Thursday, June 19, 2008

The Dino Guy - Steven Allan Spielberg.


Steven Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on December 18, 1947. "I use my childhood in all my pictures and all the time I go back there to find ideas and stories." Spielberg at seven.



For Steven Spielberg's first film's premiere, his father rented a local theater, and his mother and sisters sold popcorn and sodas. Spielberg's first commercial venture grossed $600, netting him a profit of $100.


Jaws is a 1975 thriller/ horror film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on Peter Benchly best-selling novel inspired by the Jersy Shore Shark attacks 1916.


Unable to get his 8mm films seen by Hollywood executives, 20-year-old Steven Spielberg convinced a friend to bankroll the $10,000 he needed to make the 35mm AMBLIN' (1969), the story of a boy and girl hitchhiking to the Pacific Ocean. It was his first collaboration with cinematographer Allen Daviau, with whom he would go on to make E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL, THE COLOR PURPLE, and EMPIRE OF THE SUN. With Daviau.


Steve found ET out of his innovations!!!
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 science fiction film, co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Mellisa Mathison and starring Henry Thomas, Robert Mac Naughton, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace and Peter Coyote.


Steven Spielberg with President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan after a showing of E.T.


Letter from President Reagan to Steven Spielberg thanking him for showing
"E.T. The Extraterrestrial" at the White House.


Indiana Jones, an action and adventure series from spielberg.
Above picture portrays steve working over the sets of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of lost Ark in 1981.


A part of Indiana Jones crew.
Dr. Henry Walton Jones, Jr., better known as Indiana Jones or Indy, is a Fictional Adventure, professor of history and archeology, and the main Protagonist of the Indiana Jones Franchaise. George Lucas created the character in homage to the action heroes of 1930s Serial Films.

Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford.


Jeffrey Katzenberg, Steven Spielberg and David Geffen together forming the Dream Team.
The Team is Dreamworks SKG, where SKG represents these three people.


Schindler's List is a 1993 Biographical film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian, telling the story of oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than one thousand Polish Jews during the Holocaust.

A Screamer from Steven Spielberg!!!!!
Spielberg gave birth to something which was found around 200 million years ago...!
Jurassic Park is a 1993 Science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the novel of he same name by Michael Crichton. The film centers on the fictional island of Isla Nublar, where scientists have created an amusement park of cloned Dinosaurs.


Directing a prehistoric creature which does not have life..


Steven Spilberg in the sets of Saving Private Ryan.
Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 war film, set during the D-Day invasion of Normandy during World War - II. It was directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat. This film is particularly notable for the intensity of its opening 24 minutes, which depict the Omaha Beachhead assault of June 6th, 1944.


Munich is a 2005 semi-fictionalized film about the 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli Olympic athletes by Black September gunmen and of the Israeli government's secret retaliation. The film stars Eric Bana and was co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg. Spielberg's film Munich was his second film essaying Jewish relations in the world (the first being Schindler's List).


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. where Schildler's list won the title. In 1987 he was awarded The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for his work as a creative producer.


In a career that spans almost four decades, Spielberg's films have touched many themes and genres. During the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, three of his films, Jaws, E.T. The Extra-terrestrial , and Jurassic park became the highest grossing films for their time. During his early years as a director, his sci-fi and adventure films were often seen as the archetype of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years, his movies began addressing such historical issues as the Holocaust, Slavery, War and Terrorism.