Perhaps one of the greatest if not the greatest director/producer in American film history is Steven Allan Spielberg. 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. As of 2006, Premiere listed him as the most powerful and influential figure in the motion picture industry. TIME magazine 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. 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., 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 film-making. In recent years, he has tackled emotionally powerful issues such as the Holocaust, slavery, war, and terrorism. Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of Leah Adler a restaurateur and concert pianist, and Arnold Spielberg, a computer engineer. Throughout his early teens, Spielberg made amateur 8 mm "adventure" movies with his friends, the first of which he shot at a restaurant in Scottsdale, Arizona. He charged admission (25 cents) to his home movies (which involved the wrecks he staged with his Lionel train set) while his sister sold popcorn. Spielberg became a boy scout and in 1958, he fulfilled a requirement for photography merit badge by making a 9 minute 8 mm film entitled The Last Gunfight. At age 13, Spielberg won a prize for a 40-minute war movie he titled Escape to Nowhere. At 16 years old wrote and directed his first independent movie, a 140-minute science fiction adventure called Firelight . The movie, which had a budget of $400, was shown in his local movie theater and generated a profit of $100. A writer for the local Phoenix press wrote that he could expect great things to come. He attended California State University, Long Beach, to avoid the draft for the Vietnam War. His actual career began when he returned to Universal studios as an unpaid, three-day-a-week intern and guest of the editing department. As an intern and guest of Universal Studios, Spielberg made his first short film for theatrical release, the 24 minute movie Amblin' in 1968. After Sidney Sheinberg, then the vice-president of production for Universal's TV arm, saw the film, Spielberg became the youngest director ever to be signed to a long-term deal with a major Hollywood studio.
In the film industry, there are directors who merely take someone else’s vision and express it in their own way on film, then there are those who take their own visions and use any means necessary to express their visions on film. The latter of these two types of directors are called auteurs. Not only do auteurs write the scripts from elements that they know and love in life, but they direct, produce, and sometimes act in their films as well. Three prime examples of these auteurs are: Kevin Smith, Spike Lee and Alfred Hitchcock.
Jurassic era. Steven Spielberg took on this book, as a movie project to add to
Steven Spielberg, the only child of Leah and Arnold Spielberg, was born on December 18, 1946 at the beginning of the Baby Boom years in Cincinnati, Ohio. It does not take a great stretch of the imagination to see that Steven’s film influences were derived from his father’s experience as a World War II veteran and computer technician and his mother’s past profession as a concert pianist. The love and amount of technology, history, and music within Steven’s films can all be traced back to his early life with his family.
Ford “worked in many genres over a long career and he won six Oscars - including two that he won for his World War II documentary work - but he is best
Tim Burton is popular film director for all of his amazing movies he has made with techniques in his films like lighting, camera angle, and zooming. Two of the well-known films Tim Burton has created is Edward Scissorhands which he had came up with the story in 1990, and he also came up with Big Fish which was created by Tim Burton in 2003.
John Ford John Ford was an American motion picture director. Winner of four Academy Awards, and is known as one of America’s great film directors. He began his career in the film industry around 1913. According to Ellis, Ford’s style is evident in both the themes he is drawn toward and the visual treatment of those themes, in his direction of the camera and in what’s in front of it. Although he began his career in the silent film area and continued to work fruitfully for decades after the thirties, Ford reached creative maturity in the thirties.
...nations. His films were visually magnetic, tight and directed economically in such a way that little was ever left on the cutting room floor. John Houston left us with a rich heritage of films that will continue to entertain for generations to come.
He was born on May 14th,1944. He was born in Modesto, California. His parents are George Walton Lucas and Dorothy Ellinore Bomberger Lucas. He went to Modesto Junior College. During high school he got in a big car crash.
George Lucas is best known for the Star Wars series. Most people have heard of him or seen a Star Wars movie or show. He made other movies than just Star Wars however. This would include his first film THX 1138 4EB later renamed to just THX 1138 which had become a flop but some critics would see a deeper meaning. He also made American Graffiti which became a phenomenon.
George Lucas Said after his accident,”I wanted to race cars. I didn't like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college”.He created his first feature film Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138 4EB in his last year of high school which took first prize at the National Student Film Festival. In 1966 he received a bachelor’s degree from the film department of the University of Southern
When I first entered this class, film as an art form and as an expressionistic medium was foreign to me. Films have always been a part of my life; I grew up in the era of Disney and Pixar, but it was an art form I had not analyzed before this year. Throughout grade school, you are exposed to painting, drawing, even perhaps photography; rarely does film enter the picture. You learn about the great master artists, such as Vincent van Gogh, Leonardo Da Vinci, or even Ansel Adams. These are the people that are remembered in our classroom. Film has its own masters of the craft, a concept I did not realize before I took this course. Each part of a movie is carefully crafted; the director is the skilled artist and the film is his masterpiece. This
For anyone who doesn't know who Tim Burton is you must be living under a rock because he is one of the greatest directors and creators. He directs so many amazing movies that are classics. He puts in so much work to make such amazing creations. Some of my favorite movies by him is Nightmare before Christmas, Beetle juice, Mars Attacks, Dark shadows, James and the giant peach, Sleepy hollow and Edward scissors hands.
Spielberg’s first film for the studio was Amistad which was nominated to four Academy Awards and a nomination for Directors Guild of America. In 2005 DreamWorks founders, between them Spielberg, would decide to sell the studio to Viacom, an American media conglomerate with interests in cinema and television. Steven explained they created DreamWorks with the idea of keeping together the most talented people of Hollywood so they could conserve the commercial control and creativity (“Friedman and Notobohm, 2000). In 2008 DreamWorks became an independent studio again, when Reliance Big Entertainment helped them with $550
On September 5th, 1975 “Jaws” by Steven Spielberg turned into the fastest grossing film in the history of the motion picture industry. According to Variety, “Jaw” proceeded to surpass the previous record gross of “The Godfather” by Francis Ford Coppola with an extra $38 million (Variety, Sept. 10, 1975). This immense success suggests that “Jaws” express the society’s underlying consciousness, and should be approached critically with a different point of view. By producing fictional structures which involve the audience viewing the shark as an image, the creators of the film capitalized on the emotions attached to the sharks. Rather than being just a series of individually narrative events, the structures constantly express the shark’s image
was born in Chicago, Illinois on December 5th, 1901. His parents were Elias Disney and Flora Disney.