Steven Spielberg by Kelsey Barbosa

 Steven Spielberg is a renown American filmmaker, known for some of his early science fiction and adventure films such as Jaws (1975) and E.T. the Extra Terrestrial (1982). Spielberg is also recognized as a pioneer of the New Hollywood era, and a co-founder of DreamWorks Studios. He has been an influential director and producer in the film industry for the last four decades and continues to be as of today.

In his early life Spielberg began filming at the age of twelve. He shot several adventure films with his eight-millimeter camera foreshadowing his career of adventure films. He continued making films throughout his High School and College career, eventually landing an unpaid internship at Universal Studios. He worked in the editing department for some time, which led to the opportunity for him to make a short film. This short film became Amblin, a twenty-six-minute film shot on a thirty-five-millimeter camera. He wrote and directed this short film, which received recognition from the studio vice president of Universal Studios at the time. He would later be contracted to a seven-year directing deal at Universal Studios thanks to his film, Amblin. At that point in time he became the youngest director to be signed to a major Hollywood studio in addition to have a long-term contract.

Throughout his career he has directed and produced films of many different themes and genres. His early career consisted of science fiction and adventure films, which later took a back seat. At the center of his career, Spielberg produced films which addressed societal issues. He addressed civil rights, the holocaust, and terrorism with his later films and received great acknowledgement for them. He won an Academy Award for Best Director for Saving Private Ryan and Schindler’s list, and much more success as the years went one. He is the highest grossing director in history, with $9 billion in earnings worldwide.  

Spielberg has directed, produced, and written over 90 films. In addition, he has worked with some of the greatest actors and actresses of our time. Many of these include, Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, Whoopi Goldberg, Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise, and many more. Below are some of Spielberg's greatest movies of all time. 

• ·      Jaws (1975)
• ·      Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
• ·      Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
• ·      E.T. the Extraterrestrial (1982)
• ·      Poltergeist (1982)
• ·      Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
• ·      Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
• ·      The Goonies (1985)
• ·      The Color Purple (1985)
• ·      A Brief History of Time (1991)
• ·      Hook (1991)
• ·      Schindler’s List (1993)
• ·      Saving Private Ryan (1998)
• ·      Catch Me If You Can (2002)
• ·      War of the Worlds (2005)
• ·      Munich (2005)
• ·      Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
• ·      Super 8 (2011)
• ·      Lincoln (2012)
• ·      Bridge of Spies (2015)
• ·      The BFG (2016)
• ·      The Post (2017)
• ·      Read Player One (2018)