CWEB NEWS  : Celebrity Birthdays December 18th Steven Spielberg

Celebrity Birthdays December 18th Steven Spielberg
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CWEB on 18 December, 2007 06:29:00
 
Steven Spielberg was born on December 18, 1946 and is an American film director
and producer. Spielberg is a three-time Academy Award winner and is the highest
grossing filmmaker of all time; his films having made nearly $8 billion
internationally. Forbes Magazine places Spielberg's net worth at $3 billion.As
of 2006, Premiere listed him as the most powerful and influential figure in the
motion picture industry. TIME named him in the '100 Greatest People of the
Century'. At the end of the 20th century LIFE named him the most influential
person of his generation.During the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, three of his films,
Jaws, E.T., and Jurassic Park became the highest grossing films for their time.
Spielberg is a winner of three Academy Awards. He has been nominated for six
Academy Awards for the category of Best Director, winning two of them
(Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan), and seven of the films he directed
were up for the Best Picture Oscar (Schindler's List won). In 1987 he was
awarded The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for his work as a creative
producer.
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Preceded by
Clint Eastwood
for UnforgivenAcademy Award for Best Director
1993
for Schindler's ListSucceeded by
Robert Zemeckis
for Forrest Gump
Preceded by
James Cameron
for TitanicAcademy Award for Best Director
1998
for Saving Private RyanSucceeded by
Sam Mendes
for American Beauty
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