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