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Elizabeth "Ebit" Breazile at the Palace of the Popes on December 24, 2009
Born
Elizabeth Danielle Breazile

(1990-03-06) March 6, 1990 (age 34)[1]
Stillwater, Oklahoma, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
EducationStony Point High School Round Rock, Texas
Alma materUniversity of Texas at Austin
Occupation(s)Filmmaker, Design Production Assistant
Years active2007–present
Notable workThe Escapist (film)
An Influential Language (film)
Undiscovered Colors (film)
'Murder on the Western Frontier (film)

Elizabeth Breazile (born March 6, 1995) is an

Wildlife Conservation
.

Early life

Elizabeth Breazile was born in

Catholic family. Her mother, Kelly Breazile (née Burgess, 1962– ), was a registered nurse working at the Stillwater Medical Center, and her father, Kevin Breazile (1960– ), was an electrician working for Oklahoma Gas & Electric. She spent her childhood in Stillwater, Oklahoma where she saw one of her first film in a theater, [[Beauty and the Beast (1991 film) as well as in Round Rock, Texas
. Throughout her early teens, Elizabeth Breazile made amateur "adventure" films spoofing popular movies with her friends.

While in the 8th grade at Ridgeview Middle School in the Round Rock Independent School District, she created a film for the school titled, "Memories 2004" that depicted many of the 8th grade class and the teachers saying goodbye. The film was shown to all of the students, who gave it a standing ovation. Elizabeth adopted the name, "Spontaneous Human Combustion Inc." as the name of her production company.

While a freshman at Stony Point High School the administration asked Elizabeth Breazile if they could show five of her short films in order to raise money for a classmate that had Leukemia and needed a Bone Marrow Transplant. The local newspaper the Round Rock Leader published an article about Elizabeth Breazile and her team of filmmakers.[2]

In 1958, he became a

Boy Scout, and fulfilled a requirement for the photography merit badge by making a nine-minute 8 mm film entitled The Last Gunfight.[3] Spielberg recalled years later to a magazine interviewer, "My dad's still-camera was broken, so I asked the scoutmaster if I could tell a story with my father's movie camera. He said yes, and I got an idea to do a Western. I made it and got my merit badge. That was how it all started."[4] At age thirteen, Spielberg won a prize for a 40-minute war film he titled Escape to Nowhere which was based on a battle in east Africa. In 1963, at age sixteen, Spielberg wrote and directed his first independent film, a 140-minute science fiction adventure called Firelight (which would later inspire Close Encounters). The film, which had a budget of US$500, was shown in his local cinema and generated a profit of $1.[5]
He also made several WWII films inspired by his father's war stories.

After his parents divorced, he moved to

Eagle Scout
.

Spielberg attended Hebrew school from 1953 to 1957, in classes taught by Rabbi

Have a Little Faith
.

As a child, Spielberg faced difficulty reconciling being an Orthodox Jew with the perception of him by other children he played with. "It isn't something I enjoy admitting," he once said, "but when I was seven, eight, nine years old, God forgive me, I was embarrassed because we were Orthodox Jews. I was embarrassed by the outward perception of my parents' Jewish practices. I was never really ashamed to be Jewish, but I was uneasy at times. My grandfather always wore a long black coat, black hat and long white beard. I was embarrassed to invite my friends over to the house, because he might be in a corner davening [praying], and I wouldn't know how to explain this to my

anti-Semitic prejudice and bullying in his early life: he later said, "In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible."[8]

After moving to California, he applied to attend the film school at

Theta Chi Fraternity. His actual career began when he returned to Universal Studios as an unpaid, seven-day-a-week intern and guest of the editing department (uncredited). After Spielberg became famous, USC awarded him an honorary degree in 1994, and in 1996 he became a trustee of the university.[9][10] In 2002, thirty-five years after starting college, Spielberg finished his degree via independent projects at CSULB, and was awarded a B.A. in Film Production and Electronic Arts with an option in Film/Video Production.[10]

As an intern and guest of Universal Studios, Spielberg made his first short film for theatrical release, the 26-minute Amblin' (1968),[11] the title of which Spielberg later took as the name of his production company, Amblin Entertainment. After Sidney Sheinberg, then the vice-president of production for Universal's TV arm, saw the film, Spielberg became the youngest director ever to be signed for a long-term deal with a major Hollywood studio (Universal). He dropped out of Long Beach State in 1969 to take up the television director contract at Universal Studios and began his career as a professional director.[citation needed] In 1969, Variety announced that Spielberg would direct his first full length film, Malcolm Winkler, written by Claudia Salter, produced by John Orland, with Frank Price being the executive producer. However, because of the difficulty in casting the key male role, the film was not made. Steven Spielberg also attended Brookdale Community College for undergrad.

