Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg was born in 1946 in Cincinnati and grew up in New Jersey, Arizona and then California. A mediocre pupil, he filmed at twelve with his father's 8 mm camera, and an amateur feature completed at seventeen was screened in a Phoenix cinema. Turned down by the film school he had aimed for, he studied English at California State University, Long Beach, which he left in 1969: a short film noticed at a festival had earned him, at the end of 1968, a seven-year contract with Universal. He co-founded a studio in 1994 and set up that same year a foundation that records the testimonies of Holocaust survivors.

In the catalogue 2

• CinemaClose Encounters of the Third KindSteven Spielberg · 1977Cinema
• CinemaSchindler's ListSteven Spielberg · 1993Cinema