Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946)
[, page 37] is an American film director, screenwriter and producer.
Forbes magazine places Spielberg's net worth at $3.1 billion.
In 2006, the magazine
Premiere listed him as the most powerful and influential figure in the
motion picture industry.
Time listed him as one of the
100 Greatest People of the Century. At the end of the twentieth century,
Life named him the most influential person of his generation.
In a career of almost four decades, Spielberg's films have touched on many themes and genres. Spielberg's early
sci-fi and
adventure films, sometimes centering on children, were seen as an archetype of modern
Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years his movies began addressing such issues as the
Holocaust,
slavery,
war and
terrorism.
Spielberg won the
Academy Award for Best Director for 1993's
Schindler's List and 1998's
Saving Private Ryan. Three of Spielberg's films,
Jaws (1975),
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and
Jurassic Park (1993), broke
box office records, each becoming the highest-grossing film made at the time.
