"portray the deep-driven man. From Dustin Hoffman, with whom he co-starred in ""Hook"", he learned to take on totally different character types, and to transform his characters by extreme preparation. Mike Medavoy, producer of ""Hook"", told its director, Steven Spielberg, that he intentionally teamed up Hoffman and Williams for the film because he knew they wanted to work together, and that Williams welcomed the opportunity of working with Spielberg. Williams benefited from working with Woody Allen, who directed him and Billy Crystal in ""Deconstructing Harry"" (1997), as Allen had knowledge of the fact that Crystal and Williams had often performed"
"Steven Spielberg's Academy Award-winning film, ""Schindler's List"" (1993). He has since starred in other successful films, including the title role in the historical biopic ""Michael Collins"" (1996), the 1998 film adaptation of Victor Hugo's ""Les Misérables"", the epic space opera """" (1999), the biographical drama ""Kinsey"" (2004), the superhero film ""Batman Begins"" (2005), the action thriller series ""Taken"" (2008–2014), the thriller-survival film ""The Grey"" (2011), and the historical drama ""Silence"" (2016). He also provided the voices of Aslan in ""The Chronicles of Narnia"" trilogy (2005–2010) and the titular monster in ""A Monster Calls"" (2016). He has been nominated for a"
"by Chris Columbus, drawing on legends of gremlins going back to World War II. The film stars Zach Galligan and Phoebe Cates, with Howie Mandel providing the voice of Gizmo, the main mogwai character. ""Gremlins"" was a commercial success and received positive reviews from critics. However, the film was also heavily criticized for some of its more violent sequences. In response to this and to similar complaints about ""Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"", Spielberg suggested that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) alter its rating system, which it did within two months of the film's release. Randall"
"Steven Spielberg Steven Allan Spielberg (; born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker. He is considered one of the founding pioneers of the New Hollywood era and one of the most popular directors and producers in film history. After gaining traction in Hollywood with directing television and several minor theatrical releases, Spielberg became a household name as the director of ""Jaws"" (1975), which was critically and commercially successful, and is considered the first summer blockbuster. His subsequent releases focused typically on science fiction and adventure films, with ""Close Encounters of the Third Kind"" (1977), the ""Indiana Jones"" series, ""E.T."
"""Hellraiser"" (1987). A year later she worked with Robert Zemeckis on the highly successful ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"". The working relationship with Zemeckis continued through ""Back to the Future Part II"" (1989), ""Back to the Future Part III"" (1990), ""Death Becomes Her"" (1992), ""Contact"" (1997), ""Cast Away"" (2000), ""The Polar Express"" (2004), and ""Allied"" (2016) for which she received her second nomination for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design. In 1989, Spielberg hired her as designer on ""Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"" and they worked together again on ""Saving Private Ryan"" (1998), ""War of the Worlds"" (2005), ""Munich"""
"(1989), and ""Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"" (2008). Williams composed an emotional and sensitive score to Spielberg's 1982 fantasy film ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"". Williams was awarded a fourth Academy Award for this score. The Spielberg-Williams collaboration resumed with the director's 1987 film ""Empire of the Sun"", and has continued to the present, spanning genres from science fiction thrillers (1993's ""Jurassic Park)"", to somber tragedies (1993's ""Schindler's List"", 2005's ""Munich)"", to Eastern-tinged melodramas (2005's ""Memoirs of a Geisha"", directed by Rob Marshall), to dramatic war films (1998's ""Saving Private Ryan)"". Spielberg has said, ""I call it an"
