“You begin your second term with semi-divine status,” the 16th president of the United States is told in Steven Spielberg’s film Lincoln. The evidence of that status is in the film’s ...

Lincoln — whose principal statement was that Spielberg wanted to be taken seriously. Yet by the time he engineered the greatest scene in film history, for Saving Private Ryan, the distinction ...

Spielberg starting out. Spielberg wrote, produced and directed his first feature-length film, Firelight, a crudely-made ...

Except for Duel (which was a made-for-TV movie), this list is ... Award-winning lead performance, Spielberg’s historical ...