Steven Spielberg
Biography
Steven Allan Spielberg (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.
Acting (164 movies)
The Blues Brothers
1980
Remembering Stanley Kubrick
1999
TVTV: Video Revolutionaries
2018
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
2008
Où est parti E.T. ? L'Enfance selon Spielberg
2023
The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson
1990
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
1976
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006
Vanilla Sky
2001
Gremlins
1984
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
2004
Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros.
1991
Close Up
2012
Paul
2011
Spielberg on Spielberg
2007
Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible
2010
Something's Coming: West Side Story
2021
The Music of E.T.: A Discussion with John Williams
2002
The Sci-Fi Boys
2006
Nickelodeon Studios Opening Day Celebration!
1990
The Stories of West Side Story
2022
UFO's Are Here!
1977
The Shark Is Still Working
2009
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
2021
Inventing David Geffen
2012
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
2012
The Making of '1941'
1996
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
2013
Voices from the List
2004
The Magical World of Chuck Jones
1992
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004
Looking Back to the Future
2009
Milius
2013
The Making of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
2023
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013
In the Teeth of Jaws
1997
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021
Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
2016
The Moviemakers: Spielberg
2023
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
2007
The Making of Poltergeist
1982
George Lucas: Creating an Empire
2005
Albert Brooks: Defending My Life
2023
Steven Spielberg, the “New Hollywood” Prodigy
2025
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford
2023
The Fabelmans: A Family in Film
2023
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster
2013
Your Studio and You
1995
The Making of 'Jaws'
1995
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022
Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
2012
The Concert for Valor
2014
Jaws: The Restoration
2012
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
2004
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
2013
Hollywood between Paranoia and Sci-Fi: The Power of Myth
2011
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014
Behind the Ears: The True Story of Roger Rabbit
2003
Oprah & The Color Purple Journey
2023
Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain
2023
Denzel Washington: A Model American
2022
The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
2009
The Bloody Hundredth
2024
Jaws
1975
The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
1981
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
2007
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
2007
Back in Time
2015
The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'
1996
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
2004
Mike Nichols: An American Master
2016
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
2004
The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
1995
The Beginning: Making Episode I
2001
Room 666
1982
Mifune: The Last Samurai
2016
Filip och Fredrik träffar Steven Spielberg - i en minut
2019
Music by John Williams
2024
Directed by John Ford
1971
Robert Capa: In Love and War
2003
Five Came Back
2017
Kubrick Remembered
2014
Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of
2012
Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera
2003
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
2001
Spielberg
2017
Score: A Film Music Documentary
2017
Everything Is Copy
2015
Martin Scorsese Directs
1990
The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'
1999
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
2001
Lawrence of Arabia: A Conversation with Steven Spielberg
2001
Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us
2005
David Lean: A Life in Film
1985
How Star Wars Was Saved in the Edit
2017
Warner at War
2008
The Making of Back to the Future
1986
Directing (44 movies)
War of the Worlds
2005
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
1984
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989
Minority Report
2002
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2008
Jurassic Park
1993
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997
Schindler's List
1993
Jaws
1975
The Terminal
2004
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982
Munich
2005
Catch Me If You Can
2002
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001
Duel
1971
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
Saving Private Ryan
1998
The Color Purple
1985
Hook
1991
Empire of the Sun
1987
The Sugarland Express
1974
Always
1989
1941
1979
Amistad
1997
The Adventures of Tintin
2011
Lincoln
2012
War Horse
2011
Something Evil
1972
Amblin'
1968
Savage
1973
The BFG
2016
Bridge of Spies
2015
A Timeless Call
2008
Ready Player One
2018
Night Gallery
1969
The Post
2017
The Dish
2026
West Side Story
2021
Amazing Stories
1986
The Unfinished Journey
1999
The Fabelmans
2022
Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983
Amazing Stories: The Movie II
1990
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Amblin' | 1968 | Writer |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1977 | Writer |
| I Wanna Hold Your Hand | 1978 | Executive Producer |
| Used Cars | 1980 | Executive Producer |
| Continental Divide | 1981 | Executive Producer |
| Poltergeist | 1982 | Screenplay |
| Poltergeist | 1982 | Producer |
| E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 1982 | Producer |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | 1983 | Producer |