"the Extra-Terrestrial"" (1982), and the ""Jurassic Park"" series seen as archetypes of modern Hollywood escapist filmmaking. Spielberg transitioned into addressing humanistic issues in his later work via the films ""The Color Purple"" (1985), ""Empire of the Sun"" (1987), ""Schindler's List"" (1993), ""Amistad"" (1997) and ""Saving Private Ryan"" (1998). He has largely adhered to this practice during the 21st century, with ""Munich"" (2005), ""Lincoln"" (2012), ""Bridge of Spies"" (2015), and ""The Post"" (2017). Spielberg co-founded Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks Studios, where he has also served as a producer for several successful films, including the ""Back to the Future"", ""Men in Black"","
"3"", ""Miss Undercover 2"", ""V-for Vendetta"", ""Aviator"", ""Alexander"", ""Ocean's Twelve"", ""Collateral"", ""Finding Nemo"", ""Lord of the Rings – Return of the King"", ""Troy"", ""Kill Bill 2"", ... etc. Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Robbie Williams, Kylie Minogue, Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Sandra Bullock, Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, Steven Spielberg, Michael Mann, Natalie Portman, Leonardo DiCaprio, Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Oliver Stone, Marylin Manson, Will Smith, George Clooney, Ralph Fiennes, Peter Jackson, Liv Tyler, Tom Hanks, ... etc. ""CeBIT"", ""AIDA"", ""GC – Games Convention"", ""Stanford Eagle"", ""Leaders Club Germany Award"", ""Minnie Driver CD Presentation"", ""Priscilla Presley CD Presentation"", ""The Sound"
"could (or would) have 'veto-ed' him [Spielberg] needs their Quick-Quotes Quill serviced."" After Spielberg left, conversations began with other directors, including Chris Columbus, Jonathan Demme, Terry Gilliam, Mike Newell, Alan Parker, Wolfgang Petersen, Rob Reiner, Tim Robbins, Brad Silberling, and Peter Weir. Petersen and Reiner both pulled out of the running in March 2000. It was then narrowed down to Columbus, Gilliam, Parker, and Silberling. Rowling's first choice was Terry Gilliam. However, on 28 March 2000 Columbus was appointed as director of the film, with Warner Bros. citing his work on other family films such as ""Home Alone"" and ""Mrs."
"Lincoln (film) Lincoln is a 2012 American historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. The film also features Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, and Tommy Lee Jones in supporting performances. The screenplay by Tony Kushner was loosely based on Doris Kearns Goodwin's biography ""Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln"", and covers the final four months of Lincoln's life, focusing on his efforts in January 1865 to have the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution passed by the United States House of"
"new film adaptation of ""Blackhawk"" for Warner Bros., with the screenplay being written by David Koepp. Spielberg will co-produce the film with Kristie Macosko Krieger and Sue Kroll. Around 1980, during the filming of ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"", Spielberg contacted Gary David Goldberg to make a semiautobiographical musical film entitled ""Reel to Reel"". The film's plot would have been surrounding a filmmaker named Stuart Moss, and his direction of a musical remake of ""Invaders From Mars"". The film was officially announced in production in 1983, but Spielberg finally abandoned the project and chose to direct ""Indiana Jones and the"
"even for Robin. It didn't quite deliver."" By 2001, the script had been rewritten by Gwyn Lurie, and was greeted with positive feedback from the Dahl estate. Terry Jones and Ed Solomon also attempted screenplay drafts. While the screenplay lingered in development hell, Paramount subsequently lost the film rights and they reverted to the Dahl estate. In September 2011, DreamWorks acquired the film rights to the book; Kennedy and Marshall were announced to produce, with screenwriter Melissa Mathison adapting the story. Initially, John Madden was hired to direct, however, in April 2014, Steven Spielberg was announced as the director, with"
"collaboration between Spielberg and composer John Williams. Williams has scored all but four of Spielberg-directed films since ("""", ""The Color Purple"", ""Bridge of Spies"", and ""Ready Player One"" being the only exceptions); this is the only score he has composed for Spielberg that has never been released as an album, although Williams re-recorded the main theme with Toots Thielemans and the Boston Pops Orchestra for 1991's ""The Spielberg/Williams Collaboration"". In May 1969, Lou Jean Poplin (Goldie Hawn) visits her husband Clovis Michael Poplin (William Atherton) to tell him that their son will soon be placed in the care of foster"
