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