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