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