Steven Spielberg

American filmmaker (born 1946)

Born: 18 December 1946, Cincinnati (age 79)
Country: United States
Known as: actor, writer, television producer, executive producer, film director, film producer
Directed / created: 6 on Hadath
Average Hadath score: 8.0 across 6 titles

Order of the British EmpireGrammy AwardsAcademy Award for Best PictureAcademy Award for Best DirectorSaturn AwardsEmmy Award

Biography

Steven Allan Spielberg 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 and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema and is the highest-grossing film director of all time, with his films having earned almost $11 billion worldwide. Among other accolades, he has received three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, four BAFTA Awards, twelve Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, and a Grammy Award, as well as the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1995, an honorary knighthood in 2001, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2006, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2009, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015, and the National Medal of Arts in 2023. According to Forbes, he is one of the world's wealthiest celebrities, with a net worth of at least $5.3 billion.

Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).