Steven Speilberg

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Stephen Spielberg has directed some of the most popular, and highest grossing, movies of all time. He has directed six of the top 25 highest grossing movies of all time, and is clearly one of the most notable directors of our day. Stephen Spielberg was born on December 18th, 1947 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Stephen's family moved around a lot, and Stephen had troubles fitting in at school. His peers constantly picked him on for his physical weakness and his ethnic background. Stephen is Jewish, and in his childhood he attended predominately non-Jewish schools. (Reed/Cunneff 139) His father Arnold was a computer engineer, and his mother Leah was a restaurateur. Stephen was a practical joker, who constantly played tricks on his sisters. Stephen found his best mode of expression however, through an old eight-millimeter camera that he had found in his garage. Spielberg focused all of his time and effort into this new form of expression he had found, even at the expense of other things in his life. In an article in Time magazine Spielberg said "From age twelve or thirteen I knew I wanted to be a movie director, and I didn't think that science or math or foreign languages were going to

2. Reed, J D, Tom Cunneff "Stephen Spielberg." People Weekly March 15, vol. 51, p. 138-140, 1999.

3. "Stephen Spielberg." Contemporary Authors Online, Gale Literary Database, The Gale Group Inc., 1999.

1. Ebert, Roger. "The Moviemaker: Stephen Spielberg." Time June 8, vol. 151, p. 128-133, 1998.

Spielberg soon established himself once again as a box office draw with Jaws. The movie was made with an 8 million dollar budget, which for 1975 was pretty expensive, however it brought audiences to it in unprecedented numbers, and in 1975 Jaws became the first movie to gross more than 100 million dollars. It was the highest grossing movie to date, and Spielberg was just 26 years old when it was completed. Spielberg went on to direct many more box-office hits including ET and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Eventhough his movies had become widely popular and were loved by many audiences, critics still snubbed Spielberg, in part because of his success. Spielberg went on to make The Color Purple, which like many of his movies, met mixed criticism. While many critics lauded his adaptation of the novel's intent to a movie, others accused him of tampering with the content too much, and losing the real message of the work. Eventhough Spielberg had been voted best director of 1985 by the Director's Guild; he was not even nominated for b

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