.............Steven Spielberg............

Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg speaking at the Pentagon on August 11, 1999 after receiving the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service from Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen
Born	Steven Allan Spielberg (1946-12-18) December 18, 1946 (age 65) Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Nationality	American
Education	Saratoga High School
Alma mater	California State University, Long Beach
Occupation	Film director, film producer
Years active	1963–present
Notable work(s)	Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Munich, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, War Horse
Influenced by	David Lean, Francois Truffaut, Chuck Jones, Akira Kurosawa, Frank Capra, John Ford, Hayao Miyazaki, Stanley Kubrick, Don Bluth, Alfred Hitchcock, Ingmar Bergman
Influenced	J. J. Abrams, Adam Green, James Cameron, M. Night Shyamalan, Neill Blomkamp, Guillermo del Toro, Roland Emmerich, David Fincher, John Sayles, Peter Jackson, Robert Rodriguez, Ridley Scott, Kevin Smith, Steven Soderbergh, Quentin Tarantino
Net worth	$3.2 billion (2012)
Religion	Judaism
Spouse(s)	Amy Irving (m. 1985–1989) Kate Capshaw (m. 1991)
Children	6

About Steven Spielberg

Perhaps the world's most famous filmmaker, Steven Spielberg succeeded in combining the intimacy of personal vision with the requirements of the modern commercial blockbuster. Though his astonishing success delayed his acceptance as a serious artist for decades, few denied that Spielberg's work decisively influenced 20th century filmmaking through his potent imagery and universally recognizable emotion. With "Jaws" (1975), he made the first movie to cross the $100 million mark at the box office and ushered in an era of summer blockbusters that remained the status quo for decades. Over the next three decades, Spielberg directed some of cinema's most successful movies - "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977), "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981), "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" (1982), "Jurassic Park" (1993) and "Minority Report" (2002) were all major financial successes as well as highly entertaining films. If nothing else, Spielberg's films were landmarks in special effects, both in their visual and aural aspects, as well as in the audience response they elicited. His most poignant films - "The Color Purple" (1985), "Schindler's List" (1993), "Saving Private Ryan" (1998) and "Munich" (2005) - earned Academy Award consideration and cemented his place as one of Hollywood's greatest directors. Spielberg turned creative mogul when he formed DreamWorks studios with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen in 1994, and still managed to pursue numerous philanthropic and cultural projects, most notably serving as chairman for the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, all the while continuing to deliver beloved films that resonated with moviegoers the world over.Born in Cincinnati, OH on Dec. 18, 1946, Steven Allan Spielberg was the eldest child of Arnold and Leahanni Spielberg. Because of his father's job, the future film director spent much of his childhood in several places, as his family often moved. An awkward and lonely child growing up, Spielberg took solace in movies. The first film Spielberg ever saw, Cecil B. DeMille's "The Greatest Show on Earth" (1952), would have a lasting impact on the youngster's life and opened his mind to the magic of moviemaking. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Spielberg did not attend a major university film program and was thus, largely self-taught. At age 16, Spielberg fashioned his first film, "Firelight" - a two-hour science fiction movie that a local movie house in Phoenix, AZ consented to run for one evening. The $400 production was Spielberg's first real commercial success, earning him a profit of $100. When Spielberg's parents divorced in 1965 - an incident which deeply affected the sensitive youngster - he moved to Saratoga, CA where he attended Saratoga High School. After graduation, Spielberg applied to USC film school, but was rejected three separate times. Spielberg opted to attend Long Beach State instead, but ended up dropping out before he got his degree. In 1968, the 22-year-old got a job at Universal Studios as an intern, thus marking the beginnings of one of Hollywood's greatest careers. It was at Universal, that he made his first short film entitled "Amblin'" (1969). The 24-minute film sufficiently impressed executives at the television unit of Universal enough that Spielberg was offered a job as a TV director. In 1969, Spielberg made his directorial debut, helming the TV movie pilot for Rod Serling's "Night Gallery" (NBC, 1970-74). This led to more directing work on such weekly series as "Columbo" (NBC, 1971-78) and "Marcus Welby, M.D." (ABC, 1969-1973). One of his early made-for-TV movies, "Duel" (ABC, 1972), starring Dennis Weaver, was released theatrically in Europe, where it enjoyed both critical and commercial success.
Spielberg's first theatrical film, "The Sugarland Express" (1974), was an entertaining and poignant tale about a Texas woman and her escaped convict husband fighting to regain custody of their baby. Loosely based on a true story, "Sugarland" delved into the concept of the broken family - a theme deeply personal to Spielberg - and one that he would later revisit in subsequent films. Well made, but poorly marketed, the film was a failure at the box office. Spielberg's second film, however, the now-classic "Jaws" (1975), was a phenomenal success both critically and financially. Made for about $15 million, "Jaws" grossed an awe inspiring $260 million domestically, ushering in the modern age of the summer "blockbuster." Ironically, the very film, which propelled Spielberg to the A-list of Hollywood directors, came dangerously close to ending his career before it had even begun. A legendarily troubled production from the start, "Jaws" had a score of obstacles to overcome, among them a neophyte director, a disgruntled crew, a hostile writer and worst of all - a malfunctioning lead "actor." When the automated shark created for the movie - nicknamed "Bruce" by the Spielberg and the crew - failed to work properly, the young director was forced to rely heavily on mood and suspense to suggest, rather than show, the great white. Spielberg's desperate plan proved to be an inspired stroke of genius which not only kept audience members on the edge of their seat, but so frightened them with its air of underwater mystery, that beach-going dropped off sharply that summer.
His transcendent follow-up, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977), revealed the first flowering of his cinematic obsession with the magical world of childhood innocence, as well as the outside forces that inevitably threaten it. Though initially terrifying, as they were sight unseen, by the film's end, the alien creatures in this revisionist work resembled strange and wondrous children as they exited the mother ship, presenting a more benign representation than the monstrous conquerors of 1950s sci-fi films. These beings offered the promise of life beyond the restrictions of middle-class conventions - something the bachelor director felt strongly about at that time in his then childless existence. When Richard Dreyfuss - cast again in a Spielberg film after his performance as Matt Hooper in "Jaws" - boards the mother ship for unknown adventures, it is the film's final grandiloquent embrace of the possible. Released the same year as the effects-laden "Star Wars," "Close Encounters" was the more cerebral hit, and the iconic shot of the child, Barry Guiler (Cary Guffey), standing in the red-lit doorway before being snatched away, remained a classic cinematic shot. Riding high after two back-to-back blockbusters, Spielberg attempted a colossal big-budget comedy with "1941" (1979), a loud, sprawling and wildly uneven film about paranoia along California's West Coast in the wake of Pearl Harbor. Though it ultimately turned a profit, the film, which starred then red-hot comics John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, was perceived as a bloated, self-indulgent flop. Spielberg took the blunt of the criticism, with many reviewers wondering if the Hollywood wunderkind had been anointed too soon.
A humbled Spielberg chose his next project carefully by planning to work under the watchful eye of a tough producer and one of his closest friends, George Lucas, on what would turn out to be one of his signature films: "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981). The movie introduced the world to Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford), the fedora-sporting archaeologist and intrepid adventurer that became the most popular screen hero since James Bond. Paying an obvious homage to the classic cliffhanger serials of their youth, Lucas recalled that Spielberg was highly stressed throughout the filming of "Raiders," convinced that it would be his last chance to redeem himself after the failure of "1941." Spielberg's fears proved unfounded. "Raiders" became the biggest moneymaker of 1981 and earned a score of Oscar nominations, including one for Spielberg for Best Director. As if that were not enough, "Raiders," in a way, inspired the penultimate Spielberg film, which would follow soon after. During his "Raiders" shoot, Spielberg was so wearied by the rigors of location shooting in Tunisia and Peru, that he would relax by concocting a story - a little personal tale featuring a couple of kids and a lost alien. In doing so, Spielberg set the stage for his next project, "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" (1982). "E.T." captured the hearts and minds of moviegoers of all ages and went on to become the highest-grossing film of all time until it was beaten by one of Spielberg's own films, "Jurassic Park" in 1993. The film so wove its way into the fabric of pop culture, the phrase "E.T. phone home" became a classic line and the sale of Reeses Pieces peanut butter candies went through the roof.
In 1984, Spielberg directed his first sequel, the much anticipated "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom." Exceedingly violent and somewhat racist - specifically, in its depiction of Indian culture - the film inspired the MPAA to create the new PG-13 rating the following year. Bad blood abounded, as Spielberg and Lucas recoiled from the uproar of angry parents who thought they were taking their children to see a B-movie adventure, but instead watched along with their children as a live man's heart was ripped from his chest. Despite the bad aftertaste, the film was nevertheless highly successful, both financially - and for Spielberg - personally, as well. It was while shooting the film that Spielberg met and fell in love with future wife, Kate Capshaw, who was cast as Indiana Jones' love interest, nightclub singer Willie Scott. Unfortunately, at the time, Spielberg was already married to actress Amy Irving with whom he had a son, Max. The two eventually divorced in 1989, but not before Spielberg had to pay Irving a whopping $100 million settlement - one of the largest in U.S. history. The eighties also marked a shift in Spielberg's artistic and commercial concerns, as he began devoting more time to producing films and television programs. After scoring critical acclaim for directing the big screen adaptation of Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" (1985) and his World War II drama "Empire of the Sun" (1987), Spielberg oversaw the production of a series of popular escapist fantasies. Through his production company, Amblin Entertainment, Spielberg also produced several animated features and conventional genre films. He even diversified into TV with the fantasy anthology series, "Amazing Stories" (NBC, 1985-87), which he executive produced.
In the early 1990s, Spielberg reshifted his duties, once again making directing his main priority. Lending his name to various Amblin productions (while leaving the actual producing chores to others), Spielberg returned to the big screen with the crowd-pleasing fantasy "Hook" (1991), an expensive, quirky update of the classic J.M. Barrie Peter Pan story. Budgeted at over $60 million, the film earned impressive box office, but due to an unprecedented deal brokered by Creative Artists Agency, wherein Spielberg and stars Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams and Julia Roberts split a huge cut of worldwide revenues, it failed to make much money for its studio. Despite mixed reviews, "Hook" was nevertheless notable for showing a newly emerging "grown-up" Spielberg, which revealed itself in his handling of such themes as parenthood, responsibility and old age. Spielberg's next project, the $70 million CGI extravaganza "Jurassic Park," represented a return to the kind of muscle-bound adventures that served Spielberg so well in the past. Though the cast of characters was relatively shallow, the film was a landmark in visual effects - bringing dinosaurs back to life! - and forever changed how action films were made. The film, which spawned two sequels, grossed an unprecedented $914 million worldwide and reestablished Spielberg as Hollywood's golden boy.
Nonetheless, as Spielberg grew closer to middle age, so too did his need to be taken seriously. Long since dismissed as a maker of commercial entertainment for the masses, Spielberg now yearned for artistic legitimacy more than ever. In response, the filmmaker tackled a subject matter of deadly importance for his next project in his unforgettable Holocaust drama, "Schindler's List" (1993). Filmed in black-and-white with few stars and even fewer stylistic indulgences, this bleak version of Thomas Keneally's Booker Prize-winning novel marked a dramatic change-of-pace for this purveyor of warm WASPy visions. For once, he went against his instincts and made an impressively restrained, documentarian drama of Jewish suffering that built to a shattering, yet life-affirming conclusion. The resulting film earned Spielberg the most respectful notices of his career. That the film, which earned seven Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director, also grossed over $100 million domestically did not hurt either.
As an encore, Spielberg returned to familiar ground with the inevitable sequel "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" (1997), which merely rehashed the story of the far superior original. Although it made money, it was a forgettable film and largely derided by fans and critics alike. Spielberg then tackled the tricky historical drama "Amistad" (1997), based on a true story of a mutiny on a slave ship that spawned a legal battle in the U.S. Meticulously staged, the film was noted for its depiction of the Middle Passage, a harrowing portrayal of the conditions of slavery. Overly long and heavy on sentimentality, however, critical response to "Amistad" was only lukewarm. Undaunted, Spielberg returned to the battlefields of WWII the following year for his next, and arguably, most acclaimed film, "Saving Private Ryan" (1998), a three-hour fictionalized look at a heroic military rescue mission and the effect it had on those involved. Praised for its no-holds-barred depiction of war, the film was quickly anointed as one of the year's best by critics. In total, "Saving Private Ryan" earned over $200 million at the box office and 11 Academy Award nominations. Although it was heavily favored to take home the Best Picture award that year, the film ended up shockingly losing out to "Shakespeare in Love" (1998). For his effort, however, the Academy nevertheless reaffirmed their respect for Spielberg by awarding him his second Oscar for Best Director.
In the fall of 1994, Spielberg, recording mogul David Geffen, and former Disney production head Jeffrey Katzenberg, formed a new multimedia entertainment company. Christened DreamWorks SKG, the company produced live-action and animated features, TV programs, recordings and interactive computer software in a relatively cost efficient manner. According to Spielberg, DreamWorks would grant its filmmakers "moral rights" to protect the original versions of their films after release. The studio also decided to give its animators and screenwriters contracts that guaranteed them a share of a given film's success in defiance of the standard creative bookkeeping for the industry. Spielberg was slated to oversee the design of the studio's planned physical plant, laid out like a college campus on the old Howard Hughes aircraft site near the wetlands of Playa Vista, CA. However, after much back-and-forth debating, the Playa Vista site was scrapped and DreamWorks ended up being housed on the Universal lot, c xisting with Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment facilities. After a slow start, the mini-studio eventually came into its own with such hits as "American Beauty" (1999), "Gladiator" (2000), "Shrek" (2001), "A Beautiful Mind" (2001) and "Minority Report" (2002) - all of which were either produced or co-produced by DreamWorks.
Still, directing continued to remain Spielberg's primary passion and he continued to explore the boundaries of his talents within a commercial context. Hoping to integrate his trademark crowd-pleasing sensibilities with bleaker, more philosophical views, Spielberg elected to make "A.I.: Artificial Intelligence" (2001), a $90 million sci-fi fable about a Pinocchio-like android boy. The film, which had long been attached to one of Spielberg's idols, Stanley Kubrick, boasted eye-popping visuals and fine performances from stars Haley Joel Osment and Jude Law. Even so, when all was said and done, "A.I." was considered a noble failure, earning only $78 million in its domestic release. Fortunately, Spielberg returned to top blockbuster form the following year when he adapted Phillip K. Dick's sci-fi novella, "Minority Report," a fast-paced, sci-fi thriller starring Tom Cruise. The leanest, meanest Spielberg film in years, "Minority Report" proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the aging director still had what it took to stand toe-to-toe with Hollywood's new generation of video game-inspired action directors.
Spielberg cannily chose to follow-up that artistic and commercial triumph by helming a refreshingly more down-to-earth affair in the form of the light-hearted drama, "Catch Me If You Can" (2003). Based on the true-life story of con man Frank Abagnale, Jr., the film starred Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, respectively, as Abagnale and the F.B.I. agent assigned to capture him. Not only did Spielberg succeed in flawlessly recreating the nostalgic innocence of the early 1960's setting, he also managed to coax out DiCaprio's most charming and mature performance to date. The director reteamed with Tom Hanks a third time for a seemingly unlikely project, "The Terminal" (2004) - the tale of an Eastern European immigrant (Hanks) who, due to a political regime change and passport snafu, is forced to reside in a New York City airport terminal. Although the film had its share of wonderful moments, overall, it was regarded one of Spielberg's more artificial-feeling efforts.
Much more effective was Spielberg's riveting remake of the H.G. Wells sci-fi classic, "War of the Worlds" (2005). Adding a contemporary spin on the familiar tale, Spielberg cast Tom Cruise as a working class father who must step up and protect his two children during a horrific alien invasion. By year's end, Spielberg - who had begun favoring a fast-paced production schedule for his projects - launched into another of his long-gestating passion projects. The result was "Munich" (2005), a tense chronicle of revenge and retribution following the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre. Working closely with two of the film's primary screenwriters, Eric Roth and, later, Tony Kushner, Spielberg took pains to craft a story that would offer a balanced look at the politically charged incident. Despite external criticisms over its politics and psychology, "Munich" succeeded as one of Spielberg's masterworks, utilizing all of his talents as a cinematic storyteller to dizzying effect. As the year came to a close, Spielberg seemed poised to open a new chapter in his career. Having reached the end of his run as a movie executive/businessman, Spielberg oversaw the sale of DreamWorks SKG to Paramount Pictures. The former, having failed to fully flower as a full-fledged movie studio, nevertheless made Spielberg, along with his partners, Katzenberg and Geffen, a tidy profit and freed him to once again focus on directing fulltime.
In 2007, industry trades announced Spielberg's next project would be a fourth installment of the much loved Indiana Jones series. Eighteen years after "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" (1989), the new film re-teamed Spielberg with producer George Lucas and star Harrison Ford. Along for the ride were Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett as a new villain and Shia LeBeouf as Indy's son. Filming began in June 2007 for a 2008 release - much to the pent-up anticipation of fans for almost two decades. When "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" finally premiered in May, fans turned out en masse, making it one of the biggest moneymakers of the year, despite less than stellar critical reviews. Meanwhile, Spielberg received the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 2009 Golden Globe Awards after he was originally slated for the honor the year before, only to have the ceremony pushed back due to the Writers Guild of America strike in 2007.
After working once again with director Michael Bay to produce "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" (2009), Spielberg reunited with Tom Hanks to serve as executive producer on "The Pacific" (HBO, 2010), an epic 10-part miniseries chronicling the bloody battles of Guadalcanal, Iwo Jim and Okinawa, as seen through the eyes of three U.S. Marines (Joseph Mazzello, James Badge Dale and Jon Seda). "The Pacific" was hailed by critics on its way to earning 24 Emmy Award nominations, including one for Outstanding Miniseries in 2010. The following year, he visibly served as a producer on the J.J. Abrams thriller "Super 8" (2011), which many critics saw as the younger director's personal ode to Spielberg. He also reunited with Bay to produce "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" (2011) and collaborated with producer Peter Jackson on "The Adventures of Tintin" (2011), a motion-capture 3-D adventure that was the first installment of a proposed trilogy. Meanwhile, Spielberg returned to Academy Award contention with "War Horse" (2011), a sweeping historical epic about a young British lad (Jeremy Irvine) whose beloved horse is sold to the cavalry in France during World War I, sparking a long and extraordinary odyssey that tests the boundaries of loyalty and friendship.

