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| Directed by | Susan Lacy |
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| Starring | Steven Spielberg |
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| Edited by | Deborah Peretz |
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| Distributed by | HBO |
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Running time | 146 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Spielberg is a 2017 Americandocumentary film directed bySusan Lacy, and is centered on the career of film directorSteven Spielberg. It premiered at the 2017New York Film Festival and aired onHBO on October 7, 2017.
The documentary chronicles Spielberg's career, including interviews with collaborators, family and friends. Some of the events explored, particularly of his early life, would go on to be dramatized in Spielberg's 2022 semi-autobiographical filmThe Fabelmans.
Interviews withKaren Allen,Benedict Cumberbatch,Anthony Hopkins andJude Law were also conducted but not included in the final film.
Archive footage was also shown ofJoan Crawford,Goldie Hawn,Amy Irving,Marcia Lucas,Dan Rather,Dinah Shore,Sasha Spielberg, and Theo Spielberg.
† = Person interviewed died prior to the documentary's airing.
The documentary was announced in July 2017 byHBO, with it set to air on October 7 later that year.[2] A trailer for the documentary was released in September, with a list of those interviewed released as well.[3]
Prior to its October 7 airing on theHBO channel, the documentary was screened at the 2017New York Film Festival.[4]
Onreview aggregator websiteRotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 92% based on 37 reviews and anaverage rating of 7.6/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Spielberg takes a behind-the-scenes look at one of modern cinema's most spellbinding talents, with absorbing—albeit somewhat uncritical—results."[5] OnMetacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 71 out of 100 based 14 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[6]