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    • One of the most influential personalities in the history of cinema, Steven Spielberg is Hollywood's best known\ndirector and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. He has an extraordinary number of commercially successful and critically acclaimed credits to his name, either as a director, producer or writer since launching the summer blockbuster with Jaws (1975), and he has done more to define popular film-making since the mid-1970s than anyone else.

      Steven Allan Spielberg was born in 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Leah Frances (Posner), a concert pianist and restaurateur, and Arnold Spielberg, an electrical engineer who worked in computer development. His parents were both born to Russian Jewish immigrant families. Steven spent his younger years in Haddon Township, New Jersey, Phoenix, Arizona, and later Saratoga, California. He went to California State University Long Beach, but dropped\nout to pursue his entertainment career.\nAmong his\nearly directing efforts were Battle Squad (1961), which combined World\nWar II footage with footage of an airplane on the ground that he makes\nyou believe is moving. He also directed\nEscape to Nowhere (1961), which\nfeatured children as World War Two soldiers, including his sister\nAnne Spielberg, and\nThe Last Gun (1959), a western.\nAll of these were short films. The next couple of years, Spielberg\ndirected a couple of movies that would portend his future career in\nmovies. In 1964, he directed\nFirelight (1964), a movie about aliens\ninvading a small town. In 1967, he directed\nSlipstream (1967), which was\nunfinished. However, in 1968, he directed\nAmblin' (1968), which featured the desert\nprominently, and not the first of his movies in which the desert would\nfeature. Amblin' also became the name of his production\ncompany, which turned out such classics as\nE.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982).\nSpielberg had a unique and classic early directing project,\nDuel (1971), with\nDennis Weaver. In the early 1970s,\nSpielberg was working on TV, directing among others such series as\nRod Serling's\nNight Gallery (1969),\nMarcus Welby, M.D. (1969)\nand\nMurder by the Book (1971).\nAll of his work in television and short films, as well as his directing\nprojects, were just a hint of the wellspring of talent that would\ndazzle audiences all over the world.

      Spielberg's first major directorial effort was\nThe Sugarland Express (1974),\nwith Goldie Hawn, a film that marked him as\na rising star. It was his next effort, however, that made him an\ninternational superstar among directors:\nJaws (1975). This classic shark attack tale\nstarted the tradition of the summer blockbuster or, at least, he was\ncredited with starting the tradition. His next film was the classic\nClose Encounters of the Third Kind (1977),\na unique and original UFO story that remains a classic. In 1978,\nSpielberg produced his first film, the forgettable\nI Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978),\nand followed that effort with\nUsed Cars (1980), a critically\nacclaimed, but mostly forgotten,\nKurt Russell/Jack Warden\ncomedy about devious used-car dealers. Spielberg hit gold yet one more\ntime with\nRaiders of the Lost Ark (1981),\nwith Harrison Ford taking the part\nof Indiana Jones. Spielberg produced and directed two films in 1982.\nThe first was Poltergeist (1982), but\nthe highest-grossing movie of all time up to that point was the alien\nstory\nE.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982).\nSpielberg also helped pioneer the practice of product placement. The\nconcept, while not uncommon, was still relatively low-key when\nSpielberg raised the practice to almost an art form with his famous (or\ninfamous) placement of Reese's Pieces in "E.T." Spielberg was also one\nof the pioneers of the big-grossing special-effects movies, like "E.T."\nand "Close Encounters", where a very strong emphasis on special effects\nwas placed for the first time on such a huge scale. In 1984, Spielberg\nfollowed up "Raiders" with\nIndiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984),\nwhich was a commercial success but did not receive the critical acclaim\nof its predecessor. As a producer, Spielberg took on many projects in\nthe 1980s, such as\nThe Goonies (1985), and was the\nbrains behind the little monsters in\nGremlins (1984). He also produced the\ncartoon\nAn American Tail (1986), a\nquaint little animated classic. His biggest effort as producer in 1985,\nhowever, was the blockbuster\nBack to the Future (1985),\nwhich made Michael J. Fox an\ninstant superstar. As director, Spielberg took on the book\nThe Color Purple (1985), with\nWhoopi Goldberg and\nOprah Winfrey, with great success. In the\nlatter half of the 1980s, he also directed\nEmpire of the Sun (1987), a\nmixed success for the occasionally erratic Spielberg. Success would not\nescape him for long, though.

      The late 1980s found Spielberg's projects at the center of pop-culture\nyet again. In 1988, he produced the landmark animation/live-action film\nWho Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).\nThe next year proved to be another big one for Spielberg, as he\nproduced and directed Always (1989) as\nwell as\nIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989),\nand\nBack to the Future Part II (1989).\nAll three of the films were box-office and critical successes. Also, in\n1989, he produced the little known comedy-drama\nDad (1989), with\nJack Lemmon and\nTed Danson, which got mostly mixed results.\nSpielberg has also had an affinity for animation and has been a strong\nvoice in animation in the 1990s. Aside from producing the landmark "Who\nFramed Roger Rabbit", he produced the animated series\nTiny Toon Adventures (1990),\nAnimaniacs (1993),\nPinky and the Brain (1995),\nFreakazoid! (1995),\nPinky, Elmyra & the Brain (1998),\nFamily Dog (1993) and\nToonsylvania (1998). Spielberg\nalso produced other cartoons such as\nThe Land Before Time (1988),\nWe're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993),\nCasper (1995) (the live action version) as\nwell as the live-action version of\nThe Flintstones (1994), where\nhe was credited as "Steven Spielrock". Spielberg also produced many\nRoger Rabbit short cartoons, and many Pinky and the Brain, Animaniacs\nand Tiny Toons specials. Spielberg was very active in the early 1990s,\nas he directed Hook (1991) and produced such\nfilms as the cute fantasy\nJoe Versus the Volcano (1990)\nand\nAn American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991).\nHe also produced the unusual comedy thriller\nArachnophobia (1990),\nBack to the Future Part III (1990)\nand\nGremlins 2: The New Batch (1990).\nWhile these movies were big successes in their own right, they did not\nquite bring in the kind of box office or critical acclaim as previous\nefforts. In 1993, Spielberg directed\nJurassic Park (1993), which for a\nshort time held the record as the highest grossing movie of all time,\nbut did not have the universal appeal of his previous efforts. Big\nbox-office spectacles were not his only concern, though. He produced\nand directed\nSchindler's List (1993), a\nstirring film about the Holocaust. He won best director at the Oscars,\nand also got Best Picture. In the mid-90s, he helped found the\nproduction company DreamWorks, which was responsible for many\nbox-office successes.

      As a producer, he was very active in the late 90s, responsible for such\nfilms as\nThe Mask of Zorro (1998),\nMen in Black (1997) and\nDeep Impact (1998). However, it was\non the directing front that Spielberg was in top form. He directed and\nproduced the epic Amistad (1997), a\nspectacular film that was shorted at the Oscars and in release due to\nthe fact that its release date was moved around so much in late 1997.\nThe next year, however, produced what many believe was one of the best\nfilms of his career:\nSaving Private Ryan (1998), a\nfilm about World War Two that is spectacular in almost every respect.\nIt was stiffed at the Oscars, losing best picture to\nShakespeare in Love (1998).

      Spielberg produced a series of films, including\nEvolution (2001),\nThe Haunting (1999) and\nShrek (2001). he also produced two sequels\nto Jurassic Park (1993), which were\nfinancially but not particularly critical successes. In 2001, he\nproduced a mini-series about World War Two that definitely *was* a\nfinancial and critical success:\nBand of Brothers (2001), a\ntale of an infantry company from its parachuting into France during the\ninvasion to the Battle of the Bulge. Also in that year, Spielberg was\nback in the director's chair for\nA.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001),\na movie with a message and a huge budget. It did reasonably at the box\noffice and garnered varied reviews from critics.

      Spielberg has been extremely active in films there are many other\nthings he has done as well. He produced the short-lived TV series\nSeaQuest 2032 (1993), an\nanthology series entitled\nAmazing Stories (1985),\ncreated the video-game series "Medal of Honor" set during World War\nTwo, and was a starting producer of\nER (1994). Spielberg, if you haven't\nnoticed, has a great interest in World War Two. He and\nTom Hanks collaborated on\nShooting War: World War II Combat Cameramen (2000), a\ndocumentary about World War II combat photographers, and he produced a\ndocumentary about the Holocaust called\nEyes of the Holocaust (2000).\nWith all of this to Spielberg's credit, it's no wonder that he's looked\nat as one of the greatest ever figures in entertainment.
      - IMDb Mini Biography By: Scott msa0510@mail.ecu.edu

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  • He once screened Lawrence of Arabia (1962) with director David Lean, who gave Spielberg a "live\ndirector's commentary", as Spielberg put it. Spielberg said that it was\none of the best moments of his life, learning from a true master.\nConsequently, Spielberg stated that it helped him make better pictures\nand that commentary directly influenced every movie he has made since.
  • During filming of their episode of Night Gallery (1969), Spielberg gave Joan Crawford the gift of a single red rose in a Pepsi bottle. During an on-set conversation with Detroit Free Press reporter Shirley Eder, Crawford pointed out Spielberg and said, "Go interview that kid, because he's going to be the biggest director of all time!" Crawford and Spielberg\nremained good friends until her death in 1977.
  • When Spielberg received his undergraduate degree (about 35 years after\nhe had first entered college), the orchestra played the theme from the\n"Indiana Jones" series of films as he walked up to and across the\nstage.
  • He is a fan of video games and says that their development is intriguing to him.
  • His favourite directors are David Lean, Preston Sturges, Frank Capra, Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford.