| Gremlins | 1984 | Executive Producer |
| The Goonies | 1985 | Executive Producer |
| Back to the Future | 1985 | Executive Producer |
| Young Sherlock Holmes | 1985 | Executive Producer |
| The Color Purple | 1985 | Producer |
| Vanessa in the Garden | 1985 | Writer |
| Vanessa in the Garden | 1985 | Executive Producer |
| The Money Pit | 1986 | Executive Producer |
| An American Tail | 1986 | Executive Producer |
| Harry and the Hendersons | 1987 | Executive Producer |
| Innerspace | 1987 | Executive Producer |
| Three O'Clock High | 1987 | Executive Producer |
| Empire of the Sun | 1987 | Producer |
| *batteries not included | 1987 | Executive Producer |
| Who Framed Roger Rabbit | 1988 | Executive Producer |
| The Land Before Time | 1988 | Executive Producer |
| Family Dog | 1988 | Executive Producer |
| Tummy Trouble | 1989 | Executive Producer |
| Dad | 1989 | Executive Producer |
| Back to the Future Part II | 1989 | Executive Producer |
| Always | 1989 | Producer |
| Joe Versus the Volcano | 1990 | Executive Producer |
| Dreams | 1990 | Executive Producer |
| Back to the Future Part III | 1990 | Executive Producer |
| Gremlins 2: The New Batch | 1990 | Executive Producer |
| Roller Coaster Rabbit | 1990 | Executive Producer |
| Arachnophobia | 1990 | Executive Producer |
| A Brief History of Time | 1991 | Executive Producer |
| An American Tail: Fievel Goes West | 1991 | Producer |
| A Wish for Wings That Work | 1991 | Executive Producer |
| Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation | 1992 | Executive Producer |
| Trail Mix-Up | 1993 | Executive Producer |
| Class of '61 | 1993 | Executive Producer |
| We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story | 1993 | Executive Producer |
| Schindler's List | 1993 | Producer |
| Tiny Toon Spring Break | 1994 | Executive Producer |
| I'm Mad | 1994 | Executive Producer |
| The Flintstones | 1994 | Executive Producer |
| Casper | 1995 | Executive Producer |
| Tiny Toon Night Ghoulery | 1995 | Executive Producer |
| Balto | 1995 | Producer |
| Survivors of the Holocaust | 1996 | Executive Producer |
| Twister | 1996 | Executive Producer |
| Men in Black | 1997 | Executive Producer |
| Amistad | 1997 | Producer |
| Deep Impact | 1998 | Executive Producer |
| The Mask of Zorro | 1998 | Executive Producer |
| Saving Private Ryan | 1998 | Producer |
| The Last Days | 1998 | Executive Producer |
| Animaniacs: Wakko's Wish | 1999 | Executive Producer |
| Eyes of the Holocaust | 2000 | Executive Producer |
| Shooting War | 2000 | Producer |
| Semper Fi | 2001 | Executive Producer |
| A.I. Artificial Intelligence | 2001 | Screenplay |
| A.I. Artificial Intelligence | 2001 | Producer |
| Jurassic Park III | 2001 | Executive Producer |
| We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company | 2001 | Executive Producer |
| Price for Peace | 2002 | Producer |
| Men in Black II | 2002 | Executive Producer |
| Catch Me If You Can | 2002 | Producer |
| Voices from the List | 2004 | Executive Producer |
| The Terminal | 2004 | Producer |
| The Legend of Zorro | 2005 | Executive Producer |
| Memoirs of a Geisha | 2005 | Producer |
| Munich | 2005 | Producer |
| I Only Wanted to Live | 2006 | Executive Producer |
| Monster House | 2006 | Executive Producer |
| Spell Your Name | 2006 | Producer |
| Flags of Our Fathers | 2006 | Producer |
| Letters from Iwo Jima | 2006 | Producer |
| Transformers | 2007 | Executive Producer |
| Eagle Eye | 2008 | Executive Producer |
| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | 2009 | Executive Producer |
| The Lovely Bones | 2009 | Executive Producer |
| Hereafter | 2010 | Executive Producer |
| True Grit | 2010 | Executive Producer |
| Locke & Key | 2011 | Executive Producer |
| Return to Jurassic Park | 2011 | Executive Producer |
| Return to Jurassic Park | 2011 | Producer |
| Super 8 | 2011 | Producer |
| Transformers: Dark of the Moon | 2011 | Executive Producer |
| Cowboys & Aliens | 2011 | Executive Producer |
| Real Steel | 2011 | Executive Producer |
| The Adventures of Tintin | 2011 | Producer |
| War Horse | 2011 | Producer |
| Men in Black 3 | 2012 | Executive Producer |
| Lincoln | 2012 | Producer |
| Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck | 2013 | Executive Producer |
| Transformers: Age of Extinction | 2014 | Executive Producer |
| The Hundred-Foot Journey | 2014 | Producer |
| Auschwitz | 2015 | Producer |
| Jurassic World | 2015 | Executive Producer |
| Bridge of Spies | 2015 | Producer |
| All the Way | 2016 | Executive Producer |
| The BFG | 2016 | Producer |
| Finding Oscar | 2016 | Executive Producer |
| Five Came Back | 2017 | Executive Producer |
| Transformers: The Last Knight | 2017 | Executive Producer |
| The Post | 2017 | Producer |
| Ready Player One | 2018 | Producer |
| Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom | 2018 | Executive Producer |
| First Man | 2018 | Executive Producer |
| Bumblebee | 2018 | Executive Producer |
| Men in Black: International | 2019 | Executive Producer |
| Oslo | 2021 | Executive Producer |
| West Side Story | 2021 | Producer |
| Jurassic World Dominion | 2022 | Executive Producer |
| The Fabelmans | 2022 | Writer |
| The Fabelmans | 2022 | Producer |
| Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous: Hidden Adventure | 2022 | Executive Producer |
| Transformers: Rise of the Beasts | 2023 | Executive Producer |
| Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny | 2023 | Executive Producer |
| Maestro | 2023 | Producer |
| The Color Purple | 2023 | Producer |
| The Bloody Hundredth | 2024 | Executive Producer |
| Twisters | 2024 | Executive Producer |
| Transformers One | 2024 | Executive Producer |
| Music by John Williams | 2024 | Producer |
| Jurassic World Rebirth | 2025 | Executive Producer |
| Hamnet | 2025 | Producer |
| The Dish | 2026 | Producer |