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Here’s a take a look at the lifetime of filmmaker Steven Spielberg.
Birth date: December 18, 1946
Birth place: Cincinnati, Ohio
Birth title: Steven Allan Spielberg
Father: Arnold Spielberg, electrical engineer and pc pioneer
Mother: Leah (Posner) Spielberg, restaurateur and live performance pianist
Marriages: Kate Capshaw (1991-present); Amy Irving (1985-1989, divorced)
Children: with Kate Capshaw: Destry Allyn; Mikaela George (adopted); Sawyer; Sasha; Theo (adopted); Jessica Capshaw, (stepdaughter); with Amy Irving: Max
Education: California State University Long Beach, B.A., 2002
As a baby, he recorded household occasions utilizing an 8-mm digicam and made horror movies together with his youthful sisters.
He was rejected by the University of Southern California (USC) School of Cinema Arts twice.
His 1975 film, “Jaws,” is taken into account the primary “summer blockbuster,” grossing $60 million inside its first month of launch.
Is godfather to actresses Drew Barrymore and Gwyneth Paltrow.
He has been nominated for twenty-three Academy Awards and has received three. Received one honorary award.
He has received 4 Primetime Emmy Awards and 7 Daytime Emmy Awards.
March 24, 1964 – “Firelight” is launched, his first feature-length movie.
November 13, 1971 – “Duel” premieres as a made-for-television film.
1982 – “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” turns into one in all highest-grossing films of the yr.
1984 – Founds Amblin Entertainment. The firm is called after a brief film Spielberg filmed whereas in class.
March 30, 1987 – Receives the Irving G. Thalberg Award at the 59th Academy Awards.
June 9, 1993 – “Jurassic Park” is launched, based mostly on the science fiction novel by Michael Crichton. The movie is Spielberg’s highest grossing film worldwide so far, making greater than $1.03 billion so far (2016).
1994 – Wins an Academy Award for Best Picture and Directing for “Schindler’s List.”
1994 – Creates the Shoah Foundation to document and protect interviews with survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust.
1994 – DreamWorks SKG is created by Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen.
1995 – Receives the 23rd American Film Institute Life Achievement Award.
1996 – Wins an Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (one hour or much less) for “Steven Spielberg Presents A Pinky & The Brain Christmas Special.”
September 23, 1997 – DreamWorks releases its first full-length function movie, “The Peacemaker,” starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman.
1999 – Wins an Academy Award for Directing for “Saving Private Ryan” and receives the US Navy’s highest civilian award, the Distinguished Public Service Award for the WWII movie.
2002 – Wins an Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries for “Band of Brothers.”
2003 – Wins an Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries for “Steven Spielberg Presents Taken.”
December 2005 – DreamWorks SKG is offered to Paramount for $1.6 billion. Spielberg and Geffen stay with the corporate.
December 3, 2006 – Receives the Kennedy Center Honors.
2010 – Wins an Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries for “The Pacific.”
November 24, 2015 – Spielberg is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.
February 20, 2018 – Announces he is donating $500,000 to March For Our Lives, an occasion shaped within the aftermath of the lethal shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
June 21, 2021 – Amblin Partners, the film and TV production studio led by Spielberg, publicizes a partnership with Netflix that may embody a number of new function movies per yr.
July 3, 2022 – Spielberg films a music video for singer Marcus Mumford’s song “Cannibal.”
June 28, 2023 – Warner Bros. Discovery publicizes a partnership with Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Paul Thomas Anderson to assist curate content material for TCM.