Steven Spielberg's biography

Steven Allan Spielberg is 76 years old film director born at Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Steven was born on Wednesday 18th of December 1946. According to year of birth 1946 Steven belongs to Silent Generation. Birthday on 18th of December means Steven is Sagittarius. Sagittarius is a Fiery sign of Zodiac Belt. These people are highly learned and love to gain knowledge throughout their life.Steven was married 2 times.

Steven Allan Spielberg's spouse

Steven is married to Kate Capshaw

Steven is native english speaker. Steven is white american. He is citizen of United States of America. He is jewish. Steven´s primary profession is to be film director. You can know Steven also as screenwriter, film producer, actor, art collector, businessperson, science fiction writer, film actor, executive producer, film editor, television producer. He is recently known as director.

Steven Spielberg's dad

Steven Spielberg's father's name is Arnold Spielberg. He is known as electrical engineer. Steven´s father was born on Tuesday 6th of February 1917 in Cincinnati. His father died on Tuesday 25th of August 2020 in Los Angeles. Arnold Spielberg was 74 years old, when this happened.

Steven Spielberg's family

Steven Spielberg's wife

She is known as actor. Steven´s wife was born on Tuesday 3rd of November 1953 in Fort Worth.

Steven Spielberg's ex wifes

Amy Irving

Steven Spielberg and Amy Irving have been together since 1985 for 4 years. She is known as film producer. Steven´s ex wife was born on Thursday 10th of September 1953 in Palo Alto.

Steven has 3 sons and 2 daughters

Steven Spielberg's son: Max Spielberg

Steven Spielberg's son's name is Max Spielberg. His son was born on Thursday 13th of June 1985 in Santa Monica.

Steven Spielberg's son: Theo Spielberg

Steven Spielberg's son's name is Theo Spielberg. Steven´s son was born on Thursday 23rd of June 1988 in Mission Hills.

Steven Spielberg's son: Sawyer Spielberg

Steven Spielberg's son's name is Sawyer Spielberg. Steven´s son was born on Tuesday 10th of March 1992 in Los Angeles.

Steven Spielberg's daughter: Jessica Capshaw

Steven Spielberg's daughter's name is Jessica Capshaw. She is known as actor. His daughter was born on Monday 9th of August 1976 in Columbia.

Steven Spielberg's daughter: Sasha Spielberg

Steven Spielberg's daughter's name is Sasha Spielberg. She is known as actor. Steven´s daughter was born on Monday 14th of May 1990 in Los Angeles.

Steven Spielberg's schools

We found 3 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: California State University, Long Beach, Saratoga High School, Arcadia High School.

Detailed informations about his schools

He attended California State University-Long Beach after being turned down by USC Cinema school twice.
He attended Arcadia High School in Phoenix.
He graduated from Saratoga High School in Saratoga, California.

Steven Spielberg's career

His main focus is to be film director. He is famous thanks to E.T., Jurassic Park. Steven is also a member of Writers Guild of America West.

Is Steven Spielberg gay ?

He is known to be straight.

Awards and competitions

Steven Spielberg's Awards

Steven received award for Academy Award for Best Director for work Schindler's List in 1993
He received award for Academy Award for Best Director for work Saving Private Ryan in 1998
He received award for Academy Award for Best Picture for work Schindler's List in 1993
Steven received award for BAFTA Award for Best Film for work Schindler's List in 1993
He received award for New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film for work Schindler's List in 1993
He received award for National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director for work E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in 1982
Steven received award for National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director for work Schindler's List in 1993
Steven received award for Saturn Award for Best Director for work Minority Report in 2003
He received award for Golden Globe Award for Best Director for work Saving Private Ryan in 1998
Steven received award for Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director for work E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in 1983
Steven received award for Saturn Award for Best Director for work Jurassic Park in 1994
Steven received award for Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director for work Minority Report in 2002
He received award for London Film Critics Circle Award for Director of the Year for work Schindler's List in 1994
Steven received award for London Film Critics Circle Award for Film of the Year for work Schindler's List in 1994
He received award for Saturn Award for Best Director for work Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1978
He received award for New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film for work Saving Private Ryan in 1998
He received award for Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated Program for work Animaniacs in 1997
Steven received award for London Film Critics Circle Award for Film of the Year for work Saving Private Ryan in 1998
Steven received award for Golden Globe Award for work Schindler's List in 1994
Steven received award for Saturn Award for Best Director for work Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1982

