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Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg

Acting · Production · Directing · Crew · Writing · Art · Creator · Editing

Born December 18, 1946, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

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

Appearances as themselves (199)
  • 2026Encountering the Unknown: Inside DISCLOSURE DAY — Self
  • 2026FULL DISCLOSURE: THE REALITY BEHIND SPIELBERG'S DISCLOSURE DAY — Himself
  • 2026Gremlins, an american nightmare! — Himself (Footage)
  • 2026Hook: Never, Never Ending — Self (archive footage)
  • 2026Judge Judy: Unfiltered, Unforgettable — Self
  • 2026Marty, Life Is Short — Self
  • 2026Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean — Self
  • 2025Breakdown: 1975 — Self - Director of JAWS (archive footage)
  • Epic Ride: The Story of Universal Theme Parks — Himself
  • Good Hang with Amy Poehler — Self - Guest
  • 2025Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story — Self
  • Mr. Scorsese — Self
  • 2025SNL50: The Homecoming Concert — Self
  • 2025Steven Spielberg, the “New Hollywood” Prodigy — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
  • 2024François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay — Self (archive footage)
  • 2023Albert Brooks: Defending My Life — Self
  • 2023Oprah & The Color Purple Journey — Self
  • 2023Où est parti E.T. ? L'Enfance selon Spielberg — Self (archive footage)
  • 2023The Making of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny — Self
  • 2023The Moviemakers: Spielberg — Self - (archive footage)
  • 2023Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford — Self
  • UFOs: Investigating the Unknown — Self (archive footage)
  • 2022Denzel Washington: A Model American — Self
  • 2022Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America — Self
  • 2022The Stories of West Side Story — Self
  • Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy — Self
  • 2021Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony — Self (archive footage)
  • 2021Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It — Self
  • 2021Something's Coming: West Side Story — Self
  • Challenger: The Final Flight — Self - Director "Close Encounters" (archive footage)
  • Reunited Apart — Self
  • Some Good News — Self
  • The Drew Barrymore Show — Self
  • 2019Filip and Fredrik meet Steven Spielberg - for a minute — Self
  • 2019Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound — Self
  • 2019Peter Falk versus Columbo — Self (archive footage)
  • 2018An Oral History of: Schindler's List — Self (archive footage)
  • 2018Fallen Kingdom: Aboard The Arcadia — Self
  • 2018Fallen Kingdom: Malcolm's Return — Self
  • James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction — Self
  • 2018TVTV: Video Revolutionaries — Self
  • The 90s Greatest — self
  • 2018Trumbull Land — Self (archive footage)
  • 2017How Star Wars Was Saved in the Edit — Self (voice) (archive footage)
  • 2017Score: A Film Music Documentary — Self
  • 2017Spielberg — Self
  • 2017The Untameable Kirk Douglas — Self - Filmmaker
  • 2017Three Kinds of Close Encounters — Self
  • 2016A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of Spies — Self
  • Legends of Cinema — Self (archive footage)
  • 2016Mifune: The Last Samurai — Self - Filmmaker
  • 2016Mike Nichols: An American Master — Self
  • 2016Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book — Self
  • 2016Video Games: The New Masters of the World — Self (archive footage)
  • 2015Back in Time — Self
  • 2015Everything Is Copy — Self
  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
  • 2014Altman — Self
  • 2014Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins — Self
  • 2014From Gizmo to Gremlins: Creating the Creatures — Self
  • 2014Kubrick Remembered — Self
  • 2014Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
  • 2014The Concert for Valor — Self
  • 2013Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth — Self
  • 2013Drew: The Man Behind the Poster — Self
  • 2013Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story — Self
  • 2013Lincoln: An American Journey — Self
  • 2013Milius — Self
  • 2012Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic — Self
  • 2012Close Up — Self (archive footage)
  • 2012Inventing David Geffen — Self
  • 2012Jaws: The Restoration — Self
  • 2012Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of — Self
  • 2012Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan — Self
  • 2012Stanley Kubrick in Focus — Self
  • 2012The 'E.T.' Journals — Self
  • 2011AFI's Master Class - The Art of Collaboration: Steven Spielberg and John Williams — Self
  • 2011Hollywood between Paranoia and Sci-Fi: The Power of Myth — Self
  • 2011Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis — Self
  • 2010Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible — Self
  • 2010Jaws: The Inside Story — Self
  • 2010Tales from the Future — Self
  • 2009A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics — Self
  • 2009Coming Attractions: The History of the Movie Trailer — Self
  • 2009The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen — Self
  • 2009The Shark Is Still Working — Self
  • 2009Waking Sleeping Beauty — Self (archive footage)
  • 2008Back to Room 666 — Self (archive footage)
  • 2008Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather' — Self
  • 2008Indiana Jones 4: The Return of a Legend — Self
  • 2008Production Diary: Making of 'The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' — Self