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  • I think that the Internet is going to effect the most profound change\non the entertainment industries combined. And we're all gonna be tuning\ninto the most popular Internet show in the world, which will be coming\nfrom some place in Des Moines. We're all gonna lose our jobs. We're all\ngonna be on the Internet trying to find an audience.
  • Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to and I see another\nmovie I want to make.
  • [on winning the Best Director Oscar for Saving Private Ryan (1998)]: Am I allowed to say I\nreally wanted this?
  • Before I go off and direct a movie I always look at 4 films. They tend to be: Seven Samurai (1954), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and The Searchers (1956).
  • [on friend Joan Crawford]: She is five feet four, but she looks six feet on\nthe screen. In a two-shot with anyone, even Gable, (Clark Gable), your eyes\nfix on her. She is imperious, yet with a childlike sparkle. She is\nhaughty, yet tender. She has no great range as an actress, yet within\nthe range she can perform better than any of her contemporaries.

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Steven Spielberg wrote and directed Amblin\u2019, his first short film on 35mm, while still a college student. The film caught the eye of Universal Vice President Sidney Sheinberg, who would offer Spielberg a seven-year-contract with Universal Television. Spielberg likes to joke that he quit college so fast upon Sheinberg\u2019s offer, he didn\u2019t bother to clean out his locker.\u2020

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During his tenure as a Universal Television director, Spielberg helmed 11 projects of varying lengths, from the standard 30-minute episodic television fare (Rod Serling\u2019s Night Gallery\u2014Eyes and Make Me Laugh), Marcus Welby, M.D. (The Daredevil Gesture), The Psychiatrist (The Private World of Martin Dalton and Par for the Course), and Owen Marshall Counselor at Law (Eulogy for a Wide Receiver)\u2014to near-feature length television tales including work for Columbo (Murder by the Book) and The Name of the Game (LA 2017)\u2014to a trio of made-for-television movies including his breakthrough Duel, followed by Something Evil and Savage.

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The 1971 telefilm Duel was released in theaters in international markets in 1972 and 1973, leading Spielberg out of television and into feature film direction.

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Universal releases The Sugarland Express, Spielberg\u2019s first feature film shot specifically for theatrical exhibition, in the Spring of 1974. Concerning the attempts of a young couple of two-bit criminals to get their baby back from foster care, Sugarland is a drama (with plenty moments of levity still) that exemplifies Spielberg\u2019s innate and deft handling of performance, visuals and the complicated mechanics of production while still in his 20s. The film was produced by Richard Zanuck and David Brown and stars Academy Award-winner Goldie Hawn, William Atherton, Michael Sacks, and Ben Johnson. Writing about the film for The New Yorker, critic Pauline Kael proclaimed, \u201cSteven Spielberg could be that rarity among directors, a born entertainer\u2014perhaps a new generation's Howard Hawks. In terms of the pleasure that technical assurance gives an audience, [The Sugarland Express] is one of the most phenomenal debut films in the history of movies.\u201d\n\u00a0Spielberg\u2019s next feature would change everything.

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Working once again with producers Zanuck and Brown, Spielberg directs one of the most grueling location shoots in all of cinema history, but lands the big fish and brings back the motion picture Jaws. Based on the best-selling book from author Peter Benchley, the movie burst into theaters on June 20, 1975, and helped redefine what the term \u201cblockbuster\u201d meant as audiences lined up to see the thrilling adventure again and again. The \u201cSummer of the Shark\u201d (as Time magazine dubbed the must-see event movie) rocketed Jaws to breaking the $100 million mark in box-office receipts, making it the most successful movie to date. (It would go on to earn $471 million worldwide.) The movie also garners four Academy Award nominations including one for Best Picture, earning Oscars for Best Sound, Best Film Editing, and Best Music for John Williams\u2019 instantly legendary score.

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In what was then a largely unprecedented event, Close Encounters of the Third Kind was re-released in movie theaters on August 1, 1980 as The Special Edition. The new version of the movie included a recut by Spielberg and Michael Kahn, excising select scenes from the original 1977 edit, trimming or expanding moments, and also adding new scenes and sequences including a finale in which audiences follow Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) inside the Mothership. Spielberg further revised the movie in 1998 for a Collectors Edition, feeling the original 1977 was too rushed in post to make it to the November release date, and not being pleased with revealing the inside of the Mothership in this Special Edition edit.

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Working for the first time with his close friend George Lucas, whose own star had likewise exploded in film with American Graffiti and Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark saw Spielberg and George looking back to the movies\u2019 past in their loving homage to adventure serials of the 1930-1940s. From Lucas\u2019s initial concept and in collaboration with screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan (Continental Divide), Spielberg would direct the now legendary movie that brought the name \u201cIndiana Jones\u201d into the zeitgeist, and further cemented Star Wars star Harrison Ford as the era\u2019s greatest screen hero when it was released on June 12, 1981. Raiders of the Lost Ark would go on to spawn three further big-screen adventures from 1984-2008, plus the TV series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992-1993). A fifth Indiana Jones movie has been announced and is currently in development at this time.

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Dubbed \u201cThe Summer of Spielberg\u201d by Time magazine, June of 1982 saw the one-two punch of the fantasies Poltergeist and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial open in theaters a mere week apart. Released on June 4, 1982, Poltergeist\u2014conceived, co-written and produced by Spielberg, along with producer Frank Marshall\u2014took the classic ghost story from Victorian mansions and into the suburbs as poltergeist manifestations haunt the hapless Freeling family.\nAnd while Poltergeist represented the dark side of Spielberg\u2019s imagination, he\u2019s said that E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial represented the light side of his dreams. E.T., released on June 11, 1982, tells the tender tale of a lonely young boy, Elliott, a child of divorce who finds friendship and connection with the most unlikely of beings\u2014a lost extra-terrestrial abandoned on Earth. While Poltergeist gave audiences chills, special and visual effect thrills, and gruesomely fun gory grossouts, the gentle heart of E.T. struck a truly deep chord with audiences around the globe, making it the most financially successful movie in all of cinema history, with Spielberg eclipsing his own records with Raiders of the Lost Ark, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Jaws in box office returns.\nPoltergeist was nominated for three Oscars, and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial was nominated for nine including for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Writing, winning for Best Original Score (John Williams), Best Sound, Best Visual Effects, and Best Sound Effects Editing.

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On location, guiding his cast and crew through production on E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.
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E.T. & Me. The boy who dreamed of an extra-terrestrial friend grows up to direct the sweetest of them all in one of the most beloved films of all-time.
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A publicity image of the director and his little lost alien, unaware at the time to the heights to which their film would soar with audiences around the world.
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\u201cYou\u2019ve gotta save him!\u201d Spielberg (along with director of photography Allen Daviau) setting up a shot with actors playing NASA scientists in the make-shift medical lab at the end of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.
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1984

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Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Harrison Ford shot around the world\u2014in Sri Lanka, Macau, the UK and the US\u2014to bring Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom to audiences on May 23, 1984. The movie, a prequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark, was a great departure from the first picture, giving audiences a wholly original adventure that took Indy, new friends, allies and enemies, into the heart of darkness and the titular temple of an occult sect hellbent on obtaining power. Temple caused a bit of a stir with parents whose children found the movie too intense, and along with Amblin\u2019s Gremlins\u2020\u00a0that summer, led to Spielberg suggesting to the MPAA that a PG-13 rating might be instituted to differentiate movies for older children, but not quite PG- or R-rated fare.

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\u2020\u00a0Gremlins, which opened in theaters on June 8, 1984, directed by Joe Dante (Twilight Zone The Movie) and executive produced by Spielberg, marked the first Amblin Entertainment release to feature the production company\u2019s logo: that of Elliott and E.T. flying across the moon on their bicycle. The logo is still used on Amblin releases to this day.

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No one ever said filmmaking is for the fragile. Even the best of \u2018em take their lumps and come back fighting. Spielberg with Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom co-star Kate Capshaw.
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1985

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While Spielberg worked hard in the early 1970s to move from television to feature filmmaking, he returned to the small screen in 1985 to bring that Amblin magic to the home audience each and every week with Amazing Stories. The series, an anthology show that offered new short tales featuring top acting and directing talents, premiered on NBC on September 29, 1985, with a story conceived and directed by Spielberg himself, Ghost Train. A second story in the first season, the special hour-long The Mission was also conceived and written by Spielberg. Other notable filmmakers on Amazing Stories included Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, Joe Dante, Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Danny DeVito, Bob Balaban, Burt Reynolds, Brad Bird, and Tobe Hooper.

