Director steven spielberg biography summary

American filmmaker (born )

"Spielberg" redirects here. For other uses, see Spielberg (disambiguation).

Steven Allan Spielberg (; born December 18, ) is an American filmmaker. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, Spielberg is widely regarded as one of the greatest film directors of all time and is the most commercially successful director in film history.^[1] Among other accolades, he has received three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and two BAFTA Awards, as well as the AFI Life Achievement Award in , the Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in , the Kennedy Center Honor in , the Cecil B.

DeMille Award in and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Seven of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".^[2][3]

Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and g