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