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