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We have all seen the masterpieces of international director Steven Spielberg and saw how dazzling his films are, and they won the most prestigious and most famous international awards in the world of cinema. Who is the director behind all those huge international works?

He is Steven Alan Spielberg, born in 1946 in Ohio, and he is of Austrian origin, but he is an American Jew. A television show, where he started when he was about twenty years old, and through his work in television directing, he entered the field of film directing. He got three of them.

Explosive beginnings

From his beginnings at Universal, the young prodigy impresses with his technical mastery and the quality of his achievements. He notably directed several episodes of iconic American series from the 1970s, such as Night Gallery and Columbo.

However, it was the TV movie Duel (1971) that gave Spielberg his first award: the Grand Prix at the first Avoriaz International Fantastic Film Festival in 1973. Such a success was that a longer version was released in theaters. Spielberg went from the small to the big screen in just a few years.

In 1974, Spielberg directed his first feature film, Sugarland Express. Despite the honors, the film does not meet its audience. This film nevertheless marks the beginning of the collaboration between the director and the composer John Williams, who still accompanies him in his projects today. The following film, Les Dents de la Mer (1975) is a textbook case of the perfect symbiosis between the staging and the power of Williams' ostinato musical theme. Simple and terribly effective. In this feature film, Spielberg is inspired by a method used by his favorite director, Alfred Hitchcock, the thwarted tracking shot, to create an agonizing atmosphere. The film was a real box office success: it became one of the highest grossing films of the 1970s, far exceeding the producer’s expectations. The success was confirmed in 1977 with Encounters of the Third Kind, a science fiction film which testifies to the director's talent for this cinematographic universe.

When the 90s begin, Steven Spielberg is at the top of his game and has a series of highly successful achievements, alternating general public themes and more personal subjects. In 1994, with two partners (Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen), he created the Dreamworks studios and continued to produce numerous films in parallel with his work as a director. In 1993, Steven Spielberg directed Jurassic Park, with innovative special effects for the time, and Schindler's List. The latter, produced in black and white, tells of the rescue of thousands of Jews by a German industrialist, Oskar Schindler. Multiple award-winning, it is one of the most personal works of the director of Jewish origin. Steven Spielberg then shot in 1997 Jurassic Park: The Lost World, the sequel to Jurassic Park, and a historical epic on the abolition of slavery, Amistad. From this film Steven Spielberg also becomes his own producer to this day. In 1998, a historical film on the American landing in World War II, Saving Private Ryan, was released in theaters. Audiences and critics are alike, and it's the start of a long collaboration with actor Tom Hanks. Subsequently, they will meet again for Stop Me If You Can (2002) and The Terminal (2004

Spielberg’s successful work followed after Jaw, and his movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” was about aliens. The film was nominated for eight Oscars, and the seventies ended and we moved to the eighties, which witnessed the beginning of the famous Indiana Jones series. Then Spielberg returned to films about aliens with a movie. IT".

Although Spielberg specialized since his inception in films about adventures and science fiction, he decided to direct a film of a different kind completely away from this color.

Spielberg was always striving to prove that he was versatile, so he worked as an executive producer on the cartoon "Who Gotthe rabbit Roger", and then returned again to the basis of his success, adventure and fantasy films with one of the Indiana Jones parts and Back to the Future.

The nineties came and Spielberg presented one of the largest cinematic productions, which is the Dinosaur Park, which achieved the highest revenue in the cinema, then the movie Schindler's List, which represents a special situation, in which he won the Academy Award for Best Director. Which has been producing all his films since its inception and with the ingenuity of choosing and directing Spielberg, the company achieved great successes with a group of the most successful films, and at the end of the nineties Spielberg stopped directing for two years to return at the beginning of the new millennium to direct again and in that return he dealt for the first time with Tom Cruise in the movie Minority Report is a huge success, have you noticed throughout this whole time in Spielberg's life that he didn't study the art of directing but learned it through the practice he started in film production studios by following directors and learning from them until he made a list of the most successful, biggest and highest-grossing films.

Spielberg was not far from the political atmosphere in his country, so he was known for his support for the American Democratic Party, as he was a friend of former President Bill Clinton.