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