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