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Steven Spielberg WORKSHEET A
Steven Spielberg is probably the most famous film director in the world, and has
worked on a large number of very popular and well-known films during his long
career.
Born in 1946, he grew up in the state of Arizona in the western United States and
showed a passion for film-making from a very young age. He made a nine-minute
film about cowboys when he was only eleven, and at sixteen persuaded his local
cinema to show a 140-minute science fiction adventure that he had written and
directed.
In his early twenties he worked mostly on TV programmes and short films, before
moving on to longer productions. The film that made him famous was Jaws (1975), in
which a man-eating shark terrorises the population of a small coastal town in the
United States. One of the most memorable things about the film was the way the
camera-work and music created almost unbearable tension whenever the shark was
about to attack. People also remember it for the life-size model shark, which perhaps
looked quite impressive thirty years ago but doesnt look quite so scary nowadays.
A couple of years later Spielberg directed Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977),
in which UFOs appear in the sky over the United States and then friend
Steven Spielberg Biography
Steven Spielberg
Born: December 18, 1946
Occupation: Director | Producer | Screenwriter
Years active: From 1959
Works: Filmography
Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. A figure of the New Hollywood era, he is the most commercially successful director of all time. Spielberg is the recipient of various accolades, including three Academy Awards (including two Best Director wins), a Kennedy Center honor, a Cecil B. DeMille Award, and an AFI Life Achievement Award. Time magazine named him one of the 100 Most Important People of the Century in 1999.
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Career
Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. He later moved to California and studied film in college.
Moreover, Spielberg co-founded Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks, and has served as a producer for many television series and films. Spielberg is also known for his long time collaboration with composer John Williams, with whom he has worked for all but five of his feature films. Several of Spielberg's works are among the highest-grossing films of all time. Nine of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Part of his works
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Holocaust drama Schindler's List (1993)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Minority Report (2002)
War of the Worlds (2005)
The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
Amistad (1997)
Munich (2005)
etc.
Other than filming...
The director has been an avid gamer since 1974; in 2005, Spielberg collaborated with Electronic Arts (EA) on several games including one for the Wii called Boom Blox, and its sequel Boom Blox Bash Party). He is also the creator of EA's Medal of Honor series. In 1996, Spielberg helped create and design
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Steven Spielberg is an American filmmaker, screenwriter and producer who popularized science fiction and high grossing adventure films such as Jaws, E.T., Back to the Future, Schindler’s List, Jurassic Park, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Saving Private Ryan, Catch Me if you Can, Lincoln and War of the Worlds. He also co-founded DreamWorks SKG, which was later purchased by Paramount Pictures in 2005.
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Early Life and Career:
- Steven Allan Spielberg was born on December 18, 1946, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to an Orthodox Jewish family. His father, Arnold was an electrical engineer, and his mother, Leah Frances (Posner), was a concert pianist and restaurateur.
- While a student, he interned at Universal Studios and made a theatrical short film that pave the way to a career in directing. He was the youngest director to sign a long-term contract with a studio.
Long-term deal with a Hollywood Studio
- He dropped out of school and began directing TV productions. He later completed a B.A. Degree in Film and Electronic Arts at California State University, Long Beach, in 2002, and became a member of the Theta Chi Fraternity.
- In 1982, he founded his first film company, Amblin Entertainment, and produced several movies including Back in the future (1995) and two sequels, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1998).
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