Profile
Steven Spielberg
Academy Award%e2%80%93winning American Film Director and Producer
Male
Born
Dec 18, 1946
Age
66
Hometown
Cincinnati
Religion
Judaism
Nationality
Americans
Alma Mater
California State ...
Other Names
Steven Allan Spie...
Steven Allan Spielberg 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… Read More
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Summer VeronaFling 2007
Family
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Steven Spielberg
Age 66
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Arnold SpielbergFather
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Leah AdlerMother
siblings
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Sue SpielbergSister
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Nancy SpielbergSister
children
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Max SpielbergSon, Age 27
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Sawyer Avery SpielbergSon, Age 21
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Mikaela George SpielbergDaughter, Age 17
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Destry Allyn SpielbergSon, Age 16
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Read Leonard Nimoy's Angry Letter About Spock's DeathHuffington Post - about 23 hours ago
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Microsoft Unveils Xbox One With Spielberg, Activision Tie UpYahoo News - 3 days ago
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Greuel Cites High Profile Role As An Executive At Dream Works SkgLATimes - 8 days ago
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Cannes Film Festival: Steven Spielberg Heads JuryChicago Times - 9 days ago
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1946
Birth
Born on December 18, 1946.
TEENAGE
1958
11 Years Old
In 1958, he became a Boy Scout, and fulfilled a requirement for the photography merit badge by making a nine-minute 8 mm film entitled The Last Gunfight.
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1963
16 Years Old
In 1963, at age sixteen, Spielberg wrote and directed his first independent film, a 140-minute science fiction adventure called Firelight (which would later inspire Close Encounters).
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1965
18 Years Old
After his parents divorced, he moved to Saratoga, California with his father. His three sisters and mother remained in Arizona. He attended Arcadia High School in Phoenix, Arizona for three years; Spielberg graduated from Saratoga High School in 1965.
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TWENTIES
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He dropped out of Long Beach State in 1969 to take up the television director contract at Universal Studios and began his career as a professional director.
THIRTIES
1977
30 Years Old
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For this, Spielberg fixed some of the flaws he thought impeded the original 1977 version of the film and also, at the behest of Columbia, and as a condition of Spielberg revising the film, shot additional footage showing the audience the interior of the mothership seen at the end of the film (a decision Spielberg would later regret as he felt the interior of the mothership should have remained a mystery).
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1981
34 Years Old
It became the biggest film at the box office in 1981, and the recipient of numerous Oscar nominations including Best Director (Spielberg's second nomination) and Best Picture (the second Spielberg film to be nominated for Best Picture).
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1982
35 Years Old
Between 1982 and 1985, Spielberg produced three high-grossing films: Poltergeist (for which he also co-wrote the screenplay), a big-screen adaptation of The Twilight Zone (for which he directed the segment "Kick The Can"), and The Goonies (Spielberg, executive producer, also wrote the story on which the screenplay was based).
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In 1985, Spielberg released The Color Purple, an adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, about a generation of empowered African-American women during depression-era America.
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FORTIES
In 1987, as China began opening to Western capital investment, Spielberg shot the first American film in Shanghai since the 1930s, an adaptation of J. G. Ballard's autobiographical novel Empire of the Sun, starring John Malkovich and a young Christian Bale.
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After two forays into more serious dramatic films, Spielberg then directed the third Indiana Jones film, 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
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In 1991, Spielberg directed Hook, about a middle-aged Peter Pan, played by Robin Williams, who returns to Neverland.
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FIFTIES
1997
50 Years Old
In 1997, he helmed the sequel to 1993's Jurassic Park with The Lost World: Jurassic Park, which generated over $618 million worldwide despite mixed reviews, and was the second biggest hit of 1997 behind James Cameron's Titanic (which topped the original Jurassic Park to become the new recordholder for box office receipts).
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1998
51 Years Old
In 1998, Spielberg re-visited Close Encounters yet again, this time for a more definitive 137-minute "Collector's Edition" that puts more emphasis on the original 1977 release, while adding some elements of the previous 1980 "Special Edition," but deleting the latter version's "Mothership Finale," which Spielberg regretted shooting in the first place, feeling it should have remained ambiguous in the minds of viewers.
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2001
54 Years Old
In 2001, Spielberg filmed fellow director and friend Stanley Kubrick's final project, A.I. Artificial Intelligence which Kubrick was unable to begin during his lifetime.
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Roger Ebert, who named it the best film of 2002, praised its breathtaking vision of the future as well as for the way Spielberg blended CGI with live-action.
Spielberg collaborated again with Tom Hanks along with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Stanley Tucci in 2004's The Terminal, a warm-hearted comedy about a man of Eastern European descent who is stranded in an airport.
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In 2005, Empire magazine ranked Spielberg number one on a list of the greatest film directors of all time.
2006
59 Years Old
On July 15, 2006, Spielberg was also awarded the Gold Hugo Lifetime Achievement Award at the Summer Gala of the Chicago International Film Festival, and also was awarded a Kennedy Center honour on December 3.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
In August 2007, Ai Weiwei, artistic designer for the Beijing Olympic Stadium, known as the "Bird's Nest", accused those choreographing the Olympic opening ceremony, including Spielberg, of failing to live up to their responsibility as artists.
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He was set to be honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the January 2008 Golden Globes; however, the new, watered-down format of the ceremony resulting from conflicts in the 2007–08 writers strike, the HFPA postponed his honor to the 2009 ceremony.
Spielberg received an honorary degree at Boston University's 136th Annual Commencement on May 17, 2009.
In 2011, he produced the J. J. Abrams science fiction thriller film Super 8 for Paramount Pictures.
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