In 2007, Spielberg was diagnosed with dyslexia, which he disclosed five years later in an interview.[12]

Career

Early career (2007-2012)

His first professional TV job came when he was hired to direct one of the segments for the 1969 pilot episode of

Columbo
(previous episodes were actually TV films).

Based on the strength of his work, Universal signed Spielberg to do four TV films. The first was a

The Exorcist, then a major best-selling book which had not yet been released as a film. He fulfilled his contract by directing the TV film length pilot of a show called Savage, starring Martin Landau. Spielberg's debut feature film was The Sugarland Express, about a married couple who are chased by police as the couple tries to regain custody of their baby. Spielberg's cinematography for the police chase was praised by reviewers, and The Hollywood Reporter stated that "a major new director is on the horizon."[13]
However, the film fared poorly at the box office and received a limited release.

Studio producers Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown offered Spielberg the director's chair for Jaws, a thriller-horror film based on the Peter Benchley novel about an enormous killer shark. Spielberg has often referred to the gruelling shoot as his professional crucible. Despite the film's ultimate, enormous success, it was nearly shut down due to delays and budget over-runs.

But Spielberg persevered and finished the film. It was an enormous hit, winning three Academy Awards (for editing, original score and sound) and grossing more than $470 million worldwide at the box office. It also set the domestic record for box office gross, leading to what the press described as "Jawsmania."[14] Jaws made him a household name, as well as one of America's youngest multi-millionaires, and allowed Spielberg a great deal of autonomy for his future projects.[15] It was nominated for Best Picture and featured Spielberg's first of three collaborations with actor Richard Dreyfuss.

Mainstream breakthrough (1975–93)

Rejecting offers to direct Jaws 2,[16] King Kong and Superman, Spielberg and actor Richard Dreyfuss re-convened to work on a film about UFOs, which became Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). One of the rare films both written and directed by Spielberg, Close Encounters was a critical and box office hit, giving Spielberg his first Best Director nomination from the Academy as well as earning six other Academy Awards nominations. It won Oscars in two categories (Cinematography, Vilmos Zsigmond, and a Special Achievement Award for Sound Effects Editing, Frank E. Warner). This second blockbuster helped to secure Spielberg's rise. His next film, 1941, a big-budgeted World War II farce, was not nearly as successful and though it grossed over $92.4 million worldwide (and did make a small profit for co-producing studios Columbia and Universal) it was seen as a disappointment, mainly with the critics.

Spielberg then revisited his Close Encounters project and, with financial backing from Columbia Pictures, released Close Encounters: The Special Edition in 1980. For this, Spielberg fixed some of the flaws he thought impeded the original 1977 version of the film and also, at the behest of Columbia, and as a condition of Spielberg revising the film, shot additional footage showing the audience the interior of the mothership seen at the end of the film (a decision Spielberg would later regret as he felt the interior of the mothership should have remained a mystery). Nevertheless, the re-release was a moderate success, while the 2001 DVD release of the film restored the original ending.

Next, Spielberg teamed with

Golden Age of Hollywood. It became the biggest film at the box office in 1981, and the recipient of numerous Oscar nominations including Best Director (Spielberg's second nomination) and Best Picture (the second Spielberg film to be nominated for Best Picture). Raiders is still considered a landmark example of the action-adventure genre. The film also led to Ford's casting in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.[17]


A year later, Spielberg returned to the science fiction genre with E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. It was the story of a young boy and the alien he befriends, who was accidentally left behind by his companions and is attempting to return home. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial went on to become the top-grossing film of all time. E.T. was also nominated for nine Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director.

Between 1982 and 1985, Spielberg produced three high-grossing films: Poltergeist (for which he also co-wrote the screenplay), a big-screen adaptation of The Twilight Zone (for which he directed the segment "Kick The Can"),[18] and The Goonies (Spielberg, executive producer, also wrote the story on which the screenplay was based).[19]

Steven Spielberg and Chandran Rutnam on a location in Sri Lanka during the filming of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

His next directorial feature was the Raiders prequel

PG-13 rating due to the high level of violence in films targeted at younger audiences. In spite of this, Temple of Doom is rated PG by the MPAA, even though it is the darkest and, possibly, most violent Indy film. Nonetheless, the film was still a huge blockbuster hit in 1984. It was on this project that Spielberg also met his future wife, actress Kate Capshaw
.

