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