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Amazing Stories ran for two seasons from 1985-1987 (for 45 episodes). A revival of the show is currently in production by Amblin Television, to premiere on Apple\u2019s upcoming streaming service.

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Stepping far outside of his own self-confessed comfort zone as a filmmaker, Spielberg next tackled The Color Purple, an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice walker. The film was indeed a collaboration of the spirits as Walker, producer and composer Quincy Jones, and a powerful cast of actors including Danny Glover, Margaret Avery, Adolph Caesar and, in their feature film debuts, Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg came together with Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and their crew to create a now cherished story of the suffering and strength of African American women at the hands of abusive male relations and the larger society around them. The film opened in the States on December 22, 1985 and went on to receive 10 Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Best Actress in a Leading Role for Goldberg. Goldberg won a Golden Globe Award for her performance, while the film also received four other Globe nominations. Spielberg himself won the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures from the Directors Guild of America.

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Spielberg also conceived of the story for the beloved kids\u2019 adventure The Goonies, for a screenplay written by Chris Columbus (Gremlins) and directed by Richard Donner. The movie opened in theaters on June 7, 1985. The Goonies, along with that summer\u2019s Back to the Future (executive produced by Spielberg), which opened roughly a month later on July 3, helped further the Amblin Entertainment brand with what\u2019s now considered classic filmed entertainment in which both kids and adults could delight together.

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\"Sharing\n
Sharing laughs during a publicity shoot for Back to the Future, from L to R: co-writer/director Robert Zemeckis, actor Michael J. Fox, and executive producers Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall.
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Laughter leavens the weight of an emotionally difficult scene as Spielberg talks with his talented new star, Whoopi Goldberg.
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1987

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Continuing boldly along the new path laid by The Color Purple, Spielberg expanded his storytelling reach into purely dramatic fare with Empire of the Sun, based in part on author JG Ballard\u2019s own life experience as a boy growing up and imprisoned in a Japanese encampment in occupied Shanghai during WWII. The film marked the first time a western production company was granted permission to film within the city of Shanghai, and also introduced the world to a deeply talented and intuitive acting talent in that of 12-year-old Christian Bale. Bale was joined by a sterling cast of international thespians including John Malkovich, Joe Pantoliano, Miranda Richardson, Leslie Phillips and Marsat\u00f4 Ibu. The film was released in theaters on Christmas Day of 1987.\nWith Bale, Empire, ostensibly about the shocking death of childhood as a boy is forced into adulthood in the most harrowing of circumstances, continued to showcase Spielberg\u2019s extraordinary talent eliciting top-flight performances from young, often untested actors. Regarding Spielberg\u2019s own growth as a filmmaker, he has said that films including Empire of the Sun and The Color Purple led to his feeling he had the tools and insights within himself to direct and produce Schindler\u2019s List (1993) six years after Empire of the Sun.

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On location shooting Empire of the Sun, proudly wearing a crew hat for the film while he creates it.
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1989

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Audiences anticipating another Indy adventure following Temple of Doom\u00a0had to wait a grueling five years until the man with the hat returned for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, released on May 24, 1989. The movie further expanded upon and deepened audiences\u2019 understanding of the Indiana Jones character by introducing a young Indy\u2014played by River Phoenix\u2014and Indy\u2019s father Henry Jones, Sr., played by screen legend Sean Connery.

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Spielberg wanted to adapt the 1943 Victor Fleming movie, A Guy Named Joe, for decades, after first seeing it on television as a young boy. His adaptation, Always, is a fantasy love story about a rescue pilot who learns to let go of the love he left behind after an untimely death. The film was in development with Spielberg since 1980, finally flying into theaters on December 22, 1989. The movie stars the winning triumvirate of Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter and John Goodman, and features the final screen performance of cinema legend Audrey Hepburn as Hap, who is, naturally, an angel.

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Working out the ins-and-outs of a key action setpiece with his Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade stars Harrison Ford and Sean Connery.
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THE 1990s

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Spielberg on location sitting with the ailing triceratops, a truly astounding creation brought to screen life by the magicians at Stan Winston\u2019s studio. The poor girl should\u2019ve eaten from the craft services table, alas.
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1991

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Between the releases of Close Encounters of the Third Kind\u00a0and\u00a0E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, the press took to calling Spielberg a grown \u201cPeter Pan,\u201d that playful spirit who never truly grew up. But in 1991\u2019s Hook, the clever conceit for the movie posed the question, \u201cWhat if Peter Pan grew up?\u201d Starring Robin Williams as Peter Banning/Pan, Dustin Hoffman and Bob Hoskins\u00a0as a daffy and dastardly Captain Hook and his sidekick Smee, and Julia Roberts as Tinkerbell, December 11, 1991.

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1993

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Universal optioned Michael Crichton\u2019s 1990 sci-fi novel Jurassic Park as a property for Steven Spielberg and Amblin Entertainment to develop as a feature film. The sci-fi adventure, about an industrialist genetically engineering prehistoric creatures to populate an island theme park attraction, would prove not only to be a thrilling time at the movies, but a revolution in visual effects that would help lead cinema into the digital age of computer generated imagery with its photorealistic dinosaurs. Starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough,\u00a0Jurassic Park\u00a0was an instant box office sensation, dethroning Spielberg\u2019s own E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial as cinema\u2019s biggest money maker of all time.\nConsidered by many to be Steven Spielberg\u2019s masterpiece, Schindler\u2019s List, reignited remembrance and reflection on the events of the Shoah, the Holocaust of World War II. Based on the narrativized true-life novel by Thomas Keneally, the film, about a war profiteer industrialist in occupied Poland who winds up saving his Jewish workforce from the murderous\u00a0 Nazi machine, stars Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, and Ralph Fiennes. Along with inspiring an international dialogue on the Holocaust, the film also made critics sit up and take notice of a Spielberg they\u2019d never seen make a film quite like\u00a0Schindler\u2019s List\u2014both stylistically and with its intent. It was nominated for 12 Academy Awards, for which it won Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, and for the first time in his lauded career, a Best Director Oscar for Steven Spielberg. Most important to Spielberg, his experiences shooting the film and meeting with Holocaust survivors inspired him to create the Survivors of the Shoah Foundation, an audio-visual archive which houses over 55,000 recorded testimonials of victims of genocide that gives voice to survivors in the hopes we may never again forget.

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The director sits at the feet of what appears to be a 20-foot turkey, the T. rex that would terrify audiences around the globe in the Summer of 1993.
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Framing a shot on the face of conscience in Schindler\u2019s List, Ben Kingsley as Itzhak Stern.
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Riding the rig on set for Jurassic Park.
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Posing with his trio of actors at the heart of the struggle in Schindler\u2019s List, (L to R) Ralph Fiennes, Sir Ben Kingsley, Spielberg and Liam Neeson. Spielberg holds a bound edition of the screenplay in hand.
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1994

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After two decades of working for the majority of the film studios in the industry, and over a decade after forming his own production company, Amblin Entertainment, Steven Spielberg joins together with moguls Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen to found DreamWorks SKG, the first full-fledged movie studio to be founded since the Golden Age of Hollywood. The studio quickly found success with its broad roster of films\u2014both live action under the DreamWorks Pictures label and animation under the DreamWorks Animation label. Between 1999 and 2001, DreamWorks films earned three consecutive Academy Awards for Best Picture for American Beauty, Gladiator, and A Beautiful Mind. DreamWorks Animation was spun off as a publicly traded animation company and DreamWorks Pictures has been incorporated as a label under Amblin Partners for our feature films made for more mature audiences.

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Partners in the Dream: Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen, in a posed photo at the Hollywood Canteen, shot for Vanity Fair\u2019s April 1995 issue.
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Spielberg sits next to the storyboard for the opening sequence in The Lost World Jurassic Park, his 1997 sequel to the monster hit Jurassic Park.
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1997

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It had been four years since Steven Spielberg directed a feature after Schindler\u2019s List, and while he certainly wasn\u2019t resting on his laurels, what with founding the Shoah Foundation and a new film studio, yet it was Universal\u2019s wish that Spielberg produce a sequel to the most successful movie of all time\u2014Jurassic Park\u2014which would get him back in the director\u2019s chair. The Lost World Jurassic Park extended the mythology of Michael Crichton\u2019s original story by sending Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) to a mysterious second island on a rescue mission to save his girlfriend Sarah (Julianne Moore) from more of John Hammond\u2019s genetic creations, dinosaurs on the loose following the site\u2019s destruction by a hurricane.\nAmistad, based on an episode in American history not well-known before the film\u2019s release, that of the legal battle in American courts over African captives that rose up against their Spanish captors that intended to sell them into slavery. When the ship arrives off the coast of Long Island, the Africans are caught in a legal battle between Spain and multiple factions in the United States including President Martin Van Buren and John Quincy Adams. Starring Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, Pete Postlethwaite, Matthew McConaughey, and newcomer Djimon Honsou, Amistad, much like Schindler\u2019s List, was released in December after the release of a Jurassic Park film the same summer, exemplify once more Spielberg\u2019s range as an artist. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Hopkins, along with Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design and Best Score.

