Steven Spielberg Will Receive 2012 David O. Selznick Award from PGA

Steven Spielberg was named winner of the 2012 David O. Selznick Achievement in Film from the Producers Guild of America.

In a statement, said PGA co-chairs Paula Wagner and Michael Manheim, "As one of the most prolific filmmakers of all time, Steven has continued to genius, imagination and courage in the world of entertainment unmatched film in the industry. "

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As a producer, Spielberg had 11 television and film in 2011, including the summer blockbuster Super 8 and Transformers: Dark of the Moon and his own horse coming war movies and the adventures of Tintin.

The filmmaker will receive his award at the ceremony of the 13th annual Guild of producers to the Beverly Hilton January 21, 2012.

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When the Producers Guild of America distributes its laurels at the Beverly Hilton on January 21, a special honor will be awarded to Steven Spielberg, David O. Selznick Award.

The award recognizes "exceptional set of a producer working in film," says the press release. "The honor has a rich history and distinguished with previous winners including legendary producers as Stanley Kramer, Saul Zaentz, Clint Eastwood, Billy Wilder, Brian Grazer, Jerry Bruckheimer, Roger Corman, Laura Ziskin, Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall John Lasseter 2011 and last year the recipient Scott Rudin. "

Before his death in 1965, Selznick has reigned as one of the biggest producers in Hollywood, working at MGM, RKO and independent. He produced two Best Film Oscar Fields: "Gone with the Wind" (1939) and "Rebecca" (1940). Spielberg's long list of credits include producing "ET: The Extra Terrestrial" (1982), the best picture winner "Schindler's List" (1993), "Saving Private Ryan" (1998) and "Memoirs of a Geisha" (2005).

Producers Guild Awards co-chairs Paula Wagner and Michael Manheim issued this comment: "As one of the most prolific filmmakers of all time, Steven has continued to genius, imagination and courage in the world of entertainment unmatched in film the industry produced Steven. some of the most iconic movies of cinema history, and we have no doubt he will continue to provide exciting adventure, moving story lines, the thoughtfulness and cult classics to audiences throughout the world. We are very proud to recognize Stevens contribution to the production of crafts and the film industry as a whole with David O. Selznick honor. "

Steven Spielberg awards

Steven Spielberg is a three-time Oscar winner, having won two Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture for Schindler's List and a third Oscar for Best Director for Saving Private Ryan. He also received the best director Oscar nominations for Munich, ET: The Extra-Terrestrial, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

In 1994, Spielberg's internationally lauded Schindler's List has gone from a great honor for the film, receiving a total of seven Oscars, including nods above for the best film and best director. The film has collected awards for best film many of the major critics organizations, in addition to seven BAFTA Awards, including two Spielberg. He also won a Golden Globe Award and received the Board of Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award.

Spielberg's acclaimed World War II drama Saving Private Ryan, starring Tom Hanks, was the highest-grossing release (national) in 1998. The film won five Oscars, including one of Spielberg as Best Director, two Golden Globes for Best Picture (Drama) and Best Director, and several groups of critics awards for best film and best director. In addition, Spielberg won a DGA Award and the Producers Guild of America (PGA) Award. In that year, the PGA also presented Spielberg with the prestigious Milestone Award for his historic contribution to the film industry.

Spielberg won his first DGA for The Color Purple, and also earned DGA nominated for ET: The Extra-Terrestrial, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Empire of the Sun, Jaws, Amistad and Munich. With 10 in all, Spielberg has received more DGA Award nominations for any director in history and in 2000 received the DGA Award for career achievement. He is also the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute, the prestigious Irving G. Thalberg Award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and the Kennedy Center Honor.

Amistad DVD

Amistad is the latest film from Steven Spielberg's corpus, which will visit for the first time. Surrounded by the dramatic results of the most acclaimed Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan, not to mention the color of some of his preachiness feelings among those who saw Spielberg's drama in the mid-90th century was never mentioned in my radar as a non-weak blip. But just as I always see with new eyes, to combat many of my expectations for the film, Amistad thought prove to be much more than a half-forgotten traditional consensus would have believed me.

In fact, the Amistad may well be the most consistent and Spielberg Triumvirate of the century 90 prestige pictures. Lacks the emotional impact of overwhelming list of Schindler and visceral power of Saving Private Ryan, but it is a dodge these ambiguities and questionable moral deficiencies episodes "mainstreamification" of his main themes. Amistad is a bit 'typical of the writing, its construction, but usually shows cleverly written, a difficult time to return to Spielberg will not be treated in all sincerity and conviction with the color purple: slavery and racism.

