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