Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg over the years has become one of the world’s most acclaimed directors, some of his more famous films, such Jaws, E.T, and Jurassic Park, broke the current box office records that were set at the time. But the path to successes was not always easy for him. In 1946, Spielberg began his life in the Ohio city of Cincinnati. He was born into a Jewish family, and moved to New Jersey, and Arizona in the process of his childhood. In his early teens he began making armature films with his friends, he would charge 25 cents of admission to his home films, while his sister sold popcorn. While Spielberg attended his Hebrew school, he was the target of bullying due to his family being Orthodox Jews, he was never really embarrassed to be a Orthodox jew, more embarrassed of the impression the outward appearances gave his family. He was always worried of bringing his friends over to find his Grandfather praying in a corner. He was also the target of anti-sematic prejudice, that escalated to the point where he ended up with two bloody noses. When he became a boy scout in 1958 he decided to earn photography merit badge by using his father’s camera to shoot a 8 minute film titled “The Last Gunfight.” At the age of 13 he won a award for a 40 minute film called “escape to Nowhere” which was based on a battle in East Africa. And at age 16 he directed his first independent film titled “Firelight” which he premiered at his local theater. In the end the film
At a very young age of eight, David Fincher’s passion for cinema grew when he was inspired by the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Born in 1962 Denver, Colorado, David Fincher moved to Ashland, Oregon in his teens, where he graduated from Ashland High School. During high school, he directed plays, designed sets, and managed lighting after school. One summer, he and a friend attended the Berkley Film Institute’s summer program, where he hoped to learn film as a true art form but instead was taught the technical production. Either way he was happy to engage is this and as his early film industry career started, he was a production assistant at his local television news station. Years went by as he directed propaganda films followed by becoming a well-known music director until his first movie feature debut Aliens 3 in 1992. However, the American director David Fincher didn’t become a modern 21st century visionary until his creation of the film Se7en (1995). The huge success from this film started Fincher’s popularity in the film industry. From there he continued to make ironic movies we know today such as: Fight Club (1999), Zodiac (2007), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), The Social Network (2010), Gone Girl, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Steven Spielberg is the highest grossing director by the worldwide box office collection that was ($9.444 million). Steven has made only 27 films in fourty years and got 24 super hits out of it.He has contributed to the film industry with revolutionary techniques and genres and ideas. He introduced people with different technological ideas and special effects. Steven Spielberg has probably shown us adventure films with one of the best special effects. Steven Spielberg is known for the stylistic theme to the film and has shown mainstream approach in his work. He is the most commercially successful director of all the time. He has been thanked in Oscar speech more than Jesus in the award winning speeches by different actors, producers and
Kevin Smith has make the grueling trek from an unknown, extremely low-budget filmmaker to a well known and respected filmmaker thanks to the
Some may say he is intelligent, while others may say he is courageous. Big words are just insufficient to describe this actor/director/screen-writer/producer. This two-time Oscar winner and nominee of numerous awards, has proven that Hollywood is not just a money making workshop, but it offers well profound characters that deserve the attention of connoisseurs. More importantly,
But he was soon disqualified from combat due to bad eyesight. He ended up going back to Hollywood and made training videos for the army. he discharged in 1945 as a captain.
Steven Spielberg is my favorite director form the Film School Generation because of how well diverse is work is from different genres movies to TV series and cartoons. His first film was in 1961 called Escape to Nowhere. He started out at California State University, but dropped out to pursue his entertainment career. He gained notoriety as an uncredited assistant editor and after became the director for a few short films.
On July 9, 1956 Tom Hanks was born in Concord, California. At the age of five, his parents were divorced and he was raised, along with his siblings, by his father. After frequent moves around the state of California, they finally settled in Oakland where Hanks attended Skyline High School. After graduating in 1974, he began junior college in Hayward, California. When he realized he wanted to pursue
As one of the most widely acclaimed and influential directors of the postwar era, Stanley Kubrick enjoyed a reputation and a standing unique among the filmmakers of his day. He had a brilliant career with relatively few films. An outsider, he worked beyond the confines of Hollywood, which he disliked, maintaining complete control of his projects and making movies according to his own ideas and time constraints. To him, filmmaking was a form of art and unlike Hollywood, not a business.
Steven Spielberg is notorious for his jaw dropping brilliant movies that mesmerize a large audience.
The growing influence of the film industry on the everyday lives of all people can be accredited to Steven Spielberg. Starting as a young, little known director, his unique story telling abilities quickly launched his career. After Spielberg’s first major debut of his talent directing Jaws, he became an unstoppable force in the movie industry. Steven Spielberg led to evolvement of the movie industry, societal forces driving movie plots completely altered showing more of the connections that are formed between people instead of the agenda usually pushed by directors.
His enterer life, he had wanted to be an author, he wrote books all through high school and college, but none of them ever got published. So, after college, decided to give writing movies a try. He moved out to Hollywood with some friends and started writing spec scripts. Ended up getting his first screenwriting assignment within a few months. Needed to have a temporary job reading scripts at a small production company and convinced them that they should just hire him to write any movies they wanted.
At the age of 12, His first home movie was of a train wreck involving his toy Lionel
Spielberg was born in Cincinnati on December 18th, 1946. His father was an electrical engineer, and his mother a concert pianist. Steven seemed to get the best elements from both of them. Spielberg had an early fascination with cinema and began making amateur films at a very young age. At 13, he won a local contest for his 40-minute film, Escape to Nowhere. Ironically, Steven was unable to get into a film school, so he
Steven Spielberg is one of the most successful directors of all time (in fact, may people would argue that he is the most successful director there has ever been) and his movies have been some of the most profitable and well known in history. His opening sequences are noted for being captivating, gripping and often scary, building tension and suspense. Born in 1946 in Ohio, Spielberg has become elite among directors. The gross of the films he has directed is estimated at $8.5 billion, and three of his films – Jurassic Park, Jaws and E.T. the extra-terrestrial – have achieved box office records.
Wes Anderson is widely known as a creative and unique filmmaker, who focuses his distinctive style mostly on narratives and symmetry. Anderson has made a name for himself through several films that depict unusual, yet comical characters, and also connect with the audience through visual aspects. As a young director, Anderson began his amateur career with his debut film Bottle Rocket, and quickly rose to fame by winning several awards, including an AFI Award for Movie of the Year for his 2012 film, Moonrise Kingdom. This particular film expresses Anderson’s quirky style by following the love story of two rebellious teenagers who run away together following their parents’ disapproval, causing the whole town to go out and search for them.