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