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