Thriller Directors - Steven Speilberg

Steven Speilberg is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. He has won many awards including an Accademy Award for best director, for his 1993 hit Schindler's List.

• Date of birth: December 18th 1946
• Born in Cinsinnati, Ohio
• Speilberg's first big hit was with Jaws. It was an enormous hit and earned 3 accademy awards
• In 1997 he produced the hugely succesfull sequel to Jurrasic Park, with The Lost World: Jurrasic Park.
• Most of his films deal with ordinary characters searching for or comming in contact with extraordinary beings or finding themselves in extraordinary circumstances
• There are also many child orientated themes, one of which being the loss of innocense and coming of age
• The most persistent theme through his films is tension within the parent-child relationship
• He uses the feelings he had as a child when his parents divorced in his films, e.g in E.T the parents of the protagonist are divorced
• He has worked with the likes of Harrison Ford, Clint Eastwood and Robert Lorenz