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