Steven Spielberg given the lifetime achievement award at the Berlin Film Festival

Steven Spielberg’s name is synonymous with films like E.T, Jaws, Schindler’s List, Jurassic Park and this year with, The Fabelmans. He has made an amazing array of films for every age group. He has even directed a musical remake of The West Side Story and to top it all, he is 76.

No wonder, the lifetime achievement award at the Berlin Film Festival, which is now in its concluding phase has been announced for the legendary director, Steven Spielberg. His new film, The Fabelmans, traces his own journey as a young boy and his abiding interest in films which created a legend like Steven Spielberg.
At 76, he told reporters at the festival that whenever he comes across a promising new book or script that is based on an original idea, “excitement supersedes everything.” At once, he starts thinking of how good a movie such a script would make.

Currently, he has taken up the unfinished script left behind his friend, Stanley Kubrick after his death in 1999. This script will be turned into a seven part limited series on Napoleon. He also spoke about how the idea of The Fabelmans saw fruition.
His mother used to often tell him, “You have so much good material from your childhood,” and would ask when he would be using that material. Spielberg told reporters that the fear the pandemic filled him with, “gave me the courage to tell my personal story.”