
Steven Spielberg
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Biography
Steven Allan Spielberg (/ˈspiːlbɜːrɡ/ SPEEL-burg; born December 18, 1946) 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 film directors of all time and is the most commercially successful director in film history. Several of Spielberg's works are considered among the greatest films in history, and some are among the highest-grossing films ever.
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 film Duel (1971), which Barry Diller approved. He made his theatrical debut with The Sugarland Express (1974) and became a household name with the summer blockbuster Jaws (1975). He directed more escapist box office successes with Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and the original Indiana Jones trilogy (1981–1989). He explored drama in The Color Purple (1985) and Empire of the Sun (1987).
In 1993, Spielberg directed the science fiction thriller Jurassic Park, the highest-grossing film ever, and the epic historical drama Schindler's List, 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 the World War II epic Saving Private Ryan (1998). Spielberg has since directed the science fiction films A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Minority Report (2002), War of the Worlds (2005) 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 comedies Catch Me if You Can (2002), and The Terminal (2004); the animated film The Adventures of Tintin (2011); the musical West Side Story (2021); and the family drama The Fabelmans (2022).
Spielberg co-founded Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks and has produced many successful films and television series, including Poltergeist (1982), Gremlins (1984), Back to the Future (1985), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), and Band of Brothers (2001). He has also collaborated extensively with the composer John Williams, with whom he has worked on all but five of his feature films.
Among other accolades, he has received three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and two BAFTA Awards, as well as the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1995, the Knight Commander of the British Empire in 2001, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2006, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2009 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015. Seven of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". In 2013, Time listed him as one of the 100 most influential people, and in 2023, Spielberg was the recipient of the first-ever 100 Impact Award in the US.
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Known For

Saturday Night Live

Golden Globe Awards

The Oscars

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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

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

STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie

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!

In the Teeth of Jaws

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

LIGHT & MAGIC

Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford

Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age

Star Wars: Music by John Williams

The Music of 'Indiana Jones'

The Beginning: Making Episode I

Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy

Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark

Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'

The Bloody Hundredth

The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'

Five Came Back

Music by John Williams

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

1941

The Turning

Family Dog

Untitled Transformers/G.I. Joe Crossover Movie

The Flintstones

The Fixer

Back to the Future Part III

Under the Dome

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park III

War Horse

Halo

All the Way

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

Bumblebee

Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai

The Hundred-Foot Journey

War of the Worlds

The Fabelmans

The Legend of Zorro

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

The Haunting

The Mask of Zorro

The Color Purple

Trail Mix-Up

The Bloody Hundredth

The French Dispatch

The Post

Hook

Monster House

Masters of the Air

United States of Tara

The BFG

Roger Rabbit: Dolor de Barriga

Smash

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

Back to the Future

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Men in Black

Animaniacs

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Schindler's List

seaQuest DSV

Lincoln

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

True Grit

Casper

Letters from Iwo Jima

Transformers One

Jurassic World

Return to Jurassic Park

The Last Days

Minority Report

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous: Hidden Adventure

Amazing Stories

Life on Our Planet

Ready Player One

Men in Black II

Tiny Toons Looniversity

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

The Psychiatrist

Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero

Saving Private Ryan

The Challenger

Young Sherlock Holmes

Eagle Eye

Arachnophobia

Deep Impact

Cape Fear

Lego Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Brick

Five Came Back

Extant

The Color Purple

We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company

Transformers: The Last Knight

Catch Me If You Can

Real Steel

Flags of Our Fathers

An American Tail

Falling Skies

Jurassic Park

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Joe Versus the Volcano

Night Gallery

Jurassic World Dominion

The Lovely Bones

Poltergeist

The Money Pit

Amazing Stories

Balto

Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age

The Name of the Game

Cowboys & Aliens

Jurassic World Rebirth

Back to the Future Part II

The Pacific

Men in Black 3

West Side Story

Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

Jaws

Men in Black: International

Twisters

Music by John Williams

Shrek

Jurassic World: Chaos Theory

I Wanna Hold Your Hand

The Land Before Time

Transformers

Fudge

Munich

Roller Coaster Rabbit

Why We Hate

Bridge of Spies

Super 8

Columbo

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Gremlins

Maestro

Three O'Clock High

The Adventures of Tintin

Poltergeist

Oslo

Memoirs of a Geisha

The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper

The Goonies

Band of Brothers

Twister
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