Steven Spielberg's Rankings

He ranked #1 in Premiere's 2003 annual Hollywood Power List. It is the third time he received the top ranking (the others being in 1994 & 1995). He had ranked #6 in 2002.
He ranked #2 on Premiere's 2005 Power 50 List, behind only Peter Jackson. Had the same ranking in 2004, behind Pixar bosses John Lasseter and Steve Jobs.
He ranked #1 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Greatest directors ever!" (2005).
His iconic character "E.T." from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) is ranked #26 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
He ranked #6 in the Power Rankings and #1 in the Money Rankings on Forbes' 2006 Celebrity 100 List, with earnings of $332 million. Most of those earnings were from the 2005 sale of DreamWorks to Paramount Pictures.
He ranked #4 on Premiere's 2006 "Power 50" list. Had ranked #2 in 2005.
In 2007, he ranked #2 on EW's The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood.

Steven Spielberg's Nominations

He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Director
Steven was nominated for Academy Award for Best Director
Steven was nominated for Academy Award for Best Director
Steven was nominated for Academy Award for Best Director
Steven was nominated for Academy Award for Best Director
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Director
Steven was nominated for Academy Award for Best Director
Steven was nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture
Steven was nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture
Steven was nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture
Steven was nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture
Steven was nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture
Steven was nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture
Steven was nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture
Steven was nominated for European Film Award for Best Non-European Film for work Saving Private Ryan in 1998
Steven was nominated for European Film Award for Best Non-European Film for work Minority Report in 2002
Steven was nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture
Steven was nominated for Academy Award for Best Director

What else you don't know about Steven Spielberg ?

Steven´s middle name is Allan.

What Steven Spielberg has done for a first time

When Spielberg received his undergraduate degree (about 35 years after he had first entered college), the orchestra played the theme from the "Indiana Jones" series of films as he walked up to and across the stage.
The first film he directed that was not scored by John Williams was The Color Purple (1985), which was scored by Quincy Jones.
He, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola presented Martin Scorsese with his first ever award for Best Director, for The Departed (2006).
Burt Reynolds film "White Lightning" (1973) was originally slated to be Spielberg's first theatrical feature and he spent months on pre-production.
He attended the first AFI "Life Achievement Award" as a guest of his The Sugarland Express (1974) and Jaws (1975) producer Richard D. Zanuck where Spielberg's lifelong hero John Ford was the honored recipient (Los Angeles / March 31 1973).
His father Arnold Spielberg was an innovator who worked on the first computer that was ever sold commercially back in 1950.
Steven Spielberg was the first living person to have a playable Lego mini-figure modelled after him. It was sold with several sets as part of the Lego Studios product range in the early 2000s.
He was a big fan of Twin Peaks (1990) and he was set to direct the first episode of the second season of the show before David Lynch decided to direct the episode himself.
Both of his wives were born in the same year. His first wife, Amy Irving, was born in September 1953, and his second wife, Kate Capshaw, was born in November 1953.

Steven Spielberg's Donations

He is a supporter of the Democratic Party. In 1996, he donated $100,000 to the Party. He also favored Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential Election.
In 2018, he donated half a million dollars to (and attended) the March For Our Lives protest in favor of gun control in the United States.