Partners

Companion	Holly Hunter. Briefly dated c. 1989
Companion	Margot Kidder. Had relationship in the early 1970s
Companion	Sarah Miles. Had relationship in the early to mid-1970s; Miles reportedly became pregnant and chose to have an abortion
Wife	Amy Irving. Introduced by Brian De Palma; had on-again, off-again relationship from the late 1970s; married on Nov. 27, 1985 in Santa Fe, NM; divorced on Feb. 2, 1989
Wife	Kate Capshaw. Met when he cast her in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984); married on Oct. 12, 1991 at Spielberg s East Hampton, Long Island, NY estate; she converted from Episcopalianism to Judaism c. 1993 after more than a year of study with an Orthodox rabbi

Family

Daughter	Destry Allyn Spielberg. Born on Dec. 1, 1996; mother, Kate Capshaw
Daughter	Mikaela George Spielberg. Born on Feb. 28, 1996; adopted with Kate Capshaw
Daughter	Sasha Spielberg. Born in June 1990; mother, Kate Capshaw
Father	Arnold Spielberg. Born c. 1918; lost relatives in the Holocaust; involved in the early development of computers; divorced from Spielberg s mother; remarried on April 6, 1997; World War II veteran whose war stories inspired his son Steven to make Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Mother	Leah Adler. Had four children with Arnold (Steven the youngest); married to second husband, Bernie Adler; they own a kosher dairy restaurant called The Milky Way on Pico Blvd. in Los Angeles, CA
Sister	Anne Spielberg. Born Dec. 25, 1949; co-wrote and co-produced Big (1988)
Sister	Nancy Spielberg. Born in 1956
Sister	Sue Spielberg. Born in 1953
Son	Max Spielberg. Born June 1985; mother, Amy Irving; Spielberg and Irving shared custody
Son	Sawyer Spielberg. Born on March 10, 1992; mother, Kate Capshaw
Son	Theo Spielberg. Born c. 1988; African-American; adopted by Kate Capshaw before her marriage to Spielberg; later adopted by Spielberg
Step-Daughter	Jessica Capshaw. Born in 1976; Kate Capshaw s daughter by a previous marriage
Step-Father	Bernie Adler. Married to Spielberg s mother; they own a kosher dairy restaurant called The Milky Way on Pico Blvd. in Los Angeles, CA
Step-Mother	Bernice Colner. Married Arnold Spielberg on April 6, 1997

Education

California State College, Long Beach , California
Saratoga High School, Saratoga , California

Career Milestones

Made first 8mm (3 1/2 min.) film while in grade school; set up a tree-planting business to pay for film and equipment while in teens
1960	Won first contest with 40-minute war film, Escape to Nowhere at age 13
1962	Made first amateur 8mm feature film, Firelight at age 16; father hired local theater to screen film
1968	Professional debut with 24-minute short, Amblin (shown at Atlanta Film Festival)
1968	Signed to seven-year contract as TV director with Universal-MCA
1969	TV directing debut with the Eyes episode of the anthology series Night Gallery ; segment starred Joan Crawford (NBC)
1971	First feature-length film for TV, Duel (ABC)
1973	Wrote story for feature film Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies
1974	Feature directorial debut, The Sugarland Express
1975	Breakthrough feature film, the summer blockbuster Jaws ; also first collaboration with actor Richard Dreyfuss; film brought in 100 days over schedule (and comparably over budget); reportedly the first director to do so
1977	Reteamed with Dreyfuss on the sci-fi classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind ; received first Best Director Oscar nomination
1978	First feature as executive producer, Robert Zemeckis s I Wanna Hold Your Hand
1979	Witnessed rare film flop with the large-scale comedy 1941
1980	Made a cameo appearance as the Cook County Clerk at the end of John Landis s The Blues Brothers
1981	First collaboration with executive producer George Lucas and first collaboration with actor Harrison Ford, Raiders of the Lost Ark ; garnered second Best Director Academy Award nomination
1982	First film as producer, Poltergeist, helmed by Tobe Hooper
1982	Helmed the blockbuster E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ; also served as one of the producers; became the top-grossing movie of all time pulling in $399 million in its initial release; earned third Best Director Oscar nomination as well as a Best Picture nod; re-released on 20th anniversary in March 2002 with minor changes and enhanced digital effects
1983	Helmed the Kick the Can segment of Twilight Zone - The Movie
1984	Directed the sequel Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
1984	Formed production company Amblin Entertainment
1985	First TV series as executive producer, Amazing Stories (NBC)
1985	Produced and directed The Color Purple, adapted from Alice Walker s novel; movie received 11 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, but not one for Best Director
1986	Executive produced first animated feature An American Tail
1987	Made the underrated WWII drama Empire of the Sun, which featured a young Christian Bale in his acting debut
1989	Directed the second sequel Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989	Helmed the less successful Always, a remake of the 1943 feature A Guy Named Joe ; third film with Richard Dreyfuss
1989	Served as a founding member and VP of the Artists Rights Foundation
1989	TV acting debut as himself in a segment of The Tracey Ullman Show (Fox)
1991	Helmed the lavish Peter Pan update Hook starring Robin Williams as a grown-up Peter and Dustin Hoffman as the title character
1992	Signed a one-year deal to produce seaQuest DSV a 22-episode series, a joint effort between Universal and Amblin Entertainment
1992	With wife Kate Capshaw, co-hosted Shattered Lullabies - a documentary on high infant mortality rates in America; broadcast on Lifetime as an episode of Your Family Matters
1993	Co-produced and directed his most critically acclaimed feature Schindler s List ; first feature shot in black-and-white
1993	Directed his most commercially successful feature Jurassic Park ; film outgrossed E.T. to become the top movie of all time
1994	Along with mogul David Geffen and former Disney executive Jeffrey Katzenberg, formed DreamWorks SKG, a multimedia entertainment company for the production of live-action and animated features, TV programming, music and interactive software
1994	Formed the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation to videotape the testimonies of Holocaust survivors
1994	Invested in a CD-ROM company Knowledge Adventure; participated in the creation of five titles
1995	Announced that DreamWorks SKG would grant their filmmakers moral rights to protect the original versions of their films after release
1996	Champs , an ABC sitcom from executive producer Gary David Goldberg, became the first DreamWorks TV series (only lasted for a month)
1996	Received story credit on the premiere episode of High Incident, an ABC cop drama; the first hour-long dramatic series from DreamWorks; was reportedly involved with production, casting and operating a camera during portions of the pilot
1997	Helmed Amistad, a film based on a real-life 19th-century legal case involving slaves who staged a mutiny on the ship carrying them to North America; author Barbara Chase-Riboud claimed that the film s script was based in part on her book; subsequent threats of lawsuits and articles tainted film s release
1997	Helmed the sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1998	Bounced back with the acclaimed WWII story Saving Private Ryan, starring Tom Hanks; earned second Best Director Academy Award
2001	Returned to filmmaking with A.I. Artificial Intelligence, based on a story by the late Stanley Kubrick; also wrote screenplay
2001	With Hanks, produced the HBO WWII miniseries Band of Brothers
2002	Directed the sci-fi thriller Minority Report, starring Tom Cruise and Colin Farrell
2002	Executive produced the hit Sci-Fi Channel miniseries Taken
2002	Reunited with Tom Hanks, who co-starred as an FBI agent pursuing the first teenager ever to make the Ten Most Wanted list (Leonardo DiCaprio) in Catch Me If You Can
2002	Served as a co-executive producer on Woody Allen s Hollywood Ending
2002	With the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, served as presenter of Broken Silence, a series of five documentaries about Holocaust survivors; aired on Cinemax
2003	Received star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
2004	Again paired with Tom Hanks for The Terminal ; also starred Catherine Zeta-Jones
2005	Executive produced Into the West, (TNT) a saga spanning 65 years of U.S. history from 1825 to 1890; earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Miniseries
2005	Helmed Munich, a film based on the book Vengeance ; detailed the tragic aftermath of the 1972 Munich Olympics; received Academy nominations for Directing and Best Picture and a Golden Globe nomination for Directing; was also nominated by the Directors Guild of America
2005	Once again collaborated with Tom Cruise for War of the Worlds, a remake of the 1953 film, which chronicles a Martian invasion of Earth
2006	Produced the Clint Eastwood directed WWII dramas, Flags of Our Fathers and the companion piece Letters from Iwo Jima ; earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture as the producer of Iwo Jima
2007	Executive produced Transformers, the live action film based on the franchise and toy line
2007	Teamed with Mark Burnett for On the Lot, an American Idol -meets- The Apprentice Fox reality series
2008	Returned to direct the fourth installment of the adventure series Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, starring Harrison Ford in the title role
2009	Re-teamed with Michael Bay (who directed) to produce the sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2010	Re-teamed with Tom Hanks to executive produce HBO s 10-part miniseries The Pacific, which earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Miniseries
2011	Co-produced the J. J. Abrams directed thriller Super 8
2011	Directed and produced The Adventures of Tintin
2011	Directed the WWI-set drama War Horse, based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo and the 2007 stage adaptation of the same name
2011	Re-teamed with Michael Bay (who directed) to produce Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Latest Credits

Paul	Himself
Hollywood Don't Surf!	Himself
Searching for Orson	Interviewee
Double Dare	Himself
Austin Powers in Goldmember	cameo
Vanilla Sky	Himself
The Magical World of Chuck Jones	Himself
Listen Up	Himself
Chambre 666	Himself
The Blues Brothers	Cook County Clerk
The Puppetoon Movie	assistance
Heaven	assistance
The Fantasy Film World of George Pal	assistance
Lawrence of Arabia	assistance
Firelight	Director of Photography, Director, Editor, musical score, Visual Effects, Screenplay
The Adventures of Tintin	Lighting Consultant (Shots Department), Director, Producer
Lincoln	Director, Producer
War Horse	Director, Producer
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	Director
Munich	Director, Producer
War of the Worlds	Director
The Terminal	Director, Producer
Catch Me If You Can	Director, Producer
Minority Report	Director
A.I. Artificial Intelligence	Director, Producer, Screenplay
Saving Private Ryan	Director, Producer
Amistad	Director, Producer
The Lost World: Jurassic Park	Director
Schindler's List	Director, Producer
Jurassic Park	Director
Hook	Director
Always	Director, Producer
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	Director
Empire of the Sun	Director, Producer
The Color Purple	Director, Producer
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	Director
Twilight Zone - The Movie	Director ( Kick the Can ), Executive Producer
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial	Director, Producer
Raiders of the Lost Ark	Director
1941	Director
Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Director, special visual effects concept, Screenplay, From Story
Jaws	Director
The Sugarland Express	Director, Story By, From Story
Duel	Director
Lost Souls	Special Thanks
The Long Way Home	Special Thanks
Ground Zero	poster ( Close Encounters of the Third Kind )
Terror in the Aisles	film extract ( Jaws (1975) )
Men in Black 3	Executive Producer
Real Steel	Executive Producer
Cowboys & Aliens	Executive Producer
Transformers: Dark of the Moon	Executive Producer
Super 8	Producer
True Grit	Executive Producer
Hereafter	Executive Producer
The Lovely Bones	Executive Producer
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	Executive Producer
Eagle Eye	Executive Producer
Bee Movie	Producer
Transformers	Executive Producer
Volevo Solo Vivere	Executive Producer
Letters From Iwo Jima	Producer
Flags of Our Fathers	Producer
Monster House	Executive Producer
Memoirs of a Geisha	Producer
The Legend of Zorro	Executive Producer
Wicked Ways	Producer
Taken	Executive Producer
Men in Black II	Executive Producer
Jurassic Park III	Executive Producer, Story By
Evolution	Executive Producer
Shrek	Executive Producer
A Holocaust Szemei	Producer ( presents )
Gladiator	Producer
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas	Producer
Wakko's Wish	Executive Producer
The Haunting	Executive Producer
The Last Days	Executive Producer
The Mask of Zorro	Executive Producer
Deep Impact	Executive Producer
Men in Black	Executive Producer
Twister	Executive Producer
Balto	Executive Producer
Casper	Executive Producer
The Flintstones	Executive Producer
We re Back! A Dinosaur s Story	Executive Producer
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West	Producer
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams	Executive Producer
Arachnophobia	Executive Producer
Gremlins 2: The New Batch	Executive Producer
Back to the Future Part III	Executive Producer
Joe Versus the Volcano	Executive Producer
Back to the Future Part II	Executive Producer
Dad	Executive Producer
The Land Before Time	Executive Producer
Who Framed Roger Rabbit	Executive Producer
Batteries Not Included	Executive Producer
Innerspace	Executive Producer
An American Tail	Executive Producer
The Money Pit	Executive Producer
Young Sherlock Holmes	Executive Producer
Back to the Future	Executive Producer
The Goonies	Executive Producer, Story By, From Story
Gremlins	Executive Producer
Poltergeist	Producer, Screenplay, From Story
Continental Divide	Executive Producer
Used Cars	Executive Producer
I Wanna Hold Your Hand	Executive Producer
Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies	From Story

Principal Partner

Steven Spielberg, one of the industry’s most successful and influential filmmakers, is a principal partner of DreamWorks Studios. Formed in 2009, Spielberg and Stacey Snider lead the motion picture company in partnership with The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group.

