BonesExecutive Producer
2009Waking Sleeping BeautyActorSelf (archive footage)
2008Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal SkullDirector
2008Eagle EyeExecutive Producer
2008Lego Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost BrickThanks
2007TransformersExecutive Producer
2007The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of 'Jaws'ActorSelf
2007Fog City MavericksActorHimself
2006Letters from Iwo JimaProducer
2006Flags of Our FathersProducer
2006Monster HouseExecutive Producer
2006The QueenActorSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
2006The Sci-Fi BoysActorSelf
2005War of the WorldsDirector
2005The Legend of ZorroExecutive Producer
2005Memoirs of a GeishaProducer
2005MunichDirector, Producer
2005Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the SithSecond Unit Director
2004The TerminalDirector, Producer
2004The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie EditingActorSelf
2004Double DareActorSelf
2004Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the HolocaustActorSelf
2004Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars TrilogyActorSelf
2002Catch Me If You CanDirector, Producer
2002Austin Powers in GoldmemberActorSteven Spielberg / Famous Director ('Austinpussy')
2002Men in Black IIExecutive Producer
2002Minority ReportDirector
2001A.I. Artificial IntelligenceDirector, Scriptwriter, Producer
2001EvolutionExecutive producer
2001Jurassic Park IIIExecutive Producer
2001Vanilla SkyActorGuest at David Aames' Party (uncredited)
2001Stanley Kubrick: A Life in PicturesActorSelf
2001R2-D2: Beneath the DomeActorSelf
2000What Lies BeneathIdea
2000Lost SoulsThanks
1999Animaniacs: Wakko's WishExecutive Producer
1999The HauntingExecutive Producer, Second Unit Director, Second Unit Cinematographer
1998Deep ImpactExecutive Producer
1998Saving Private RyanDirector, Producer
1998The Mask of ZorroExecutive Producer
1998The Prince of EgyptProducer
1998FirelightDirector
1998Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZeroProducer
1998The Last DaysExecutive Producer
1997AmistadDirector, Producer
1997Men in BlackActor, Executive ProducerAlien on TV Monitor (uncredited)
1997The Lost World: Jurassic ParkActor, DirectorPopcorn-Eating Man (uncredited)
1997Blacks and JewsActorSelf
1996TwisterExecutive Producer
1995BaltoProducer
1995CasperActor, Executive Producer
1995Your Studio and YouActorBacklot Tour Guide
1994The FlintstonesExecutive Producer
1994A Century of CinemaActorSelf
1993Jurassic ParkDirector, Producer
1993Schindler's ListActor, Director, ProducerLiberated Jew (uncredited)
1993We're Back! A Dinosaur's StoryExecutive Producer
1993Class of '61Executive Producer
1993Trail Mix-UpExecutive Producer
1992Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My VacationExecutive Producer
1992Abdulladzhan, or Dedicated to Steven SpielbergIn Memory Of
1992Noises Off...Producer
1991A Brief History of TimeExecutive Producer
1991An American Tail: Fievel Goes WestProducer
1991HookDirector
1991Cape FearExecutive Producer
1991Curly SueExecutive Producer
1991Back to the Future... The RideProducer
1990ArachnophobiaExecutive Producer
1990Gremlins 2: The New BatchExecutive Producer
1990Back to the Future Part IIIExecutive Producer
1990DreamsExecutive Producer
1990Jetsons: The MovieProducer
1990Joe Versus the VolcanoProducer
1990Roller Coaster RabbitExecutive Producer
1989AlwaysDirector, Producer
1989Indiana Jones and the Last CrusadeDirector
1989DadExecutive Producer
1989Back to the Future Part IIExecutive Producer
1989Tummy TroubleExecutive Producer
1988Who Framed Roger RabbitExecutive Producer
1988The Land Before TimeExecutive Producer
1987Three O'Clock HighExecutive Producer
1987Empire of the SunDirector, Producer
1987*batteries not includedExecutive Producer
1987Harry and the HendersonsExecutive Producer
1987InnerspaceExecutive Producer
1986The Color PurpleDirector, Producer
1986An American TailExecutive Producer
1986The Money PitExecutive Producer
1985The GooniesStory, Executive Producer, Second Unit Director, Editor, Presenter
1985Back to the FutureExecutive Producer, Presenter
1985Young Sherlock HolmesExecutive Producer
1985FandangoExecutive Producer
1984Indiana Jones and the Temple of DoomActor, DirectorTourist at Airport (uncredited)
1984GremlinsActor, Executive Producer, PresenterMan in Electric Wheelchair (uncredited)
1983Twilight Zone: The MovieDirector, Producer
1982E.T. the Extra-TerrestrialDirector, Producer
1982PoltergeistDirector, Story, Producer, Co-Director
1982Room 666ActorSelf
1981Raiders of the Lost ArkDirector
1981Continental DivideExecutive Producer
1980The Blues BrothersActorCook County Assessor's Office Clerk
1980Used CarsExecutive Producer
19791941Director
1978I Wanna Hold Your HandExecutive Producer
1977Close Encounters of the Third KindDirector, Writer
1975JawsActor, DirectorAmity Point Lifestation Worker (voice) (uncredited)
1974The Sugarland ExpressDirector, Story
1973Ace Eli and Rodger of the SkiesStory
1973SavageDirector
1972Something EvilActor, DirectorParty Guest
1971DuelDirector
1971Directed by John FordActorSelf (2009)
1968Amblin'Actor, Director, Writer, EditorAnnoying guy in van
1966SlipstreamDirector, Scriptwriter
1964FirelightDirector, Writer, Editor