In its way, the opening segment of Friendship is so bright, dynamic and independent as the D-Day sequence of Saving Private Ryan. Keep Kimenski filmmaker on board, which Spielberg is part of the revolt on the ship in terms so shocking. It begins with close-ups of the face of Cinque (Djimon Honsou), a slave of Cuba, shortness of breath and clearly in trouble. Court at the other end of your fingers close scrape wooden bench in an attempt to nail, gnashing jaws squeezing through the woods, in the deafening silence of the boats bobbing in the night. Lightning (thunder divorced from any masking) illuminate the board chipped nails and bleeding. The suspense is unbearable shooting everything to hide Jews from the Nazis.

Minority Report (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition) (2002)

Seen to shake the possible future of 2054, Steven Spielberg's Minority Report is arguably the most intelligently provocative sci-fi since Blade Runner. Like Ridley Scott's "Black Future" classic, Spielberg's gritty vision was freely adapted from a story by Philip K. Dick, with its central premise of repression "Precrime" totally dependent on three isolated human "Pre-Cogs" capable (due to drug-related mutation) to consider the murders before they occurred. As Precrime confident captain, Tom Cruise preempts these killings like a true action hero, only to run his life when he is himself involved in one of the visions precogs. Inspired by the brainstorming of expert futurists, Spielberg packs this paranoid chase with potential conspirators (Max Von Sydow, Colin Farrell), domestic tragedy and a heartbreaking precogs pawn (Samantha Morton), while the speed performance gains in depth and substance to every scene.

Make judicious use of astonishing special effects, Minority Report brilliantly extrapolates a future that is quite convincing, and too close for comfort.

Jurassic Park (Widescreen Collector's Edition) (1993)

Steven Spielberg's 1993 mega-hit rivals Jaws as the film's most intense and frightening that he had never done before Schindler's List, but it was also among his weakest stories. Based on the novel by Michael Crichton on an island amusement park populated by cloned dinosaurs, the film works best as a thrill ride with none of the interesting human dynamics of Spielberg's Jaws. It is unfortunate lapse, but there is no shortage of raw terror as a raging T-rex and nasty raptors try to make fast food out of the vote. The effects are still astonishing (despite the fact that computer-generated technology has since been improved), and sometimes watch this show a group of what they-are scampering through a valley. - Tom Keogh

The New Yorker

Steven Spielberg's warm-blooded, state-of-the-art dinosaurs are much faster than their closest relatives films, galumphing atomic mutant monsters that was also the Japanese cities under their feet in the fifties and early sixties, and that allows the filmmaker to create dynamic stalk and chase sequences. Carnivorous dinosaurs are efficient predators of resources: good scream generators, cinema, because they are intelligent and relentless, like the best serial killers. But they have not placid herbivores inspire anything close to perfection, with the support of the public as a stimulant on the rise symphonic music (by the shameless John Williams) and repeated close-ups and blue-eyed, open-mouthed players. Manuscript, which is credited to Michael Crichton and David Koepp, reduces Crichton's novel deftly constructed its bare bones: people are always hungry animals.

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Spielberg's monsters have a showroom shine, but the novelty wears off quickly, all the ingenuity of the art of film, "Jurassic Park" has no imagination or courage to take us somewhere we do not been a thousand times before. It's just a creature feature on amphetamines. With Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern, Sam Neill, and Richard Attenborough. Terrence Rafferty-

Empire of the Sun (Snap Case Packaging) (1987)

Sentencing of Steven Spielberg rejected the less successful efforts, this is a very underrated film poignantly follows the World War II adventures of young Jim (a brilliant Christian Bale), caught in the throes of the fall in China. And if you had all the time, and lost all afternoon? What happens if you're only 12? Bale, a process of change, from pampered British ruling-class child in prison, desperate, nearly feral boy, is nothing short of breathtaking. Sets are also great views, descriptions and music (the last courtesy of John Williams) that increase by JG Ballard, author and screenwriter Tom Stoppard is the description of a second, less familiar to the victim in the war.

At a time when competitors were releasing "comedy" derivative coming-of-age films, Empire of the Sun visible sense of David Lean's epic classic - despite confusion or perceived competition as a great Last Emperor (also published in 1987, and the coming of age in similar circumstances). It 'also an important indication, yes, the human spirit. And despite the disappointing box office returns, Empire of the Sun helped establish Spielberg as more than a commercial director and set the standard, tone, and look for future efforts Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan.

Schindler's List [VHS] (1993)

Steven Spielberg had a banner year in 1993. He scored one of his biggest commercial success this summer with the mega-hit Jurassic Park, but it was the artistic and critical triumph of Schindler's List that Spielberg called "the most satisfying experience of my career." Adapted from the best-selling novel by Thomas Keneally and filmed in Poland with an emphasis on absolute authenticity, Spielberg takes the leader of the greatest films ever made about the Holocaust during the Second World War. This is a film about heroism with an unlikely hero at the center - the war profiteers Catholic Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), who risked his life and went bankrupt to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps.