Spielberg is also, collectively, the top-grossing director of all time, having helmed such blockbusters as “Jaws,” “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,” the “Indiana Jones” franchise, and “Jurassic Park.” Among his myriad honors, he is a three-time Academy Award® winner.

Spielberg took home his first two Oscarsâ, for Best Director and Best Picture, for the internationally lauded “Schindler’s List,” which received a total of seven Oscarsâ. The film was also named the Best Picture of 1993 by many of the major critics organizations, in addition to winning seven BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globe Awards, both including Best Picture and Director. Spielberg also won the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award for his work on the film.

Spielberg won his third Academy Award®, for Best Director, for the World War II drama “Saving Private Ryan,” which was the highest-grossing release (domestically) of 1998. It was also one of the year’s most honored films, earning four additional Oscars®, as well as two Golden Globe Awards, for Best Picture - Drama and Best Director, and numerous critics groups awards in the same categories. Spielberg also won another DGA Award, and shared a Producers Guild of America’s (PGA) Award with the film’s other producers. That same year, the PGA also presented Spielberg with the prestigious Milestone Award for his historic contribution to the motion picture industry.

He has also earned Academy Awardâ nominations for Best Director for “Munich,” “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” Additionally, he earned DGA Award nominations for those films, as well as “Jaws” “The Color Purple,” “Empire of the Sun” and “Amistad.” With ten to date, Spielberg has been honored by his peers with more DGA Award nominations than any other director. In 2000, he received the DGA’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He is also the recipient of the Irving G. Thalberg Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Hollywood Foreign Press’s Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Kennedy Center Honors, and numerous other career tributes.

More recently, Spielberg directed the 3D animated film “The Adventures of Tintin,” winner of the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature Film. He also directed “War Horse,” based on an award-winning novel, which has also been adapted into a major stage hit in London and New York, winning the Tony Award for Broadway’s Best Play. “War Horse” was nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture. In 2011, he produced the box-office success “Super 8” directed by JJ Abrams and executive produced the third “Transformers” film directed by Michael Bay and has grossed over $1 billion at the worldwide box office. He is currently in post-production on the DreamWorks Studios, Twentieth Century Fox, and Participant Media co-production “Lincoln” for release at the end of 2012. This summer he will begin filming his next movie, a DreamWorks and Fox co-production, “Robopocalypse,” for release in 2013.

Spielberg’s career began with the 1968 short film “Amblin,” which led to him becoming the youngest director ever signed to a long-term studio deal. He directed episodes of such TV shows as “Night Gallery,” “Marcus Welby, M.D.” and “Columbo,” and gained special attention for his 1971 telefilm “Duel.” Three years later, he made his feature film directorial debut on “The Sugarland Express,” from a screenplay he co-wrote. His next film was “Jaws,” which was the first film to break the $100 million mark.

In 1984, Spielberg formed his own production company, Amblin Entertainment. Under the Amblin banner, he served as producer or executive producer on such hits as “Gremlins,” “Goonies,” “Back to the Future I, II, and III,” “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?,” “An American Tail,” “Twister,” “The Mask of Zorro,” and the “Men in Black” films. In 1994, Spielberg partnered with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen to form the original DreamWorks Studios. The studio enjoyed both critical and commercial successes, including three consecutive Best Picture Academy Award® winners: “American Beauty,” “Gladiator,” and “A Beautiful Mind.” In its history, DreamWorks has also produced or co-produced a wide range of features, including the “Transformers” blockbusters, Clint Eastwood’s World War II dramas “Flags of Our Fathers” and “Letters from Iwo Jima,” the latter earning a Best Picture Oscar® nomination, “Meet the Parents” and “Meet the Fockers,” and “The Ring,” to name only a few. Under the DreamWorks banner, Spielberg also directed such films as “War of the Worlds,” “Minority Report,” “Catch Me If You Can” and “A.I. Artificial Intelligence.”

Spielberg has not limited his success to the big screen. He was an executive producer on the long-running Emmy-winning TV drama “E.R.” produced by his Amblin Entertainment company and Warner Bros. Television for NBC. On the heels of their experience on “Saving Private Ryan,” he and Tom Hanks teamed to executive produce the 2001 HBO miniseries “Band of Brothers,” based on Stephen Ambrose’s book about a U.S. Army unit in Europe in World War II. Among its many awards, the project won both Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for Outstanding Miniseries. He and Hanks more recently reunited to executive produce the acclaimed 2010 HBO miniseries “The Pacific,” this time focusing on the Marines in WWII’s Pacific theatre. “The Pacific” won eight Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Miniseries.

Spielberg also executive produced the Emmy-winning Sci-Fi Channel miniseries “Taken,” and the TNT miniseries “Into the West.” He was an executive producer on the Showtime series “The United States of Tara,” and is an executive producer on TNT’s “Falling Skies,” Fox’s “Terra Nova,” ABC’s “The River” and NBC’s “Smash.”

Apart from his filmmaking work, Spielberg has also devoted his time and resources to many philanthropic causes. The impact of his work on “Schindler’s List,” led him to establish the Righteous Persons Foundation using all his profits from the film. He also founded Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, which, in 2005, became the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education. In addition, Spielberg is the Chairman Emeritus of the Starlight Children’s Foundation.

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as archetypes of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years, his films began addressing issues such as the Holocaust, the Transatlantic slave trade, war, and terrorism. He is considered one of the most popular and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. He is also one of the co-founders of DreamWorks movie studio.

Spielberg won the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindler's List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998). Three of Spielberg's films—Jaws (1975), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and Jurassic Park (1993)—achieved box office records, each becoming the highest-grossing film made at the time. To date, the unadjusted gross of all Spielberg-directed films exceeds $8.5 billion worldwide. Forbes puts Spielberg's wealth at $3.2 billion.

Early life

Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to a Jewish family. His mother, Leah Adler (née Posner, 1920– ), was a restaurateur and concert pianist, and his father, Arnold Spielberg (1917– ), was an electrical engineer involved in the development of computers. He spent his childhood in Haddon Township, New Jersey, where he saw one of his first films in a theater, as well as in Scottsdale, Arizona. Throughout his early teens, Spielberg made amateur 8 mm "adventure" films with his friends, the first of which he shot at the Pinnacle Peak Patio restaurant in Scottsdale. He charged admission (25 cents) to his home films (which involved the wrecks he staged with his Lionel train set) while his sister sold popcorn.

In 1958, he became a Boy Scout, and fulfilled a requirement for the photography merit badge by making a nine-minute 8 mm film entitled The Last Gunfight. Spielberg recalled years later to a magazine interviewer, "My dad's still-camera was broken, so I asked the scoutmaster if I could tell a story with my father's movie camera. He said yes, and I got an idea to do a Western. I made it and got my merit badge. That was how it all started." At age thirteen, Spielberg won a prize for a 40-minute war film he titled Escape to Nowhere which was based on a battle in east Africa. In 1963, at age sixteen, Spielberg wrote and directed his first independent film, a 140-minute science fiction adventure called Firelight (which would later inspire Close Encounters). The film, which had a budget of US$500, was shown in his local cinema and generated a profit of $1. He also made several WWII films inspired by his father's war stories.

After his parents divorced, he moved to Saratoga, California with his father. His three sisters and mother remained in Arizona. He attended Arcadia High School in Phoenix, Arizona for three years; Spielberg graduated from Saratoga High School in 1965. It was during this time Spielberg attained the rank of Eagle Scout.

Spielberg attended Hebrew school from 1953 to 1957, in classes taught by Rabbi Albert L. Lewis, who would later be memorialized as the main character in Mitch Albom's Have a Little Faith.

As a child, Spielberg faced difficulty reconciling being an Orthodox Jew with the perception of him by other children he played with. "It isn't something I enjoy admitting," he once said, "but when I was seven, eight, nine years old, God forgive me, I was embarrassed because we were Orthodox Jews. I was embarrassed by the outward perception of my parents' Jewish practices. I was never really ashamed to be Jewish, but I was uneasy at times. My grandfather always wore a long black coat, black hat and long white beard. I was embarrassed to invite my friends over to the house, because he might be in a corner davening [praying], and I wouldn't know how to explain this to my WASP friends." Spielberg also said he suffered from acts of anti-Semitic prejudice in his early life: he later said, "In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible."

After moving to California, he applied to attend the film school at University of Southern California School of Theater, Film and Television two separate times, but was unsuccessful. He subsequently became a student at California State University, Long Beach. While attending Long Beach State in the 1960s, Spielberg became a brother of Theta Chi Fraternity. His actual career began when he returned to Universal Studios as an unpaid, seven-day-a-week intern and guest of the editing department (uncredited). After Spielberg became famous, USC awarded him an honorary degree in 1994, and in 1996 he became a trustee of the university. In 2002, thirty-five years after starting college, Spielberg finished his degree via independent projects at CSULB, and was awarded a B.A. in Film Production and Electronic Arts with an option in Film/Video Production.

As an intern and guest of Universal Studios, Spielberg made his first short film for theatrical release, the 26-minute Amblin' (1968), the title of which Spielberg later took as the name of his production company, Amblin Entertainment. After Sidney Sheinberg, then the vice-president of production for Universal's TV arm, saw the film, Spielberg became the youngest director ever to be signed for a long-term deal with a major Hollywood studio (Universal). He dropped out of Long Beach State in 1969 to take up the television director contract at Universal Studios and began his career as a professional director. In 1969, Variety announced that Spielberg would direct his first full length film, Malcolm Winkler, written by Claudia Salter, produced by John Orland, with Frank Price being the executive producer. However, because of the difficulty in casting the key male role, the film was not made. Steven Spielberg also attended Brookdale Community College for undergrad.

In 2007, Spielberg was diagnosed with dyslexia, which he disclosed five years later in an interview.

Career

Early career (1969–75)

His first professional TV job came when he was hired to direct one of the segments for the 1969 pilot episode of Night Gallery. The segment, "Eyes," starred Joan Crawford, and she and Spielberg were reportedly close friends until her death. The episode is unusual in his body of work, in that the camerawork is more highly stylized than his later, more "mature" films. After this, and an episode of Marcus Welby, M.D., Spielberg got his first feature-length assignment: an episode of The Name of the Game called "L.A. 2017". This futuristic science fiction episode impressed Universal Studios and they signed him to a short contract. He did another segment on Night Gallery and did some work for shows such as Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law and The Psychiatrist before landing the first series episode of Columbo (previous episodes were actually TV films). Based on the strength of his work, Universal signed Spielberg to do four TV films. The first was a Richard Matheson adaptation called Duel. The film is about a psychotic Peterbilt 281 tanker truck driver who chases a terrified driver (Dennis Weaver) of a small Plymouth Valiant and tries to run him off the road. Special praise of this film by the influential British critic Dilys Powell was highly significant to Spielberg's career. Another TV film (Something Evil) was made and released to capitalize on the popularity of The Exorcist, then a major best-selling book which had not yet been released as a film. He fulfilled his contract by directing the TV film length pilot of a show called Savage, starring Martin Landau. Spielberg's debut feature film was The Sugarland Express, about a married couple who are chased by police as the couple tries to regain custody of their baby. Spielberg's cinematography for the police chase was praised by reviewers, and The Hollywood Reporter stated that "a major new director is on the horizon." However, the film fared poorly at the box office and received a limited release. Studio producers Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown offered Spielberg the director's chair for Jaws, a thriller-horror film based on the Peter Benchley novel about an enormous killer shark. Spielberg has often referred to the gruelling shoot as his professional crucible. Despite the film's ultimate, enormous success, it was nearly shut down due to delays and budget over-runs. But Spielberg persevered and finished the film. It was an enormous hit, winning three Academy Awards (for editing, original score and sound) and grossing more than $470 million worldwide at the box office. It also set the domestic record for box office gross, leading to what the press described as "Jawsmania." Jaws made him a household name, as well as one of America's youngest multi-millionaires, and allowed Spielberg a great deal of autonomy for his future projects. It was nominated for Best Picture and featured Spielberg's first of three collaborations with actor Richard Dreyfuss.

Mainstream breakthrough (1975–93)

Rejecting offers to direct Jaws 2, King Kong and Superman, Spielberg and actor Richard Dreyfuss re-convened to work on a film about UFOs, which became Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). One of the rare films both written and directed by Spielberg, Close Encounters was a critical and box office hit, giving Spielberg his first Best Director nomination from the Academy as well as earning six other Academy Awards nominations. It won Oscars in two categories (Cinematography, Vilmos Zsigmond, and a Special Achievement Award for Sound Effects Editing, Frank E. Warner). This second blockbuster helped to secure Spielberg's rise. His next film, 1941, a big-budgeted World War II farce, was not nearly as successful and though it grossed over $92.4 million dollars worldwide (and did make a small profit for co-producing studios Columbia and Universal) it was seen as a disappointment, mainly with the critics.

Spielberg then revisited his Close Encounters project and, with financial backing from Columbia Pictures, released Close Encounters: The Special Edition in 1980. For this, Spielberg fixed some of the flaws he thought impeded the original 1977 version of the film and also, at the behest of Columbia, and as a condition of Spielberg revising the film, shot additional footage showing the audience the interior of the mothership seen at the end of the film (a decision Spielberg would later regret as he felt the interior of the mothership should have remained a mystery). Nevertheless, the re-release was a moderate success, while the 2001 DVD release of the film restored the original ending. Next, Spielberg teamed with Star Wars creator and friend George Lucas on an action adventure film, Raiders of the Lost Ark, the first of the Indiana Jones films. The archaeologist and adventurer hero Indiana Jones was played by Harrison Ford (whom Lucas had previously cast in his Star Wars films as Han Solo). The film was considered an homage to the cliffhanger serials of the Golden Age of Hollywood. It became the biggest film at the box office in 1981, and the recipient of numerous Oscar nominations including Best Director (Spielberg's second nomination) and Best Picture (the second Spielberg film to be nominated for Best Picture). Raiders is still considered a landmark example of the action-adventure genre. The film also led to Ford's casting in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.

