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