Who is Steven Spielberg?
Steven Allan Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on December 18, 1946. His father named Arnold is an Electrical Engineer in developing Computers and his mother named Leah is a concert pianist. He is the oldest and has 3 younger sisters named Annie, Sue and Nancy. They move to Arizona and went to Arcadia highschool in Phoenix where started his love for movies. By the age of 12, he made his first amateur film, an 8 minute Western, called the Last Gun. He charged admission to his home movies and his sister Annie sell popcorns. At the age of 14, he made a 40-minute war movie entitled Escape to Nowhere. By 16, he created a 140-minute movie called Firelight, a sci-fi epic based on the story written by his sister Nancy about an UFO attack. Later on he tried to enroll in a film course at the University of Southern California but was turned down twice. He then studied English at the California State University at Long Beach and moving into film. By the age 22, he was signed up as an intern
Steven Spielberg, the most commercially successful director in the history of American motion pictures, is the director of the movie Amistad. Spielberg’s motion picture career began in 1974, with The Sugarland Express, a fairly dated chase movie of the Smokey and the Bandit flavor starring Goldie Hawn and William Atherton. He had previously directed three television movies (one — Duel — also a chase film) and directed for the television series Night Gallery. Commercial success came the next year, with the grandfather of all shark movies, Jaws, with Roy Scheider. Spielberg’s first Academy Award nomination came for 1977’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which did for UFOs what Jaws did for sharks. (Although the special effects of Close Encounters were well advanced for the time, it had the misfortune to be released the same year as Star Wars, which well overshadowed the gadgetry of the former.) Spielberg’s first double-nomination — for both “Best Producer” and “Best Director” — c
Steven Allan Spielberg was born on 18 December 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio. His passion for movies started at an early age – at nine, Steven Spielberg was already creating 8mm “action” movies, and at the age of 13, he won a local contest with a homemade 45-minute war documentary. Three years later, Spielberg directed his first feature film, Firelight. Shot on a budget of 400 US Dollars (USD), the movie was shown at a local movie theater and generated about 100 USD in profits. Firelight later became the inspiration for Spielburg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
