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