Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker.

He was born to an Ukrainian Orthodox Jewish family in Cincinnati, Ohio. His parents were pianist Leah Adler (1920–2017) and engineer Arnold Spielberg (1917–2020). He started his movie career learning to direct in 1975. He was raised in Haddon Township, New Jersey. Spielberg studied at Saratoga High School. He went to California State University, Long Beach.

Spielberg started his career learning how to direct in 1963. His first movies include Jaws, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. His later movies include Saving Private Ryan and Munich.

Spielberg helped establish the PG-13 rating for the Motion Picture Association of America.

Spielberg married Amy Irving in 1985. They divorced in 1989. He married Kate Capshaw in 1991.

Spielberg won two Academy Awards for best director. These two awards were for Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan. In 1986, he won the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, a Lifetime Achievement Award. He has been nominated and has won several other awards.

In Oscar acceptance speeches given since 1966, Spielberg holds the record for being thanked the most at 43 mentions, more than God and beating Harvey Weinstein who was thanked 34 times.

Filmography 
 Ready Player One (2018)
 The Post (2017)
 The BFG (2016)
 Bridge of Spies (2015)
 Jurassic World (2014)
 Lincoln (2012)
 Men in Black 3 (2012)
 War Horse (2011)
 The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
 Real Steel (2011)
 Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
 Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
 Super 8 (2011)
 Paul (2011)
 True Grit (2010)
 Hereafter (2010)
 Hollywood Don't Surf! (2010)
 The Lovely Bones (2009)
 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
 Eagle Eye (2008)
 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
 Munich (2005)
 War of the Worlds (2005)
 The Terminal (2004)
 Catch Me If You Can (2002)
 Minority Report (2002)
 A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001)
 Saving Private Ryan (1998) (Academy Award, Best Director)
 The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
 Amistad (1997)
 Schindler's List (1993) (Academy Award, Best Director, Best Picture)
 Jurassic Park (1993)
 Hook (1991)
 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
 Always (1989)
 Empire of the Sun (1987)
 The Color Purple (1985)
 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
 Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) segment: Kick the Can
 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
 1941 (1979)
 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
 Jaws (1975)
 The Sugarland Express (1974)

References

Other websites 

Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation (founded by Spielberg)
Time 100: Steven Spielberg 
Spielberg at 60 – Empire

1946 births
Living people
Academy Award winning directors
American movie directors
American movie editors
American movie producers
American screenwriters
BAFTA Award winners
Emmy Award winning directors
Golden Globe Award winning directors
Jewish American writers
Jewish businesspeople
Movie directors from Ohio
Movie producers from Ohio
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Businesspeople from Cincinnati, Ohio
Writers from Cincinnati, Ohio
Screenwriters from Ohio
Ukrainian Americans