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Steven Allan Spielberg was born December 18, 1946. He
is an American film director, screenwriter, producer,
video game designer and studio entrepreneur.
Speilberg has been a part of the film industry for over
four decades and his films have covered many themes
and genres. His early science-fiction and adventure
films were seen as a form of modern Hollywood block-
buster filmmaking. In the later years, his films began
addressing issues such as war, terrorism and slavery.
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He is considered to be one of the most influential and
popular filmmakers in the history of cinema. He is also
one of the co-founders of Dreamworks studio which
develops, produces, and distributes films, video games
and television programming. It has produced or dis-
tributed more than ten films with box-office grosses
totaling more than $100 million each.
Steven Speilberg has won the Academy Award for
Best Director for Shindler's List and Savind Private
Ryan. Three of his other films, Jaws, E.T. the Extra-
Terrestrial and Jurassic Park achieved box office re-
cords, each becoming the highest-grossing film made
at that time.
Steven Allan Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to
a Jewish family. His mother Leah Adler was a restau-
rateur and concert pianist and his father, Arnold
Spielberg, was an electrical engineer involved in the
development of computers.
Life

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Throughout his teens, Spielberg made amateur 8mm
"adventure" films with his friends. He charged an ad-
mission fee of 25 cents to his home films while his
sister sold popcorn. At age 16, Spielberg wrote and di-
rected his first independent film, a 140-minute science
fiction adventure called Firelight which would later in-
spire 'Close Encounters'.
His first professional TV job came when he was hired to
do one of the segments for the pilot episode of 'Night
Gallery'. Post this project and a few others he was
signed by Universal Studios based on the strength of
his work, to do four TV films. After completion of these
four TV films, came the offer to direct Jaws.
Speilberg was offered the directors chair for this film
- a thriller-horror film about an enormous killer shark.
The film suffered delays and budget over-runs and was
nearly shut down, but Speilberg persevered and man-
aged to finish the film. Jaw was an enormous success at
the box office, and even went on to win three Academy
Awards. The movie was so popular that it led to the
press describing it as "Jawsmania". The film made Spei-
lberg a household name, and gave him a great deal of
freedom for future projects.

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Speilberg then went on to make several films, with many
being successful such as Close Encounters of the Third
Kind which was a critical box office hit, Star Wars,
E.T., Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park and Shindlers List.
All these movies fared extremely well and even won a
number of awards.
Other movies such as Catch Me If You Can, Munich,
Warhorse, Black Hawk Down and Enemy At The Gates
have all achieved critical acclaim and have been huge
successes at the Box-Office. He is also the director to
the multi-award winning TV mini-series, the Band of
Brothers.
Apart from his work in film and television, Steven
Spielberg co-founded and works closely with 'Star-
bright' - a foundation dedicated to improving children's
lives through technology-based programs focusing on
education and entertainment.
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