Steven Spielberg was born on December 18, 1946, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Growing up as the only Jewish family in the neighborhood exposed impacted his childhood and later his movies. Looking for a distraction from life, young Spielberg picked up his father's 8mm camera, which was to be his newfound hobby. In which he created many short films, enlisting his family members as cast members. At the age of 13, Spielberg taught himself how to master camera angles, technical tricks, and visual storytelling skills. His first feature-length film, Firelight, was two-and-a-half-hours long. Firelig

Having had his personal life up and running again, Spielberg made a major career resurgence in 1993 with the special effect-heavy dinosaur extravaganza Jurassic Park. Jurassic Park made an outstanding impression, with a record-setting opening weekend gross of $70 million and a staggering total gross of $357 million. The film encouraged and launched another big money franchises, including two sequels, the lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), which Spielberg directed, and Jurassic Park 3, which he produced.

Jaws became Spielberg's claim to fame, becoming the top-grossing film of all time in 1975. This horror film is about a man-eating shark terrorizing a seaside community. The movie was nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars, and won a few technical awards. Jaws marked a new movie genre, the blockbuster. The blockbuster movie could be interpreted as a highly anticipated movie that made a lot of money and captured both critics and viewers attention. In 1998, the film was named by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 best American films of the century.

As one of life's elements, downfalls are always apparent, and as many people may say, all good things have a temporary end to them and everyday may not always be a sunny day. In Spielberg's case, this inevitable fall was evident through a string of relatively disappointing movies, such as Empire of the Sun, but this was a contribution of a personal upheaval in Spielberg life. At that time, Spielberg's marriage was a mess that resulted in a divorce with his wife, the actress Amy Irving of four years, with whom he had a son called Max. The following year, Spielberg was blessed with a daughter called Sasha, with whom Kate Capshaw was the mother and the costar of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Spielberg and Capshaw married in October 1991 and together have total of five children.

In 1982, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial toppled the film Jaws from the all tim

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