Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg KBE (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, Spielberg is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema and is the highest-grossing film director of all time. Among other accolades, he has received three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and three BAFTA Awards, as well as the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1995, an honorary knighthood in 2001, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2006, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2009, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015, and the National Medal of Arts in 2023. According to Forbes, he is the wealthiest celebrity. 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 Barry Diller approved. He made his theatrical debut with The Sugarland Express (1974), also beginning his decades-long collaboration with composer John Williams, with whom he has worked for all but five of his theatrical releases. He became a household name with the summer blockbuster Jaws (1975). He continued directing acclaimed escapist box-office hits with Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and the original Indiana Jones trilogy (1981–1989). He also explored drama in The Color Purple (1985) and Empire of the Sun (1987). In 1993, Spielberg directed back-to-back hits with the science fiction thriller Jurassic Park, the highest-grossing film at the time, and the epic historical drama Schindler's List, which has often been ranked among the greatest films ever made. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for the latter as well as for the World War II epic Saving Private Ryan (1998). Spielberg has since directed the science fiction films A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Minority Report (2002), War of the Worlds (2005) 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 comedies Catch Me If You Can (2002) and The Terminal (2004); the animated film The Adventures of Tintin (2011); the musical West Side Story (2021); and the family drama The Fabelmans (2022). Spielberg co-founded Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks Pictures, and he has served as a producer for many successful films and television series, among them Poltergeist (1982), Gremlins (1984), Back to the Future (1985), An American Tail (1986), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Animaniacs (1993), Freakazoid! (1995), Twister (1996), Band of Brothers (2001) and Transformers (2007). Several of Spielberg's works are considered among the greatest films in history, and some are among the highest-grossing films of all time. Seven of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". In 2013, Time listed him among the 100 most influential people. In 2023, Spielberg was the recipient of the first-ever Time 100 Impact Award in the US. Description above from the Wikipedia article Steven Spielberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (112)
Disclosure Day
Frankenstein
Jurassic World Rebirth
Hamnet
Transformers One
Twisters
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
The Color Purple
Maestro
Jurassic World Dominion
The Fabelmans
West Side Story
Oslo
Men in Black: International
Ready Player One
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
First Man
Bumblebee
Transformers: The Last Knight
The Post
The BFG
All the Way
Jurassic World
Poltergeist
Bridge of Spies
Transformers: Age of Extinction
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Men in Black 3
Lincoln
Paul
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Cowboys & Aliens
Super 8
Real Steel
The Adventures of Tintin
War Horse
True Grit
Hereafter
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
The Lovely Bones
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Eagle Eye
Transformers
Letters from Iwo Jima
Flags of Our Fathers
Monster House
War of the Worlds
Munich
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Legend of Zorro
The Terminal
Austin Powers in Goldmember
Catch Me If You Can
Minority Report
Men in Black II
Vanilla Sky
Jurassic Park III
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
What Lies Beneath
Lost Souls
The Mask of Zorro
Saving Private Ryan
Deep Impact
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Men in Black
Amistad
Twister
Casper
Balto
The Flintstones
Jurassic Park
Schindler's List
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
Hook
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Back to the Future Part III
Arachnophobia
Joe Versus the Volcano
Dreams
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Back to the Future Part II
Always
Dad
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The Land Before Time
Three O'Clock High
*batteries not included
Empire of the Sun
Innerspace
Harry and the Hendersons
An American Tail
The Money Pit
Back to the Future
The Color Purple
The Goonies
Young Sherlock Holmes
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Gremlins
Twilight Zone: The Movie
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Poltergeist
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Blues Brothers
Used Cars
1941
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Jaws
The Sugarland Express
Something Evil
