Steven Spielberg
Directing • Born 1946-12-18
Biography
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
224 credits
The Blues Brothers
Movie • 1980
Cook County Assessor's Office Clerk
Remembering Stanley Kubrick
Movie • 1999
Self
TVTV: Video Revolutionaries
Movie • 2018
Self
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
Movie • 2008
Self
Où est parti E.T. ? L'Enfance selon Spielberg
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson
Movie • 1990
Self
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
Movie • 1976
Self
50 Films to See Before You Die
Movie • 2006
Self
Vanilla Sky
Movie • 2001
Self (uncredited)
Gremlins
Movie • 1984
Man in Electric Wheelchair (uncredited)
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
Movie • 2004
Self
Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros.
Movie • 1991
Self
Close Up
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage)
Paul
Movie • 2011
Self
Spielberg on Spielberg
Movie • 2007
Self
Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible
Movie • 2010
Self
Something's Coming: West Side Story
Movie • 2021
Self
The Music of E.T.: A Discussion with John Williams
Movie • 2002
Self
The Sci-Fi Boys
Movie • 2006
Self
Nickelodeon Studios Opening Day Celebration!
Movie • 1990
The Stories of West Side Story
Movie • 2022
Self
UFO's Are Here!
Movie • 1977
Self
The Shark Is Still Working
Movie • 2009
Self
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Movie • 2004
Self
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Movie • 2021
Self
Inventing David Geffen
Movie • 2012
Self
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
Movie • 2012
Self
The Making of '1941'
Movie • 1996
Self
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
Movie • 2013
Self
Voices from the List
Movie • 2004
Self - Host
The Magical World of Chuck Jones
Movie • 1992
Self
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
Movie • 2004
Self
Looking Back to the Future
Movie • 2009
Self (archive footage)
Milius
Movie • 2013
Self
The Making of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Movie • 2023
Self
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Movie • 2013
Self
In the Teeth of Jaws
Movie • 1997
Self
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
Movie • 2016
Self
The Moviemakers: Spielberg
Movie • 2023
Self - (archive footage)
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
Movie • 2007
Self
The Making of Poltergeist
Movie • 1982
Self
George Lucas: Creating an Empire
Movie • 2005
Self
Albert Brooks: Defending My Life
Movie • 2023
Self
Steven Spielberg, the “New Hollywood” Prodigy
Movie • 2025
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Movie • 2009
Self (archive footage)
Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'
Movie • 2004
Self
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford
Movie • 2023
Self
The Fabelmans: A Family in Film
Movie • 2023
Self
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster
Movie • 2013
Self
Your Studio and You
Movie • 1995
Backlot Tour Guide
The Making of 'Jaws'
Movie • 1995
Self
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Movie • 2022
Self
Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
Movie • 2012
Self
The Concert for Valor
Movie • 2014
Self
Jaws: The Restoration
Movie • 2012
Self
Fallen Kingdom: Malcolm's Return
Movie • 2018
Self
Fallen Kingdom: Aboard The Arcadia
Movie • 2018
Self
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
Movie • 2004
Self
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
Movie • 2013
Self
Hollywood between Paranoia and Sci-Fi: The Power of Myth
Movie • 2011
Self
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Movie • 2014
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Behind the Ears: The True Story of Roger Rabbit
Movie • 2003
Self
Oprah & The Color Purple Journey
Movie • 2023
Self
Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master
Movie • 2024
Self
Denzel Washington: A Model American
Movie • 2022
Self
