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