STEVEN SPIELBERG
Black and white publicity photograph of Steven Spielberg holding his coveted Irving G. Thalberg Award at the 59th Annual Academy Awards in 1987.
Photograph signed: "Steven/Spielberg". B/w, 8x10. Depicted holding his coveted Irving G. Thalberg Award at the 59th Annual Academy Awards in 1987. The award is given to outstanding producers for their body of work. 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. Minor surface creases (not evident head on). Portion of stamp on verso (no show through). Fine condition.