CLEVELAND - Filmmaker Steven Spielberg was honored in Los Angeles last night at the 66th annual Golden Globes for a groundbreaking and legendary career that has spanned four decades.He is the epitome of greatness.
Spielberg, 62 was given the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award and introduced on stage by fellow filmmaking legend Martin Scorsese (pictured above with Spielberg) after a long montage of his most memorable and iconic films. From the creepy but seminal hit Jaws in 1975 through the Indiana Jones franchise, 1982's wildly popular E.T. : The Extra Terrestrial, all the way to Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan and a host of other major hits, Spielberg has been a Hollywood heavyweight and a cinematic legend to the nth degree.
Seriously.
Once Spielberg took the stage, he began his acceptance speech by giving much credit for his own successful career to DeMille himself, whose 1952 film The Greatest Show on Earth greatly inspired him as a child and in many ways was the catalyst in him creating his first short film using a model train.
In addition to his stellar record as a director, Spielberg has an equally impressive resume as a film producer. He served as producer on Poltergeist, The Goonies and The Back to the Future trilogy, both Men in Black films and Letters From Iwo Jima just to name a select few. He is a multiple Academy Award winner and has been bestowed with a host of lifetime achievement awards over the years. In short, he is Hollywood.
I want to personally congratulate Spielberg for his timeless brilliance and vast imagination. His epic career has been nothing short of revolutionary and has served as a flash point in the history of entertainment.
He's one of my role models.
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