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