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