Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg
Spielberg at his masterclass at the Cinémathèque Française in January 2012
Born	Steven Allan Spielberg December 18, 1946 (1946-12-18) Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Residence	Los Angeles, California
Nationality	American
Education	Saratoga High School
Alma mater	California State University, Long Beach
Occupation	Film director, film producer
Years active	1963–present
Notable works	Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Lincoln, Munich, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Catch Me If You Can
Influenced by	Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Ingmar Bergman, Frank Capra, John Cassavetes, Charlie Chaplin, Francis Ford Coppola, Roger Corman, David Cronenberg, Sid Sheinberg, Cecil B. DeMille, Brian De Palma, Walt Disney, Richard Donner, Clint Eastwood, Blake Edwards, Victor Fleming, John Ford, Milos Forman, John Frankenheimer, William Friedkin, Costa Gavras, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Norman Jewison, Elia Kazan, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Fritz Lang, Ray Harryhausen, David Lean, Sergio Leone, George Lucas, Sidney Lumet, David Lynch, Terrence Malick, Arthur Penn, Roman Polanski, Don Siegel, François Truffaut, Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, Robert Wise, Fred Zinneman
Influenced	J. J. Abrams, Michael Bay, Luc Besson, Neill Blomkamp, Danny Boyle, Tim Burton, James Cameron, Chris Columbus, Guillermo del Toro, Roland Emmerich, David Fincher, Paul Greengrass, Ron Howard, John Hughes, Peter Jackson, Rian Johnson, Ang Lee, Michael Mann, Sam Mendes, Christopher Nolan, Sam Raimi, Robert Rodriguez, Gus Van Sant, Ridley Scott, M. Night Shyamalan, Kevin Smith, Steven Soderbergh, Quentin Tarantino, Joss Whedon, John Woo, Robert Zemeckis
Home town	Haddon Township, New Jersey
Net worth	$3.2 billion (2012)
Political party	Democrat
Religion	Judaism
Spouse	Amy Irving (m. 1985–1989) «start: (1985)–end+1: (1990)»"Marriage: Amy Irving to Steven Spielberg" Location: (linkback://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Spielberg) Kate Capshaw (m. 1991–present) «start: (1991)»"Marriage: Kate Capshaw to Steven Spielberg" Location: (linkback://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Spielberg)
Children	6

Steven Spielberg (born December 18, 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American movie director, producer and writer.

Early life

Spielberg was born on December 18, 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was raised in Haddon Township, New Jersey. Spielberg studied at Saratoga High School and at California State University, Long Beach.

Career

Although Spielberg began his career in 1963 while learning how to direct, it took Spielberg's first motion-wide movie Jaws helped start his career and become well-known to the American audience in 1975. Later his action adventure Jurassic Park and Indiana Jones would also expand his popularity. His drama and fantasy movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial has also helped him succeed in another movie genre.

Later career

During his later career, Spielberg Saving Private Ryan and Munich were among his most popular movies. Spielberg has received Academy Award nominations for Best Motion Picture or Best Director for Schindler's List and Lincoln. He only won in Schindler's List. He recently produced Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Men in Black III.

Future projects

Spielberg was about to make another science fiction movie called Robopocalypse which would have been release in 2014, until they postpone production in 2013. He is going to make another sequel to the Jurassic Park movie series, Jurassic Park IV which will release in 2015.

Personal life

He was married to Amy Irving from 1985 until they divorced in 1989. Then he was married to Kate Capshaw since 1991. He has six children. Spielberg now lives in Los Angeles, California.

Views

• Spielberg supports U.S. Democratic Party candidates. He has donated over $800,000 to the Democratic party and its nominees. He has been a close friend of former President Bill Clinton and worked with the President for the USA Millennium celebrations.

• Spielberg resigned as a member of the national advisory board of the Boy Scouts of America in 2001 because of his disapproval of the organization's anti-homosexuality stance.

• On February 20, 2007, Spielberg, Katzenberg, and David Geffen invited Democrats to a fundraiser for Barack Obama. However, on June 14, 2007, Spielberg endorsed Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) for President. While Geffen and Katzenberg supported Obama, Spielberg was always a supporter of Hillary Clinton. However Spielberg directed a video for Obama at the DNC in August 2008 and attended Obama's inauguration.

• In September 2008, Spielberg and his wife offered their support to same-sex marriage, by issuing a statement following their donation of $100,000 to the "No on Proposition 8" campaign fund, a figure equal to the amount of money Brad Pitt donated to the same campaign less than a week prior.

Friendships

He is friends with director George Lucas, composer John Williams, producers Richard D. Zanuck, Kathleen Kennedy, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Brown, actors Harrison Ford, Daniel Day-Lewis, Tommy Lee Jones, Sally Field, Sean Connery, and Hal Holbrook, former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger, former President Bill Clinton, and President Barack Obama.^[source?]

Awards

Spielberg won two Academy Awards for best director. In 1986 he won the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, a Lifetime Achievement Award. His movie - Schindler's List have won Academy Awards of Best Picture. He was also nominated for an Golden Globe Award, an Screen Actors Guild Award, and an Academy Award recently with his 2012 movie Lincoln.

Movies by Steven Spielberg

• Jurassic Park IV (2014)
• Lincoln (2012)
• Men in Black III (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)
• Dhil Maree Tur Teener Chale (2006)
• 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)

Other websites

• Steven Spielberg at the Internet Movie Database
• Steven Spielberg at the TCM Movie Database
• Steven Spielberg at Allmovie
• Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation (founded by Spielberg)
• Time 100: Steven Spielberg
• Spielberg at 60 – Empire