The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
Movie • 2009
Self
The Bloody Hundredth
Movie • 2024
Self - Filmmaker
Back to Room 666
Movie • 2008
Self (archive footage)
Jaws
Movie • 1975
Amity Point Lifestation Worker (voice) (uncredited)
Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Movie • 1981
Self
The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
Movie • 1981
Self
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
Movie • 2007
Self
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
Movie • 2007
Self
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
Movie • 2007
Self
Back in Time
Movie • 2015
Self
The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'
Movie • 1996
Self
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
Movie • 2004
Self
Stanley Kubrick in Focus
Movie • 2012
Self
Mike Nichols: An American Master
Movie • 2016
Self
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
Movie • 2004
Self - Interviewee
The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
Movie • 1995
Self
The Beginning: Making Episode I
Movie • 2001
Self
Room 666
Movie • 1982
Self
Mifune: The Last Samurai
Movie • 2016
Self - Filmmaker
Filip and Fredrik meet Steven Spielberg - for a minute
Movie • 2019
Self
Music by John Williams
Movie • 2024
Self - Filmmaker
Directed by John Ford
Movie • 1971
Self (2009)
Robert Capa: In Love and War
Movie • 2003
Self
Five Came Back
Movie • 2017
Self
Kubrick Remembered
Movie • 2014
Self
Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of
Movie • 2012
Self
Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera
Movie • 2003
Self
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
Movie • 2001
Self
Spielberg
Movie • 2017
Self
Score: A Film Music Documentary
Movie • 2017
Self
Everything Is Copy
Movie • 2015
Self
Martin Scorsese Directs
Movie • 1990
Self
The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'
Movie • 1999
Self
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
Movie • 2001
Self
Lawrence of Arabia: A Conversation with Steven Spielberg
Movie • 2001
Self
Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us
Movie • 2005
Self
David Lean: A Life in Film
Movie • 1985
Self
How Star Wars Was Saved in the Edit
Movie • 2017
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Warner at War
Movie • 2008
Narrator (voice)
The Making of Back to the Future
Movie • 1986
Self
Something Evil
Movie • 1972
Party Guest
A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics
Movie • 2009
Self
Video Games: The New Masters of the World
Movie • 2016
Self (archive footage)
The Making Of The Goonies
Movie • 1985
Self
Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'
Movie • 2008
Self
The Untameable Kirk Douglas
Movie • 2017
Self - Filmmaker
The Sound of 'Indiana Jones'
Movie • 2003
Self
The Music of 'Indiana Jones'
Movie • 2003
Self
Peter Falk versus Columbo
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
Star Wars: Music by John Williams
Movie • 1980
Self
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Movie • 2019
Self
Forever Hollywood
Movie • 1999
Self
Duel: A Conversation with Director Steven Spielberg
Movie • 2004
Self
Trumbull Land
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
Spielberg on Kubrick
Movie • 1999
Self
The 'E.T.' Journals
Movie • 2012
Self
Three Kinds of Close Encounters
Movie • 2017
Self
Return to Jurassic Park
Movie • 2011
Self
Lost in the Garden of the World
Movie • 1975
Self
The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'
Movie • 1984
Self
New England Our Way
Movie • 1974
Self
From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic
Movie • 1999
Self
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
Movie • 1987
Self
Tales from the Future
Movie • 2010
Self
The Joe Spinell Story
Movie • 2001
(archive footage)
Double Dare
Movie • 2004
Self
Survivors of the Shoah: Visual History Foundation
Movie • 2004
The Making of 'The Lost World'
Movie • 1997
Self
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
Movie • 2000
Self
American Beauty: Look Closer...