Steven Spielberg's quotes

Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to and I see another movie I want to make.
[on winning the Best Director Oscar for Saving Private Ryan (1998)]: Am I allowed to say I really wanted this?
Before I go off and direct a movie I always look at 4 films. They tend to be: Seven Samurai (1954), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and The Searchers (1956).
I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.
I would love to see the British film industry get back on its feet again.
I don't drink coffee. I've never had a cup of coffee in my entire life. That's something you probably don't know about me. I've hated the taste since I was a kid.
I dream for a living.
I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.
Poltergeist (1982) is the darker side of my nature, it's me when I was scaring my younger sisters half to death. In Poltergeist, I wanted to terrify and I also wanted to amuse - I tried to mix the laughs and screams together.
With Star Wars (1977), George (George Lucas) put the butter back into the popcorn.
I always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience.
Godzilla (Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)) was the most masterful of all dinosaur movies because it made you believe it was really happening.
I think every film I make that puts characters in jeopardy is me purging my own fears, sadly only to re-engage with them shortly after the release of the picture. I'll never make enough films to purge them all.
What I'm saying is that I believe in showmanship.
I feel like I've been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.
What kept us going was the thought that David Lean, at 54, had done this every day for a year. David Lean was our criterion for survival - on filming Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) in Tunisia.
As long as there's been Transformers, I've been one of the biggest fans. And I always thought that somewhere in this genius concept, there was a movie.
I'll probably never win an Oscar, but I'll sure have a lot of fun! I really believe that movies are the great escape!
Duel (1971) was almost a once-in-a-lifetime story. You don't get stories like that all the time.
All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.
The person I enjoy working for more than anyone else is George Lucas. He's the best boss I ever had because he's the most talented boss I ever had.
If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.
I interpret my dreams one way and make a movie out of them and people see my movies and make them part of their dreams.
At E3 games convention about partnership with EA: I am a gamer myself, and I really wanted to create a video game that I could play with my kids.
{On his behavior following the premiere of a new film] My ritual is total blackout. No radio, no television, no internet, no newspapers. I just want to hear one number, which is the Monday-morning number.
The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every two years.
Disney is the birthplace of imagination and has always been as close to the worldwide audience as any company ever has.
[on seeing The Godfather (1972) for the first time] I felt that I should quit, that there was no reason to continue directing because I would never reach that level of confidence.
[on James Cameron] He gets a lot of points for being a techno-brat, but he is a very emotional storyteller.
[on Akira Kurosawa] Kurosawa is the pictorial Shakespeare of our time.
Daniel Day-Lewis would have always been counted as one of the greatest of actors, were he from the silent era, the golden age of film or even some time in cinema's distant future.
When you listen, you learn, You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.
[on Schindler's List (1993)] Robin (Williams) would call me every week to cheer me up. And I'd tell him what scenes we'd shot.
Carlo Rambaldi was E.T.'s Geppetto.
It boggles my mind how much I feel is left on my plate. There are things on the other side of the supper table stewing in pots that I'm not really even aware of. I would retire if I didn't feel that way. [2009]
[on A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)] A.I. is a Kubrick concept, a Kubrick approach, a Kubrick philosophy, generalled by Kubrick and charged by me.
[Interview on "Inside the Actors Studio" 14 March 1999] I think "cutting-in-the-camera" is the greatest lesson that any director can learn about filmmaking, because when you don't got it, you don't got it, and there's no way to go back and get it...
I said to George there's only one person that can play Indy's father and that's James Bond, and the original James Bond and the greatest James Bond, Sean Connery.
The world would be a poorer place without Doctor Who (1963).
[laughingly, to composer John Williams who first played the theme for Jaws (1975) on the piano] Well, that isn't going to do it.
I could never have been an accountant. I got a D in math. [2015]
[on Back to the Future (1985)] I just think the movie is so rich in story, and so rich in occurrence that I really liked it. And it was all in the script too.
[After watching Showgirls (1995)] Sometimes I hate this town.
[on Super 8mm] For me, 8mm was the beginning of everything. (...) When I think of 8mm, I think of the movies. [2016]
[on directing] I just love it. This is something that I'll be doing for the rest of my life. [2016]
[on his childhood] Being a Jew meant that I was not normal. I was not like everybody else. I just wanted to be accepted. Not for who I was. I wanted to be accepted for who everybody else was.
[on Lawrence of Arabia (1962)] The first time I saw it I couldn't take it all in. I left the theatre stunned and speechless. It was a miracle that film.
I think it's very important for actors to lie in interviews. Because it does get you parts, you know. But just don't lie about you can swim when you can't, because that wouldn't be smart.
You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!
[on the type of video games he plays] I don't play online games. World of Warcraft (2004), I've played that, but I mainly play action games.
I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.
I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then the greatest thing that happened to me was when I saw the light, and realized I needed to love him in a way that he could love me back.
My dad took me to my first movie. It was The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.
I simply adore The Simpsons (1989). I go to bed in a Simpsons T-shirt.
[on Audrey Hepburn's passing] Audrey gave more than she ever got. The whole world is going to miss her.
College students helped stop the Vietnam War, maybe high school students can do something about gun control.
Storytelling is the most important aspect of anything I've ever done. It's how the story is told. That's all I've focused on. If something doesn't tell a story or if it's confusing, I either don't shoot it or I cut it out.

Steven Spielberg's height, body shape, eye color

Lets describe how Steven Spielberg looks. We will focus on his height, body shape, eye color and hair color. He is tall as 5' 7½" (171 cm). Body build is average. Steven´s eyes are tinted hazel. Steven´s hair is shade of salt and pepper.

Steven Spielberg