Steven Spielberg with President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan after a showing of E.T. at the White House

A year later, Spielberg returned to the science fiction genre with E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. It was the story of a young boy and the alien he befriends, who was accidentally left behind by his companions and is attempting to return home. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial went on to become the top-grossing film of all time. E.T. was also nominated for nine Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director.
Between 1982 and 1985, Spielberg produced three high-grossing films: Poltergeist (for which he also co-wrote the screenplay), a big-screen adaptation of The Twilight Zone (for which he directed the segment "Kick The Can"), and The Goonies (Spielberg, executive producer, also wrote the story on which the screenplay was based).

Steven Spielberg and Chandran Rutnam on a location in Sri Lanka during the filming of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

His next directorial feature was the Raiders prequel Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Teaming up once again with Lucas and Ford, the film was plagued with uncertainty for the material and script. This film and the Spielberg-produced Gremlins led to the creation of the PG-13 rating due to the high level of violence in films targeted at younger audiences. In spite of this, Temple of Doom is rated PG by the MPAA, even though it is the darkest and, possibly, most violent Indy film. Nonetheless, the film was still a huge blockbuster hit in 1984. It was on this project that Spielberg also met his future wife, actress Kate Capshaw.

In 1985, Spielberg released The Color Purple, an adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, about a generation of empowered African-American women during depression-era America. Starring Whoopi Goldberg and future talk-show superstar Oprah Winfrey, the film was a box office smash and critics hailed Spielberg's successful foray into the dramatic genre. Roger Ebert proclaimed it the best film of the year and later entered it into his Great Films archive. The film received eleven Academy Award nominations, including two for Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey. However, much to the surprise of many, Spielberg did not get a Best Director nomination. The Color Purple is the second of two Spielberg films not to be scored by John Williams, the first being Duel. In 1987, as China began opening to Western capital investment, Spielberg shot the first American film in Shanghai since the 1930s, an adaptation of J. G. Ballard's autobiographical novel Empire of the Sun, starring John Malkovich and a young Christian Bale. The film garnered much praise from critics and was nominated for several Oscars, but did not yield substantial box office revenues. Reviewer Andrew Sarris called it the best film of the year and later included it among the best films of the decade. Spielberg was also a co-producer of the 1987 film *batteries not included. After two forays into more serious dramatic films, Spielberg then directed the third Indiana Jones film, 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Once again teaming up with Lucas and Ford, Spielberg also cast actor Sean Connery in a supporting role as Indy's father. The film earned generally positive reviews and was another box office success, becoming the highest grossing film worldwide that year; its total box office receipts even topped those of Tim Burton's much-anticipated film Batman, which had been the bigger hit domestically. Also in 1989, he re-united with actor Richard Dreyfuss for the romantic comedy-drama Always, about a daredevil pilot who extinguishes forest fires. Spielberg's first romantic film, Always was only a moderate success and had mixed reviews. In 1991, Spielberg directed Hook, about a middle-aged Peter Pan, played by Robin Williams, who returns to Neverland. Despite innumerable rewrites and creative changes coupled with mixed reviews, the film proved popular with audiences, making over $300 million worldwide (from a $70 million budget). In 1993, Spielberg returned to the adventure genre with the film version of Michael Crichton's novel Jurassic Park, about a theme park with genetically engineered dinosaurs. With revolutionary special effects provided by friend George Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic company, the film would eventually become the highest grossing film of all time (at the worldwide box office) with $914.7 million. This would be the third time that one of Spielberg's films became the highest grossing film ever. Spielberg's next film, Schindler's List, was based on the true story of Oskar Schindler, a man who risked his life to save 1,100 Jews from the Holocaust. Schindler's List earned Spielberg his first Academy Award for Best Director (it also won Best Picture). With the film a huge success at the box office, Spielberg used the profits to set up the Shoah Foundation, a non-profit organization that archives filmed testimony of Holocaust survivors. In 1997, the American Film Institute listed it among the 10 Greatest American Films ever Made (#9) which moved up to (#8) when the list was remade in 2007.

1994–present

Spielberg in 1990

In 1994, Spielberg took a hiatus from directing to spend more time with his family and build his new studio, DreamWorks, with partners Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen. In 1997, he helmed the sequel to 1993's Jurassic Park with The Lost World: Jurassic Park, which generated over $618 million worldwide despite mixed reviews, and was the second biggest hit of 1997 behind James Cameron's Titanic (which topped the original Jurassic Park to become the new recordholder for box office receipts). His next film, Amistad, was based on a true story (like Schindler's List), specifically about an African slave rebellion. Despite decent reviews from critics, it did not do well at the box office. Spielberg released Amistad under DreamWorks Pictures, which issued all of his films from Amistad until Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in May 2008 (see below). In 1998, Spielberg re-visited Close Encounters yet again, this time for a more definitive 137-minute "Collector's Edition" that puts more emphasis on the original 1977 release, while adding some elements of the previous 1980 "Special Edition," but deleting the latter version's "Mothership Finale," which Spielberg regretted shooting in the first place, feeling it should have remained ambiguous in the minds of viewers. His next theatrical release in that same year was the World War II film Saving Private Ryan, about a group of U.S. soldiers led by Capt. Miller (Tom Hanks) sent to bring home a paratrooper whose three older brothers were killed in the last twenty four hours of action in France. The film was a huge box office success, grossing over $481 million worldwide and was the biggest film of the year at the North American box office (worldwide it made second place after Michael Bay's Armageddon). Spielberg won his second Academy Award for his direction. The film's graphic, realistic depiction of combat violence influenced later war films such as Black Hawk Down and Enemy at the Gates. The film was also the first major hit for DreamWorks, which co-produced the film with Paramount Pictures (as such, it was Spielberg's first release from the latter that was not part of the Indiana Jones series). Later, Spielberg and Tom Hanks produced a TV mini-series based on Stephen Ambrose's book Band of Brothers. The ten-part HBO mini-series follows Easy Company of the 101st Airborne Division's 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. The series won a number of awards at the Golden Globes and the Emmys. In 2001, Spielberg filmed fellow director and friend Stanley Kubrick's final project, A.I. Artificial Intelligence which Kubrick was unable to begin during his lifetime. A futuristic film about a humanoid android longing for love, A.I. featured groundbreaking visual effects and a multi-layered, allegorical storyline, adapted by Spielberg himself. Though the film's reception in the US was relatively muted, it performed better overseas for a worldwide total box office gross of $236 million. Spielberg and actor Tom Cruise collaborated for the first time for the futuristic neo-noir Minority Report, based upon the science fiction short story written by Philip K. Dick about a Washington D.C. police captain in the year 2054 who has been foreseen to murder a man he has not yet met. The film received strong reviews with the review tallying website Rotten Tomatoes giving it a 92% approval rating, reporting that 206 out of the 225 reviews they tallied were positive. The film earned over $358 million worldwide. Roger Ebert, who named it the best film of 2002, praised its breathtaking vision of the future as well as for the way Spielberg blended CGI with live-action. Spielberg's 2002 film Catch Me If You Can is about the daring adventures of a youthful con artist (played by Leonardo DiCaprio). It earned Christopher Walken an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. The film is known for John Williams' score and its unique title sequence. It was a hit both commercially and critically. Spielberg collaborated again with Tom Hanks along with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Stanley Tucci in 2004's The Terminal, a warm-hearted comedy about a man of Eastern European descent who is stranded in an airport. It received mixed reviews but performed relatively well at the box office. In 2005, Empire magazine ranked Spielberg number one on a list of the greatest film directors of all time. Also in 2005, Spielberg directed a modern adaptation of War of the Worlds (a co-production of Paramount and DreamWorks), based on the H. G. Wells book of the same name (Spielberg had been a huge fan of the book and the original 1953 film). It starred Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning, and, as with past Spielberg films, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) provided the visual effects. Unlike E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which depicted friendly alien visitors, War of the Worlds featured violent invaders. The film was another huge box office smash, grossing over $591 million worldwide.

Spielberg in 2011, at the Paris premiere of The Adventures of Tintin.

Spielberg's film Munich, about the events following the 1972 Munich Massacre of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games, was his second film essaying Jewish relations in the world (the first being Schindler's List). The film is based on Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team, a book by Canadian journalist George Jonas. It was previously adapted into the 1986 made-for-TV film Sword of Gideon. The film received strong critical praise, but underperformed at the U.S. and world box-office; it remains one of Spielberg's most controversial films to date. Munich received five Academy Awards nominations, including Best Picture, Film Editing, Original Music Score (by John Williams), Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Director for Spielberg. It was Spielberg's sixth Best Director nomination and fifth Best Picture nomination.

Spielberg directed Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which wrapped filming in October 2007 and was released on May 22, 2008. This was his first film not to be released by DreamWorks since 1997. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, and has performed very well in theaters. As of May 10, 2010, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has grossed $317 million domestically, and over $786 million worldwide.

In early 2009, Spielberg shot the first film in a planned trilogy of motion capture films based on The Adventures of Tintin, written by Belgian artist Hergé, with Peter Jackson. The Adventures of Tintin, was not released until October 2011, due to the complexity of the computer animation involved. The world premiere took place on October 22, 2011 in Brussels, Belgium. The film was released in North American theaters on December 21, 2011, in Digital 3D and IMAX. It received generally positive reviews from critics, and grossed over $373 million worldwide. The Adventures of Tintin won the award for Best Animated Feature Film at the Golden Globe Awards that year It is the first non-Pixar film to win the award since the category was first introduced. Jackson has been announced to direct the second film, which Spielberg will produce.

Spielberg followed that with War Horse, shot in England in the summer of 2010. It was released just four days after The Adventures of Tintin, on December 25, 2011. The film, based on the novel of the same name written by Michael Morpurgo and published in 1982, follows the long friendship between a British boy and his horse Joey before and during World War I – the novel was also adapted into a hit play in London which is still running there, as well as on Broadway. The film was released and distributed by Disney, with whom DreamWorks has made a 30-picture deal. War Horse received generally positive reviews from critics, and was nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture.

Production credits

Since the mid-1980s, Spielberg has increased his role as a film producer. He headed up the production team for several cartoons, including the Warner Brothers hits Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Toonsylvania, and Freakazoid!, for which he collaborated with Jean MacCurdy and Tom Ruegger. Due to his work on these series, in the official titles, most of them say, "Steven Spielberg presents" as well as making numerous cameos on the shows. Spielberg also produced the Don Bluth animated features, An American Tail and The Land Before Time, which were released by Universal Studios. He also served as one of the executive producers of Who Framed Roger Rabbit and its three related shorts (Tummy Trouble, Roller Coaster Rabbit, Trail Mix-Up), which were all released by Disney, under both the Walt Disney Pictures and the Touchstone Pictures banners. He was furthermore, for a short time, the executive producer of the long-running medical drama ER. In 1989, he brought the concept of The Dig to LucasArts. He contributed to the project from that time until 1995 when the game was released. He also collaborated with software publishers Knowledge Adventure on the multimedia game Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair, which was released in 1996. Spielberg appears, as himself, in the game to direct the player. The Spielberg name provided branding for a Lego Moviemaker kit, the proceeds of which went to the Starbright Foundation.

Spielberg at The Pentagon (1999)

In 1993, Spielberg acted as executive producer for the highly anticipated television series seaQuest DSV; a science fiction series set "in the near future" starring Roy Scheider (who Spielberg had directed in Jaws) and Jonathan Brandis that aired on Sundays at 8:00 pm. on NBC. While the first season was moderately successful, the second season did less well. Spielberg's name no longer appeared in the third season and the show was cancelled mid way through it. Spielberg served as an uncredited executive producer on The Haunting, The Prince of Egypt, Just Like Heaven, Shrek, Road to Perdition, and Evolution. He served as an executive producer for the 1998 film Men in Black, and its sequels, Men in Black II and Men in Black III. In 2005, he served as a producer of Memoirs of a Geisha, an adaptation of the novel by Arthur Golden, a film he was previously attached to as director. In 2006, Spielberg co-executive produced with famed filmmaker Robert Zemeckis a CGI children's film called Monster House, marking their eighth collaboration since 1990's Back to the Future Part III. He also teamed with Clint Eastwood for the first time in their careers, co-producing Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima with Robert Lorenz and Eastwood himself. He earned his twelfth Academy Award nomination for the latter film as it was nominated for Best Picture. Spielberg served as executive producer for Disturbia and the Transformers live action film with Brian Goldner, an employee of Hasbro. The film was directed by Michael Bay and written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, and Spielberg continued to collaborate on the sequels, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Transformers: Dark of the Moon. In 2011, he produced the J. J. Abrams science fiction thriller film Super 8 for Paramount Pictures. Other major television series Spielberg produced were Band of Brothers, Taken and The Pacific. He was an executive producer on the critically acclaimed 2005 TV miniseries Into the West which won two Emmy awards, including one for Geoff Zanelli's score. For his 2010 miniseries The Pacific he teamed up once again with co-producer Tom Hanks, with Gary Goetzman also co-producing'. The miniseries is believed to have cost $250 million and is a 10-part war miniseries centered on the battles in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Writer Bruce McKenna, who penned several installments of (Band of Brothers), was the head writer. In 2007, Steven Spielberg and Mark Burnett co-produced On the Lot a short-lived TV reality show about filmmaking. Despite this, he never gave up working on television. He currently serves as one of the executive producers on United States of Tara, a show created by Academy Award winner Diablo Cody which they developed together (Spielberg is uncredited as creator). In 2011, Spielberg launched Falling Skies, a science fiction television series, on the TNT network. He developed the series with Robert Rodat and is credited as an executive producer. Spielberg is also producing the Fox TV series Terra Nova. Terra Nova begins in the year 2149 when all life on the planet Earth is threatened with extinction resulting in scientists opening a door that allows people to travel back 85 million years to prehistoric times. Spielberg also produced The River and Smash

Acting credits

Steven Spielberg had cameo roles in The Blues Brothers, Gremlins, Vanilla Sky, and Austin Powers in Goldmember, as well as small uncredited cameos in a handful of other films, such as a life-station worker in Jaws. He also made numerous cameo roles in the Warner Brothers cartoons he produced, such as Animaniacs, and even made reference to some of his films. Spielberg voiced himself in the film Paul, and in one episode of Tiny Toon Adventures titled Buster and Babs Go Hawaiian.

Involvement in video games

Apart from being an ardent gamer Spielberg has had a long history of involvement in video games. In 2005 the director signed with Electronic Arts to collaborate on three games including an action game and an award winning puzzle game for the Wii called Boom Blox (and its 2009 sequel: Boom Blox Bash Party). Previously, he was involved in creating the scenario for the adventure game The Dig. In 1996, Spielberg worked on and shot original footage for a movie-making simulation game called Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair. He is the creator of the Medal of Honor series by Electronic Arts. He is credited in the special thanks section of the 1998 video game Trespasser.