By employing Jews in his crockery factory manufacturing goods in the German army, Schindler ensures their survival against all odds terrifying. At the same time to remain solvent through a jew accountant (Ben Kingsley) and negotiate business with a vicious, obstinate Nazi commandant (Ralph Fiennes) who enjoys shooting Jews to shooting from the balcony of his perspective of the prison house of Camp . Schindler's List does not earn much of its power, trying to explain Schindler's motivations, but dramatizing the delicate diplomacy and determination with which he carried out his generous actions.

As drinking womanizer who thought nothing of associating with Nazis, Schindler was hardly a model of decency, the film is largely about his transformation in response to the horror around him. Spielberg is not afraid of the horror and the result is a film that combines remarkable humanity abhorrent inhumanity - a film that acts as a powerful history lesson and a testament to the resilience of the human spirit in a living nightmare . - Jeff Shannon

The New Yorker

The story of Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), a handsome and resourceful German Catholic businessman who saved more than one thousand Polish Jews from almost certain annihilation by the Nazis, is extraordinary even by the standards of Holocaust literature. Steven Spielberg's film, adapted by Steven Zaillian on the book by Thomas Keneally in 1982, works better than three hours and does not seem a moment too long. Spielberg respects the essential mystery of heroism of the protagonist, and uses his skills to a degree that has not shown extraordinary long time: that captures images of the experiences that most of us thought we would never adequate representation on the screen. This is by far the most beautiful films of all dramatic (ie, not documentaries) ever made about the Holocaust. And a couple of American films from the silent era had the audacity narrative something like this picture, bold visual and emotional openness.

Along with Neeson, who is a great, great cast of standouts Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, and Embeth Davidtz. A wonderfully expressive black and white film is Janusz Kaminski. -Terrence Rafferty

Raiders of the Lost Ark [VHS] (1981)

It is said that the original is the largest, and there can be no more vivid proof of Raiders of the Lost Ark, the first and probably the best of the first three Indiana Jones Adventures, cooked the Dream Team, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas . Expectations were high this collaboration 1981 by two men, who essentially invented the blockbuster at the box office of the '70s with efforts like Jaws and Star Wars, and Spielberg (who directed) and Lucas (who co- wrote the history and production executive) did not disappoint T. This wildly entertaining movie has everything: a non-stop action, exotic locations, the great spectacle of the heroic ages, despicable villains, love, beauty, humor, horror ... not to mention a lot of snakes.

And like all the bits that are so familiar with now - Indy (Harrison Ford) from the giant rock in a cave, with a gun instead of the whip to take sword-wielding faithful bad guy, Cobra facing whistles, and so on - will is a real answer from a powerful story, which is combined with a profound religious-archaeological icon (the Ark of the Covenant, no less "radio speaks of God"), and 20 century's most famous criminals (the Nazis). Now, it's entertainment.

steven spielberg biography

cIn the unstable world of cinema, there are very few names that can splash through a bulletin board to ensure the financial success of a movie. Harrison Ford, for example, or Julia Roberts. George Lucas, if it is a Star Wars movie. Tom Cruise looked like a certificate of Eyes Wide Shut. These names will probably millions, but only to ensure a more secure - Steven Spielberg. As director, he is the most successful of all time. His films were so popular, so constantly entertaining, people rush to see anything labeled as a Steven Spielberg production, including movies was limited to finance. No one has muscles that way. No one else has.

As a filmmaker, he started early. He was born Steven Allan Spielberg at the 18th December 1946, in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father, Arnold, was an electrical engineer involved in the development of computers, while the mother of Leah, a concert pianist, took care of four children - Steven, the eldest, the others being Annie, Sue and Nancy. The family soon moved to Scottsdale, Arizona - Steven would attend Arcadia High School in Phoenix - and that's where his love for movies (and his financial acumen) began to flourish. Perhaps unusually fast if reports that Spielberg suffered from Asperger syndrome, is to be believed. This is a mild form of autism that leads to obsessive interests - often with very positive results.

Leah being as indulgent as Arnold was emotionally distant (several parents in the films of Spielberg, missing or remote), Steven's interest in cinema is encouraged. At 12, he had his first amateur film, a western entitled 8 minutes past gun Steven funded by a tree planting company. He was charged for admission to the movies at home, Annie is selling popcorn, and quickly became most ambitious scale and scope. In 14 years, had made a war movie of 40 minutes, Escape To Nowhere, 8 mm, and a short battle gear, which is mixed with footage from World War 2 images he shot the Phoenix airport. Even the young, who had learned to still appear as if they moved at supersonic speed. Within two years he was working in the firelight, a 140-minute science-fiction epic based on a story of his sister Nancy had written about a UFO attack. It would, as everyone knows, returning to issues of war and alien life forms.

It would be the emotional side of his story, too, and the vaguely autobiographical. Many of Spielberg's films feature children in need, and that the father of the above distance. This reflects their relationship with Steven Arnold - not good. Once, Arnold led a small house of transistors, showed Steve and he said, was the future.