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Steven Spielberg is a born entertainer in terms of the pleasure that technical assurance gives an audience, his films are one of the most phenomenal films in the history of movies. Spielberg has been engaged in a three decade long struggle for artistic validation. His films have done what Hollywood cinema has always sought to do – thrill, uplift, scare, delight – more consistently than anyone's.

Spielberg is known by film historians as one of the famous "film-school generation" (also known as "the movie brats" or "the New Hollywood") of the 1970s.

Steven Allan Spielberg, born on December 18, 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Raised in the suburbs of Haddonfield, New Jersey and Scottsdale, Arizona. The Oscar winning Jewish American film director and producer. After a youth spent making amateur movies, his short film Amblin' (1968) impressed Sid Sheinberg, then the vice-president of production for Universals' TV arm. Spielberg was signed to the studio in 1968 and directed a string of television episodes and telemovies. Except for one episode of Columbo (“Murder by the Book”, notable in a directorial sense mainly for its striking opening shot), the only of Spielberg's works from this era revived with any regularity is Duel, from 1971. Yet it's a telling exception: Duel is in many ways Spielberg's true debut feature, a telemovie that was instantly recognised as a cut above the standard for the form, earning release theatrically outside the United States. The Sugarland Express (1974) echoed Duel in the staging of its drama in and around moving vehicles.

For his second feature was the suspense thriller Jaws (1975). Jaws has a dramatic integrity that is unusual for genre cinema before or since. Close Encounters of the Third Kind, in 1977, was his first film as a hot director. It is a curious blend: a domestic drama; a thriller about a government cover-up; a light horror film with a creepy science-fiction menace; and a globe-trotting, quasi-epic portrayal of the first contact between human and alien. 1941 (1979) is a comedy of mayhem and destruction, portraying the panic that spreads in wartime L.A. when it is feared that the Japanese are about to attack. While this only outright comedy failed, Spielberg's films are full of deft comedy.

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Raiders is a film designed by others, and Spielberg's job was to put it together. It is, however, an expert assembly.
E.T. is actually Spielberg's most sincere and heartfelt film. It is a reminder that there are few more interesting subjects than childhood. Nobody has ever directed young actors as consistently well as Spielberg, and in E.T. he creates an uncannily real portrayal of the lives of pre-teens from a child's point of view.

Despite the conspicuous absence of the spirit of adventurous good fun Temple of Doom remains a dazzling piece of work. The Color Purple (1985) simply doesn't work. His other venture Empire of the Sun never found its audience, failing to achieve even the level of connection with a certain sector of the audience that The Color Purple had found.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) was far less inventive or challenging than Temple of Doom. Addition of Sean Connery as Indiana's father wsa the only marked difference. The same year's Always (1989) saw Spielberg make his first romance. Hook (1991), trying for the elaborate, stage-bound look of previous Hollywood fantasy epics is ultimately is his weakest film to date.

Jurassic Park marked his commercial resuscitation, becoming the highest grossing film ever up until that time, and within months he followed it with Schindler's List (1993), the story of the German industrialist Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), who used his munitions factory as a front to save more than a thousand Jews during the Holocaust. This would win him the Oscar for Best Director that he had so long sought. Of all the special effects movies that Spielberg has made, it is Jurassic Park that most revolutionised effects technology.

After a long gap in 1997 his next works released, The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Amistad.
Spielberg's subsequent film, Saving Private Ryan (1999), is much more successful. The realism of its combat sequences is itself an extremely effective anti-war message, and this is not diluted by the film's occasional lapses, or the redundant framing device. it earned Spielberg his second Best Director Oscar.

A.I. is in this sense a very literary science fiction film. A similarly double-edged tone is apparent in Minority Report (2002), a film that is not as bold as A.I. but which is much more satisfyingly realised. Considered simply as a narrative, it was the strongest material Spielberg had worked with for several years, and he seized on it with relish.

Catch Me if You Can (2002) and The Terminal (2004) – saw something of a return to good spirits for Spielberg, with differing degrees of success.

War of the Worlds (2005) marked a departure from optimistic themes of E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, where alien visitors portrayed as potentially friendly for human beings. Here they are more violent invaders visiting havoc on the earth. Militarism isn't the solution in War of the Worlds: it's the threat.

On the same day as the release of War of the Worlds, Spielberg began shooting Munich, a film alledgedly about the events following the Munich Massacre. The movie is said to be an examination of the murder of eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, followed by the event's aftermath in which Israel's intelligence agency hunted down and killed each of the perpetrators. However the protagonist is now believed to be the entirely ficticious invention of Jonas' source, Yuval Aviv. The project is predicted to be extremely controversial.

His upcoming works are an Abraham Lincoln bio-pic, as the 16th President of the United States, and a 4th Indiana Jones film. Both are scheduled for release in 2007. He is also serving as the executive producer of Memoirs of a Geisha, an adaptation of the best-selling novel by Arthur Golden.

Spielberg is also an executive producer on the critically acclaimed 2005 TV miniseries Into the West. He is also co-executive producing the new Transformers live action film with Brian Goldmer, an employee of Hasbro. In October, 2005, Spielberg announced that he had been signed by Electronic Arts to direct three video game projects.