Date of birth: 18th December 1946, in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Awards: 3 Oscars, another 112 wins and 78 nominations.
His films:
- Early on in his career he used to work with sci-fi and adventure genres in film.
- A common theme in his films is the ordinary discovering something extraordinary.
- 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.
His top films include: Jaws, Jarassic Park, E.T, Indianna Jones, War of the Worlds, Saving Private Ryan and A Timeless Call.