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1998

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Saving Private Ryan is released on July 24, 1998, and like Schindler\u2019s List five years before, it inspired an international dialogue about the sacrifices and often formerly unspeakable suffering veterans of World War II faced on the battlefields of the European Theater, specifically the landing on Omaha Beach. The now legendary first-act recreation of that harrowing battle brought to the screen for the first time (according to veterans) as realistic a depiction as had ever been committed to film. Starring Tom Hanks (in his first performance in a film directed by Spielberg), and a large ensemble cast including Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Vin Diesel, and Matt Damon (as the titular Private Ryan), the heart of the film is about a mission to extract the only surviving son of a family who lost all of their other sons to the ravages of the war. The film was a critical, cultural and box office hit, and was honored with 11 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, winning five Oscars for Best Director for Spielberg, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing.

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Directing Private Ryan (Matt Damon) on the fully constructed city of Ramelle (a fictitious location), the site of the final battle in the film.
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THE 2000s

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2001

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Before the esteemed director\u2019s untimely passing in 1999, Stanley Kubrick had made an entreaty to his friend Steven Spielberg to consider taking on a long-gestating project, A.I. Artificial Intelligence. The story, about a mecha (robot) boy on a quest to become a real boy so that he could win the love of a human mother after she abandons him. Based on the Brian Aldiss short story Supertoys Last All Summer Long, Kubrick had been developing the project for some time when he suggested that Spielberg would be much stronger eliciting a performance from a child actor in the central role of the mecha boy, as well as the volume of special and visual effects such a film would need. Rather than let his friend\u2019s wishes for the A.I. fade away after Kubrick\u2019s passing, he, Kubrick\u2019s widow Christiane, and brother-in-law Jan Harlan collaborated with Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks Pictures to bring a unique collaboration between Kubrick and Spielberg (working as writer, director and producer) to the screen on June 29, 2001. Starring Haley Joel Osment as David, the mecha boy, Jude Law, William Hurt and Frances O\u2019Connor, A.I. marked Spielberg\u2019s first science fiction film set in the future. Its stunning visual effects were nominated for an Academy Award, along with John Williams\u2019 score, while the score, Jude Law\u2019s Supporting Performance as Gigolo Joe and Steven Spielberg\u2019s direction were all nominated for Golden Globes.

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A young Haley Joel Osment, who plays the robot boy David, listens intently to his director\u2019s ideas in production on A.I. Artificial Intelligence.
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2002

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Following his futuristic sci-fi debut in A.I., Spielberg\u2019s next film remained in a speculative tomorrow world with Minority Report, an adaptation of a short story by noted science fiction author Philip K. Dick. In\u00a0Minority Report, Tom Cruise stars as a detective working for Precrime, a government organization utilizing precognitive siblings with the power to foresee violent future crimes in order to stop them before they occur. Featuring a paradoxical ethical debate at the center of a murder-mystery adorned with what in 2002 seemed outr\u00e9 technologies and debates over privacy that now seem positively predictive across the decades following the film,\u00a0Minority Report\u00a0is that rare science fiction film both action-packed and with something deeper on its mind. Costarring with Cruise are Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton and Max Von Sydow, the film engaged audiences, critics and box office attendance alike.

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\u00a0Catch Me If You Can re-teamed Spielberg and Tom Hanks, along with Leonardo Di Caprio, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen and a new young actress named Amy Adams, to take audiences back to the 1960s and the real-life story of a teenaged swindler named Frank Abagnale, Jr. who kited over $2.8 million in forged checks while posing as an airline pilot, doctor, lawyer, and other guises to live the high life after running away from a broken home. The film is breezy fun in its recreation of the era, yet has a tender, pained heart beneath all the fun, making for a highly entertaining, often comedic caper with tenderness at its center, Catch Me If You Can caught on with audiences during the holiday season (it was released on Christmas Day), making the film the second of a one-two box office punch for Spielberg in 2002.

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Scoping out a shot of a potentially ill-fated affair in Minority Report with director of photography Janusz Kaminski.
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In discussion with Minority Report actors Max Von Sydow and Tom Cruise.
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2004

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It\u2019s been said, both by critics, and also addressed by the filmmaker himself, that the events of 9/11 and subsequent sea changes in American politics and the nation itself lead Spielberg to reflect through his films on the state of the United States, and with the 2004 film The Terminal, Spielberg began to question and ask questions of us all about where we were headed. Concerning a foreigner, Viktor Navorski (played by Tom Hanks) traveling to New York City on a mission of love, only to find himself trapped for months within the John F. Kennedy Airport by the newly formed Transportation Security Agency\u2019s unbending and illogical rules and red tape (in the name of protecting the homeland), The Terminal is both a satire of reactionary bureaucracy that fails to protect the humanity it claims to protect and a light, romantic comedy at once, a melding of Capra and Sturges parable of a man stuck in a sleek and soulless threshold to what has long been called \u201cthe land of the free.\u201d Co-starring with Hanks are Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stanley Tucci, Chi McBride, Diego Luna, Zo\u00eb Saldana, Kumar Pallana and Barry Shabaka Henley in a sweet yet slightly sorrowful and deeply humanistic story of the importance of community and the bonds we have no matter where our original points of departure may lie.

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Shooting in an astonishingly realistic, recreated airport set for The Terminal, Spielberg works on a scene in a fully-stocked bookstore where Viktor Navorski finds information about America.
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2005

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While 2004\u2019s The Terminal had a view of current events through a critical yet still hopeful lens of satire, 2005\u2019s War of the Worlds and Munich brought us views of Spielberg\u2019s deepening frustration and anger with a post-9/11 world, using science fiction and historical events to resonate with reality in both the narratives. War of the Worlds is a contemporary, American retelling of H.G. Wells\u2019 famous thriller about Martians descending (or in the case of Spielberg\u2019s film, ascending buried sleep cells) on Earth to harvest its inhabitants to terraform the planet to their needs. Starring Tom Cruise, Tim Robbins, Miranda Otto and Dakota Fanning, the extraterrestrial attack serves as a corollary to the attacks on 9/11 and the ongoing \u201cWar on Terror\u201d being waged by the current administration in D.C.

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In Munich, Spielberg collaborated with Pulitzer Prize-winner Tony Kushner and Eric Roth to recreate the 1972 kidnapping and murder of Israeli Olympians by the Palestine Liberation Army, and the secret reprisals by Mossad agents to the brutal deaths of their countrymen. The film is at once a thrilling espionage story, another historical drama in Spielberg\u2019s growing body of such works, an immediate and pertinent (to a post-9/11 world) political statement fraught with tensions, and controversially, an even-handed questioning (itself in the Jewish tradition, as its characters point out) of the nature of political terrorism and reprisals. More simply put, Spielberg has called the film \u201ca prayer for peace.\u201d Munich was nominated for five Academy Awards including for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Film Editing.

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Spielberg, known for his intuitive direction of child actors, doesn\u2019t talk down to them, but meets them on their terms. Here, he talks with Dakota Fanning about a particularly emotional scene in War of the Worlds.
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Dakota Fanning and Tom Cruise as Rachel and Ray Ferrier, taking shelter from the strange storms outside as their director takes them through the paces.
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Eric Bana, who plays Mossad agent Avner Kaufman, chats with Spielberg on the set of Munich.
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2008

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Fans of Indiana Jones long feared they\u2019d seen the last of the most famous archeologist-adventurer when he round off into the sunset nearly two decades previous, but the near-impossible happened when Indy (Harrison Ford) returned to the big screen on May 22, 2008 with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. While the original three films were set in the 1930s, Crystal Skull reintroduces us to an older, wiser, world-weary Dr. Henry Jones, Jr. in the 1950s, set on a rescue mission to save former love Marion Ravenwood (with a returning Karen Allen from Raiders of the Lost Ark), mentor Harold Oxley (John Hurt), and a fabled artifact of potentially unearthly origin. Rounding out the cast are Cate Blanchett, Ray Winstone, Jim Broadbent and Shia LaBeouf. The new adventure was a critical hit, along with a box office smash around the globe, Spielberg\u2019s most successful film in the aughts and (unadjusted for inflation) his third highest grossing film of all-time. A fifth Indiana Jones adventure is currently in development.

