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    10 Things You Don't Know About Steven Spielberg

    Steven Spielberg is a true master of his craft as he is the second richest director in the world, George Lucas is the first, and has directed almost 40 movies during his career. His movies include Ready Player One, Jaws, Jurassic Park, and Saving Private Ryan, and that's just to name a few of his massively successful films.

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    Steven Spielberg has been a household name since the 1970's and his fan base spans several generations. But how did he become the huge success he is today? What events have shaped his career? Let's find out. Here are 10 things you didn't know about Steven Spielberg:

    Interest in Film-making Began with Boy Scouts

    So how does such an incredibly talented, successful director get his start? For Steven Spielberg it was through Boy Scouts. During his time in Boy Scouts, Spielberg reached the highest level of eagle scout and he also discovered his love o

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    Born on December 18, 1946, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Steven Spielberg was an amateur filmmaker as a child. He went on to become the enormously successful and Academy Award-winning director of such films as Schindler's List, The Color Purple, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial and Saving Private Ryan. In 1994, he co-founded the studio Dreamworks SKG, which was purchased by Paramount Pictures in 2005.

    In 1994, Steven Spielberg founded the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, originally called the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, a nonprofit organization established to record testimonies in video format of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust. Between 1994 and 1999, the Foundation conducted nearly 52,000 interviews in 56 countries and in 32 languages. Interviewees included Jewish survivors, Jehovah's Witness survivors, homosexual survivors, liberators and liberation witnesses, political prisoners, rescuers and aid providers, Roma and Sinti sur
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    Steven Spielberg

    American filmmaker (born 1946)

    "Spielberg" redirects here. For other uses, see Spielberg (disambiguation).

    Steven Allan Spielberg (; born December 18, 1946) 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 film directors of all time and is the most commercially successful director in film history.[1] Among other accolades, he has received three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and two BAFTA Awards, as well as the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1995, the Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2001, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2006, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2009 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015. Seven of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".[2][3]

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