The Director

A deck by Omar Ortega · 4 cards

Steven Spielberg himself and the studios he built.

DreamWorks Pictures

DreamWorks Pictures, also known as DreamWorks SKG and DreamWorks, is an American film studio and distribution label of Amblin Partners. The company was originally founded on October 12, 1994, as a live-action and animation film studio by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen, of which they owned 72%. From 1997 to 2005, DreamWorks distributed its own films and its third-party films, with Universal Pictures handling worldwide home video distribution during that period. It has released, produced, and/or distributed more than ten films with box-office grosses of more than $100 million each.

Amblin Entertainment

Amblin Entertainment, Inc., formerly named Amblin Productions, is an American film production company founded by filmmakers Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, and Frank Marshall in 1980. Its headquarters are located in Bungalow 477 of the Universal Studios backlot in Universal City, California, with an additional office in New York City. It distributes all of the films from Amblin Partners under the Amblin Entertainment banner.

DreamWorks Animation

DreamWorks Animation L.L.C. is an American animation studio, owned by Comcast's NBCUniversal as part of Universal Pictures, a division of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group. The studio has produced 54 feature films; its first film, Antz, was released on October 2, 1998, and its latest film, Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie, was released on September 26, 2025. Its upcoming slate of films include Forgotten Island on September 25, 2026, Cocomelon: The Movie on February 26, 2027, the live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon 2 on June 11, 2027, Shrek 5 on June 30, 2027, Donkey on June 30, 2028, and two untitled films on September 24, 2027, and September 22, 2028.

Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg is an American filmmaker. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, Spielberg is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema and is the highest-grossing film director of all time. Among other accolades, he has received three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, four BAFTA Awards, twelve Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, and a Grammy Award, as well as the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1995, an honorary knighthood in 2001, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2006, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2009, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015, and the National Medal of Arts in 2023. According to Forbes, he is one of the world's wealthiest celebrities, with a net worth of at least $5.3 billion. He is one of 22 people to achieve EGOT status.