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