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