Blockbuster: Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg, (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter and film 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 Most Important 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 over 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. To date, unadjusted gross of all Spielberg directed films exceeds $8.5 billion worldwide.

Steven Spielberg's The Best Movies: Indiana Jones Series, Jurassic Park Series, Saving Private Ryan, E.T., Jaws
Academy Awards for Directing (Oscar): Schindler's List (1993), Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Top Box Office: Jaws (1975) - $260,000,000 , E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - $435,110,554 , Saving Private Ryan (1998) - $216,540,909 , Indiana Jones Series: Part 1: $242,374,454 , Part 2: $179,870,271 , Part 3: $197,870,271 , Part 4: $317,101,119 , Jurassic Park (1993) $357,067,947.
Guarantee the blockbuster: 85%
Favourite actor: Tom Hanks
Actors who may thank him: Harrison Ford, Tom Hanks, Vin Diesel, Matt Damon, Liam Neeson, Richard Dreyfuss, Christian Bale, Roy Scheider
Favourite actress: -
Actress who may thank him: Catherine Zeta Jones, Julia Roberts, Drew Barrymore

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