"It was written with Robin Williams in mind but Williams turned it down. Nilsson and Southern then learned that comedian Whoopi Goldberg was keen to take the part and she asked Nilsson and Southern to rewrite it for her. New World Films agreed to produce it and Rip Torn signed on as director. Production began in January 1987, but New World allowed Goldberg to improvise freely on the screenplay. She also replaced Torn's chosen DOP John Alonzo with then-husband Conrad Hall. Torn battled with Goldberg and reportedly had to beg her to perform takes that stuck to the script. A"
"its $23 million budget, and also winning an Academy Award for special effects. One of his better-known roles was in the 1982 science fiction film ""Tron"", in which he played Kevin Flynn, a video game programmer (a role he reprised in late 2010 with the sequel """"). The same year (1982), he also starred in ""Kiss Me Goodbye"", an American romantic comedy film directed by Robert Mulligan that also starred Sally Field. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1984, for playing the alien in ""Starman"". He was also acclaimed for his roles in the thriller"
"Utah for six summers, where he developed his play ""Penguin Blues"",[1] which is published by Samuel French Inc. and is included in ""The Best Short Plays of 1989"" (Applause, ed. Ramon Delgado). Based on his experiences at Sundance, Phillips helped found First Stage, a playwright development lab in Los Angeles now in its Thirty-Fifth year. Phillips has appeared in over thirty films, beginning with ""Ragtime"" (directed by Miloš Forman). Other features include ""For Richer or Poorer"", ""Jeffrey"", ""The Shadow"", ""Wagons East!"", ""The Man Without a Face"", ""Green Card"", ""Lean On Me"", ""Critters"", ""Bloodhounds of Broadway"", ""The Island"", ""Bad Santa"", and"
"He also appeared in ""Newman's Law"" (1974), ""Law and Disorder"" (1974), ""Hustle"" (1975), ""American Raspberry"" (1977), ""The Choirboys"" (1977), ""Real Life"" (1979), ""Winter Kills"" (1979), ""Christine"" (1983), ""The Stranger"" (1987), ""Alice"" (1990), and ""Red Ribbon Blues"" (1996). Spielberg's roles in television programs included those shown in the table below. Source: ""Encyclopedia of American Radio, 1920-1960, 2nd Edition"" He also appeared in ""Law & Order"", ""Highway to Heaven"", ""Family Ties"", ""Wheels"", ""L.A. Law"", ""ER"", ""A Place for Annie"", and """" among other television series. Spielberg died of cancer in Los Angeles, California, on June 1, 2016. He was 77. David Spielberg"
"is adapting the classic show's book for Spielberg, though the musical score will remain unchanged, as will the late-1950s setting. In January 2018, he began an open casting search for the four lead roles, three of the roles being specifically for Latino actors. On October 2, 2018, it was announced that Ansel Elgort will play the lead role of Tony in the film. Spielberg also plans to film a fifth installment in the ""Indiana Jones"" series. The untitled film is set to star Harrison Ford and will be produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall. It is being written by"
"to produce the film. Tom Hanks, who previously worked with Spielberg on ""Saving Private Ryan"", ""Catch Me If You Can"" and ""The Terminal"", was considered for the lead role. Spielberg had also approached Robert Downey, Jr., but in December 2009 Spielberg opted out after a dispute over his vision for the project. The Jimmy Stewart Museum, based in Stewart's hometown of Indiana, Pennsylvania, presents the Harvey Award to a distinguished celebrity tied to Jimmy Stewart's spirit of humanitarianism. Past recipients include Robert Wagner, Shirley Jones, Janet Leigh, and Rich Little. A 1971 children's film, ""Mr. Horatio Knibbles"", also starred a"
"Secret Thing."" During pre-production for ""Once Around"", Scotch Marmo came to the attention of acclaimed film director Steven Spielberg, who hired her to write ""Hook"", also released in 1991. ""Hook"" starred Robin Williams as an adult Peter Pan, Dustin Hoffman as Captain Hook, and Julia Roberts as Tinkerbell. Scotch Marmo shared writing credit with James V. Hart and also served as associate producer on the film. While ""Hook"" was being shot, Scotch Marmo began working on her next Spielberg project, ""Jurassic Park"", released in 1993. ""Jurassic Park"", which has had four sequels to date, starred Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff"
