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Steven Allan Spielberg was born on the 18th of December 1946, in Cincinnati, Ohio. His mother Leah Adler ran a kosher dairy restaurant and played concert piano while his father Arnold worked as an electrical engineer developing computers.
Spielberg made his professional debut with Eyes, a segment of Night Gallery in 1969. Rod Serling scripted the episode starring Joan Crawford and Universal signed him to four television films after he impressed producers with Columbo episodes.
Jaws became the first movie shot on open ocean when it released in 1975. The mechanical shark malfunctioned frequently causing the shooting schedule to overrun by one hundred days before setting domestic box-office records.
Schindler's List commenced filming on the 1st of March 1993, in Poland while Spielberg edited Jurassic Park in evenings. The film depicted Oskar Schindler helping save 1,100 Jews from the Holocaust based on Thomas Keneally's novel.
Steven Spielberg received three Academy Awards among other accolades including four Golden Globe Awards and three BAFTA Awards. He earned AFI Life Achievement Award in 1995 honorary knighthood in 2001 Kennedy Center Honor in 2006 Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015 National Medal of Arts in 2023.