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