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Two classics in a classic 1932 Ford Roadster: Steven Spielberg in the driver\u2019s seat with his executive producer George Lucas as his copilot.
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THE 2010s

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The director marshals his cast and crew on the recreated Somme location for War Horse.
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2011

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Steven Spielberg discovered Belgium artist Herg\u00e9\u2019s The Adventures of Tintin in the summer of 1981 when numerous European critics would compare the exploits in Raiders of the Lost Ark with that of Herg\u00e9\u2019s boy journalist\u2019s adventures. He immediately saw the potential of the Tintin folios for adaptation into a live-action film. After years of development, Spielberg and Amblin set the project aside, only to resurrect it nearly three decades later in collaboration with filmmaker Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings). Together the two filmmakers\u2014with Spielberg directing and Jackson producing\u2014brought Tintin to the International screen using state-of-the-art performance capture and 3D imagery developed and perfected by Jackson\u2019s wizards at WETA Digital. Starring Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Toby Jones, Nick Frost and Simon Pegg, and adapted by writers Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish, The Adventures of Tintin marks Spielberg\u2019s first animated feature film as a director. The film was released on December 21, 2011.\nEnchanted by Michael Morpurgo\u2019s book War Horse, and the staged version of Morpurgo\u2019s moving WWI drama about the bonds of a horse, Joey, and Albert Narracott, an English country boy who raises Joey before both are separated and sent into the ravages of battle in the war. War Horse stars newcomer Jeremy Irvine, up-and-coming talents Tom Hiddleston and Benedict Cumberbatch, and seasoned performers including Emily Watson, Peter Mullan, David Thewlis and Emily Watson. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including nods for Best Picture, Best Cinematography, and Best Original Score. It was released on December 25, 2011, a mere four days after The Adventures of Tintin, giving family audiences a double-feature in cinemas that holiday season.

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If war is hell, recreating the misery of one of the harrowing battlefronts in history couldn\u2019t possibly be roses. Spielberg, his cast and crew, are put through their paces approximating battle in WWI for War Horse.
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The transformative actor Daniel Day-Lewis inhabits the person of Abraham Lincoln for the film about the great President. Spielberg has said he missed working with Mr. Lincoln once the film wrapped.
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2012

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Lincoln, a historical drama that focuses specifically on the years in which President Abraham Lincoln and his country are embroiled in the Civil War, sees Spielberg collaborating once more with Munich screenwriter Tony Kushner and directing an uncanny and Oscar-winning performance by Daniel Day-Lewis as the 16th President of the United States. Joining Day-Lewis is an ensemble cast with Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln, Tommy Lee Jones, David Straithairn, James Spader, and Hal Holbrook. The film was both a critical and commercial success at the box office, garnering 12 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Picture, Best Supporting Roles for Field and Jones, and the aforementioned win for Day-Lewis. It\u2019s deeply researched and beautiful recreated period design was also honored with an Oscar for Best Production Design for longtime Spielberg collaborator Rick Carter and his crew.

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The gentleman from Arizona expresses his vision from the gallery of the Senate in Lincoln.
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On the set of Lincoln.
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Walking through a snow-swept, miserably cold recreation of a divided Germany in Bridge of Spies.
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2015

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Bridge of Spies came to Spielberg as a pitch by writer Matt Charman, and its story, set in the Cold War between the States and the USSR in 1957, struck a personal chord with the director who has recalled how his father Arnold traveled to Russia on business and viewed the downed U-2 spy plane at the crux of the real-life and screen story Spies. After deciding it was his next film to direct, Spielberg brought in the Oscar-winning filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen to rewrite Charman\u2019s original script. Tom Hanks was signed to play James B. Donovan, a lawyer who helps broker the exchange of American serviceman Gary Powers (pilot of the down U-2 plane) for his client Rudolf Abel (played in the film in an Oscar-winning supporting performance by Mark Rylance), an embedded Soviet spy caught by the FBI and on trial in New York City. Bridge of Spies added another chapter to Spielberg\u2019s films on historical events retold through film. It was honored with six Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Original Score, the latter composed by Thomas Newman, marking Spielberg\u2019s first time working with a composer other than John Williams since 1985\u2019s The Color Purple.

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2016

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The BFG, an adaptation of the beloved 1982 children\u2019s book by Roald Dahl, found Spielberg back in the gentle fantasy world of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, but where E.T. brought the imaginative to a realistic suburban setting, The BFG is a delight of storybook high fantasy. Starring Oscar-winner Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies) as The BFG, and newcomer Ruby Barnhill as the lonely young orphan girl Sophie, along with a supporting cast of human beans (Penelope Wilton, Rebecca Hall, Rafe Spall), and a band of fizzwiggling giants (including Jemaine Clement and Bill Hader), the movie is a razztwizzler of a time for kids of all ages. The BFG was written by and dedicated to Melissa Mathison, writer of\u00a0E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, who passed before the movie\u2019s release on July 1, 2016.

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Spielberg and cinematographer Janusz Kaminski train their lenses on another important chapter of American history in The Post.
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2017

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While in the middle of preparing for the highly technical marvels of Ready Player One (2018), Spielberg quickly mounted and delivered The Post, about the Nixon-era revelations of The Pentagon Papers, and how the nation\u2019s first female daily newspaper publisher and her legendary editor fought to expose a cover-up contained within said documents. Starring Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, and an ensemble cast of some of the finest actors working today including Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Paulson, Tracy Letts, Carrie Coon, Bradley Whitford, Bruce Greenwood\u2014The Post\u00a0was nominated as Best Motion Picture of the Year by the Academy Awards, along with Golden Globe nominations for Best Motion Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay (by first-time feature screenwriter Liz Hannah and Josh Singer (First Man), Best Performance nominations for Streep and Hanks, and Best Original Score. The film opened in select cities on December 22, 2017 before going wide on January 12, 2018.

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Discussing a shot with actor Tom Hanks, as legendary news editor Ben Bradlee, in The Post.
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2018

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Based on the best-selling sci-fi/fantasy novel by first-time novelist Ernest Cline, Spielberg adapts Ready Player One, a joyful celebration of video gaming, movies, and other pop culture ephemera of the 1980s and this modern era of \u201cgeekdom.\u201d The film, released on March 29, 2018, was adapted from his novel by Cline and screenwriter Zak Penn, stars Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Lena Waithe, Ben Mendelsohn, Simon Pegg, and once more, Mark Rylance, all in both live-action and motion capture performances. Ready Player One is a wonder of playful futurism fighting oppression, with innovative visual effects work by Industrial Light & Magic and a collective of other VFX houses.

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Spielberg describes a scene to his large cast of players in the offices of the OASIS Oologists in Ready Player One.
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\"Talking\n
Talking with his young cast in the exciting adventure, Ready Player One. On location with Spielberg, Tye Sheridan and Lena Waithe.
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Talking Ben Mendelsohn as Sorrento through what he\u2019s seeing in the OASIS as the scene observes from the real world in Ready Player One
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2021

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The cast for Steven Spielberg's adaptation of the stage musical West Side Story was announced in January 2019 (following the casting of Ansel Elgort as Tony and Rita Moreno, announced with fanfare at the end of 2018), including Broadway veterans Ariana DeBose and David Alvarez, Josh Andr\u00e9s Rivera and newcomer Rachel Zegler, a talented singer and actor still in high school when she landed the role of Maria. Production commenced in the summer of 2019, with the film set for a December 10, 2021 release in theaters.

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A 21-year-old Steven Spielberg sets up a shot on his 1968 short film, Amblin\u2019. Co-star Richard Levin can be seen (left) observing.
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THE 1970s

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\"Portrait\n
Portrait of a young artist, hard at work in the office.
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1974

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Universal releases The Sugarland Express, Spielberg\u2019s first feature film shot specifically for theatrical exhibition, in the Spring of 1974. Concerning the attempts of a young couple of two-bit criminals to get their baby back from foster care, Sugarland is a drama (with plenty moments of levity still) that exemplifies Spielberg\u2019s innate and deft handling of performance, visuals and the complicated mechanics of production while still in his 20s. The film was produced by Richard Zanuck and David Brown and stars Academy Award-winner Goldie Hawn, William Atherton, Michael Sacks, and Ben Johnson. Writing about the film for The New Yorker, critic Pauline Kael proclaimed, \u201cSteven Spielberg could be that rarity among directors, a born entertainer\u2014perhaps a new generation's Howard Hawks. In terms of the pleasure that technical assurance gives an audience, [The Sugarland Express] is one of the most phenomenal debut films in the history of movies.\u201d\n\u00a0Spielberg\u2019s next feature would change everything.

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On location in 1974, at sea off of Martha\u2019s Vineyard, holding the cleverly and aptly modified slate for his breakthrough blockbuster, Jaws.
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A man on a mission: Steven Spielberg proudly wears the crew t-shirt he had produced for Jaws.
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1977

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind, written and directed by Steven Spielberg, touches down on December 14, 1977. The movie was a project Spielberg had conceived and was pitching to studios before Jaws, and is the first wholly original vision he\u2019d bring to the feature film screen. It won Oscars for Best Cinematography for Vilmos Zsigmond and a special achievement Oscar for sound effects editing by Frank E. Warner. The movie was also nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Melinda Dillon), Best Art Direction, Best Sound, Best Film Editing (Michael Kahn, in his first collaboration with Spielberg), Best Visual Effects, Best Original Score (John Williams), and Best Director, Spielberg\u2019s first such nomination by the Academy.

