Steven Allin Spielberg was born on December 18, 1946, in Cincinnati, Ohio. The son of a pianist and a computer engineer, Steven Spielberg discovered his passion for filmmaking in his early teens and he subsequently began shooting short films with the various roles filled by his family and friends. Steven Spielberg’s relentless drive to make movies led him to conceive and shoot a 40-minute war epic at the tender age of 13, and he followed that up at 16 with a two-hour-and-twenty-minute sci-fi effort that actually played at a local movie theater.
After his parents divorced during his teen years, Steven Spielberg moved to California with his father and, following his disastrous high school stint, began applying for a spot within the University of Southern California’s School of Theater, Film and Television. His fruitless efforts finally forced him to look elsewhere for an entry into the world of filmmaking, and he eventually landed a gig at Universal Studios as an unpaid intern.
Steven Spielberg his professional debut
It was during his time Universal Studios that Steven Spielberg managed to cobble together enough cash to make his professional debut with a 24-minute short entitled Amblin’, which impressed the higher-ups at Universal to such an extent that they signed him to a long-term deal (he was the youngest director to ever be signed to such a contract at a major studio). After spending several years working behind the scenes on a variety of shows and made-for-television movies, Steven Spielberg emerged with his first full-length theatrical endeavor, the 1974 well-received box-office failure The Sugarland Express.
Steven Spielberg directs jaws
Though The Sugarland Express was far from successful, Steven Spielberg nevertheless received the green light to film an adaptation of Peter Benchley’s novel Jaws which, following its release in the summer of 1975, went on to become an Oscar-nominated blockbuster that essentially set the template for expensive (and expansive) summertime blockbuster fare. Having turned down a number of can’t-miss directorial opportunities such as Superman and Jaws II, Steven Spielberg instead turned his attention to 1977’s introspective alien drama Close Encounters of the Third Kind and subsequently proved that he was far from a one-hit wonder.
Steven Spielberg directs raiders of the lost ark
Following a rare misstep — 1979’s big-budget bomb 1941 — Steven Spielberg definitively established himself as the most beloved filmmaker of his generation thanks to the one-two punch of 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark and 1982’s E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. Steven Spielberg spent the remainder of the 1980s cranking out a mix of crowd-pleasing blockbusters and low-key dramas, although, by the time the decade came to a close, he found that his ability in drawing audiences was beginning to wane thanks to such ostentatious failures as 1989’s Always and 1991’s Hook.
Steven Spielberg wins an oscar
1993 proved to be a banner year for Steven Spielberg, as he directed one of the most successful films of all time (Jurassic Park) and a searing drama that earned the filmmaker his first Oscar (Schindler’s List). In the years since, Steven Spielberg, in addition to landing another Oscar for 1998’s Saving Private Ryan, has undoubtedly cemented his reputation as one of the most prolific and successful directors in cinematic history thanks to such indelible efforts as 2001’s Artificial Intelligence: AI, 2002’s Minority Report and 2005’s Munich. In 2008, Steven Spielberg wrapped up the Indiana Jones series with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and prepped a long-delayed biography of Abraham Lincoln (which starred Liam Neeson as the 16th president).
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