"at the New York Film Festival on October 8, 2012. The film was also screened at the 2012 AFI Film Festival on November 8, 2012. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures distributed the film in North America through the Touchstone Pictures banner, while 20th Century Fox distributed the film in the remaining international territories. Disney Publishing Worldwide released several companion books and ancillary literature in anticipation of the film, including ""Lincoln: A Cinematic and Historical Companion"" and ""Lincoln: A Spielberg Film – Discover the Story"". DreamWorks and Google Play released the film's trailer during a Google+ hangout with Spielberg and Joseph"
"direct the miniseries for HBO, from a script by David Lenland based on extensive research materials accumulated by Kubrick over many years. Spielberg had planned to shoot a $200 million adaptation of Daniel H. Wilson's novel ""Robopocalypse"", adapted for the screen by Drew Goddard. The novel follows a global human war against a robot uprising about 15–20 years in the future. Like ""Lincoln"", it was to be released by Disney in the United States and Fox overseas. It was set for release on April 25, 2014, with Anne Hathaway and Chris Hemsworth set to star, but Spielberg postponed production indefinitely"
"Kubrick's ""A Clockwork Orange"" (1971) and ""Barry Lyndon"" (1975). He produced or associate produced six films with director Frank Oz, beginning with ""Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"" (1988). His other collaborations with Oz were ""What About Bob?"" (1991), ""Housesitter"" (1992), ""The Indian in the Cupboard"" (1995), ""Bowfinger"" (1999), and ""The Score"" (2001). Williams also produced ""The Big Sleep"" (1978), a remake of the 1946 film; ""Flash Gordon"" (1980); ""Ragtime"" (1981); ""The Bounty"" (1984), starring Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins; ""Manhunter"", (1986) which was directed by Michael Mann; and ""Daredevil"" (2003), a superhero film starring Ben Affleck. With Rosilyn Heller, Williams co-produced ""Who's"
"drama ""Lincoln"", directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Daniel Day-Lewis as President Abraham Lincoln. In the film, he portrayed Democratic Congressman George Yeaman, representative of Kentucky. The Alfred Hitchcock biopic ""Hitchcock"" was his final release of the year, with Stuhlbarg portraying talent agent and studio executive Lew Wasserman. In Woody Allen's comedy-drama ""Blue Jasmine"" (2013), starring Cate Blanchett, Stuhlbarg appeared as dentist who makes unwanted sexual advances to Blanchett's character. Stuhlbarg played chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer's manager, Paul Marshall, in the 2014 film ""Pawn Sacrifice"", starring Tobey Maguire as Fischer. In Danny Boyle's 2015 ""Steve Jobs"" biopic, Stuhlbarg portrayed computer"
"Spielberg, John Williams, Lionel’s nephew, composer Randy Newman, and his grandson, Joey Newman. The dedication was attended by several hundred people, including his family beyond Randy and Joey. He received eleven Academy Award nominations, and won an Oscar for ""Hello Dolly!"" with Lennie Hayton in 1969. He conducted the scores for ""Cleopatra"", ""The Sand Pebbles"", ""The Agony and the Ecstasy"", ""The Long Hot Summer"", ""The Young Lions"", ""Alien"", and ""The Omen"". He was the musical supervisor for ""Star Wars"", ""The Empire Strikes Back"", ""Return of the Jedi"", ""Monsignor"", and ""The Fury"". Although he did not consider himself a songwriter, he"
"His directorial debut, ""Sex, Lies, and Videotape"" (1989), was influenced by Mike Nichols' 1971 American comedy-drama ""Carnal Knowledge."" Soderbergh has worked with a variety of actors, composers, screenwriters throughout his career as a filmmaker. His most prolific collaborators are considered to be George Clooney, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Don Cheadle, and Channing Tatum. Clooney started Section Eight Productions with Soderbergh and as of 2018 remains his most frequent collaborator, followed by Damon. Among those who have won awards for their work with Soderbergh, Roberts won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her lead in ""Erin Brockovich""; Benicio"
