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