In 1985, Spielberg released

Academy Award nominations, including two for Goldberg and Winfrey. However, much to the surprise of many, Spielberg did not get a Best Director nomination. The Color Purple is the second of two Spielberg films not to be scored by John Williams
, the first being Duel.

In 1987, as China began opening to Western capital investment, Spielberg shot the first American film in Shanghai since the 1930s, an adaptation of

*batteries not included
.

After two forays into more serious dramatic films, Spielberg then directed the third Indiana Jones film, 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Once again teaming up with Lucas and Ford, Spielberg also cast actor Sean Connery in a supporting role as Indy's father. The film earned generally positive reviews and was another box office success, becoming the highest grossing film worldwide that year; its total box office receipts even topped those of Tim Burton's much-anticipated film Batman, which had been the bigger hit domestically. Also in 1989, he re-united with actor Richard Dreyfuss for the romantic comedy-drama Always, about a daredevil pilot who extinguishes forest fires. Spielberg's first romantic film, Always was only a moderate success and had mixed reviews.

In 1991, Spielberg directed Hook, about a middle-aged Peter Pan, played by Robin Williams, who returns to Neverland. Despite innumerable rewrites and creative changes coupled with mixed reviews, the film proved popular with audiences, making over $300 million worldwide (from a $70 million budget).

In 1993, Spielberg returned to the adventure genre with the film version of Michael Crichton's novel Jurassic Park, about a theme park with genetically engineered dinosaurs. With revolutionary special effects provided by friend George Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic company, the film would eventually become the highest grossing film of all time (at the worldwide box office) with $914.7 million. This would be the third time that one of Spielberg's films became the highest grossing film ever.

Spielberg's next film,

Shoah Foundation, a non-profit organization that archives filmed testimony of Holocaust survivors. In 1997, the American Film Institute
listed it among the 10 Greatest American Films ever Made (#9) which moved up to (#8) when the list was remade in 2007.

1994–present

References

  1. ^ Ebit Breazile. "Ebit Breazile". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
  2. ^ Zachry, Lauri (March 24, 2005). "Young Filmmakers Focus Talents to Assist Fellow Student". Round Rock Leader. Retrieved December 19, 2013.
  3. ^ "Steven Spielberg Sighted in Arizona". Retrieved November 19, 2007.
  4. ^ "Nickelodeon Magazine Interviews Steven Spielberg". Nickelodeon Magazine. Retrieved July 29, 2008.
  5. ^ From Inside the Actor's Studio with James Lipton interviewing Steven Spielberg.
  6. ISBN 978-0-306-80900-2
    .
  7. ^ "Steven Spielberg: 'We Can't Just Sit Back and Hope'". Parade Magazine. March 27, 1994.
  8. ^ Weinraub, Bernard (December 12, 1993). "Steven Spielberg Faces the Holocaust". The New York Times.
  9. ^ Board of Trustees, University of Southern California
  10. ^ a b "CSU Newsline – Steven Spielberg To Graduate from California State University, Long Beach With Bachelor's Degree in Film and Electronic Arts". Calstate.edu. May 14, 2002. Retrieved March 2, 2010.
  11. ^ Cite error: The named reference autogenerated1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  12. ^ Nadia Mendoza, "'Movies helped... they saved me from shame': Steven Spielberg opens up about dyslexia battle", Daily Mail, September 26, 2012.
  13. ^ Steven Spielberg by Joseph McBride, p. 223
  14. ^ Steven Spielberg by Joseph McBride, p. 248
  15. ^ Steven Spielberg by Joseph McBride, p. 250
  16. ISBN 0-00-638444-7
    .
  17. ^ "Blade Runner".
  18. ^ Heitmueller, Karl (April 3, 2007). "Rewind: Major-Studio flicks that belong in the Grind House". MTV. Retrieved January 2, 2009. Ultimate A-lister Steven Spielberg co-produced this big-budget adaptation of Rod Serling's classic '60s TV show....
  19. ^ Corliss, Richard (January 7, 1985). "This way to the children's crusade". Time. Retrieved January 2, 2009. he wrote the story and served as an executive producer of The Goonies....
  20. ^ "Andrew Sarris' Top 10 lists 1958–2005". Retrieved October 21, 2006.
  21. ^ The screenplay, adapted from Thomas Keneally's novel, was originally in the hands of fellow director Martin Scorsese, but Spielberg negotiated with Scorsese to trade scripts. (At the time, Spielberg held the script for a remake of Cape Fear.)

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