Steven Spielberg

**Steven Allan Spielberg** (born December 18, 1946) is an American movie director, movie producer and screenwriter. Spielberg is widely regarded as one of the greatest movie directors of all time and is the most commercially successful director in movie history. He is one of 22 people to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award.

He was born at The Jewish Hospital-Mercy Health  in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is from a Ukrainian Orthodox Jewish family. His parents were pianist Leah Adler (1920–2017) and engineer Arnold Spielberg (1917–2020). He started his movie career learning to direct in 1968. 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 2023, Spielberg was nominated for another Academy Award for his movie _The Fabelmans_.

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

- _The Fabelmans_ (2022)
- _West Side Story_ (2021)
- _Ready Player One_ (2018)
- _The Post_ (2017)
- _The BFG_ (2016)
- _Bridge of Spies_ (2015)
- _Jurassic World_ (2015)
- _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)
- Casper (1995)
- _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)

## Other websites

- Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation (founded by Spielberg)
- _Time_ 100: Steven Spielberg
- Spielberg at 60 – _Empire_

## Infobox (person)

- **image**: MKr25402 Steven Spielberg (Berlinale 2023).jpg
- **caption**: Spielberg in 2023
- **nationality**: American
- **birth name**: Steven Allan Spielberg
- **spouse**:

- **children**: 6
- **education**: Saratoga High School (California), Saratoga High School
- **alma mater**: California State University, Long Beach
- **networth**: **$3.2 billion** (2012)
- **years active**: 1959–present