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Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, writer and producer. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, he is the most commercially successful director of all time. Spielberg is the recipient of various accolades, including three Academy Awards, a Kennedy Center honor, four Directors Guild of America Awards, two BAFTA Awards, a Cecil B. DeMille Award and an AFI Life Achievement Award. Seven of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. He moved to California and studied film in college. After directing several episodes for television including Night Gallery and Columbo, he directed the television film Duel (1971) which gained acclaim from critics and audiences. He made his directorial film debut with The Sugarland Express (1974), and became a household name with the 1975 summer blockbuster Jaws. He then directed huge box office successes Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and the Indiana Jones original trilogy (1981-89). Spielberg subsequently explored drama in the acclaimed The Color Purple (1985) and Empire of the Sun (1987). After a brief hiatus, Spielberg directed the science fiction thriller Jurassic Park (1993), the highest-grossing film ever at the time, and the Holocaust drama Schindler's List (1993), which has often been listed as one of the greatest films ever made. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for the latter and for the 1998 World War II epic Saving Private Ryan. Spielberg continued in the 2000s with science fiction films A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Minority Report (2002) and War of the Worlds (2005). He also directed the adventure films The Adventures of Tintin (2011) and Ready Player One (2018); the historical dramas Amistad (1997), Munich (2005), War Horse (2011), Lincoln (2012), Bridge of Spies (2015) and The Post (2017); the musical West Side Story (2021); and the semi-autobiographical drama The Fabelmans (2022). He has been a producer on several successful films, including Poltergeist (1982), Gremlins (1984), Back to the Future (1985) and Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) as well as the miniseries Band of Brothers (2001). Spielberg co-founded Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks, and has served as a producer for many successful films and television series. He is also known for his long collaboration with the composer John Williams, with whom he has worked for all but five of his feature films. Several of Spielberg's works are among the highest-grossing and greatest films all time. Premiere ranked him first place in the list of 100 Most Powerful People in Movies in 2003. In 2013, Time listed him as one of the 100 most influential people.
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Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, writer and producer. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, he is the most commercially successful director of all time. Spielberg is the recipient of various accolades, including three Academy Awards, a Kennedy Center honor, four Directors Guild of America Awards, two BAFTA Awards, a Cecil B. DeMille Award and an AFI Life Achievement Award. Seven of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. He moved to California and studied film in college. After directing several episodes for television including Night Gallery and Columbo, he directed the television film Duel (1971) which gained acclaim from critics and audiences. He made his directorial film debut with The Sugarland Express (1974), and became a household name with the 1975 summer blockbuster Jaws. He then directed huge box office successes Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and the Indiana Jones original trilogy (1981-89). Spielberg subsequently explored drama in the acclaimed The Color Purple (1985) and Empire of the Sun (1987). After a brief hiatus, Spielberg directed the science fiction thriller Jurassic Park (1993), the highest-grossing film ever at the time, and the Holocaust drama Schindler's List (1993), which has often been listed as one of the greatest films ever made. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for the latter and for the 1998 World War II epic Saving Private Ryan. Spielberg continued in the 2000s with science fiction films A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Minority Report (2002) and War of the Worlds (2005). He also directed the adventure films The Adventures of Tintin (2011) and Ready Player One (2018); the historical dramas Amistad (1997), Munich (2005), War Horse (2011), Lincoln (2012), Bridge of Spies (2015) and The Post (2017); the musical West Side Story (2021); and the semi-autobiographical drama The Fabelmans (2022). He has been a producer on several successful films, including Poltergeist (1982), Gremlins (1984), Back to the Future (1985) and Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) as well as the miniseries Band of Brothers (2001). Spielberg co-founded Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks, and has served as a producer for many successful films and television series. He is also known for his long collaboration with the composer John Williams, with whom he has worked for all but five of his feature films. Several of Spielberg's works are among the highest-grossing and greatest films all time. Premiere ranked him first place in the list of 100 Most Powerful People in Movies in 2003. In 2013, Time listed him as one of the 100 most influential people.
Known For
Saturday Night Live
The Oscars
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Early Show
SNL Digital Shorts
CBS News Sunday Morning
The Kennedy Center Honors
60 Minutes
Honest Trailers
Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV
Primetime Glick
Challenger: The Final Flight
LIGHT & MAGIC
Schindler's List
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Vanilla Sky
Men in Black
The Blues Brothers
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Gremlins
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
Jaws
Austin Powers in Goldmember
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
Paul
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
The Concert for Valor
Nickelodeon Studios Opening Day Celebration!
The Making of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford
The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
The Music of 'Indiana Jones'
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
The Beginning: Making Episode I
The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'
The Bloody Hundredth
Music by John Williams
Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Five Came Back
Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins
Return to Jurassic Park
The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'
The Sound of 'Indiana Jones'
Production Credits
First Man
Falling Skies
Oslo
Columbo
Jurassic World Rebirth
Bumblebee
Arachnophobia
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
An American Tail
The Name of the Game
The Last Days
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Five Came Back
Transformers
Hook
The Bloody Hundredth
Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero
The Post
The Hundred-Foot Journey
War of the Worlds
Poltergeist
Back to the Future Part III
Real Steel
Men in Black: International
The Pacific
The Haunting
Balto
Lego Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Brick
Munich
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Men in Black II
Poltergeist
Gremlins
Jurassic Park III
Super 8
The Legend of Zorro
1941
Tiny Toons Looniversity
Jurassic World Dominion
Fudge
Band of Brothers
Memoirs of a Geisha
All the Way
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
The Land Before Time
Bridge of Spies
Deep Impact
Saving Private Ryan
Minority Report
Men in Black
Roller Coaster Rabbit
Catch Me If You Can
Casper
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
The Turning
Men in Black 3
Untitled Transformers/G.I. Joe Crossover Movie
Halo
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
Back to the Future
Schindler's List
Trail Mix-Up
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Transformers: The Last Knight
Animaniacs
Young Sherlock Holmes
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Shrek
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company
Music by John Williams
Smash
Roger Rabbit: Dolor de Barriga
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous: Hidden Adventure
Eagle Eye
The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper
The Goonies
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
The Money Pit
Letters from Iwo Jima
Back to the Future Part II
Twister
Jaws
The French Dispatch
The Color Purple
Cape Fear
Ready Player One
Jurassic World
Lincoln
The BFG
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous
Masters of the Air
seaQuest DSV
The Flintstones
Cowboys & Aliens
The Color Purple
Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai
Maestro
The Challenger
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Amazing Stories
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
True Grit
The Lovely Bones
Why We Hate
Extant
War Horse
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Jurassic World: Chaos Theory
Jurassic Park
West Side Story
Flags of Our Fathers
Under the Dome
Monster House
The Fixer
Life on Our Planet
Twisters
Family Dog
The Fabelmans
The Mask of Zorro
Amazing Stories
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
United States of Tara
Night Gallery
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Transformers One
Return to Jurassic Park
Joe Versus the Volcano
The Adventures of Tintin
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
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