biography
pronunciation:
[speelberg]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1947– )
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| biography:
| Film-maker, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. An amateur film-maker as a child, he became one of the youngest television directors at Universal Studios. A highly praised television film, Duel (1972), brought him the opportunity to direct for the cinema, and a string of hits have made him the most commercially successful director of all time. His films have explored primeval fears, as in Jaws (1975, three Oscars), or expressed childlike wonder at the marvels of this world and beyond, as in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, two Oscars) and ET (1982, four Oscars). Later films include literary adaptations, such as The Color Purple (1985) and Empire of the Sun (1987), as well as the continuing adventures of his dare-devil hero, Indiana Jones, in such films as Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, five Oscars) and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984, Oscar). Imaginative fantasy is dominant in his version of Peter Pan, Hook (1991), Jurassic Park (1993, three Oscars), and its sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997). Schindler's List (1993, seven Oscars) also received the 1994 BAFTA award for best director and best film, and Saving Private Ryan (1998) won him an Oscar for best director. His company (Amblin Entertainment, founded in 1982) has produced several other successful films, notably Back to the Future (1985) and its two sequels, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). In 1994 Spielberg formed a new studio, Dreamworks SKG, followed in 1995 by Dreamworks Interactive, to produce interactive games, videos, and teaching material. In 2001 he completed the science fiction film AI: Artificial Intelligence, a project begun by the late Stanley Kubrick. That same year he was awarded an honorary British knighthood. |
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