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In consultation with his star, Richard Dreyfuss, playing Roy Neary in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
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The Satipo Trio makes beautiful music together in the Hovitos temple set on Raiders of the Lost Ark. L: the director, center, the dummy (essaying the role of dead Satipo) right, the actor, Alfred Molina (essaying the role of nearly dead Satipo).
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1981

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Working for the first time with his close friend George Lucas, whose own star had likewise exploded in film with American Graffiti and Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark saw Spielberg and George looking back to the movies\u2019 past in their loving homage to adventure serials of the 1930-1940s. From Lucas\u2019s initial concept and in collaboration with screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan (Continental Divide), Spielberg would direct the now legendary movie that brought the name \u201cIndiana Jones\u201d into the zeitgeist, and further cemented Star Wars star Harrison Ford as the era\u2019s greatest screen hero when it was released on June 12, 1981. Raiders of the Lost Ark would go on to spawn three further big-screen adventures from 1984-2008, plus the TV series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992-1993). A fifth Indiana Jones movie has been announced and is currently in development at this time.

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The year also marked a very important milestone in Spielberg\u2019s professional life as he set out a shingle for his independence as a filmmaker with the creation of Amblin Entertainment, the production company he co-created with Raiders producer Frank Marshall and associate Kathleen Kennedy. The three would go on to produce (and in Spielberg\u2019s case, also direct) some of the most beloved entertainments of the era.

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Hollywood\u2019s reigning visionaries, George Lucas (L) and Steven Spielberg (R), crazy creative from the heat of the Tunisian desert shoot on Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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1982

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Dubbed \u201cThe Summer of Spielberg\u201d by Time magazine, June of 1982 saw the one-two punch of the fantasies Poltergeist and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial open in theaters a mere week apart. Released on June 4, 1982, Poltergeist\u2014conceived, co-written and produced by Spielberg, along with producer Frank Marshall\u2014took the classic ghost story from Victorian mansions and into the suburbs as poltergeist manifestations haunt the hapless Freeling family.\nAnd while Poltergeist represented the dark side of Spielberg\u2019s imagination, he\u2019s said that E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial represented the light side of his dreams. E.T., released on June 11, 1982, tells the tender tale of a lonely young boy, Elliott, a child of divorce who finds friendship and connection with the most unlikely of beings\u2014a lost extra-terrestrial abandoned on Earth. While Poltergeist gave audiences chills, special and visual effect thrills, and gruesomely fun gory grossouts, the gentle heart of E.T. struck a truly deep chord with audiences around the globe, making it the most financially successful movie in all of cinema history, with Spielberg eclipsing his own records with Raiders of the Lost Ark, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Jaws in box office returns.\nPoltergeist was nominated for three Oscars, and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial was nominated for nine including for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Writing, winning for Best Original Score (John Williams), Best Sound, Best Visual Effects, and Best Sound Effects Editing.

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A publicity image of the director and his little lost alien, unaware at the time to the heights to which their film would soar with audiences around the world.
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1984

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Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Harrison Ford shot around the world\u2014in Sri Lanka, Macau, the UK and the US\u2014to bring Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom to audiences on May 23, 1984. The movie, a prequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark, was a great departure from the first picture, giving audiences a wholly original adventure that took Indy, new friends, allies and enemies, into the heart of darkness and the titular temple of an occult sect hellbent on obtaining power. Temple caused a bit of a stir with parents whose children found the movie too intense, and along with Amblin\u2019s Gremlins\u2020\u00a0that summer, led to Spielberg suggesting to the MPAA that a PG-13 rating might be instituted to differentiate movies for older children, but not quite PG- or R-rated fare.

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\u2020\u00a0Gremlins, which opened in theaters on June 8, 1984, directed by Joe Dante (Twilight Zone The Movie) and executive produced by Spielberg, marked the first Amblin Entertainment release to feature the production company\u2019s logo: that of Elliott and E.T. flying across the moon on their bicycle. The logo is still used on Amblin releases to this day.

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Sharing laughs during a publicity shoot for Back to the Future, from L to R: co-writer/director Robert Zemeckis, actor Michael J. Fox, and executive producers Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall.
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Laughter leavens the weight of an emotionally difficult scene as Spielberg talks with his talented new star, Whoopi Goldberg.
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1987

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Continuing boldly along the new path laid by The Color Purple, Spielberg expanded his storytelling reach into purely dramatic fare with Empire of the Sun, based in part on author JG Ballard\u2019s own life experience as a boy growing up and imprisoned in a Japanese encampment in occupied Shanghai during WWII. The film marked the first time a western production company was granted permission to film within the city of Shanghai, and also introduced the world to a deeply talented and intuitive acting talent in that of 12-year-old Christian Bale. Bale was joined by a sterling cast of international thespians including John Malkovich, Joe Pantoliano, Miranda Richardson, Leslie Phillips and Marsat\u00f4 Ibu. The film was released in theaters on Christmas Day of 1987.\nWith Bale, Empire, ostensibly about the shocking death of childhood as a boy is forced into adulthood in the most harrowing of circumstances, continued to showcase Spielberg\u2019s extraordinary talent eliciting top-flight performances from young, often untested actors. Regarding Spielberg\u2019s own growth as a filmmaker, he has said that films including Empire of the Sun and The Color Purple led to his feeling he had the tools and insights within himself to direct and produce Schindler\u2019s List (1993) six years after Empire of the Sun.

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Working out the ins-and-outs of a key action setpiece with his Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade stars Harrison Ford and Sean Connery.
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1991

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Between the releases of Close Encounters of the Third Kind\u00a0and\u00a0E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, the press took to calling Spielberg a grown \u201cPeter Pan,\u201d that playful spirit who never truly grew up. But in 1991\u2019s Hook, the clever conceit for the movie posed the question, \u201cWhat if Peter Pan grew up?\u201d Starring Robin Williams as Peter Banning/Pan, Dustin Hoffman and Bob Hoskins\u00a0as a daffy and dastardly Captain Hook and his sidekick Smee, and Julia Roberts as Tinkerbell, December 11, 1991.

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The director sits at the feet of what appears to be a 20-foot turkey, the T. rex that would terrify audiences around the globe in the Summer of 1993.
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Riding the rig on set for Jurassic Park.
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\"Partners\n
Partners in the Dream: Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen, in a posed photo at the Hollywood Canteen, shot for Vanity Fair\u2019s April 1995 issue.
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Spielberg sits next to the storyboard for the opening sequence in The Lost World Jurassic Park, his 1997 sequel to the monster hit Jurassic Park.
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1998

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Saving Private Ryan is released on July 24, 1998, and like Schindler\u2019s List five years before, it inspired an international dialogue about the sacrifices and often formerly unspeakable suffering veterans of World War II faced on the battlefields of the European Theater, specifically the landing on Omaha Beach. The now legendary first-act recreation of that harrowing battle brought to the screen for the first time (according to veterans) as realistic a depiction as had ever been committed to film. Starring Tom Hanks (in his first performance in a film directed by Spielberg), and a large ensemble cast including Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Vin Diesel, and Matt Damon (as the titular Private Ryan), the heart of the film is about a mission to extract the only surviving son of a family who lost all of their other sons to the ravages of the war. The film was a critical, cultural and box office hit, and was honored with 11 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, winning five Oscars for Best Director for Spielberg, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing.

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Directing Private Ryan (Matt Damon) on the fully constructed city of Ramelle (a fictitious location), the site of the final battle in the film.
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A young Haley Joel Osment, who plays the robot boy David, listens intently to his director\u2019s ideas in production on A.I. Artificial Intelligence.
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In discussion with Minority Report actors Max Von Sydow and Tom Cruise.
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Shooting in an astonishingly realistic, recreated airport set for The Terminal, Spielberg works on a scene in a fully-stocked bookstore where Viktor Navorski finds information about America.
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2005

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While 2004\u2019s The Terminal had a view of current events through a critical yet still hopeful lens of satire, 2005\u2019s War of the Worlds and Munich brought us views of Spielberg\u2019s deepening frustration and anger with a post-9/11 world, using science fiction and historical events to resonate with reality in both the narratives. War of the Worlds is a contemporary, American retelling of H.G. Wells\u2019 famous thriller about Martians descending (or in the case of Spielberg\u2019s film, ascending buried sleep cells) on Earth to harvest its inhabitants to terraform the planet to their needs. Starring Tom Cruise, Tim Robbins, Miranda Otto and Dakota Fanning, the extraterrestrial attack serves as a corollary to the attacks on 9/11 and the ongoing \u201cWar on Terror\u201d being waged by the current administration in D.C.

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In Munich, Spielberg collaborated with Pulitzer Prize-winner Tony Kushner and Eric Roth to recreate the 1972 kidnapping and murder of Israeli Olympians by the Palestine Liberation Army, and the secret reprisals by Mossad agents to the brutal deaths of their countrymen. The film is at once a thrilling espionage story, another historical drama in Spielberg\u2019s growing body of such works, an immediate and pertinent (to a post-9/11 world) political statement fraught with tensions, and controversially, an even-handed questioning (itself in the Jewish tradition, as its characters point out) of the nature of political terrorism and reprisals. More simply put, Spielberg has called the film \u201ca prayer for peace.\u201d Munich was nominated for five Academy Awards including for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Film Editing.

