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