Upcoming and announced projects

Spielberg is currently in post-production on Lincoln, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln. Based on Doris Kearns Goodwin's bestseller Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, the film follows Lincoln's leadership during the final portion of the American Civil War. Written by Tony Kushner, the film was shot in Richmond, Virginia in late 2011 and will be released on November 2012 by Disney's Touchstone Pictures division in the United States and Twentieth Century Fox overseas. From July–September 2012 Spielberg is scheduled to shoot a $200 million adaptation of Daniel H. Wilson's novel Robopocalypse, adapted for the screen by Drew Goddard. The film follows a global human war against a robot uprising about 15–20 years in the future and will be shot in Montreal. Like Lincoln, it will be released by Disney in the United States and Fox overseas., on April 25, 2014. In 2009, Spielberg reportedly tried to obtain the screen rights to make a film based on Microsoft's Halo series. In September 2008, Steven Spielberg bought film rights for John Wyndham's novel Chocky and is interested in directing it. He is also interested in making an adaptation of A Steady Rain, Pirate Latitudes, The 39 Clues, and Under the Dome, along with a remake of When Worlds Collide. In May 2009, Steven Spielberg bought the rights to the life story of Martin Luther King, Jr.. Spielberg will be involved not only as producer but also as a director. However, the purchase was made from the King estate, led by son Dexter, while the two other surviving children, the Reverend Bernice and Martin III, immediately threatened to sue, not having given their approvals to the project. In June 2006, Steven Spielberg announced he would direct a scientifically accurate film about "a group of explorers who travel through a worm hole and into another dimension", from a treatment by Kip Thorne and producer Lynda Obst. In January 2007, screenwriter Jonathan Nolan met with them to discuss adapting Obst and Thorne's treatment into a narrative screenplay. The screenwriter suggested the addition of a "time element" to the treatment's basic idea, which was welcomed by Obst and Thorne. In March of that year, Paramount hired Nolan as well as scientists from Caltech, forming a workshop who will begin adapting the treatment after completing the script for Warner Bros.' The Chicago Fire. The following July, Kip Thorne said there was a push by people for him to portray himself in the film Interstellar.

Themes

Spielberg's films often deal with several recurring themes. Most of his films deal with ordinary characters searching for or coming in contact with extraordinary beings or finding themselves in extraordinary circumstances. In an AFI interview in August 2000 Spielberg commented on his interest in the possibility of extra terrestrial life and how it has influenced some of his films. Spielberg described himself as feeling like an alien during childhood, and his interest came from his father, a science fiction fan, and his opinion that aliens would not travel light years for conquest, but instead curiosity and sharing of knowledge. A strong consistent theme in his family-friendly work is a childlike, even naïve, sense of wonder and faith, as attested by works such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Hook, and A.I. Artificial Intelligence. According to Warren Buckland, these themes are portrayed through the use of low height camera tracking shots, which have become one of Spielberg's directing trademarks. In the cases when his films include children (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Empire of the Sun, Jurassic Park, etc.), this type of shot is more apparent, but it is also used in films like Munich, Saving Private Ryan, The Terminal, Minority Report, and Amistad. If one views each of his films, one will see this shot utilized by the director, notably the water scenes in Jaws are filmed from the low-angle perspective of someone swimming. Another child oriented theme in Spielberg's films is that of loss of innocence and coming-of-age. In Empire of the Sun, Jim, a well-groomed and spoiled English youth, loses his innocence as he suffers through World War II China. Similarly, in Catch Me If You Can, Frank naively and foolishly believes that he can reclaim his shattered family if he accumulates enough money to support them. The most persistent theme throughout his films is tension in parent-child relationships. Parents (often fathers) are reluctant, absent or ignorant. Peter Banning in Hook starts off in the beginning of the film as a reluctant married-to-his-work parent who through the course of his film regains the respect of his children. The notable absence of Elliott's father in E.T., is the most famous example of this theme. In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, it is revealed that Indy has always had a very strained relationship with his father, who is a professor of medieval literature, as his father always seemed more interested in his work, specifically in his studies of the Holy Grail, than in his own son, although his father does not seem to realize or understand the negative effect that his aloof nature had on Indy (he even believes he was a good father in the sense that he taught his son "self reliance," which is not how Indy saw it). Even Oskar Schindler, from Schindler's List, is reluctant to have a child with his wife. Munich depicts Avner as a man away from his wife and newborn daughter. There are of course exceptions; Brody in Jaws is a committed family man, while John Anderton in Minority Report is a shattered man after the disappearance of his son. This theme is arguably the most autobiographical aspect of Spielberg's films, since Spielberg himself was affected by his parents' divorce as a child and by the absence of his father. Furthermore to this theme, protagonists in his films often come from families with divorced parents, most notably E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (protagonist Elliot's mother is divorced) and Catch Me If You Can (Frank Abagnale's mother and father split early on in the film). Little known also is Tim in Jurassic Park (early in the film, another secondary character mentions Tim and Lex's parents' divorce). The family often shown divided is often resolved in the ending as well. Following this theme of reluctant fathers and father figures, Tim looks to Dr. Alan Grant as a father figure. Initially, Dr. Grant is reluctant to return those paternal feelings to Tim. However, by the end of the film, he has changed, and the kids even fall asleep with their heads on his shoulders. Most of his films are generally optimistic in nature. Critics frequently accuse his films of being overly sentimental, though Spielberg feels it is fine as long as it is disguised. The influence comes from directors Frank Capra and John Ford.

Contemporaries

In terms of casting and production itself, Spielberg has a known penchant for working with actors and production members from his previous films. For instance, he has cast Richard Dreyfuss in several films: Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Always. Aside from his role as Indiana Jones, Spielberg also cast Harrison Ford as a headteacher in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (though the scene was ultimately cut). Although Spielberg directed him only once (in Raiders of the Lost Ark, for which he voiced many of the animals), veteran voice actor Frank Welker has lent his voice in a number of productions Spielberg has executively produced from Gremlins to its sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch, as well as The Land Before Time (and lending his voice to its sequels which Spielberg had no involvement in), Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and television shows such as Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, and SeaQuest DSV. Recently Spielberg has used Tom Hanks on several occasions and has cast him in Saving Private Ryan, Catch Me If You Can, and The Terminal. Spielberg also has collaborated with Tom Cruise twice on Minority Report and War of the Worlds. Spielberg has also cast Shia LaBeouf in five films: Transformers, Eagle Eye, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Spielberg prefers working with production members with whom he has developed an existing working relationship. An example of this is his production relationship with Kathleen Kennedy who has served as producer on all his major films from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial to the recent Munich. Other working relationships include Allen Daviau, a childhood friend and cinematographer who shot the early Spielberg film Amblin and most of his films up to Empire of the Sun; Janusz Kamiński who has shot every Spielberg film since Schindler's List (see List of film director and cinematographer collaborations); and the film editor Michael Kahn who has edited every film directed by Spielberg from Close Encounters to Munich (except E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial). Most of the DVDs of Spielberg's films have documentaries by Laurent Bouzereau.

A famous example of Spielberg working with the same professionals is his long-time collaboration with John Williams and the use of his musical scores in all of his films since The Sugarland Express (except The Color Purple and Twilight Zone: The Movie). One of Spielberg's trademarks is his use of music by John Williams to add to the visual impact of his scenes and to try and create a lasting picture and sound of the film in the memories of the film audience. These visual scenes often uses images of the sun (e.g. Empire of the Sun, Saving Private Ryan, the final scene of Jurassic Park, and the end credits of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (where they ride into the sunset), of which the last two feature a Williams score at that end scene. Spielberg is a contemporary of filmmakers George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, John Milius, and Brian De Palma, collectively known as the "Movie Brats". Aside from his principal role as a director, Spielberg has acted as a producer for a considerable number of films, including early hits for Joe Dante and Robert Zemeckis.

Personal life

Marriages and children

From 1985 to 1989 Spielberg was married to actress Amy Irving. In their 1989 divorce settlement, she received $100 million from Spielberg after a judge controversially vacated a prenuptial agreement written on a napkin. Their divorce was recorded as the third most costly celebrity divorce in history. Following the divorce, Spielberg and Irving shared custody of their son, Max Samuel.

Spielberg subsequently developed a relationship with actress Kate Capshaw, whom he met when he cast her in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. They married on October 12, 1991. Capshaw is a convert to Judaism. They currently move among their four homes in Pacific Palisades, California; New York City; Quelle Farm, Georgica Pond in East Hampton, NY; and Naples, Florida.

There are seven children in the Spielberg-Capshaw family:

Jessica Capshaw (born August 9, 1976) – daughter from Kate Capshaw's previous marriage to Robert Capshaw
Max Samuel Spielberg (born June 13, 1985) – son from Spielberg's previous marriage to actress Amy Irving
Theo Spielberg (born 1988) – son adopted by Capshaw before her marriage to Spielberg, who later also adopted him
Sasha Rebecca Spielberg (born May 14, 1990, Los Angeles)
Sawyer Avery Spielberg (born March 10, 1992, Los Angeles)
Mikaela George (born February 28, 1996) – adopted with Kate Capshaw
Destry Allyn Spielberg (born December 1, 1996)

Recognition

In 2002, Spielberg was one of eight flagbearers who carried the Olympic Flag into Rice-Eccles Stadium at the Opening Ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. In 2006, Premiere listed him as the most powerful and influential figure in the motion picture industry. Time listed him as one of the 100 Most Important People of the Century. At the end of the 20th century, Life named him the most influential person of his generation.

Starbright

In 1991 Steven Spielberg co-founded Starbright with Randy Aduana—a foundation dedicated to improving sick children's lives through technology-based programs focusing on entertainment and education. In 2002 Starbright merged with the Starlight Foundation forming what is now today the Starlight Children's Foundation.

Politics

Spielberg usually supports U.S. Democratic Party candidates. He has donated over $800,000 to the Democratic party and its nominees. He has been a close friend of former President Bill Clinton and worked with the President for the USA Millennium celebrations. He directed an 18-minute film for the project, scored by John Williams and entitled The American Journey. It was shown at America's Millennium Gala on December 31, 1999, in the National Mall at the Reflecting Pool at the base of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen escorts Steven Spielberg through a military honor cordon into the Pentagon.

Spielberg resigned as a member of the national advisory board of the Boy Scouts of America in 2001 because of his disapproval of the organization's anti-homosexuality stance.

Spielberg joined Jeffrey Katzenberg and Haim Saban in endorsing the re-election of Hollywood friend Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Republican Governor of California, on August 7, 2006.

In 2007 the Arab League voted to boycott Spielberg's movies after he donated $1 million for relief efforts in Israel during the 2006 Lebanon War.

On February 20, 2007, Spielberg, Katzenberg, and David Geffen invited Democrats to a fundraiser for Barack Obama. However, on June 14, 2007, Spielberg endorsed Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) for President. While Geffen and Katzenberg supported Obama, Spielberg was always a supporter of Hillary Clinton. However Spielberg directed a video for Obama at the DNC in August 2008 and attended Obama's inauguration.

In February 2008, Spielberg pulled out of his role as advisor to the 2008 Summer Olympics in response to the Chinese government's inaction over the War in Darfur. Spielberg said in a statement that "I find that my conscience will not allow me to continue business as usual." It also said that "Sudan's government bears the bulk of the responsibility for these on-going crimes, but the international community, and particularly China, should be doing more.." The International Olympic Committee respected Spielberg's decision, but IOC president Jacques Rogge admitted in an interview that "[Spielberg] certainly would have brought a lot to the opening ceremony in terms of creativity." Spielberg's statement drew criticism from Chinese officials and state-run media calling his criticism "unfair".

In September 2008, Spielberg and his wife offered their support to same-sex marriage, by issuing a statement following their donation of $100,000 to the "No on Proposition 8" campaign fund, a figure equal to the amount of money Brad Pitt donated to the same campaign less than a week prior.

Hobbies

One of the three balsa sleds used in Citizen Kane, purchased at auction in 1982 by Steven Spielberg

In June 1982 Steven Spielberg spent $60,500 to buy a Rosebud sled from the 1941 film Citizen Kane — one of three balsa sleds used in the closing scenes and the only one that was not burned. Spielberg had paid homage to the Orson Welles classic in the final shot of the government warehouse in his 1981 film, Raiders of the Lost Ark. "When you look at Rosebud, you don't think of fast dollars, fast sequels and remakes," Spielberg said. "This to me says that movies of my generation had better be good." In 1994 Spielberg also purchased an original script for Welles's 1938 radio broadcast The War of the Worlds — Welles's own directorial copy and one of only two radioscripts known to survive. Spielberg adapted The War of the Worlds for a feature film in 2005.

Spielberg is an avid film buff, and, when not shooting a picture, he will indulge in "movie orgies" (watching many over a single weekend). He sees almost every major summer blockbuster in theaters if not preoccupied and enjoys most of them; "If I get pleasure from anything, I can't think of it as dumb or myself as shallow [...] I'll probably go late to that movie and go, 'What the dickens was everybody complaining about, that wasn't so bad!'".

Since playing Pong while filming Jaws in 1974, Spielberg has been an avid video gamer. He owns a Wii, a PlayStation 3, a PSP, and Xbox 360, and enjoys playing first-person shooters such as the Medal of Honor series and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. He has also criticized the use of cut scenes in games, calling them intrusive, and feels making story flow naturally into the gameplay is a challenge for future game developers.

Stalking

In 2001, Spielberg was stalked by conspiracy theorist and former social worker Diana Napolis. She accused him, along with actress Jennifer Love Hewitt, of controlling her thoughts through "cybertronic" technology and being part of a satanic conspiracy against her. Napolis was committed for life in a mental institution before pleading guilty to stalking and released on probation with a condition that she have no contact with either Spielberg or Hewitt.

Spielberg was a target of the 2002 white supremacist terror plot.

Jonathan Norman was arrested after making two attempts to enter Spielberg's Pacific Palisades home in June and July 1997. Norman was jailed for 25 years in California. Spielberg told the court: "Had Jonathan Norman actually confronted me, I genuinely, in my heart of hearts, believe that I would have been raped or maimed or killed."

Achievements

Spielberg with a public service award presented by United States Secretary of Defense William Cohen, 1999.

Steven Spielberg's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Footprints and handprints of Steven Spielberg in front of the Grauman's Chinese Theatre

Former President Clinton with Spielberg as he accepts the 2009 Liberty Award

Spielberg has won three Academy Awards. He has been nominated for six Academy Awards for the category of Best Director, winning two of them (Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan), and seven of the films he directed were up for the Best Picture Oscar (Schindler's List won). In 1987 he was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for his work as a creative producer.

Drawing from his own experiences in Scouting, Spielberg helped the Boy Scouts of America develop a merit badge in cinematography. The badge was launched at the 1989 National Scout Jamboree, which Spielberg attended, and where he personally counseled many boys in their work on requirements.

