Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg

Born:

December 18, 1946

Born as:

Steven Allan Spielberg

I dream for a living

Remarkable:

Steven and his wife Kate Capshaw have eight children.

Biography:

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio (USA), Spielberg began experimenting with 8mm short films when he was only in grade school. After he had directed episodes of TV series Spielberg`s first feature-length TV movie, Duel (1971), earned the filmmaker critical praise and a chance to jump to the big screen.

The nightmarish production problems on the big budget Jaws (1975) almost detoured his rise to prominence. But his success could still grow bigger. He hit gold again directing Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) but the highest grossing movie of all time up to that point was the alien story, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982).

In the late 1980s, a string of relative disappointments coincided with a period of personal upheaval for Spielberg. He made a major career resurgence in 1993 with the special effect-heavy dinosaur extravaganza Jurassic Park.

Steven produced and directed Schindler's List (1993) a stirring film about the Holocaust and won finally best director at the Oscars.

In the mid-nineties Spielberg co-founded the production company Dreamworks, responsible for many box office successes in the nineties and the new century. In 2006 he sold it for $1.6 billion to Viacom, the parent company of Paramount Pictures.

Steven kept on filming in the new century, and made movies like Minority Report (2002), War of the Worlds (2005) and Munich (2005). In 2008, after years in the making, he finally delivered Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull starring Harrison Ford.

This year Steven will release The Tin tin movie or an Abraham Lincoln bio-pic.

Selected Movies:

Bibliography » Books:

Bibliography » Web:

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Ain‘t it cool news - Spielberg, Jackson and Tin Tin
Back Shelf Beauties: Movies You Should Rent When the New Stuff Is Gone - Dreamworks and Indian money
BBC - Tintin film is finished but not finished
BBC - Spielberg shows his collection
Deadline - Spielberg may direct a biopic
DVD Times -
DVD town -
Empire - Raiders is the second best film
Entertainment weekly - Spielberg is the best director
Filmschool rejects -
Financial Times - Spielberg finalises $825m financing
Forbes - Highest-Paid Men
Goop - Spielberg likes classic movies
Guardian -
Harrison Ford: The Films - Destruction of the world in HD
High-Def digest - Minority report in Blu-ray
Los Angeles Times - Spielberg talks about Tintin
Los Angeles Times - Spielberg directs a horse
New York Times - Spielberg reworks contract