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Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg is an American motion-picture director, producer and executive, who has achieved great mercantile success and is among the most(prenominal) popular film-makers of the late 20th Century. Spielberg made his first film at the age of 12. In 1969, his short film Amblin came to the attention of Universal Pictures and he gestural a seven-year contract with them. His earliest commercial efforts were television movies, which included the fm Duel made in 1971, and which gained him wider recognition. In 1975 Spielberg made the film Jaws, a thriller based on Peter Benchleys novel about a great white shark. Jaws turn out to be a tremendous success and right away established Spielbergs reputation and fame. After this, with only few exceptions, almost every motion picture that Spielberg has handled has become a box-office hit, and he has been increasingly regarded as a film-maker of genuine artistic ability. Subsequent films have included C lose Encounters of the Third Kind(1977), 1941(1979), Raiders of the Lost Ark(1981) and its sequels indium Jones and the Temple of Doom(1984) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade(1989),also E.T. (1982) which has been said to have been his greatest achievement, The Color Purple (1985), Empire of the Sun(1987), Always(1989) and Hook(1991). In 1993 Spielberg released two films that had tremendous commercial and artistic impact. Jurassic Park featuring computer-createad dinosaurs, which within four weeks of its release became the top-grossing motion picture up to that time. He alsreleased Schindlers List, an epic of the Holocaust, this proved him to be a director of grear power and sensitivity, he received an academy award for best director and best picture. In 1987 he had received the Irving Thalberg Award. In 1994, with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, Spielberg formed a new studio, Dreamworks SKG, they also annouced the formation of a creative partnership with Microsof t Corporation - Dreamworks Interactive - to produce interactive games, videos ateaching materials.