Steven Spielberg
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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.
Overview
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
Production Credits
West Side Story
Letters from Iwo Jima
Jurassic World Dominion
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Men in Black II
The Haunting
Lincoln
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
The Mask of Zorro
An American Tail
Band of Brothers
Trail Mix-Up
The Turning
Transformers: The Last Knight
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
Saving Private Ryan
Minority Report
Transformers One
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
The BFG
Munich
The Goonies
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Back to the Future
Shrek
The Lovely Bones
Ready Player One
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Men in Black: International
The French Dispatch
The Flintstones
Twisters
Lego Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Brick
Men in Black 3
Smash
Untitled Transformers/G.I. Joe Crossover Movie
Cowboys & Aliens
Schindler's List
Tummy Trouble
Back to the Future Part III
Bumblebee
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
The Legend of Zorro
Young Sherlock Holmes
Columbo
Poltergeist
Poltergeist
Why We Hate
The Color Purple
Transformers
The Pacific
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Casper
The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper
Family Dog
seaQuest DSV
Cyndi Lauper: The Goonies 'R' Good Enough
Amazing Stories
Eagle Eye
Flags of Our Fathers
First Man
Jurassic World Rebirth
United States of Tara
Twister
Tiny Toons Looniversity
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
Real Steel
Fudge
Men in Black
Amazing Stories
Oslo
Cape Fear
Halo
The Last Days
Night Gallery
Jurassic Park III
Music by John Williams
True Grit
Under the Dome
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous: Hidden Adventure
Jurassic Park
The Fixer
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Life on Our Planet
Bridge of Spies
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Maestro
The Challenger
The Post
Return to Jurassic Park
Memoirs of a Geisha
Extant
Deep Impact
Jaws
Gremlins
Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero
Arachnophobia
The Money Pit
Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai
Masters of the Air
You Should Be Dancing
Animaniacs
All the Way
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company
Jurassic World: Chaos Theory
The Adventures of Tintin
War of the Worlds
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Jurassic World
Falling Skies
Monster House
Five Came Back
Back to the Future Part II
Super 8
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Hook
1941
Joe Versus the Volcano
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
The Bloody Hundredth
The Color Purple
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous
Catch Me If You Can
The Name of the Game
Matt Helm
Roller Coaster Rabbit
Balto
The Land Before Time
The Fabelmans
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