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