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