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