This week 10 years ago Saving private Ryan premiered (July 24, 1998)
December 18, 1946
Steven Allan Spielberg
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 bigbudget 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.
In 2008 Steven will release Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and he also wants to direct an Abraham Lincoln bio-pic.
