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