1946-12-18 ( 78 years old ) in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Steven Allan Spielberg (/ˈspiːlbɜːrɡ/ SPEEL-burg; 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 film directors of all time and is the most commercially successful director in film history. Several of Spielberg's works are considered among the greatest films in history, and some are among the highest-grossing films ever.
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 film Duel (1971), which Barry Diller approved. He made his theatrical debut with The Sugarland Express (1974) and became a household name with the summer blockbuster Jaws (1975). He directed more escapist box office successes with Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and the original Indiana Jones trilogy (1981–1989). He explored drama in The Color Purple (1985) and Empire of the Sun (1987).
In 1993, Spielberg directed the science fiction thriller Jurassic Park, the highest-grossing film ever, and the epic historical drama Schindler's List, 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 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 and has produced many successful films and television series, including Poltergeist (1982), Gremlins (1984), Back to the Future (1985), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), and Band of Brothers (2001). He has also collaborated extensively with the composer John Williams, with whom he has worked on all but five of his feature films.
Among other accolades, he has received three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and two BAFTA Awards, as well as the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1995, the Knight Commander of the British Empire in 2001, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2006, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2009 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015. Seven of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". In 2013, Time listed him as one of the 100 most influential people, and in 2023, Spielberg was the recipient of the first-ever 100 Impact Award in the US.
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Movies
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
2025-02-14
Music by John Williams
2024-11-01
François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay
2024-05-16
The Bloody Hundredth
2024-03-14
Oprah & The Color Purple Journey
2023-12-28
Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain
2023-12-08
Albert Brooks: Defending My Life
2023-11-12
The Moviemakers: Spielberg
2023-05-01
The Fabelmans: A Family in Film
2023-02-14
Denzel Washington : Un modèle américain
2022-10-15
The Stories of West Side Story
2022-03-02
Something's Coming: West Side Story
2021-12-05
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
2021-05-02
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021-03-26
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
2019-10-25
Peter Falk Versus Columbo
2019-03-31
TVTV: Video Revolutionaries
2018-10-19
Trumbull Land
2018-10-15
Fallen Kingdom: Aboard The Arcadia
2018-09-18
Fallen Kingdom: Malcolm's Return
2018-09-18
How Star Wars Was Saved in the Edit
2017-12-07
Spielberg
2017-10-05
Three Kinds of Close Encounters
2017-09-19
The Untameable Kirk Douglas
2017-06-01
Five Came Back
2017-03-31
Score: A Film Music Documentary
2017-03-16
Mifune: The Last Samurai
2016-12-02
Video Games: The New Masters of the World
2016-11-15
Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
2016-09-04
Mike Nichols: An American Master
2016-01-29
Back in Time
2015-10-20
Everything Is Copy
2015-09-29
The Concert for Valor
2014-11-11
Kubrick Remembered
2014-11-04
Altman
2014-08-01
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014-02-01
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster
2013-07-19
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
2013-05-13
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013-04-27
Milius
2013-03-09
Lincoln: An American Journey
2013-01-16
Stanley Kubrick in Focus
2012-11-30
Inventing David Geffen
2012-11-19
The 'E.T.' Journals
2012-10-09
Jaws: The Restoration
2012-10-04
Close Up
2012-09-30
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
2012-09-29
Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
2012-03-27
Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis
2011-12-17
Paul
2011-02-14
Return to Jurassic Park
2011-02-05
Tales from the Future
2010-10-26
Jaws: The Inside Story
2010-06-16
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009-09-05
Looking Back to the Future
2009-02-10
Warner at War
2008-11-11
Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'
2008-09-23
The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped
2008-09-23
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
2008-06-03
Back to Room 666
2008-02-02
Fog City Mavericks
2007-10-24
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
2007-10-23
Spielberg on Spielberg
2007-07-09
Searching for Orson
2006-11-02
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006-07-22
The Sci-Fi Boys
2006-04-27
George Lucas: Creating an Empire
2005-01-27
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
2004-10-12
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
2004-04-05
Double Dare
2004-03-13
Voices from the List
2004-03-09
The Sound of 'Indiana Jones'
2003-10-21
The Music of 'Indiana Jones'
2003-10-21
Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
2003-10-21
Robert Capa: In Love and War
2003-05-28
Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera
2003-05-06
The Making of 'The Color Purple'
2003-02-18
Austin Powers in Goldmember
2002-07-26
Vanilla Sky
2001-12-14
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001-11-25
The Beginning: Making Episode I
2001-10-16
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
2001-09-09
The Joe Spinell Story
2001-08-21
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
2001-05-02
Kurosawa
2000-12-24
American Beauty: Look Closer...
2000-10-24
Spielberg on Kubrick
1999-11-19
Remembering Stanley Kubrick
1999-01-01
Forever Hollywood
1999-01-01
The Middle Passage
1997-12-11
Blacks and Jews
1997-07-29
Men in Black
1997-07-02
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997-05-23
The Making of 'The Lost World'
1997-05-08
In the Teeth of Jaws
1997-01-01
The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'
1996-10-01
The Making of '1941'
1996-05-28
The Universal Story
1996-04-21
The Making of 'Jaws'
1995-11-28
The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
1995-04-23
Your Studio and You
1995-02-01
A Century of Cinema
1994-01-01
The Magical World of Chuck Jones
1992-10-23
Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros.
1991-09-14
The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson
1990-11-21
Martin Scorsese Directs
1990-06-16
Nickelodeon Studios Opening Day Celebration!
1990-06-07
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
1987-12-30
The Making of Back to the Future
1986-10-25
The Making of 'The Goonies'
1985-06-01
David Lean: A Life in Film
1985-01-01
Gremlins
1984-06-08
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
1984-05-23
The Making of Poltergeist
1982-10-01
Room 666
1982-06-01
The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
1981-11-28
Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981-10-05
The Blues Brothers
1980-06-16
Star Wars: Music by John Williams
1980-05-18
UFO's Are Here!
1977-01-01
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
1976-03-30
Jaws
1975-06-20
Lost in the Garden of the World
1975-06-02
New England Our Way
1974-12-09
Something Evil
1972-01-21
Directed by John Ford
1971-09-06
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