That same year, 1989, saw the release of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The opening scene shows a teenage Indiana Jones in scout uniform bearing the rank of a Life Scout. Spielberg stated he made Indiana Jones a Boy Scout in honor of his experience in Scouting. For his career accomplishments and service to others, Spielberg was awarded the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award. Steven Spielberg received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1995. In 1998 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit with Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany. The Award was presented to him by President Roman Herzog in recognition of his film Schindler's List and his Shoa-Foundation. In 1999, Spielberg received an honorary degree from Brown University. Spielberg was also awarded the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service by Secretary of Defense William Cohen at the Pentagon on August 11, 1999; Cohen presented the award in recognition of Spielberg's film Saving Private Ryan. In 2001, he was honored as an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II. In 2004 he was admitted as knight of the Légion d'honneur by president Jacques Chirac. On July 15, 2006, Spielberg was also awarded the Gold Hugo Lifetime Achievement Award at the Summer Gala of the Chicago International Film Festival, and also was awarded a Kennedy Center honour on December 3. The tribute to Spielberg featured a short, filmed biography narrated by Tom Hanks and included thank-yous from World War II veterans for Saving Private Ryan, as well as a performance of the finale to Leonard Bernstein's Candide, conducted by John Williams (Spielberg's frequent composer). In November 2007, he was chosen for a Lifetime Achievement Award to be presented at the sixth annual Visual Effects Society Awards in February 2009. He was set to be honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the January 2008 Golden Globes; however, the new, watered-down format of the ceremony resulting from conflicts in the 2007–08 writers strike, the HFPA postponed his honor to the 2009 ceremony. In 2008, Spielberg was awarded the Légion d'honneu.In June 2008, Spielberg received Arizona State University's Hugh Downs Award for Communication Excellence. Spielberg received an honorary degree at Boston University's 136th Annual Commencement on May 17, 2009. In October 2009 Steven Spielberg received the Philadelphia Liberty Medal; presenting him with the medal was former US president and Liberty Medal recipient Bill Clinton. Special guests included Whoopi Goldberg, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter. On October 22, 2011 he was admitted as a Commander of the Belgian Order of the Crown. He was given the badge on a red neck ribbon by the Belgian Federal Minister of Finance Didier Reynders. The Commander is the third highest rank of the Order of the Crown.

U.S. President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush, with the Kennedy Center honorees in the Blue Room of the White House during a 2006 reception. From left: singer/songwriter William "Smokey" Robinson; composer Andrew Lloyd Webber; singer Dolly Parton; Steven Spielberg; and conductor Zubin Mehta.

Steven Spielberg with Chandran Rutnam, in the Gala Dinner held on Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, honoring Steven Spielberg.

Praise and criticism

Film

In 2005, Steven Spielberg was rated the greatest film director of all time by Empire Magazine. In 1997 a Wall Street sell-side analyst said "There are only two brand names in the business: Disney and Spielberg". After watching the unconventional, off-center camera techniques of Jaws, Alfred Hitchcock praised "young Spielberg," saying "He's the first one of us who doesn't see the proscenium arch." Or, to paraphrase, he was the first mainstream director to think outside the visual dynamics of the theater, although that didn't stop Hitchcock from removing Spielberg from the set of Family Plot, his last film. Some of Spielberg's most famous fans include film legends Robert Aldrich, Ingmar Bergman, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, David Lean, Sidney Lumet, Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, Francois Truffaut, David Lynch and Zhang Yimou. Subsequently, Spielberg's movies have also influenced many directors that followed, including Adam Green, J.J Abrams, Paul Thomas Anderson Neill Blomkamp, James Cameron, Guillermo del Toro, Roland Emmerich, David Fincher, Peter Jackson, Kal Ng, Robert Rodriguez, John Sayles, Ridley Scott, John Singleton, Kevin Smith, Steven Soderbergh and Quentin Tarantino. British film critic Tom Shone has said of Spielberg, "If you have to point to any one director of the last twenty-five years in whose work the medium of film was most fully itself – where we found out what it does best when left to its own devices, it has to be that guy." Jess Cagle, the managing editor of Entertainment Weekly, called Spielberg "...arguably (well, who would argue?) the greatest filmmaker in history." However, Spielberg is not without his critics—many of whom complain that his films are overly sentimental and tritely moralistic. In his book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood, Peter Biskind summarized the views of Spielberg's detractors, accusing the director of "infantilizing the audience, reconstituting the spectator as child, then overwhelming him and her with sound and spectacle, obliterating irony, aesthetic self-consciousness, and critical reflection." Critics of mainstream film such as Ray Carney and American artist and actor Crispin Glover (who starred in the Spielberg-produced Back to the Future and also sued Spielberg for using Glover's likeness in Back to the Future Part II) claim that Spielberg's films lack depth and do not take risks. French New Wave filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard stated that he holds Spielberg partly responsible for the lack of artistic merit in mainstream cinema and accused Spielberg of using his film Schindler's List to make a profit of tragedy while Schindler's wife, Emilie Schindler, lived in poverty in Argentina. In defense of Spielberg, critic Roger Ebert said "Has Godard or any other director living or dead done more than Spielberg, with his Holocaust Project, to honor and preserve the memories of the survivors?" Author Thomas Keneally has also disputed claims that Emilie Schindler was never paid for her contributions to the film, "not least because I had recently sent Emilie a check myself." The late film critic, Pauline Kael, who had championed Spielberg's films in the 1970s, expressed disappointment in his later development, stating that "he's become, I think, a very bad director.... And I'm a little ashamed for him, because I loved his early work.... [H]e turned to virtuous movies. And he's become so uninteresting now.... I think that he had it in him to become more of a fluid, far-out director. But, instead, he's become a melodramatist." Imre Kertész, Hungarian Jewish author, Nazi concentration camp survivor, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, criticized Spielberg's depiction of the Holocaust in Schindler's List as kitsch, saying "I regard as kitsch any representation of the Holocaust that is incapable of understanding or unwilling to understand the organic connection between our own deformed mode of life and the very possibility of the Holocaust." Veteran documentary filmmaker and professor Claude Lanzmann also labeled Schindler's List "pernicious in its impact and influence" and "very sentimental". Stephen Rowley wrote an extensive essay about Spielberg and his career in Senses of Cinema. In it he discussed Spielberg's strengths as a film maker, saying "there is a welcome complexity of tone and approach in these later films that defies the lazy stereotypes often bandied about his films" and that "Spielberg continues to take risks, with his body of work continuing to grow more impressive and ambitious", concluding that he has only received "limited, begrudging recognition" from critics.

Other

In 1999, Spielberg, then a co-owner of DreamWorks, was involved in a heated debate in which the studio proposed building on wetlands near Los Angeles, California, though development was later dropped for economic reasons.

In August 2007, Ai Weiwei, artistic designer for the Beijing Olympic Stadium, known as the "Bird's Nest", accused those choreographing the Olympic opening ceremony, including Spielberg, of failing to live up to their responsibility as artists. Ai said, "It's disgusting. I don't like anyone who shamelessly abuses their profession, who makes no moral judgment.''

Filmography

1959	The Last Gun	Yes			Yes	actor
1961	Fighter Squad	Yes		Yes
1961	Escape to Nowhere	Yes		Yes
1964	Firelight	Yes		Yes
1968	Amblin'	Yes		Yes
1971	Duel	Yes
1972	Something Evil	Yes
1974	The Sugarland Express	Yes		Yes
1975	Jaws	Yes
1977	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Yes		Yes
1978	I Wanna Hold Your Hand				Yes	executive producer
1979	1941	Yes
1980	The Blues Brothers				Yes	Cook County Assessor's Office Clerk
1980	Used Cars				Yes	executive producer
1981	Continental Divide				Yes	executive producer
1981	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Yes
1982	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Yes	Yes
1982	Poltergeist		Yes	Yes
1983	Twilight Zone: The Movie	Yes	Yes			segment "Kick the Can"
1984	Gremlins				Yes	Man in Electric Wheelchair, also executive producer
	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	Yes
	Room 666				Yes	Himself
1985	Fandango				Yes	executive producer
	Back to the Future				Yes	executive producer
	The Color Purple	Yes	Yes
	The Goonies			Yes	Yes	also executive producer
	Young Sherlock Holmes				Yes	executive producer
1986	An American Tail				Yes	executive producer
1986	The Money Pit				Yes	executive producer
1987	*batteries not included				Yes	executive producer
	Empire of the Sun	Yes	Yes
	Harry and the Hendersons				Yes	executive producer, uncredited
	Innerspace				Yes	executive producer
	Three O'Clock High				Yes	executive producer
1988	The Land Before Time				Yes	executive producer
1988	Who Framed Roger Rabbit				Yes	executive producer
1989	Always	Yes	Yes
	Back to the Future Part II				Yes	executive producer
	Dad				Yes	executive producer
	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	Yes
1990	Arachnophobia				Yes	executive producer
	Dreams				Yes	executive producer
	Back to the Future Part III				Yes	executive producer
	Gremlins 2: The New Batch				Yes	executive producer
	Joe Versus the Volcano				Yes	executive producer
	Roller Coaster Rabbit				Yes	executive producer
1991	A Wish for Wings That Work				Yes	executive producer
	An American Tail: Fievel Goes West		Yes
	Cape Fear				Yes	executive producer
	Hook	Yes
	Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation				Yes	executive producer
	A Brief History of Time				Yes	executive producer
1993	Jurassic Park	Yes	Yes
	We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story				Yes	executive producer
	Schindler's List	Yes	Yes
1994	The Flintstones				Yes	executive producer
1995	Casper				Yes	executive producer
1995	Balto				Yes	executive producer
1996	Twister				Yes	executive producer
1997	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	Yes			Yes	Brief cameo in television reflection at the end of the film
	Men in Black				Yes	executive producer
	Amistad	Yes	Yes
1998	Saving Private Ryan	Yes	Yes
	The Last Days				Yes	executive producer
	The Mask of Zorro				Yes	executive producer
	Deep Impact				Yes	executive producer
1999	Wakko's Wish				Yes	executive producer
1999	Medal of Honor				Yes	Video game, Original Concept
2000	Shooting War				Yes	executive producer
2001	A.I. Artificial Intelligence	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Jurassic Park III				Yes	executive producer
	Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures				Yes	Himself
	Vanilla Sky				Yes	Guest at David Aames' Party
2002	Minority Report	Yes
	Men in Black II				Yes	executive producer
	Austin Powers in Goldmember				Yes	Himself
	Catch Me If You Can	Yes	Yes
2003	Double Dare				Yes	Himself
2004	The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing				Yes	Himself
2004	The Terminal	Yes	Yes
2005	Directed by John Ford				Yes	Himself
	War of the Worlds	Yes
	The Legend of Zorro				Yes	executive producer
	Memoirs of a Geisha		Yes
	Munich	Yes	Yes
2006	Flags of Our Fathers		Yes
	Letters from Iwo Jima		Yes
	Monster House				Yes	executive producer
	The Shark Is Still Working				Yes	Himself
2007	Transformers				Yes	executive producer
2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	Yes
2008	Eagle Eye				Yes	executive producer
2009	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen				Yes	executive producer
2009	The Lovely Bones				Yes	executive producer
2010	Hollywood Don't Surf!				Yes	Himself
	Hereafter				Yes	executive producer
	True Grit				Yes	executive producer
2011	Paul				Yes	Himself
	Super 8		Yes
	Transformers: Dark of the Moon				Yes	executive producer
	Cowboys & Aliens				Yes	executive producer
	Real Steel				Yes	executive producer
	The Adventures of Tintin	Yes	Yes
	War Horse	Yes	Yes
2012	Men in Black 3				Yes	executive producer
2012	Lincoln	Yes	Yes

Awards

Steven Spielberg's films have been nominated for over 200 major awards.

Year	Film	Academy Award Nominations	Academy Award Wins	Golden Globe Nominations	Golden Globe Wins	BAFTA Nominations	BAFTA Wins
1975	Jaws	4	3	4	1	3
1977	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	8	2	4
1979	1941	3
1981	Raiders of the Lost Ark	9	5	1		2
1982	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	9	4	5	1	2
1984	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	2	1			1
1986	The Color Purple	11		5	1
1987	Empire of the Sun	6		2		6	3
1989	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	3	1	1		3
1991	Hook	5		1
1993	Jurassic Park	3	3			2	1
1993	Schindler's List	12	7	6	3	11	7
1997	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	1
1997	Amistad	4		4
1998	Saving Private Ryan	11	5	5	3	10	2
2001	A.I. Artificial Intelligence	2		3		1
2002	Minority Report	1				1
2002	Catch Me If You Can	2		1		4	1
2005	War of the Worlds	3
2005	Munich	5		2
2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull					1
2011	The Adventures of Tintin	1		1	1	1
2011	War Horse	6		2		5
	Total	111	31	47	10	52	14

Highest-grossing films

This is a list of the top 10 highest grossing films which Spielberg directed. Spielberg's films have grossed a total of more than $8.5 billion, with an average of $236 million per film.

Rank	Title	Worldwide gross	Year
1	Jurassic Park	$915 million	1993
2	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	$793 million	1982
3	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	$787 million	2008
4	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	$619 million	1997
5	War of the Worlds	$592 million	2005
6	Saving Private Ryan	$482 million	1998
7	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	$474 million	1989
8	Jaws	$471 million	1975
9	Raiders of the Lost Ark	$390 million	1981
10	The Adventures of Tintin	$374 million	2011

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result
1973	Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival	Grand Prize	Duel	Won
1974	Cannes Film Festival	Best Screenplay	The Sugarland Express	Won
1974	Cannes Film Festival	Palme d'Or	The Sugarland Express	Nominated
1975	Writers Guild of America	Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen	The Sugarland Express	Nominated
1976	BAFTA Award	Best Director	Jaws	Nominated
	Directors Guild of America	Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures	Jaws	Nominated
	Golden Globe	Best Director	Jaws	Nominated
1978	Academy Award	Best Director	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Nominated
	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films	Best Director	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Won
	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films	Best Writing	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Won
	Directors Guild of America	Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Nominated
	Golden Globe	Best Director	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Nominated
	Golden Globe	Best Screenplay	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Nominated
	Writers Guild of America	Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Nominated
1979	BAFTA Award	Best Director	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Nominated
1979	BAFTA Award	Best Screenplay	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Nominated
1982	Academy Award	Best Director	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Nominated
	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films	Best Director	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Won
	American Movie Awards	Best Director	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Won
	Boston Society of Film Critics Awards	Best Director	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Won
	César Award	Best Foreign Film	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Nominated
	Directors Guild of America	Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Nominated
	Golden Globe	Best Director	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Nominated
	Kinema Junpo Awards	Best Foreign Language Film	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Won
	Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards	Best Director	E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial	Won
	New York Film Critics Circle Awards	Best Director	E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial	Nominated
	ShoWest	Director of the Year		Won
1983	Academy Award	Best Director	E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial	Nominated
	Academy Award	Best Picture	E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial	Nominated
	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films	Best Director	E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial	Nominated
	BAFTA Award	Best Direction	E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial	Nominated
	BAFTA Award	Best Film	E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial	Nominated
	Blue Ribbon Award	Best Foreign Language Film	E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial	Won
	Boston Society of Film Critics Awards	Best Director	E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial	Won
	César Awards	Best Foreign Film	E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial	Nominated
	David di Donatello Awards	Best Foreign Director	E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial	Won
	Directors Guild of America	Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures	E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial	Nominated
	Fotogramas de Plata	Best Foreign Film	E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial	Won
	Golden Globe	Best Director	E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial	Nominated
	Hasty Pudding Theatricals	Man of the Year		Won
	Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards	Best Director	E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial	Won
	Kinema Junpo Awards	Best Foreign Language Film	E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial	Won
	Kinema Junpo Awards	Readers' Choice Award	E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial	Won
	National Society of Film Critics Awards	Best Director	E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial	Won
	Sant Jordi Awards	Mejor Película Infantil	E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial	Won
1984	Fantasporto	Best Film	Twilight Zone: The Movie	Nominated
1984	Giffoni Film Festival	Nocciola d'Oro		Won
1985	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films	Best Director	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	Nominated
1986	Academy Award	Best Picture	The Color Purple	Nominated
	BAFTA Award	Academy Fellowship		Won
	David di Donatello Awards	Best Foreign Producer	Back to the Future	Won
	Directors Guild of America	Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures	The Color Purple	Won
	Emmy Award	Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series	Steven Spielberg Presents Amazing Stories	Nominated
	Golden Globe	Best Director	The Color Purple	Nominated
	Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards	Best Director	The Color Purple	Won
1987	Academy Award	Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award		Won
	Blue Ribbon Award	Best Foreign Language Film	The Color Purple	Won
	Christopher Award	Best Picture	Empire of the Sun	Won
	National Board of Review	Best Director	Empire of the Sun	Won
1988	Directors Guild of America	Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures	Empire of the Sun	Nominated
1988	Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards	Best Director	Empire of the Sun	Won
1989	American Cinematheque Award	American Cinematheque Award		Won
1990	American Cinema Editors	Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award		Won
1990	Retirement Research Foundation	Television and Theatrical Film Fiction	Dad	Won
1991	Daytime Emmy Award	Outstanding Animated Program	Tiny Toon Adventures	Won
1991	Emmy Award	Outstanding Animated Program	Tiny Toon Adventures	Nominated
1992	Daytime Emmy Award	Outstanding Animated Program	Tiny Toon Adventures	Nominated
1993	Boston Society of Film Critics Awards	Best Director	Schindler's List	Won
	Daytime Emmy Award	Outstanding Animated Program	Tiny Toon Adventures	Won
	New York Film Critics Circle Awards	Best Director	Schindler's List	Nominated
	Venice Film Festival	Career Golden Lion		Won
1994	Academy Award	Best Director	Schindler's List	Won
	Academy Award	Best Picture	Schindler's List	Won
	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films	President's Award		Won
	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films	Best Director	Jurassic Park	Won
	Amanda Awards	Best Foreign Film	Schindler's List	Won
	American Society of Cinematographers	Board of the Governors Award		Won
	Australian Film Institute	Best Foreign Film	Schindler's List	Nominated
	BAFTA Award	Best Film	Schindler's List	Won
	BAFTA Award	David Lean Award for Direction	Schindler's List	Won
	Blue Ribbon Award	Best Foreign Language Film	Jurassic Park	Won
	Chicago Film Critics Association Awards	Best Director	Schindler's List	Won
	Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards	Best Director	Schindler's List	Won
	David di Donatello Awards	Best Foreign Film	Schindler's List	Nominated
	Daytime Emmy Award	Outstanding Animated Children's Program	Animaniacs	Nominated
	Directors Guild of America	Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures	Schindler's List	Won
	Golden Globe	Best Director	Schindler's List	Won
	Hochi Film Awards	Best Foreign Language Film	Schindler's List	Won
	Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards	Best Director	Schindler's List	Won
	Mainichi Film Concours	Best Foreign Language Film	Jurassic Park	Won
	National Society of Film Critics Awards	Best Director	Schindler's List	Won
	PGA Award	Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award	Schindler's List	Won
	People's Choice Awards	People's Choice Awards Honoree		Won
	ShoWest	Director of the Year		Won
	Society of Camera Operators	Governors' Award		Won
	Young Artist Awards	Jackie Coogan Award		Won
1995	American Film Institute	Life Achievement Award		Won
	César Awards	Honorary César		Won
	César Awards	Best Foreign Film	Schindler's List	Nominated
	Czech Lions	Best Foreign Language Film	Jurassic Park	Won
	Daytime Emmy Award	Outstanding Animated Children's Program	Animaniacs	Nominated
	Emmy Award	Outstanding Animated Program	Tiny Toons' Night Ghoulery	Nominated
	Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists	Best Director	Schindler's List	Nominated
	Kinema Junpo Awards	Best Foreign Language Film	Schindler's List	Won
	London Critics Circle Film Awards	Director of the Year	Schindler's List	Won
	Mainichi Film Concours	Best Foreign Language Film	Schindler's List	Won
1996	Daytime Emmy Award	Outstanding Children's Animated Program	Animaniacs	Won
1996	Emmy Award	Outstanding Animated Program	A Pinky & the Brain Christmas Special	Won
1997	Daytime Emmy Award	Outstanding Children's Animated Program	Animaniacs	Won
	Daytime Emmy Award	Outstanding Special Class Animated Program	Freakazoid!	Won
	Daytime Emmy Award	Outstanding Children's Animated Program	Pinky and the Brain	Nominated
1998	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films	Best Director	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	Nominated
	David di Donatello Awards	Best Foreign Film	Amistad	Nominated
	Daytime Emmy Award	Outstanding Children's Animated Program	Animaniacs	Nominated
	Daytime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Children's Animated Program	Pinky and the Brain	Nominated
	Directors Guild of America	Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures	Amistad	Nominated
	European Film Awards	Screen International Award	Saving Private Ryan	Nominated
	Golden Globe	Best Direcor	Amistad	Nominated
	Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards	Best Director	Saving Private Ryan	Won
	Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards	Best Director	Saving Private Ryan	Won
	PGA Awards	Theatrical Motion Picture	Amistad	Won
	PGA Award	Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award	Amistad	Nominated
	Rembrandt Awards	Best Director	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	Won
	Russian Guild of Film Critics	Best Foreign Film	Saving Private Ryan	Nominated
	Satellite Awards	Best Director	Amistad	Nominated
	Satellite Awards	Best Motion Picture – Drama	Amistad	Nominated
	Toronto Film Critics Association Awards	Best Director	Saving Private Ryan	Won
1999	Academy Award	Best Director	Saving Private Ryan	Won
	Academy Award	Best Picture	Saving Private Ryan	Nominated
	Amanda Awards	Best Foreign Film	Saving Private Ryan	Nominated
	BAFTA Award	Best Film	Saving Private Ryan	Nominated
	BAFTA Award	David Lean Award for Direction	Saving Private Ryan	Nominated
	Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards	Best Director	Saving Private Ryan	Won
	Chicago Film Critics Association Awards	Best Director	Saving Private Ryan	Nominated
	Czech Lions	Best Foreign Language Film	Saving Private Ryan	Won
	César Awards	Best Foreign Film	Saving Private Ryan	Nominated
	Daytime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Special Class Animated Program	Pinky and the Brain	Won
	Daytime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Children's Animated Program	Animaniacs	Nominated
	Daytime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Children's Animated Program	Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain	Nominated
	Directors Guild of America	Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures	Saving Private Ryan	Won
	Empire Award	Best Director	Saving Private Ryan	Won
	Golden Globe	Best Director	Saving Private Ryan	Won
	Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists	Best Foreign Director	Saving Private Ryan	Won
	Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards	Best Director	Saving Private Ryan	Won
	London Critics Circle Film Awards	Director of the Year	Saving Private Ryan	Nominated
	Online Film Critics Society Awards	Best Director	Saving Private Ryan	Won
	PGA Awards	Milestone Award		Won
	PGA Awards	Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award	Saving Private Ryan	Won
	Satellite Awards	Best Director	Saving Private Ryan	Nominated
	Satellite Awards	Best Motion Picture – Drama	Saving Private Ryan	Nominated
	Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards	Best Director	Saving Private Ryan	Won
2000	Daytime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Children's Animated Program	Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain	Won
	Directors Guild of America	Lifetime Achievement Award		Won
	Image Awards	Vanguard Award		Won
	PGA Awards	PGA Hall of Fame – Motion Pictures	E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial	Won
2001	National Board of Review	Billy Wilder Award		Won
2001	Venice Film Festival	Future Film Festival Digital Award	A.I. Artificial Intelligence	Won
2002	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films	Best Writing	A.I. Artificial Intelligence	Won
	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films	Best Director	A.I. Artificial Intelligence	Nominated
	Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards	Best Director	Minority Report	Nominated
	Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards	Best Director	Catch Me If You Can	Nominated
	Christopher Award	Television and Cable	Band of Brothers	Won
	Emmy Award	Outstanding Miniseries	Band of Brothers	Won
	Emmy Award	Outstanding Non-Fiction Special	We Stand Alone Together	Nominated
	Empire Award	Best Director	A.I. Artificial Intelligence	Nominated
	European Film Awards	Screen International Award	Minority Report	Nominated
	Golden Globe	Best Director	A.I. Artificial Intelligence	Nominated
	Hollywood Film Festival	Hollywood Movie of the Year	Minority Report	Won
	Mainichi Film Concours	Best Foreign Language Film	A.I. Artificial Intelligence	Won
	Online Film Critics Society Awards	Best Screenplay	A.I. Artificial Intelligence	Nominated
	PGA Awards	Television Producer of the Year Award in Longform	Band of Brothers	Won
	ShoWest	Lifetime Achievement Award		Won
2003	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films	Best Director	Minority Report	Won
	Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards	Best Director	Catch Me If You Can Minority Report	Won
	César Awards	Best Foreign Film	Minority Report	Nominated
	Emmy Award	Outstanding Miniseries	Taken	Won
	Empire Awards	Best Director	Minority Report	Won
	Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists	Best Foreign Director	Minority Report	Nominated
	Online Film Critics Society Awards	Best Director	Minority Report	Nominated
	SFX Awards	Best SF or Fantasy Film Director	Minority Report	Nominated
	Walk of Fame	Motion Picture		Won
2004	David di Donatello Awards	Special David		Won
2004	Tokyo International Film Festival	Akira Kurosawa Award		Won
2005	American Film Institute	AFI Movie of the Year	Munich	Won
2005	Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards	Best Director	Munich	Won
2006	American Film Institute	AFI Movie of the Year	Letters from Iwo Jima	Won
	Academy Award	Best Achievement in Directing	Munich	Nominated
	Academy Award	Best Motion Picture of the Year	Munich	Nominated
	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films	Best Director	War of the Worlds	Nominated
	Art Directors Guild	Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award		Won
	Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards	Best Director	Munich	Nominated
	Chicago Film Critics Association Awards	Best Director	Munich	Nominated
	Chicago International Film Festival	Lifetime Achievement Award		Won
	Directors Guild of America	Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures	Munich	Nominated
	Emmy Award	Outstanding Miniseries	Into the West	Nominated
	Empire Awards	Best Director	War of the Worlds	Nominated
	Golden Eagle Awards	Best Foreign Film	Munich	Nominated
	Golden Globe	Best Director	Munich	Nominated
	International Emmy Awards	Founders Award		Won
	Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards	Best Director	Munich	Won
	Online Film Critics Society Awards	Best Director	Munich	Nominated
	PGA Awards	Television Producer of the Year Award in Longform	Into the West	Nominated
	Western Heritage Awards	Outstanding Television Feature Film	Into the West	Won
2007	Academy Award	Best Motion Picture of the Year	Letters from Iwo Jima	Nominated
2008	Golden Globe	Cecil B. DeMille Award		Won
2008	Visual Effects Society Awards	Lifetime Achievement Award		Won
2009	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films	Best Director	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	Nominated
2009	BAFTA Award	Best Casual Game	Boom Blox	Won
2010	Emmy Award	Outstanding Miniseries	The Pacific	Won
2010	Motion Picture Sound Editors	Film Maker's Award		Won
2011	American Film Institute	AFI Movie of the Year	War Horse	Won
	PGA Award	Television Producer of the Year Award in Longform	The Pacific	Won
	Satellite Awards	Best Director	War Horse	Nominated
	Western Heritage Awards	Outstanding Theatrical Motion Picture	True Grit	Won
2012	Academy Award	Best Motion Picture of the Year	War Horse	Nominated
	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films	Best Director	The Adventures of Tintin	Nominated
	BAFTA Award	Best Animated Film	The Adventures of Tintin	Nominated
	Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards	Best Director	War Horse	Nominated
	Empire Awards	Best Director	War Horse	Nominated
	PGA Awards	Lifetime Achievement Award in Motion Pictures		Won
		Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures	The Adventures of Tintin	Won
		Theatrical Motion Picture	War Horse	Nominated
	Golden Globe	Best Animated Feature Film	The Adventures of Tintin	Won
	Robert Festival	Best American Film	The Adventures of Tintin	Nominated

Steven Spielberg Biography (1947?-)

Born December 18, 1947 (some sources cite 1946), in Cincinnati, OH; raised inNew Jersey, Arizona, and California; son of Arnold Spielberg (a computer engineer) and Leah Adler (a concert pianist and restaurateur; maiden name, Posner); brother of Anne Spielberg (a writer and producer); married Amy Irving (anactress), November 27, 1985 (divorced, 1989); married Kate Capshaw (an actress), October 12, 1991; children: (first marriage) Max Samuel; (second marriage) Jessica, Theo, Sasha, Sawyer, Mikaela George, Destry Allyn.

Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupation: Director, producer, cinematographer, screenwriter, editor, actor, creative consultant
Birth Details: December 18, 1947?; Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Appearances
Voice on the radio, Jaws, Universal, 1975
Cook County clerk, The Blues Brothers, Universal, 1980
Himself, The Making of Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981
Himself, Chambre 666, 1982
Himself in archival footage, Coming Soon, 1982
Man in electric wheelchair, Gremlins, Warner Bros., 1984
Tourist at airport, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Paramount, 1984
Himself, Citizen Steve, 1987
Presenter of the 1989 reconstructed and restored version (original version released in 1962), Lawrence of Arabia, 1989
Himself, Listen Up (also known as Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones), Warner Bros., 1990
Himself, Making Close Encounters, 1990
Himself, The Magical World of Chuck Jones, Warner Bros., 1992
Himself, The Making of Jurassic Park, 1995
Himself, The Making of Steven Spielberg's Jaws, 1995
Himself, Your Studio and You, 1995
Himself, The Making of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, 1996
Himself, The Making of 1941, 1996
Popcorn-eating man, The Lost World: Jurassic Park (also known as Jurassic Park 2, Lost World, and The Lost World), DreamWorks SKG, 1997
Himself, The Making of Lost World, 1997
Himself ("Liberian Girl" video), Michael Jackson: History on Film--Volume II, 1997
Himself (as the director and producer), Into the Breach: Saving Private Ryan, 1998
Himself, The Making of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1998
Himself, Forever Hollywood (documentary), Esplanade Productions, 1999
Himself, Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures, Warner Bros., 2001
Film Work
Director
(And editor) The Last Gun, 1959
(And editor) Battle Squad, 1961
(And cinematographer and editor) Escape to Nowhere, 1962
(And cinematographer, editor, and creator of visual effects) Firelight, 1965
(Unfinished) Slipstream, 1967
Amblin' (short film), 1969
The Sugarland Express, Universal, 1974
Jaws, Universal, 1975
(And creator of special visual effects concept) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (also known as Watch the Skies), Columbia, 1977, special edition released in 1980
1941, Universal, 1979
Raiders of the Lost Ark (also known as Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark), Paramount, 1981
Duel (expanded theatrical version of the television movie), Universal, 1982
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (also known as A Boy's Life andE.T.), Universal, 1982
(And editor) Poltergeist, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1982
"Kick the Can," Twilight Zone--The Movie, Warner Bros., 1983
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Paramount, 1984
The Color Purple, Warner Bros., 1985
Empire of the Sun, Warner Bros., 1987
Always, Universal, 1989
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Paramount, 1989
(With Douglas Day Stewart) The Visionary, [Germany], 1990
Hook, TriStar, 1991
Jurassic Park (also known as JP), Universal, 1993
Schindler's List (also known as Schindler's Ark), Universal, 1993
Amistad, DreamWorks SKG, 1997
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (also known as Jurassic Park 2, Lost World, and The Lost World), DreamWorks SKG, 1997
Saving Private Ryan, DreamWorks SKG, 1998
(And editor) The Unfinished Journey, 1999
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (also known as Artificial Intelligence: AI), Warner Bros., 2001
Catch Me If You Can, DreamWorks SKG, 2002
Minority Report, DreamWorks SKG, 2002
Executive Producer
I Wanna Hold Your Hand, Universal, 1978
(With John Milius) Used Cars, Columbia, 1980
(With Bernie Brillstein and Jack Rosenthal) Continental Divide, Universal, 1981
(With Frank Marshall) Twilight Zone--The Movie, Warner Bros., 1983
(With Kathleen Kennedy and Marshall) Gremlins, Warner Bros., 1984
(With Kennedy and Marshall) Back to the Future, Universal, 1985
(With Kennedy and Marshall; and editor and second unit director) The Goonies, Warner Bros., 1985
(With Kennedy and Marshall) Young Sherlock Holmes (also known as Pyramid of Fear), Paramount, 1985
(With Kennedy, David Kirschner, and Marshall) An American Tail (animated), Universal, 1986
(With David Glier and Kennedy) The Money Pit, Universal, 1986
(With Kennedy and Marshall) *batteries not included, Universal, 1987
(With Peter Guber and Jon Peters) Innerspace, Warner Bros., 1987
(With George Lucas) The Land before Time (animated; also known asThe Land before Time Began), Universal, 1988
(With Kennedy) Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Buena Vista, 1988
(With Kennedy and Marshall) Back to the Future II, Universal, 1989
(With Kennedy and Marshall) Dad, Universal, 1989
(With Marshall; and second unit director) Arachnophobia, Buena Vista, 1990
(With Kennedy and Marshall) Back to the Future III, Universal, 1990
(With Kennedy and Marshall) Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Warner Bros., 1990
(With Kennedy and Marshall) Joe versus the Volcano, Warner Bros.,1990
(International version) Yume (also known as Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, Dreams, I Saw a Dream Like This, Such Dreams I Have Dreamed, and Konna yume wo mita), 1990
(With Kennedy and Marshall) We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (animated), Universal, 1993
(As Steven Spielrock) The Flintstones, Universal, 1994
Yakko's World: An Animaniacs Singalong (animated), 1994
(With Kennedy and Bonnie Radford) Balto (animated; also known as Snowballs), Universal, 1995
(With Gerald R. Molen and Jeffrey A. Montgomery) Casper (animated;also known as Casper, the Friendly Ghost), Universal, 1995
(With Molen, Laurie MacDonald, and Walter Parkes) Twister, WarnerBros., 1996
Amistad, DreamWorks SKG, 1997
Men in Black (also known as MiB), Sony Pictures Entertainment, 1997
(With Joan Bradshaw) Deep Impact, Paramount, 1998
The Last Days (documentary), October Films, 1998
(And second unit director) The Haunting (also known as La maldicion), DreamWorks SKG, 1999
A Holocaust szemei (also known as Eyes of the Holocaust), Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, 2000
Evolution, DreamWorks SKG, 2001
Jurassic Park III (also known as JP3), Universal, 2001
Shrek (animated), DreamWorks SKG, 2001
Men in Black 2 (also known as MiB 2), Sony Pictures Entertainment, 2002
Executive Producer; Animated Short Films
Tummy Trouble, Buena Vista, 1989
Rollercoaster Rabbit, Buena Vista, 1990
(With Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall) Trail Mix-Up, Buena Vista, 1993
I'm Mad, Warner Bros., 1994
Producer
(With Kathleen Kennedy) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (also known asA Boy's Life and E.T.), Universal, 1982
(With Frank Marshall) Poltergeist, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1982
(With John Landis) Twilight Zone--The Movie, Warner Bros., 1983
(With Peter Guber, Jon Peters, Quincy Jones, Kennedy, and Marshall) The Color Purple, Warner Bros., 1985
(With Kennedy and Marshall) Empire of the Sun, Warner Bros., 1987
(With Kennedy and Marshall) Always, Universal, 1989
Joe versus the Volcano, Warner Bros., 1990
(With Robert Watts) An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (animated),Universal, 1991
(With Branko Lustig and Gerald R. Molen) Schindler's List (also known as Schindler's Ark), Universal, 1993
Saving Private Ryan, DreamWorks SKG, 1998
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (also known as Artificial Intelligence: AI), Warner Bros., 2001
Catch Me If You Can, DreamWorks SKG, 2002
Assistant to the Director
Fandango, Warner Bros., 1985
Return to Oz (also known as The Adventures of the Devil from the Sky and Oz), Buena Vista, 1985
Other
Production assistant, Faces, Continental Distributing, 1968
Supervising editor, Taxi Driver, 1976
Television Work
Executive Producer; Series
(And creator) Amazing Stories (also known as Steven Spielberg'sAmazing Stories), NBC, 1985-1987
(With David J. Burke and Patrick Hasburg) seaQuest DSV (also knownas seaQuest 2032), NBC, 1993-1995
ER (also known as Emergency Room), NBC, beginning in 1994
(Producer) Earth 2, NBC, 1994-1995
(And creator with others) High Incident, ABC, beginning in 1995
Executive Producer; Animated Series
Tiny Toon Adventures (also known as Steven Spielberg Presents ... Tiny Toon Adventures, Tiny Toons, and Tiny Tunes), syndicated, 1990-1992, Fox, beginning in 1992
The Plucky Duck Show, Fox, 1992
Animaniacs (also known as Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs), Fox, 1992-1995 then the WB, 1995-2000
(And creator with Tim Burton) Family Dog, CBS, 1993
Steven Spielberg Presents Freakazoid! (animated; also known as Freakazoid!), The WB, beginning in 1995
Steven Spielberg Presents Pinky and the Brain (animated; also known as Pinky and the Brain), The WB, beginning in 1995
Steven Spielberg Presents Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain (also known as Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain), The WB, 1998-1999
Toonsylvania (also known as Steven Spielberg Presents Toonsylvania), Fox, 1998-1999
Director of Introduction and Conclusion; Series
Strokes of Genius, PBS, 1984
Executive Producer; Miniseries
Band of Brothers, HBO, 2001
Taken, Sci-Fi Channel, 2002
Executive Producer; Movies
(Producer) The Habitation of Dragons, 1992
(With Michael Brandman) The Water Engine, 1992
Class of '61, ABC, 1993
(And editor) Shooting War, 2000
Director; Movies
Duel, ABC, 1971
"Something Evil," CBS Friday Night Movie, CBS, 1972
Executive Producer and Producer; Specials
Survivors of the Holocaust (also known as Survivors of the Shoah), TBS, 1996
Executive Producer; Animated Specials
(With Berkeley Breathed, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, and Paul B. Stickland) A Wish for Wings That Work, 1991
It's a Wonderful Tiny Toons Christmas Special, Fox, 1992
Steven Spielberg Presents Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation (also known as How I Spent My Vacation and Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation), Fox, 1993
Steven Spielberg Presents Tiny Toon Adventures: Spring Break Special, Fox, 1993
Steven Spielberg Presents A Pinky & the Brain Christmas Special (also known as A Pinky & the Brain Christmas Special), USA Network, 1995
(And producer) Steven Spielberg Presents Tiny Toons' Night Ghoulery (also known as Tiny Toon Adventures: Night Ghoulery), Fox, 1995
Director; Episodic
"L.A. 2017," The Name of the Game, NBC, 1968
"The Daredevil Gesture" (also known as "Daredevil Gesture"), Marcus Welby, M.D., ABC, 1969
"Make Me Laugh," Night Gallery (also known as Rod Serling's Night Gallery), NBC, 1970
"Eulogy for a Wide Receiver," Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law, ABC, 1971
"Murder by the Book," Columbo, NBC, 1971
"Par for the Course," The Psychiatrist, NBC, 1971
"The Private World of Martin Dalton," The Psychiatrist, NBC, 1971
Night Gallery, NBC, various episodes from 1971 to 1973
Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law, ABC, various episodes from 1971 to 1974
"Ghost Train," Amazing Stories (also known as Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories), NBC, 1985
"The Mission," Amazing Stories (also known as Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories), NBC, 1985
Also the assistant editor of episodes of Wagon Train (also known as Major Adams, Trail Master), NBC and ABC.
Director; Pilots
"Eyes," Night Gallery, NBC, 1969
(And editor) Savage (also known as Watch Dog), NBC, 1973
Executive Producer; Pilots
Tiny Toon Adventures: The Looney Beginning, CBS, 1990
seaQuest DSV (also known as seaQuest 2032), NBC, 1993
Semper Fi, NBC, 2001
Television Appearances
Movies
"Something Evil," CBS Friday Night Movie, CBS, 1972
Specials
The Making of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1977
Himself, Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981
Himself, The Making of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, 1984
Himself, A China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun: A Film by Steven Spielberg (documentary), CBS, 1987
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitution Vaudeville, ABC, 1987
Himself, Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toontown, 1988
Premiere: Inside the Summer Blockbusters, Fox, 1989
Himself, The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson, CBS, 1990
Martin Scorsese Directs (documentary), PBS, 1990
Siskel & Ebert: The Future of the Movies with Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Martin Scorsese (also known as Siskel & Ebert: TheFuture of Movies), syndicated, 1990
Host, Shattered Lullabies, 1992
Host, Here's Looking at You, Warner Bros., TNT, 1993
"George Lucas: Heroes, Myths, and Magic," American Masters, PBS, 1993
Rolling Stone '93: The Year in Review, Fox, 1993
Barbara Walters Presents The Ten Most Fascinating People of 1994,ABC, 1994
Himself, Hollywood Stars: A Century of Cinema, The Disney Channel,1995
Himself, The Siskel and Ebert Interviews, CBS, 1996
Himself, Survivors of the Holocaust (also known as Survivors ofthe Shoah), TBS, 1996
The Universal Story, Encore and Starz!, 1996
Himself, AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies, CBS, 1998
Himself, AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies: In Search of, CBS, 1998
Himself, From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic, 1999
Himself, People Profiles: Steven Spielberg, 1999
Himself, Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens, a Life in Animation, PBS, 2000
Himself, AFI's 100 Years, 100 Thrills: America's Most Heart-Pounding Movies, 2001
Awards Presentations
The 59th Annual Academy Awards, ABC, 1987
The 18th Annual American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award: ASalute to Sir David Lean, ABC, 1990
The 62nd Annual Academy Awards Presentation, ABC, 1990
The Movie Awards, CBS, 1991
Presenter, The 64th Annual Academy Awards Presentation, ABC, 1992
The 20th Annual People's Choice Awards, 1994
Presenter, The 67th Annual Academy Awards, ABC, 1995
Himself, The American Film Institute Salute to Steven Spielberg (also known as The 23rd Annual American Film Institute Life Achievement Award: A Salute to Steven Spielberg), NBC, 1995
Presenter, The 68th Annual Academy Awards, ABC, 1996
Himself, A Salute to Clint Eastwood (also known as The 24th Annual American Film Institute Life Achievement Award: A Salute to Clint Eastwood), ABC, 1996
Honoree, 31st NAACP Image Awards, 2000
Episodic
"The Gate," The Tracey Ullman Show, Fox, 1989
"The Real Jurassic Park," Nova, PBS, 1993
Himself, American Cinema, PBS, 1995
"Blacks and Jews," P.O.V., PBS, 1997
Himself, Inside the Directors Studio, Bravo, 1999
The Directors, Encore, 1999
Appeared in episodes of other series, including Evening at Pops, PBS; and Fame, NBC and syndicated.
Episodic; Animated Series
Voice of himself, "Buster and Babs Go Hawaiian," Tiny Toon Adventures (also known as Steven Spielberg Presents ... Tiny Toon Adventures,Tiny Toons, and Tiny Tunes), syndicated, 1991
Voice, Animaniacs (also known as Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs), Fox, 1993
RECORDINGS
Music Videos
Director of the music video "Liberian Girl," by Michael Jackson. Appearedin the music video "Goonies R Good Enough," by Cyndi Lauper.
Video Games
Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair, 1999
Also director of Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair.
WRITINGS
Screenplays
Battle Squad, 1961
(As Steve Spielberg) Escape to Nowhere, 1962
(As Steve Spielberg) Firelight, 1965
Amblin' (short film), 1969
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (also known as Watch the Skies), Columbia, 1977, special edition released in 1980
(With Michael Grais and Mark Victor) Poltergeist, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1982
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (also known as Artificial Intelligence: AI), Warner Bros., 2001
Stories for Films
Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1973
(With Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins) The Sugarland Express, Universal, 1974
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (also known as Watch the Skies), Columbia, 1977, special edition released in 1980
Poltergeist, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1982
The Goonies, Warner Bros., 1985
Film Music
Firelight, 1965
Teleplays
Episodic
"Vanessa in the Garden," Amazing Stories (also known as StevenSpielberg's Amazing Stories), NBC, 1985
Wrote stories for several episodes of the animated series Animaniacs (also known as Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs), Fox and The WB.
Video Games
The Dig, 1995
Medal of Honor, DreamWorks SKG/Electronic Arts, 1999
Other Writings
(With Patrick Mann) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (novel based on the film of the same name), Delacorte (New York City), 1977
(Author of introduction) Letters to E.T., Putnam (New York City),1983
(With Roger Ebert, Gene Siskel, Martin Scorsese, and George Lucas) TheFuture of the Movies: Interviews with Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, andGeorge Lucas, Andrews and McMeel (Kansas City, MO), 1991
Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs (sound recording), Kid Rhino,1993
(With Mariana Cook and others) Mothers and Sons: In Their Own Words (pictorial essay), 1996