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