Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to story telling -- in prose and in poetry, in art and in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books
Today is the story of Dec. 18th
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It is the 352nd day of the year, leaving 13 days remaining in 2022.
He told his stories on the movie screen, in blockbuster films that he wrote, produced and directed. He told family stories; he told stories about extra-terrestrials. He told stories about heroes and stories about villains. He told action-packed adventure stories, and he told stories about the human race.
He has won three Academy Awards and numerous other honors.
He made his first movie when he was 12; it was a home movie about a train wreck involving his toy trains. At 13, he wrote Escape to Nowhere and filmed it with a cast of his schoolmates; it won first place in a statewide competition.
After graduating from California State University at Long Beach, he directed several television episodes, and in 1974, directed his first feature film, The Sugarland Express. The next year, he helped create the summer blockbuster with Jaws, about a killer shark terrorizing vacationers at a New England beach town. Some of the then-young director's actions were praised as being akin to Alfred Hitchcock.
His later films covered a variety of themes, including a hero of the Holocaust, Schindler's List; visits from extra-terrestrials, E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind; period dramas, Lincoln, The Color Purple, and Empire of the Sun; and the Raiders of the Lost Ark series.
Spielberg's latest movie was 2022's The Fabelmans, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama he wrote with Tony Kushner.
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