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