Succesful film director


Successful Film Director – Steven Spielberg
A successful and well known film director is Steven Spielberg, born 18th December 1946 now 66 years old whose residence is in Los Angeles, California.
Spielberg is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and business magnate, whose career started in 1963 up until this present day.  
Spielberg’s first major success comes in 1975 with the hit film ‘jaws’. The shark tale horror film was extremely popular and landed Spielberg with three Academy Awards for editing, original score, and sound, and was nominated for Best Picture losing out to 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'. 'Jaws' set box office records grossing over US$100 million and made Spielberg a millionaire in his early 30s.

Steven Spielberg has a net worth of around $3.1 billion dollars and works out that he earns around $150 million dollars a year, this making him one of the most wealthiest film directors in the world.
Spielberg is recognised as the most influential and one of the most popular film directors around, altogether he has made around: 111 films and directed 50 and also altogether he has won He has won 126 awards including 4 Oscars, 4 Golden Globes, and 11 Emmy's.
An example of a few of these films are:
·         Real Steel
·         Monster House
·         Men in Black
·         Saving Private Ryan
·         The Goonies

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