STEVEN SPIELBERG
Black and white publicity photograph of Steven Spielberg on the set of Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Photograph signed: "Steven/Spielberg". B/w, 10x8 overall, image 9½x7 (one surface). Depicts Spielberg on the set of his 1977 film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. ©1977, Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Captioned at lower margin: "Writer-director, Steven Spielberg, director of 'Jaws,' considers his new film, 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind,' to be the most difficult and challenging film of his career." The most commercially successful filmmaker in Hollywood history, Steven Spielberg (born in 1946) is lifelong cinema buff who began directing his first short movies while still a child. He won Academy Awards for Best Director for Schindler's List (1994) and Saving Private Ryan (1999), and Spielberg was nominated for the Best Director Oscar for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982). His long list of feature films includes Jaws (1975), The Blues Brothers (1980), The Color Purple (1985), Back to the Future (1985), Cape Fear (1991), Hook (1991), Jurassic Park (1993), Twister (1996), Men in Black (1997), Amistad (1997), The Mask of Zorro (1998), A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001), Catch Me If You Can (2002), Minority Report (2002), The Terminal (2004), War of the Worlds (2005) and Munich (2005), and Spielberg has produced or executive produced a long list of other films and TV miniseries. He has also written for films and appeared on the big screen as both an extra and as himself. Slightly creased at blank margins, light black mark at upper right margin. Minor surface creases (not evident head on), one at facial image. Fine condition.