  • 2008The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped — Self
  • 2008The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't — Self
  • 2007AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition — Self
  • 2007Fog City Mavericks — Self
  • 2007Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange' — Self
  • 2007Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima' — Self
  • 2007Spielberg on Spielberg — Self
  • 2007Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 — Self
  • 2007The Visions of Stanley Kubrick — Self
  • 2007View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining' — Self
  • 200650 Films to See Before You Die — Self
  • 2006Searching for Orson — Self
  • 2006The Sci-Fi Boys — Self
  • 2005Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us — Self
  • 2004A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope — Self
  • 2004Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138' — Self
  • 2004Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand — Self
  • 2004Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic — Self - Interviewee
  • 2004Double Dare — Self
  • 2004Duel: A Conversation with Director Steven Spielberg — Self
  • 2004Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy — Self
  • 2004Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust — Self
  • Leçon de Cinéma — Self
  • 2004The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing — Self
  • 2004The Force Is with Them: The Legacy of 'Star Wars' — Self
  • 2003Behind the Ears: The True Story of Roger Rabbit — Self
  • 2003Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera — Self
  • 2003Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood — Self
  • 2003Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy — self
  • 2003Robert Capa: In Love and War — Self
  • 2003The Making of 'The Color Purple' — Self
  • 2003The Music of 'Indiana Jones' — Self
  • 2003The Sound of 'Indiana Jones' — Self
  • 2002Creating A.I. — Self
  • 2002E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special — Self
  • 2002E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: A Look Back — Self
  • 2002E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: The 20th Anniversary Celebration — Self
  • 2002George Lucas: Creating an Empire — Self
  • 2002Star Wars vs. Star Trek: The Rivalry Continues — Self
  • 2002The E.T. Reunion — Self
  • 2001Lawrence of Arabia: A Conversation with Steven Spielberg — Self
  • Primetime Glick — Self
  • 2001R2-D2: Beneath the Dome — Self
  • 2001Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film — Self
  • 2001The Beginning: The Making of Star Wars Episode I — Self
  • 2001The Making of 'Band of Brothers' — Self (uncredited)
  • 2001The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' — Self
  • 2001Vanilla Sky — Self (uncredited)
  • 2000American Beauty: Look Closer... — Self
  • 2000Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation — Self
  • 1999Forever Hollywood — Self
  • 1999From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic — Self
  • 1999Into the Breach: Saving Private Ryan — Self
  • 1999Spielberg on Kubrick — Self
  • The Directors — Self
  • The Early Show — Self
  • 1999The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut' — Self
  • 1998The Director's Vision: Hollywood's Best Discuss Their Craft — himself
  • 1998The Making of 'Scarface' — Self (archive footage)
  • 1997Blacks and Jews — Self
  • 1997In the Teeth of Jaws — Self
  • 1997Ships of Slaves: The Middle Passage — Self
  • Taff — self
  • 1997The Making of 'The Lost World' — Self
  • E! True Hollywood Story — Self
  • 1996The Making of '1941' — Self
  • 1996The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' — Self
  • 1996The Universal Story — Self (archive footage)
  • 1995In Search of Clarity: The Architecture of Gwathmey Siegel — Self
  • 1995The Making of 'Jaws' — Self
  • 1995The Making of 'Jurassic Park' — Self
  • 1994A Century of Cinema — Self
  • Inside the Actors Studio — Self
  • 1992The Magical World of Chuck Jones — Self
  • 1991Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros. — Self
  • 1990Martin Scorsese Directs — Self
  • 1990The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson — Self
  • 1988Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town — Self – Executive Producer
  • 1987The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun — Self
  • 1986The Making of Back to the Future — Self
  • 1985David Lean: A Life in Film — Self
  • 1985Room 666 — Self
  • 1985The Making Of The Goonies — Self
  • 1984The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom' — Self
  • 1982The Making of Poltergeist — Self
  • 1981Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark — Self
  • 1981The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' — Self
  • Wetten, dass..? — Self
  • 1980Star Wars: Music by John Williams — Self
  • CBS News Sunday Morning — Self
  • Ciné regards — Self
  • The Kennedy Center Honors — Self
  • The South Bank Show — Self
  • Please Turn the Page — Self
  • 1977UFO's Are Here! — Self
  • 1976TVTV Looks at the Oscars — Self
  • Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self
  • 1975Lost in the Garden of the World — Self
  • People's Choice Awards — Self - Winner
  • 1974New England Our Way — Self
  • Spécial cinéma — Self
  • The American Film Institute Salute to ... — Self
  • 1971Directed by John Ford — Self (2009)
  • Film '72 — Self
  • 60 Minutes — Self
  • Titel, Thesen, Temperamente — Self
  • The Oscars — Self
  • Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee