Steven Spielberg

Co-creator and executive producer of Band of Brothers with Tom Hanks.

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, Spielberg is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema and is the highest-grossing film director of all time, with his films having earned almost $11 billion worldwide. Band of Brothers was created by Spielberg and Tom Hanks, who also served as executive producers and who had collaborated on the 1998 World War II film Saving Private Ryan, from which the series got many of its visual cues and crew members.

Quick Facts

Born: December 18, 1946, Cincinnati, Ohio
Academy awards: 3
Companies: Amblin Entertainment, DreamWorks Pictures
Best director wins: Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan

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Background

Spielberg and Tom Hanks produced Band of Brothers (2001), a ten-part HBO miniseries based on Stephen E. Ambrose's book; it follows Easy Company of the 101st Airborne Division's 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment and won a Golden Globe for Best Miniseries. The series was developed chiefly by Hanks and Erik Jendresen, while Spielberg served as "the final eye" and used Saving Private Ryan to inform the series. German historian and Holocaust researcher Anton Posset worked with Spielberg and Hanks as a consultant on the episode depicting the Kaufering camp, providing photographs of the liberators and documentation of the survivors' reports he had collected over the years.

The success of Band of Brothers led to two companion miniseries, also with Spielberg's and Hanks' involvement, The Pacific (2010) and Masters of the Air (2024), and executive producing Band of Brothers and The Pacific gained the pair Primetime Emmy Awards. Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, made his directorial debut with Duel (1971) and became a household name with Jaws (1975); he directed the historical war epics Schindler's List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998), both of which won him the Academy Award for Best Director, with the former also earning him Best Picture. He co-founded Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks Pictures and has received three Academy Awards.

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