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