"with Robin Williams in mind for the main character, and attempted to get the comedian a copy of the script, but Williams' manager did not want him to make the film. After viewing Whoopi Goldberg's standup performances, Nilsson and Southern thought that she would be right for the part. After seeing Rip Torn's direction of stage plays, the writers felt that Torn would be ideal to direct the film. The film's producers persuaded Goldberg to ignore the film's script and improvise, leading to arguments with Torn, who preferred to direct the film as scripted. Whoopi Goldberg states that she was"
"film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where early reviews praised Jones's performance as ""pitch-perfect."" Jones had a role in the Marvel Studios film, """". He also directed, produced and co-starred with Samuel L. Jackson in an adaptation of ""The Sunset Limited"". In 2012, there was another turning point in Jones's career, starting with a reprisal of his role as Agent K in ""Men in Black 3"", the romantic dramedy ""Hope Springs"", and co-starring as Thaddeus Stevens in Steven Spielberg's ""Lincoln"". Jones's performance in ""Lincoln"" received wide critical acclaim. For this performance, Jones received his fourth Oscar nomination, for Best"
"though he was often unable to prevail."" In his 1997 biography of Stevens, though, he took a position similar to McKitrick's: that Stevens was a relatively marginal figure, with his influence often limited by his extremism. Trefousse believed that Brodie went too far both in deeming Stevens's clubfoot responsible for so much about him, and in giving full credence to the Stevens-Smith relationship: both those things cannot now be determined with certainty. Steven Spielberg's 2012 film ""Lincoln"", in which Stevens was portrayed by Tommy Lee Jones, brought new public interest in Stevens. Jones's character is portrayed as the central figure"
"""muddled and brown"". Notable among his later films is ""Rollerball"" (1975). In the 1980s, he worked with Steven Spielberg on the first three ""Indiana Jones"" films, after Spielberg enjoyed working with him as an auxiliary cinematographer on ""Close Encounters of the Third Kind"" (1977). These were among his last major projects, as he was 76 at the time of filming the last, ""Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"", and also began to suffer from eyesight problems in the 1980s. He was quoted in 1989 as saying of it ""there's an excitement in doing action films. I probably enjoy them on"
"original film in the trilogy, directed by Tobe Hooper and co-written by Steven Spielberg and released on June 4, 1982. The story focuses on the Freeling family, which consists of Steven (Craig T. Nelson); Diane (JoBeth Williams); Dana (Dominique Dunne); Robbie (Oliver Robins); and Carol Anne (Heather O'Rourke), who live in a California housing development called Cuesta Verde, which comes to be haunted by ghosts. The ghosts communicate only with Carol Anne through the family's television set, and are under the control of a demon known as the ""Beast."" The ghosts, attracted to Carol Anne's life force and believing she"
"I had confidence in the first act and I had confidence in the epilogue. I didn't have confidence in the body of it."" He added, ""I didn't quite know what I was doing and I tried to paint over my insecurity with production value,"" admitting ""the more insecure I felt about it, the bigger and more colorful the sets became."" Hook (film) Hook is a 1991 American fantasy adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by James V. Hart and Malia Scotch Marmo. It stars Robin Williams as Peter Banning / Peter Pan, Dustin Hoffman as Captain Hook, Julia"
"Dreamworks animated feature """" with Bill Murray and Seth Rogen; ""Anesthesia""; and ""The Cobbler"", opposite Adam Sandler, Dustin Hoffman and Steve Buscemi. He can also been seen on the small screen on Lifetime's new series ""The Lottery"" as Pres. Thomas Westwood. With over 40 film credits, highlights include roles in six time Oscar nominee ""Captain Phillips"" (2013), ""The A-Team"" (2010) with Liam Neeson, John Sayles's ""Amigo"", Steven Soderbergh’s two-part epic ""Che"" (2008), ""The Take"" (2008), ""American Gangster"", ""Music Within"" (2007), ""War of the Worlds"" (2005), ""Bad Boys II"" (2003), ""Traffic"" and ""Runaway Bride"" (1999). He was a regular for both"