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