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