Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg is an American filmmaker. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, he is the most commercially successful director in history. He is the recipient of many accolades, including three Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, nine Golden Globe Awards, and four Directors Guild of America Awards, as well as the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1995, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2006, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2009 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015. Seven of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".
18 December 1946
Born on the same birth date (18 December 1946): December 18
Born on the same birth day (18 December): Akira Iida • Andy Fantuz • Benjamin Watson • Celia Johnson • Charles Griffin • Christopher Polhem • Countess Johanna Magdalene of Hanau-Lichtenberg • Edwin Bramall • Edwin Howard Armstrong • Eric Tindill • Ilario Castagner • John Cooper (hurdler) • John Hull (merchant) • Jonathan Yeo • Katie Holmes • Kazuhide Uekusa • Leila Steinberg • Lionel Monckton • Mariano Ignacio Prado • Matt McGrath • Ossie Davis • Randy Houser • Seth Doege • Ty Cobb
Born in the same month (December 1946): Benny Andersson • Bill Hosket Jr. • Chava Alberstein • Clive Bunker • David Macaulay • Diana Palmer (author) • Eric Robson • John Du Prez • John Rubinstein • John Sullivan (writer) • Laffit Pincay Jr. • Pierre Falardeau • Robert Urich • Ruth Fuchs • Susan Lucci • Willy van der Kuijlen