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