What’s true of Steven Spielberg’s life in his autobiographco film ‘The Fabelmans’

Steven Spielberg has hatched the most autobiographical of his films over time, but he waited for both parents to disappear to make him. Why The Fabelmansin the first vision tonight 5 March on Rai 1 at 21.30, In addition to telling how his passion for cinema was born (the dazzling vision of the scene of the railway accident in The largest show in the world by Cecil B. Demille, the experiments with the 8 mm format, the meeting with a legend like John Ford), He comes to the heart of his family’s painful dynamics: the pianist mother who had given up his career for his children; his depression; The divorce of the parents because of the mother’s new love, the partner and the best friend of his father. Poicked by critics, much less by the public, does not drag the viewer with the strength of a surprising and engaging story, as happens in most of his other films. It is more a film as admirers of the director, by lovers of that magic that is to tell the world through the eye of a camera. And it transmits a valid message also for today’s young people: follow your dreams and put every spark of yourself.

With et, one of his most famous characters

Spielberg, a life for cinema

Steven Allan Spielberg was born in 1946 in Cincinnati, by his father Arnold Spielberg. Electronic engineer and mother Leah Adler, restorer and pianist, both of Jewish origin. He has three sisters. From 1953 to 1957 he lives in Arizona, where he attended a Jewish school and is also made fun of by peers for this reason. Spielberg recalls this period and the subsequent transfer to Sarathoga to California, where he will attend high school, as the saddest and most difficult of his life by calling him a “hell on earth”. Among other things, the director said, in an interview with Corriere della Sera in 2004: «I was afraid to go to school, to go home alone and to meet new peers, because I feared that they followed the hot heads that despised me and passing by me shouted “dirty Jew”».

In 1958 he joined the scouts, winning the medal for the best photo by delivering an 8mm film of nine minutes, A kind of western entitled The Last Gunfight. Although he had first shot other little things, Steven believes that episode the spark of his passion. The following year with a 40 -minute amateur war film, Escape to Nowhere, and sixteen years old, in 1963, convinces Santa to give him $ 500 to make a science fiction of 140 minutes, Firelight, who manages to project one evening in a cinema near the house, in Phoenix in Arizona.

The high school in 1965 ends when the family has already moved to California. Try to enter the University of Southern California University Cinema School, but is rejected for its non -brilliant media had at high school. He then enrolled in letters in Long Beach, while proposing himself as an assembly intern at the Universal Studios. In 1968 he managed to recover the funds to create a 25mm 26 -minute short film: he is Amblin ‘, a name with which he will then baptize years after his production house. The short is noticed by the vice -president of Universal, Sidney Sheinberg, who puts him under contract for seven years of television regions. One of these is Duel (1971), which is also expanded for the Cienma and with which he arrives in Europe. The first real feature film is Sugarland Express (! 974), followed the following year by The shark Which has an amazing success, resulting at the time the film with the major takings of all time and which is worth the first nomination for the Golden Globe for best direction. With Close meetings of the third type (12977) conquers the first Oscar candidacy.

Roberto Benigni gives the David di Donatello Special award to Spielberg in 2004

The films and prizes

During his career Steven Spielberg received several prizes and applications including 23 Oscar nominations (winning three, for best director and best film in 1994 for Schindler’s List and as the best Resgista in 1999 for Save the soldier Ryan), 13 at the Bafta, 24 at the Golden Globe, 25 at the Emmy, 12 at the Directors Guild of America Award, 6 David di Donatello.

This is the list of all his director’s films

FirelighT (1964)
Duel (1971)
Sugarland Express (The Sugarland Express) (1974)
The shark (Jaws) (1975)
Close meetings of the third type (Close Encounters of the Third Kind) (1977)
1941 – Alarm in Hollywood (1941) (1979)
THE predators of the lost ark (Raiders of the Lost Ark) (1981)
And the extra-terrestrial (Et the extra-terrestrial) (1982)
On the borders of reality (Twilight Zone: The Movie) (1983) – Episode Kick the Can
Indiana Jones and the cursed temple (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom) (1984)
The purple color (The Color Purple) (1985)
The Empire of the Sun (Empire of the Sun) (1987)
Indiana Jones and the last crusade (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) (1989)
Always – forever (Always) (1989)
Hook – Captain Hook (Hook) (1991)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Schindler’s List – Schindler’s list (Schindler’s List) (1993)
The lost world – Jurassic Park (The Lost World: Jurassic Park) (1997)
Amistad (1997)
Save the soldier Ryan (Private Ryan Saving) (1998)
Ai – Artificial Intelligence (To artificial intelligence) (2001)
Minority report (2002)
Try to take me (Catch Me If you can) (2002)
Tea endsL (2004)
The War of the Worlds (War of the Worlds) (2005)
Munich (2005)
Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) (2008)
The adventures of Tintin – The secret of the unicorn (The Adventures of Tintin) (2011)
War Horse (2011)
Lincoln (2012)
The bridge of the spies (Bridge of Spies) (2015)
The GGG – The Great Gentile Giant (The BFG) (2016)
The post (2017)
Ready Player One (2018)
West Side Story (2021)
The Fabelmans (2022)

During the ceremony at Harvard College in 2016

Honorary academic titles

Il 26 maggio 2016 a Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA,  Spielberg è stato insignito di un dottorato in arte dall'Harvard College. Il 27 maggio 2002 ha ricevuto il dottorato in Letteratura all'Università di Yale.