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