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