Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg 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 and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema and is the highest-grossing film director of all time. Among other accolades, he has received three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, four BAFTA Awards, twelve Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, and a Grammy Award, as well as the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1995, an honorary knighthood in 2001, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2006, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2009, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015, and the National Medal of Arts in 2023. According to Forbes, he is the world's wealthiest celebrity. He is one of 22 people to achieve EGOT status.

• •Steven Spielberg was rejected from film school multiple times by the University of Southern California (USC) School of Cinematic Arts.
• •Spielberg is an avid collector of Norman Rockwell paintings.
• •He directed the first PG-13 movie, 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'.
• •Spielberg's first paying job in Hollywood was as an unpaid intern at Universal Studios, where he snuck onto the lot and observed filmmaking.
• •He graduated from California State University, Long Beach in 2002, 35 years after initially enrolling, fulfilling a promise to his parents.