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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
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
Jaws
Paul
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
The Concert for Valor
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
The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped
Light & Magic
The Light and Magic of 'Indiana Jones'
Adventures in Post-Production
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
The Beginning: Making 'Episode I'
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
The Music of 'Indiana Jones'
Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Five Came Back
The Stunts of 'Indiana Jones'
Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford
The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: A Special Look
The Sound of 'Indiana Jones'
Return to Jurassic Park
The Bloody Hundredth
Making of 'The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'
Indiana Jones 4: The Return of a Legend
Production Credits
Balto
Back to the Future Part II
The Color Purple
Smash
The Bloody Hundredth
Life on Our Planet
Real Steel
Family Dog
Men in Black 3
Transformers
Catch Me If You Can
Men in Black
The Goonies
Why We Hate
Twisters
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
An American Tail
Super 8
Untitled Bee Gees Biopic
The French Dispatch
The Color Purple
Gremlins
Shrek
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous: Hidden Adventure
Jaws
Fudge
The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper
Trail Mix-Up
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Amazing Stories
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Jurassic World Dominion
The Name of the Game
Halo
The Lovely Bones
United States of Tara
Untitled Transformers/G.I. Joe Crossover Movie
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Columbo
Lego Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Brick
Transformers: The Last Knight
Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero
First Man
Amazing Stories
Matt Helm
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Men in Black II
Joe Versus the Volcano
Schindler's List
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Five Came Back
West Side Story
The Legend of Zorro
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Back to the Future
Bridge of Spies
Eagle Eye
Twister
Munich
Tiny Toons Looniversity
Under the Dome
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Poltergeist
The Money Pit
Poltergeist
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Young Sherlock Holmes
The Land Before Time
Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai
Transformers One
Deep Impact
Casper
Return to Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park
Maestro
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous
Letters from Iwo Jima
Jurassic World: Chaos Theory
Ready Player One
The BFG
The Pacific
The Turning
1941
Hook
Saving Private Ryan
Men in Black: International
The Post
Ready Player Two
Falling Skies
The Last Days
Jurassic World
Bumblebee
The Flintstones
The Haunting
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Band of Brothers
Back to the Future Part III
The Adventures of Tintin
Tummy Trouble
seaQuest DSV
War of the Worlds
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
All the Way
Night Gallery
Oslo
The Mask of Zorro
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Cowboys & Aliens
The Fabelmans
Jurassic Park III
Untitled Jurassic World Movie
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Animaniacs
True Grit
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
Minority Report
Masters of the Air
Flags of Our Fathers
Extant
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