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Steven Spielberg
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Introduction:
Steven Spielberg is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director and producer. He is the most financially successful motion picture director of all time.
Spielberg grew up making movies from an early age. Throughout his early teens, he made other amateur 8 mm `adventure` movies with his friends.
He applied to attend film school at UCLA and University of Southern California`s School of Cinema-Television three separate times but was unsuccessful.
Movies:
(1) Jaws
Jaws is based on Peter Benchley`s best-selling novel of the same name. It is a masterful, visceral and realistic horror-disaster film that taps into the most primal of human fears. The tagline for the tensely-paced film, `Don`t go in the water,` kept a lot of shark-hysterical ocean-swimmers and summer beachgoers wary.
(2) Indiana Jones Trilogy
Dr. Henry `Indiana` Jones, Jr. is a professor, archaeologist, and adventurer who is the main protagonist of the adventure film Raiders of the Lost Ark, its prequel Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and sequel, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
(3) Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park is based upon the novel written by Michael Crichton. The story involves scientists visiting an amusement park of genetically engineered dinosaurs on an island over one weekend. Sabotage sets the carnivorous dinosaurs on the loose, and technicians and visitors attempt to escape the island.
(4) Schindler`s List
Schindler`s List is based on the book Schindler`s Ark by Thomas Keneally. The tale of Oskar Schindler, a Sudeten-German Catholic businessman who was instrumental in saving the lives of over one thousand Polish Jews during the Holocaust.
(5) Munich
The movie is set after the 1972 Munich massacre. A squad of assassins, led by former Mossad agent `Avner`, is ordered to track down and kill a list of Black September members thought to be responsible for the 11 Israeli athletes` murders
In pitucres:
Top left hand corner: A recent picture of Steven Spielberg
Top right hand corner: Two scenes from Indiana Jones Trilogy
Second picture: A scene from Jaws
Third picture: A climax scene from Jurassic Park
Bottom left hand corner: A scene from Schindler`s List
Bottom right hand corner: A scene from Munich
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Since the early 1970s, Steven Spielberg has been changing the face of cinema with
his unique sense of storytelling. From his earliest success with the 1971 television film ''Duel'' (released theatrically in 1973 in Europe) to the blockbuster successes of ''Jaws,'' ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind,'' ''E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,'' and the ''Indiana Jones'' and ''Jurassic Park'' series, to his conscientious, historical dramas such as ''Schindler's List,'' ''Amistad,'' ''Saving Private Ryan,'' and ''Munich,'' Steven Spielberg continues to amaze, enlighten and inspire audiences with his cinematic visions.
Below are links to sections on all of Steven Spielberg's feature work. Over the next
year, each section will expand to include in-depth coverage on all aspects of the
films, complete with articles, audio and video features, interviews with cast and crew
and much more.
The 1970s
Duel (1971)
The Sugarland Express (1974)
Jaws (1975)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
1941 (1979)
The 1980s
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Poltergeist (1982)
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Twilight Zone The Movie (1983)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Amazing Stories (1985)
Ghost Train (1985)
The Mission (1985)
The Color Purple (1985)
Empire of the Sun (1987)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Always (1989)
The 1990s
Hook (1991)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Schindler's List (1993)
The Lost World (1997)
Amistad (1997)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
American Journey (1999)
The 2000s
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Minority Report (2002)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
The Terminal (2004)
War of the Worlds (2005)
Munich (2005)
Indiana Jones 4 (2008)
SPECIAL SECTIONS
On the Lot (2007)
Steven Spielberg had become a considerably successful and renowned film director.
My favorite film!
Schindler's List (1993) is Steven Spielberg's unexpected award-winning masterpiece - a profoundly shocking, unsparing, fact-based, three-hour long epic of the nightmarish Holocaust.
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Awards for Steven Spielberg
2006
Kennedy Center of Performing Arts
Kennedy Center Honor
2005
Knighthood, French Legion of Honor
2002
Hollywood Film Festival Award,
Best Feature Film, Minority Report
2001
Knight Commander of the British Empire
2000
Directors Guild of America,
Lifetime Achievement Award
1999
Academy Award, Best Director,
Saving Private Ryan
DGA Award, Outstanding Directorial
Achievement in Motions Pictures,
Saving Private Ryan
Golden Globe, Best Director,
Saving Private Ryan
Department of Defense Medal for
Distinguished Public Service
Honorary Degree, Brown University
1998
Great Cross of Merit with Star
1995
American Film Institute Lifetime
Achievement Award
1994
Academy Award, Best Director
Schindler's List
Academy Award, Best Picture,
Schindler's List
DGA Award, Outstanding Directorial
Achievement in Motions Pictures,
Schindler's List
Golden Globe, Best Director,
Schindler's List
1987
Irving G. Thalberg Award
1986
DGA Award, Outstanding Directorial
Achievement in Motions Pictures,
The Color Purple
1974
Cannes Film Festival, Best Screenplay
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