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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 Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Oscars
The Early Show
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
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
Schindler's List
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Vanilla Sky
Men in Black
The Blues Brothers
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Gremlins
Jaws
Cyndi Lauper: The Goonies 'R' Good Enough
Paul
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
The Concert for Valor
The Making of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford
The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
The Music of 'Indiana Jones'
The Beginning: Making 'Episode I'
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
Music by John Williams
Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'
Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins
Five Came Back
The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Return to Jurassic Park
The Sound of 'Indiana Jones'
The Bloody Hundredth
The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'
Production Credits
Men in Black II
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous: Hidden Adventure
The French Dispatch
1941
Under the Dome
Jurassic Park
All the Way
Oslo
The Lovely Bones
Transformers One
Transformers: The Last Knight
Catch Me If You Can
The Post
The Adventures of Tintin
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Shrek
Deep Impact
The Legend of Zorro
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
Halo
Music by John Williams
Jurassic Park III
Monster House
Twister
Columbo
Back to the Future Part II
Letters from Iwo Jima
Roller Coaster Rabbit
The Color Purple
Extant
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
True Grit
Tummy Trouble
The BFG
Back to the Future
Cyndi Lauper: The Goonies 'R' Good Enough
An American Tail
Back to the Future Part III
Jurassic World: Chaos Theory
Amazing Stories
The Bloody Hundredth
Saving Private Ryan
Maestro
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
The Goonies
Young Sherlock Holmes
Bridge of Spies
Cowboys & Aliens
Joe Versus the Volcano
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Poltergeist
Balto
Gremlins
Men in Black: International
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous
The Mask of Zorro
Tiny Toons Looniversity
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Super 8
Munich
Lincoln
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The Fabelmans
Eagle Eye
Jaws
Lego Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Brick
Casper
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
seaQuest DSV
Fudge
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Jurassic World Rebirth
Matt Helm
Jurassic World
The Last Days
Smash
Schindler's List
Minority Report
Band of Brothers
Transformers
Twisters
The Pacific
The Fixer
Jurassic World Dominion
Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero
West Side Story
The Land Before Time
Five Came Back
Life on Our Planet
Animaniacs
The Flintstones
War of the Worlds
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Flags of Our Fathers
The Money Pit
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Ready Player One
Bumblebee
Night Gallery
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Return to Jurassic Park
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
Family Dog
Untitled Transformers/G.I. Joe Crossover Movie
First Man
Trail Mix-Up
Hook
United States of Tara
The Name of the Game
Poltergeist
The Challenger
Real Steel
The Hundred-Foot Journey
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company
The Color Purple
The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper
Arachnophobia
Amazing Stories
Men in Black 3
The Haunting
Men in Black
Why We Hate
Falling Skies
The Turning
Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai
You Should Be Dancing
Masters of the Air
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