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