Executive Producer (1,2,3,Ride,Animated)
BORN: | December 18, 1946, Cincinnati, Ohio |
EDUCATION: | California State University in Long Beach. |
SPOUSE: | Kate Capshaw on October 12, 1991 |
CHILDREN: | Max, Theo (adopted), Sasha, Sawyer, Jessica (stepdaughter), Mikaela George (adopted), Destry Allyn |
STEVEN SPIELBERG made home movies as a child, and completed his first film with a story and actors at the age of 12 in Phoenix, Arizona. At 13, he won a film contest for his 40-minute war movie, "Escape to Nowhere". At 16, he he made the 140-minute film "Firelight". When he was at California State College, he completed five films.
Born in Cincinnati and raised in the suburbs of Haddonfield, New Jersey and Scottsdale, Arizona, Spielberg started making amateur films while still in his teens, later studying film at California State University, Long Beach. In 1969, first professional work was the 22-minute short Amblin, which was shown at the Atlanta Film Festival, and led to his becoming the youngest director ever to be signed to a long-term deal with a major Hollywood studio at the age of 20.