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2008

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Fans of Indiana Jones long feared they\u2019d seen the last of the most famous archeologist-adventurer when he round off into the sunset nearly two decades previous, but the near-impossible happened when Indy (Harrison Ford) returned to the big screen on May 22, 2008 with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. While the original three films were set in the 1930s, Crystal Skull reintroduces us to an older, wiser, world-weary Dr. Henry Jones, Jr. in the 1950s, set on a rescue mission to save former love Marion Ravenwood (with a returning Karen Allen from Raiders of the Lost Ark), mentor Harold Oxley (John Hurt), and a fabled artifact of potentially unearthly origin. Rounding out the cast are Cate Blanchett, Ray Winstone, Jim Broadbent and Shia LaBeouf. The new adventure was a critical hit, along with a box office smash around the globe, Spielberg\u2019s most successful film in the aughts and (unadjusted for inflation) his third highest grossing film of all-time. A fifth Indiana Jones adventure is currently in development.

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THE 2010s

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If war is hell, recreating the misery of one of the harrowing battlefronts in history couldn\u2019t possibly be roses. Spielberg, his cast and crew, are put through their paces approximating battle in WWI for War Horse.
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2012

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Lincoln, a historical drama that focuses specifically on the years in which President Abraham Lincoln and his country are embroiled in the Civil War, sees Spielberg collaborating once more with Munich screenwriter Tony Kushner and directing an uncanny and Oscar-winning performance by Daniel Day-Lewis as the 16th President of the United States. Joining Day-Lewis is an ensemble cast with Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln, Tommy Lee Jones, David Straithairn, James Spader, and Hal Holbrook. The film was both a critical and commercial success at the box office, garnering 12 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Picture, Best Supporting Roles for Field and Jones, and the aforementioned win for Day-Lewis. It\u2019s deeply researched and beautiful recreated period design was also honored with an Oscar for Best Production Design for longtime Spielberg collaborator Rick Carter and his crew.

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On the set of Lincoln.
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Spielberg takes the long view of our histories forgotten in films such as Bridge of Spies
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2016

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The BFG, an adaptation of the beloved 1982 children\u2019s book by Roald Dahl, found Spielberg back in the gentle fantasy world of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, but where E.T. brought the imaginative to a realistic suburban setting, The BFG is a delight of storybook high fantasy. Starring Oscar-winner Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies) as The BFG, and newcomer Ruby Barnhill as the lonely young orphan girl Sophie, along with a supporting cast of human beans (Penelope Wilton, Rebecca Hall, Rafe Spall), and a band of fizzwiggling giants (including Jemaine Clement and Bill Hader), the movie is a razztwizzler of a time for kids of all ages. The BFG was written by and dedicated to Melissa Mathison, writer of\u00a0E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, who passed before the movie\u2019s release on July 1, 2016.

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Discussing a shot with actor Tom Hanks, as legendary news editor Ben Bradlee, in The Post.
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2018

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Based on the best-selling sci-fi/fantasy novel by first-time novelist Ernest Cline, Spielberg adapts Ready Player One, a joyful celebration of video gaming, movies, and other pop culture ephemera of the 1980s and this modern era of \u201cgeekdom.\u201d The film, released on March 29, 2018, was adapted from his novel by Cline and screenwriter Zak Penn, stars Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Lena Waithe, Ben Mendelsohn, Simon Pegg, and once more, Mark Rylance, all in both live-action and motion capture performances. Ready Player One is a wonder of playful futurism fighting oppression, with innovative visual effects work by Industrial Light & Magic and a collective of other VFX houses.

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Talking with his young cast in the exciting adventure, Ready Player One. On location with Spielberg, Tye Sheridan and Lena Waithe.
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1968

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Steven Spielberg wrote and directed Amblin\u2019, his first short film on 35mm, while still a college student. The film caught the eye of Universal Vice President Sidney Sheinberg, who would offer Spielberg a seven-year-contract with Universal Television. Spielberg likes to joke that he quit college so fast upon Sheinberg\u2019s offer, he didn\u2019t bother to clean out his locker.\u2020

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1970-1973

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During his tenure as a Universal Television director, Spielberg helmed 11 projects of varying lengths, from the standard 30-minute episodic television fare (Rod Serling\u2019s Night Gallery\u2014Eyes and Make Me Laugh), Marcus Welby, M.D. (The Daredevil Gesture), The Psychiatrist (The Private World of Martin Dalton and Par for the Course), and Owen Marshall Counselor at Law (Eulogy for a Wide Receiver)\u2014to near-feature length television tales including work for Columbo (Murder by the Book) and The Name of the Game (LA 2017)\u2014to a trio of made-for-television movies including his breakthrough Duel, followed by Something Evil and Savage.

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The 1971 telefilm Duel was released in theaters in international markets in 1972 and 1973, leading Spielberg out of television and into feature film direction.

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A proud young filmmaker, opening his first feature-length movie, on his first time visiting Europe, seen here in Italy in 1972.
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While touring Europe with the theatrical edit of "Duel" in 1972, Spielberg had the good fortune to meet with Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini, a self-professed admirer of the younger director's film.
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Setting up a shot from inside one of the modified automobiles used in The Sugarland Express. The brand-new Panavision Panaflex camera, lightweight and much smaller compared to most standard 35mm cameras of the era, was used to film the dynamic interior shots featured in the film.
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He directs, he writes, he produces, he runs the slate. Is there nothing the young Steven Spielberg could not do? On location in South Texas, March 1, 1973, for The Sugarland Express.
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Setting up a shot from the pre-release facility from which Lou Jean breaks Clovis free in the opening of The Sugarland Express
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1975

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Working once again with producers Zanuck and Brown, Spielberg directs one of the most grueling location shoots in all of cinema history, but lands the big fish and brings back the motion picture Jaws. Based on the best-selling book from author Peter Benchley, the movie burst into theaters on June 20, 1975, and helped redefine what the term \u201cblockbuster\u201d meant as audiences lined up to see the thrilling adventure again and again. The \u201cSummer of the Shark\u201d (as Time magazine dubbed the must-see event movie) rocketed Jaws to breaking the $100 million mark in box-office receipts, making it the most successful movie to date. (It would go on to earn $471 million worldwide.) The movie also garners four Academy Award nominations including one for Best Picture, earning Oscars for Best Sound, Best Film Editing, and Best Music for John Williams\u2019 instantly legendary score.

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On location, discussing production details with producer Richard Zanuck. Producer David Brown can be seen directly over Spielberg\u2019s right shoulder.
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In Wyoming with the legendary French filmmaker Fran\u0107ois Truffaut, whom Spielberg directed in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
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Discussing with composer John Williams the finer points of marrying the grand sights to the magnificent score for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, during recording sessions for the film.
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Spielberg sits alongside the camera, studying a scene playing out before him on Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
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1979

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Following the one-two punch of Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, two of the most successful movies of all time, Spielberg branched out to direct his first comedy feature, the madcap World War II farce 1941, released in theaters on December 14, 1979. Featuring a huge ensemble cast of young and well-seasoned character performers\u2014including such disparate talents as John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Tim Matheson, Treat Williams, Nancy Allen, Eddie Deezen, Warren Oates, Christopher Lee and Toshir\u00f4 Mifune\u2014and bursting with verbal and visual sight gags and slapstick gleefully conceived by Spielberg and his young co-writers Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future) and executed by a top-shelf technical crew, 1941 is a movie of endless comic ideas and moments which earned itself a devoted fan following.

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In what was then a largely unprecedented event, Close Encounters of the Third Kind was re-released in movie theaters on August 1, 1980 as The Special Edition. The new version of the movie included a recut by Spielberg and Michael Kahn, excising select scenes from the original 1977 edit, trimming or expanding moments, and also adding new scenes and sequences including a finale in which audiences follow Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) inside the Mothership. Spielberg further revised the movie in 1998 for a Collectors Edition, feeling the original 1977 was too rushed in post to make it to the November release date, and not being pleased with revealing the inside of the Mothership in this Special Edition edit.

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Setting the shot in the temple of the Hovitos for the opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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A huge location shoot is all about getting the tiny details right. Spielberg pre-plans his shot concepts using a miniature layout and a widescreen eyepiece for framing on Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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Film production in the heat of the desert is no picnic, but it\u2019s important to stay cool, especially when shooting one of the hottest films ever made like Raiders.
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George Lucas (L) and Steven Spielberg (R), in Hawaii with the Hovitos (or at least the fine talents who portrayed them), filming the opening adventure in Raiders. Smile for the camera, fellas!
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An intimate collaboration of hearts and imaginations: Steven Spielberg directing the young Henry Thomas in E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, one of the finest performances ever delivered by a child actor and a director known for drawing such work from new talents.
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On location, guiding his cast and crew through production on E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.
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E.T. & Me. The boy who dreamed of an extra-terrestrial friend grows up to direct the sweetest of them all in one of the most beloved films of all-time.
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\u201cYou\u2019ve gotta save him!\u201d Spielberg (along with director of photography Allen Daviau) setting up a shot with actors playing NASA scientists in the make-shift medical lab at the end of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.
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No one ever said filmmaking is for the fragile. Even the best of \u2018em take their lumps and come back fighting. Spielberg with Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom co-star Kate Capshaw.
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1985

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While Spielberg worked hard in the early 1970s to move from television to feature filmmaking, he returned to the small screen in 1985 to bring that Amblin magic to the home audience each and every week with Amazing Stories. The series, an anthology show that offered new short tales featuring top acting and directing talents, premiered on NBC on September 29, 1985, with a story conceived and directed by Spielberg himself, Ghost Train. A second story in the first season, the special hour-long The Mission was also conceived and written by Spielberg. Other notable filmmakers on Amazing Stories included Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, Joe Dante, Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Danny DeVito, Bob Balaban, Burt Reynolds, Brad Bird, and Tobe Hooper.

