Motion picture producer, director, and writer Steven Spielberg, creator of such immensely popular films as Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and Raiders of the Lost Ark, is considered one of the most gifted and...

Steven Spielberg (born 1946) was one of the wealthiest and most powerful movie-makers in Hollywood. The director of such elaborate fantasies as Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T., The Extra-Terrestrial, he was regarded as a man who understood...

Reviewing Steven Spielberg's first theatrical film, Sugarland Express, in 1974, critic Pauline Kael wrote, "The director, Steven Spielberg, is twenty-six; I can't tell if he has any mind, or even a strong personality … but...

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946)[1] 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....

DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. head Jeffrey Katzenberg said Wednesday that Viacom Inc. shouldn't be nonchalant about the possibility of losing Steven Spielberg.The warning came a day after Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman said his company was planning for Spielberg's possible departure next year amid reports that...

It was a quarter-century in the making but then again, nothing is easy for cartoon heroes such as Tintin.Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks, a division of Viacom Inc., has committed to produce at least one movie about the adventures of the intrepid Belgian reporter, said Nick Rodwell,...

Forget the tuxedo. Jerry Seinfeld made his big appearance at the Cannes Film Festival wearing a fuzzy bumblebee suit and black tights."You know, one thing I hate is any kind of movie promotion that smacks of desperation in any way," the 53-year-old comedian said, before...

Andrzej Wajda was honored Monday by the United States for films that chronicled the development of the Solidarity freedom movement.Wajda, who supported the pro-democracy movement that helped topple communism in 1989, is the first recipient of the Czeslaw Milosz Award for Contributions to U.S. Polish...

In the following essay, Aronstein argues that the Indiana Jones trilogy uses the traditions of “medieval chivalric romances” to construct a film hero who represents a modern American knight.

In the following essay, Sheehan traces Spielberg's early development as a director, noting Spielberg's dominant thematic concerns in such films as Duel, Jaws, 1941, and The Color Purple.

Essay consists of a biography of Steven Speilberg.