Loud Thinking May 29, 2014 at 09:19AM

Steven Spielberg

As a dyslexic young man, Spielberg’s application to the University of Southern California’s School of Theater, Film, and Television was rejected thrice.
He went to California State University in Long Beach instead, but ended up dropping out of it anyway.
His directorial debut was “Sugarland Express”—praised by critics, but a box office failure.
Nevertheless, Spielberg forged ahead and was given the chance to film big-budgeted hits such as “Jaws,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “ET,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” and “Jurassic Park.”
But the Academy of Motion Picture Arts Sciences snubbed him for years, and avoided giving him the Best Director award until 1993, when he made “Schindler’s List.”
From then on, he was recognized as an A-list Hollywood director and a major artistic force in film history.

Tags: My Views