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