Movie • 2000
Self
In Search of Clarity: The Architecture of Gwathmey Siegel
Movie • 1995
Self
Blacks and Jews
Movie • 1997
Self
Lincoln: An American Journey
Movie • 2013
Self
Jaws: The Inside Story
Movie • 2010
Self
A Century of Cinema
Movie • 1994
Self
The Universal Story
Movie • 1996
Self (archive footage)
Searching for Orson
Movie • 2006
Self
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Movie • 1984
Tourist at Airport (uncredited)
Men in Black
Movie • 1997
Alien on TV Monitor (uncredited)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Movie • 1997
Popcorn-Eating Man (uncredited)
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
Movie • 2001
Self
Austin Powers in Goldmember
Movie • 2002
Steven Spielberg / Famous Director ('Austinpussy')
Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis
Movie • 2011
Self
AFI's Master Class - The Art of Collaboration: Steven Spielberg and John Williams
Movie • 2011
Self
Star Wars vs. Star Trek: The Rivalry Continues
Movie • 2002
Self
The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped
Movie • 2008
Self
From Gizmo to Gremlins: Creating the Creatures
Movie • 2014
Self
Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins
Movie • 2014
Self
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special
Movie • 2002
Self
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
Movie • 2021
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Fog City Mavericks
Movie • 2007
Self
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
Movie • 2007
Self
Altman
Movie • 2014
Self
Coming Attractions: The History of the Movie Trailer
Movie • 2009
Self
Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
Movie • 2003
self
François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
Movie • 2001
Self (uncredited)
The Middle Passage
Movie • 1997
Self
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Movie • 2025
Self
The Making of 'The Color Purple'
Movie • 2003
Self
The Director's Vision: Hollywood's Best Discuss Their Craft
Movie • 1998
himself
Creating A.I.
Movie
Self
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Movie • 2025
Self
Schindler's List: 25 Years Later
Movie • 2018
Self
Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'
Movie • 2007
Self
Inside the Worlds of Epic Universe
Movie • 2025
Self
A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of Spies
Movie • 2016
Self
Into the Breach: Saving Private Ryan
Movie • 1999
Self
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
The Force Is with Them: The Legacy of 'Star Wars'
Movie • 2004
Self
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Movie • 2003
Self
Breakdown: 1975
Movie • 2025
Self - Director of JAWS (archive footage)
The E.T. Reunion
Movie • 2002
Self
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: The 20th Anniversary Celebration
Movie • 2002
Self
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: A Look Back
Movie • 2002
Self
John Candy: I Like Me
Movie • 2025
Self - Director, 1941 (archive footage)
The Life of Josiah Fong --- PREQUEL
Movie
Random fat kid
Inside the Actors Studio
TV • 1994
Self
The Tracey Ullman Show
TV • 1987
The South Bank Show
TV • 1978
Self
The Early Show
TV • 1999
Self
60 Minutes
TV • 1968
Self
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
TV • 1973
Self
The Directors
TV • 1999
Self
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
The Kennedy Center Honors
TV • 1978
Self
Five Came Back
TV • 2017
Self
The Drew Barrymore Show
TV • 2020
Self
Leçon de Cinéma
TV • 2004
Self
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
TV • 2018
Self
Spécial cinéma
TV • 1974
Self
Tiny Toon Adventures
TV • 1990
White Rabbit (voice)
Tiny Toon Adventures
TV • 1990
Steven Spielberg (voice)
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV • 1975
Self
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
TV • 1967
Self
Reunited Apart
TV • 2020
Self
UFOs: Investigating the Unknown
TV • 2023
Self (archive footage)
Primetime Glick
TV • 2001
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
TV • 2021
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Some Good News
TV • 2020
Self
Please Turn the Page
TV • 1977
Self
Wetten, dass..?
TV • 1981
Self
Challenger: The Final Flight
TV • 2020
Self - Director "Close Encounters" (archive footage)
Taff
TV • 1997
self
CBS News Sunday Morning
TV • 1979
Self
LIGHT & MAGIC
TV • 2022
Self (uncredited)
LIGHT & MAGIC
TV • 2022
Self - Co-Writer, Producer
LIGHT & MAGIC
TV • 2022
Self - Director, Jurassic Park
LIGHT & MAGIC
TV • 2022
Self
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
The 90s Greatest
TV • 2018
self
Mr. Scorsese
TV • 2025
Self
Легенды кино
TV • 2016
Self (archive footage)
People's Choice Awards
TV • 1975
Self - Winner
Film '72
TV • 1971
Self