Berlin honors Spielberg

According to the film reporter of Fars News Agency, quoted by varietySteven Spielberg will be honored at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival with a tribute and an honorary Golden Bear Award for lifetime artistic achievement.

Spielberg’s latest film, “Fablemen,” his semi-autobiographical look at growing up as a movie-obsessed teenager in Arizona and Northern California, will also be screened at the festival, which runs from February 16-26, 2023. Universal Pictures Germany will release this film in the cinemas of this country in March.

“With an incredible career, Steven Spielberg has not only enchanted several generations of viewers around the world, but has also given a new meaning to ‘cinema’ as a creator of dreams,” Berlinale directors Mariette Riesenbeck and Carlo Chatrian said in a statement.

Steven Alan Spielberg was born on December 18, 1946 and is an American director, producer and screenwriter. He started his career in the New Hollywood period and is one of the prominent figures of this period. He is the most successful director in the world in terms of selling his films. Spielberg has been the recipient of various honors, including three Academy Awards, a Kennedy Center Award, a Cecil B. DeMille Golden Globe Award, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Foundation. In 2013, he was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 outstanding personalities of the 20th century.

Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. He went to California and studied cinema in college. He first directed television episodes and several short films for Universal Studios, and gained notoriety for directing the thriller Jaws (1975). He then directed the sci-fi films Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and E.T. “Extraterrestrial” (1982) and the action-adventure series “Indiana Jones” (1981-2008), which were huge hits at the global box office. Spielberg experimented with the drama genre in the films “The Color Purple” (1985) and “Empire of the Sun” (1987).

After a short hiatus in 1993, Spielberg returned to filmmaking with the science fiction action film “Jurassic Park” and the drama film “Schindler’s List” and his career was successively successful at the global box office. In 1998, he directed the World War II epic Saving Private Ryan, which was a commercial success and received critical acclaim. Spielberg continued this trend in the 2000s by directing the films Artificial Intelligence (2001), Minority Report (2002) and War of the Worlds (2005). Since then, he has starred in several fantasy films, including The Adventures of Tintin (2011) and Ready Player One (2018), the historical dramas War Horse (2011), Lincoln (2012), and The Post (2017). ) and directed the musical “West Side Story” (2021).

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