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