he is the most commercially successful
film maker in Hollywood welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be taking
a look at the directorial career of
Steven Spielberg doesn’t matter what the
genre there has to be a story that’s
worth telling that’s what it’s all about
born December 18th 1946 in Cincinnati
Ohio he spent his childhood in New
Jersey and Arizona there he created 8
millimeter films with his friends and by
the age of 13 years had already won a
prize for his 40-minute amateur war film
escape to nowhere based on the battle of
East Africa he later attended California
State University and became an unpaid
seven-days-a-week intern and guest in
the editing department at Universal
Studios there he made his short films
Amblin which was seen by the
vice-president of universals television
unit loving the film he made Spielberg
the youngest director ever signed for a
long-term deal with a major Hollywood
studio as a result he decided to drop
out of school to direct various
television projects Universal
satisfaction with his work quickly led
to him directing a series of made for
television features beginning with 1971
s dual a film about a psychotic trekker
who chases a terrified driver I have
never worked as hard I’ve never worked
as fast and yet for some strange reasons
I miss looking back never having worked
as fast or as hard on anything else
except for dual following this
Spielberg’s debut theatrical film was
1974 as the Sugarland Express which
followed the story of a married couple
who are chased by police as they try and
regain custody of their baby praised by
critics the film unfortunately flopped
at the box office undisturbed the young
director took on the horror thriller
jaws the grueling project was plagued by
delays and budget overruns but it went
on to become an enormous hit earning
nearly half a billion dollars worldwide
and winning three Academy Awards
having earned his mainstream
breakthrough he promptly rejected offers
to directed sequel and instead helmed
his sci-fi masterpiece Close Encounters
of the Third Kind which earned six
Academy Awards next Spielberg teamed
with his longtime friend Star Wars
creator George Lucas to bring the
archaeologist adventurer Indiana Jones
to life in not one but several widely
popular installments
[Applause]
meanwhile Spielberg returned to
science-fiction in 1981 with his iconic
tale of a young boy who befriends an
alien in ET the extra-terrestrial which
became one of the top grossing films of
all time
[Music]
the director then delved into drama with
the color purple and Empire of the Sun
before releasing his Peter Pan sequel
hook but it was his 1993 adaptation of
Michael Crichton’s dinosaur novel
Jurassic Park that would become the most
successful generating nearly a billion
dollars at the box office
you’re crazy sir thank you Dad following
this Spielberg earned his first Academy
Award for Schindler’s List a deeply
emotional true story of a German who
risked everything to save the lives of
1,100 Jews during the Holocaust by 1994
he decided to take a short hiatus from
directing to build up DreamWorks this
film studio would coexist with his
original production studio Amblin
entertainment which he had opened back
in 1981
rounding out the 90s he tackled the
Jurassic Park sequel the lost world
Amistad and his gritty war epic Saving
Private Ryan at the turn of the
millennium the director completed
Stanley Kubrick’s final project AI
artificial intelligence helm the
futuristic action flick Minority Report
told the story of a young con artist and
catch me if you can crafted his modern
adaptation of War of the Worlds and
dramatized the massacre of Israeli
athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in
Munich
finally granting the wishes of longtime
fans he reteamed with George Lucas in
2008 to bring his fedora clad hero back
to the silver screen in Indiana Jones
and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
yeah I thought that was closer he then
began creating a trilogy based on The
Adventures of Tintin and his World War
one epic war horse with the career
spanning over 40 years Spielberg has
directed many of the most revered and
influential films in the history of
cinema and continues to be one of the
most respected visionaries in Hollywood
today
film maker in Hollywood welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be taking
a look at the directorial career of
Steven Spielberg doesn’t matter what the
genre there has to be a story that’s
worth telling that’s what it’s all about
born December 18th 1946 in Cincinnati
Ohio he spent his childhood in New
Jersey and Arizona there he created 8
millimeter films with his friends and by
the age of 13 years had already won a
prize for his 40-minute amateur war film
escape to nowhere based on the battle of
East Africa he later attended California
State University and became an unpaid
seven-days-a-week intern and guest in
the editing department at Universal
Studios there he made his short films
Amblin which was seen by the
vice-president of universals television
unit loving the film he made Spielberg
the youngest director ever signed for a
long-term deal with a major Hollywood
studio as a result he decided to drop
out of school to direct various
television projects Universal
satisfaction with his work quickly led
to him directing a series of made for
television features beginning with 1971
s dual a film about a psychotic trekker
who chases a terrified driver I have
never worked as hard I’ve never worked
as fast and yet for some strange reasons
I miss looking back never having worked
as fast or as hard on anything else
except for dual following this
Spielberg’s debut theatrical film was
1974 as the Sugarland Express which
followed the story of a married couple
who are chased by police as they try and
regain custody of their baby praised by
critics the film unfortunately flopped
at the box office undisturbed the young
director took on the horror thriller
jaws the grueling project was plagued by
delays and budget overruns but it went
on to become an enormous hit earning
nearly half a billion dollars worldwide
and winning three Academy Awards
having earned his mainstream
breakthrough he promptly rejected offers
to directed sequel and instead helmed
his sci-fi masterpiece Close Encounters
of the Third Kind which earned six
Academy Awards next Spielberg teamed
with his longtime friend Star Wars
creator George Lucas to bring the
archaeologist adventurer Indiana Jones
to life in not one but several widely
popular installments
[Applause]
meanwhile Spielberg returned to
science-fiction in 1981 with his iconic
tale of a young boy who befriends an
alien in ET the extra-terrestrial which
became one of the top grossing films of
all time
[Music]
the director then delved into drama with
the color purple and Empire of the Sun
before releasing his Peter Pan sequel
hook but it was his 1993 adaptation of
Michael Crichton’s dinosaur novel
Jurassic Park that would become the most
successful generating nearly a billion
dollars at the box office
you’re crazy sir thank you Dad following
this Spielberg earned his first Academy
Award for Schindler’s List a deeply
emotional true story of a German who
risked everything to save the lives of
1,100 Jews during the Holocaust by 1994
he decided to take a short hiatus from
directing to build up DreamWorks this
film studio would coexist with his
original production studio Amblin
entertainment which he had opened back
in 1981
rounding out the 90s he tackled the
Jurassic Park sequel the lost world
Amistad and his gritty war epic Saving
Private Ryan at the turn of the
millennium the director completed
Stanley Kubrick’s final project AI
artificial intelligence helm the
futuristic action flick Minority Report
told the story of a young con artist and
catch me if you can crafted his modern
adaptation of War of the Worlds and
dramatized the massacre of Israeli
athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in
Munich
finally granting the wishes of longtime
fans he reteamed with George Lucas in
2008 to bring his fedora clad hero back
to the silver screen in Indiana Jones
and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
yeah I thought that was closer he then
began creating a trilogy based on The
Adventures of Tintin and his World War
one epic war horse with the career
spanning over 40 years Spielberg has
directed many of the most revered and
influential films in the history of
cinema and continues to be one of the
most respected visionaries in Hollywood
today
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