Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg has directed, produced, or executive produced six of the thirty top-grossing films of all time, including Jurassic Park and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. Among his myriad of honors, Steven Spielberg have made him a three-time Academy Award® winner, earning two Oscars®, for Best Director and Best Picture, for Schindler's List, and a third Oscar® for Best Director for Saving Private Ryan. Steven Spielberg has also received Academy Award® nominations for Best Director for E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Spielberg's critically acclaimed World War II drama Saving Private Ryan, starring Tom Hanks, was the highest-grossing release (domestically) of 1998.
Steven Spielberg Awards & Recognition
In addition, Steven Spielberg was recognized by his peers with a Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award, and shared with the film's other producers in the Producers Guild of America's (PGA) Award. That year, the PGA also presented Spielberg with the prestigious Milestone Award for his historic contribution to the motion picture industry. Saving Private Ryan also won Best Picture honors from the New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, British and Broadcast Film Critics Associations, with the Los Angeles, Toronto and Broadcast Film Critics also naming Spielberg Best Director.
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Four years later, Steven Spielberg directed the suspenseful telefilm Duel, which garnered both critical and audience attention. Steven Spielberg made his feature film directorial debut on The Sugarland
Express from a screenplay he co-wrote. His other earlier film credits as director include Always, Hook and the Raiders of the Lost Ark sequels, Indiana Jones and the
Temple of Doom and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Spielberg's more recent films include the critically acclaimed Catch Me If You Can, starring Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio and Christopher Walken, and the futuristic thriller Minority Report, starring Tom Cruise. He began shooting on his next film, The Terminal, in fall 2004, which re-teams Spielberg with actor Tom Hanks.
Steven Speilberg Philanthropy
Steven Spielberg has also devoted his time and resources to many philanthropic causes. The impact of his experience making Schindler's List led him to establish the Righteous Persons Foundation using all his profits from the film. He also founded Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, which has recorded more than 50,000 Holocaust survivor testimonies and whose worldwide mission is to overcome prejudice, intolerance and bigotry-and the suffering they cause-through the educational use of the Foundation's visual history testimonies. In addition, Spielberg executive produced The Last Days, the Shoah Foundation's third documentary, which won the Academy Award® for Best Documentary Feature. Steven Spielberg is also the chairman emeritus of the Starbright Foundation, which combines the efforts of pediatric health care, technology and entertainment to empower seriously ill children.Visit Schindlerslist.com To Learn More
Learn more about Steven Spielberg, director of Schindler's List when you visit the Schindler's List DVD web site. The web site is a great historical resource with movie clips and trailers, cast and crew bios, information on the film's inspiration, links to educational organizations, Holocaust survivors stories and information on the new Schindler's List DVD.