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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 Oscars
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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
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'
Cyndi Lauper: The Goonies 'R' Good Enough
Paul
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
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
Light & Magic
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
The Beginning: Making Episode I
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'
Five Came Back
Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins
Music by John Williams
The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
The Sound of 'Indiana Jones'
Return to Jurassic Park
The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'
The Bloody Hundredth
Production Credits
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Back to the Future
Real Steel
Jurassic World Dominion
Flags of Our Fathers
Back to the Future Part II
Animaniacs
The Lovely Bones
Return to Jurassic Park
The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
seaQuest DSV
Eagle Eye
The Bloody Hundredth
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous
Fudge
The Pacific
Men in Black 3
Men in Black
Gremlins
Jurassic Park III
Transformers: The Last Knight
Under the Dome
The Color Purple
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Why We Hate
Shrek
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
You Should Be Dancing
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Super 8
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous: Hidden Adventure
Jurassic World
Roller Coaster Rabbit
The Land Before Time
The Haunting
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Tiny Toons Looniversity
Jurassic Park
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Deep Impact
Ready Player One
Monster House
Catch Me If You Can
Bridge of Spies
Maestro
Cowboys & Aliens
The Post
The French Dispatch
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Untitled Transformers/G.I. Joe Crossover Movie
Life on Our Planet
Minority Report
First Man
West Side Story
Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai
The BFG
Halo
Cape Fear
Casper
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The Flintstones
1941
War of the Worlds
Jurassic World: Chaos Theory
The Last Days
Oslo
Tummy Trouble
Night Gallery
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Transformers
The Mask of Zorro
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Lego Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Brick
Poltergeist
The Adventures of Tintin
Men in Black II
Men in Black: International
Poltergeist
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Twisters
The Goonies
The Money Pit
Amazing Stories
True Grit
Twister
Saving Private Ryan
The Turning
Munich
Transformers One
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Jaws
Extant
All the Way
Lincoln
United States of Tara
Smash
Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero
Arachnophobia
Trail Mix-Up
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
Columbo
Family Dog
Falling Skies
Joe Versus the Volcano
Matt Helm
Back to the Future Part III
Jurassic World Rebirth
Amazing Stories
Masters of the Air
Band of Brothers
The Name of the Game
The Fixer
The Color Purple
Letters from Iwo Jima
Bumblebee
Schindler's List
Hook
Five Came Back
Balto
The Challenger
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Music by John Williams
The Fabelmans
The Legend of Zorro
Cyndi Lauper: The Goonies 'R' Good Enough
Young Sherlock Holmes
An American Tail
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