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