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