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