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Amazing Stories ran for two seasons from 1985-1987 (for 45 episodes). A revival of the show is currently in production by Amblin Television, to premiere on Apple\u2019s upcoming streaming service.

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Stepping far outside of his own self-confessed comfort zone as a filmmaker, Spielberg next tackled The Color Purple, an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice walker. The film was indeed a collaboration of the spirits as Walker, producer and composer Quincy Jones, and a powerful cast of actors including Danny Glover, Margaret Avery, Adolph Caesar and, in their feature film debuts, Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg came together with Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and their crew to create a now cherished story of the suffering and strength of African American women at the hands of abusive male relations and the larger society around them. The film opened in the States on December 22, 1985 and went on to receive 10 Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Best Actress in a Leading Role for Goldberg. Goldberg won a Golden Globe Award for her performance, while the film also received four other Globe nominations. Spielberg himself won the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures from the Directors Guild of America.

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Spielberg also conceived of the story for the beloved kids\u2019 adventure The Goonies, for a screenplay written by Chris Columbus (Gremlins) and directed by Richard Donner. The movie opened in theaters on June 7, 1985. The Goonies, along with that summer\u2019s Back to the Future (executive produced by Spielberg), which opened roughly a month later on July 3, helped further the Amblin Entertainment brand with what\u2019s now considered classic filmed entertainment in which both kids and adults could delight together.

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On location shooting Empire of the Sun, proudly wearing a crew hat for the film while he creates it.
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1989

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Audiences anticipating another Indy adventure following Temple of Doom\u00a0had to wait a grueling five years until the man with the hat returned for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, released on May 24, 1989. The movie further expanded upon and deepened audiences\u2019 understanding of the Indiana Jones character by introducing a young Indy\u2014played by River Phoenix\u2014and Indy\u2019s father Henry Jones, Sr., played by screen legend Sean Connery.

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Spielberg wanted to adapt the 1943 Victor Fleming movie, A Guy Named Joe, for decades, after first seeing it on television as a young boy. His adaptation, Always, is a fantasy love story about a rescue pilot who learns to let go of the love he left behind after an untimely death. The film was in development with Spielberg since 1980, finally flying into theaters on December 22, 1989. The movie stars the winning triumvirate of Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter and John Goodman, and features the final screen performance of cinema legend Audrey Hepburn as Hap, who is, naturally, an angel.

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Spielberg on location sitting with the ailing triceratops, a truly astounding creation brought to screen life by the magicians at Stan Winston\u2019s studio. The poor girl should\u2019ve eaten from the craft services table, alas.
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Universal optioned Michael Crichton\u2019s 1990 sci-fi novel Jurassic Park as a property for Steven Spielberg and Amblin Entertainment to develop as a feature film. The sci-fi adventure, about an industrialist genetically engineering prehistoric creatures to populate an island theme park attraction, would prove not only to be a thrilling time at the movies, but a revolution in visual effects that would help lead cinema into the digital age of computer generated imagery with its photorealistic dinosaurs. Starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough,\u00a0Jurassic Park\u00a0was an instant box office sensation, dethroning Spielberg\u2019s own E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial as cinema\u2019s biggest money maker of all time.\nConsidered by many to be Steven Spielberg\u2019s masterpiece, Schindler\u2019s List, reignited remembrance and reflection on the events of the Shoah, the Holocaust of World War II. Based on the narrativized true-life novel by Thomas Keneally, the film, about a war profiteer industrialist in occupied Poland who winds up saving his Jewish workforce from the murderous\u00a0 Nazi machine, stars Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, and Ralph Fiennes. Along with inspiring an international dialogue on the Holocaust, the film also made critics sit up and take notice of a Spielberg they\u2019d never seen make a film quite like\u00a0Schindler\u2019s List\u2014both stylistically and with its intent. It was nominated for 12 Academy Awards, for which it won Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, and for the first time in his lauded career, a Best Director Oscar for Steven Spielberg. Most important to Spielberg, his experiences shooting the film and meeting with Holocaust survivors inspired him to create the Survivors of the Shoah Foundation, an audio-visual archive which houses over 55,000 recorded testimonials of victims of genocide that gives voice to survivors in the hopes we may never again forget.

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Framing a shot on the face of conscience in Schindler\u2019s List, Ben Kingsley as Itzhak Stern.
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Posing with his trio of actors at the heart of the struggle in Schindler\u2019s List, (L to R) Ralph Fiennes, Sir Ben Kingsley, Spielberg and Liam Neeson. Spielberg holds a bound edition of the screenplay in hand.
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After two decades of working for the majority of the film studios in the industry, and over a decade after forming his own production company, Amblin Entertainment, Steven Spielberg joins together with moguls Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen to found DreamWorks SKG, the first full-fledged movie studio to be founded since the Golden Age of Hollywood. The studio quickly found success with its broad roster of films\u2014both live action under the DreamWorks Pictures label and animation under the DreamWorks Animation label. Between 1999 and 2001, DreamWorks films earned three consecutive Academy Awards for Best Picture for American Beauty, Gladiator, and A Beautiful Mind. DreamWorks Animation was spun off as a publicly traded animation company and DreamWorks Pictures has been incorporated as a label under Amblin Partners for our feature films made for more mature audiences.

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It had been four years since Steven Spielberg directed a feature after Schindler\u2019s List, and while he certainly wasn\u2019t resting on his laurels, what with founding the Shoah Foundation and a new film studio, yet it was Universal\u2019s wish that Spielberg produce a sequel to the most successful movie of all time\u2014Jurassic Park\u2014which would get him back in the director\u2019s chair. The Lost World Jurassic Park extended the mythology of Michael Crichton\u2019s original story by sending Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) to a mysterious second island on a rescue mission to save his girlfriend Sarah (Julianne Moore) from more of John Hammond\u2019s genetic creations, dinosaurs on the loose following the site\u2019s destruction by a hurricane.\nAmistad, based on an episode in American history not well-known before the film\u2019s release, that of the legal battle in American courts over African captives that rose up against their Spanish captors that intended to sell them into slavery. When the ship arrives off the coast of Long Island, the Africans are caught in a legal battle between Spain and multiple factions in the United States including President Martin Van Buren and John Quincy Adams. Starring Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, Pete Postlethwaite, Matthew McConaughey, and newcomer Djimon Honsou, Amistad, much like Schindler\u2019s List, was released in December after the release of a Jurassic Park film the same summer, exemplify once more Spielberg\u2019s range as an artist. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Hopkins, along with Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design and Best Score.

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Before the esteemed director\u2019s untimely passing in 1999, Stanley Kubrick had made an entreaty to his friend Steven Spielberg to consider taking on a long-gestating project, A.I. Artificial Intelligence. The story, about a mecha (robot) boy on a quest to become a real boy so that he could win the love of a human mother after she abandons him. Based on the Brian Aldiss short story Supertoys Last All Summer Long, Kubrick had been developing the project for some time when he suggested that Spielberg would be much stronger eliciting a performance from a child actor in the central role of the mecha boy, as well as the volume of special and visual effects such a film would need. Rather than let his friend\u2019s wishes for the A.I. fade away after Kubrick\u2019s passing, he, Kubrick\u2019s widow Christiane, and brother-in-law Jan Harlan collaborated with Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks Pictures to bring a unique collaboration between Kubrick and Spielberg (working as writer, director and producer) to the screen on June 29, 2001. Starring Haley Joel Osment as David, the mecha boy, Jude Law, William Hurt and Frances O\u2019Connor, A.I. marked Spielberg\u2019s first science fiction film set in the future. Its stunning visual effects were nominated for an Academy Award, along with John Williams\u2019 score, while the score, Jude Law\u2019s Supporting Performance as Gigolo Joe and Steven Spielberg\u2019s direction were all nominated for Golden Globes.

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Following his futuristic sci-fi debut in A.I., Spielberg\u2019s next film remained in a speculative tomorrow world with Minority Report, an adaptation of a short story by noted science fiction author Philip K. Dick. In\u00a0Minority Report, Tom Cruise stars as a detective working for Precrime, a government organization utilizing precognitive siblings with the power to foresee violent future crimes in order to stop them before they occur. Featuring a paradoxical ethical debate at the center of a murder-mystery adorned with what in 2002 seemed outr\u00e9 technologies and debates over privacy that now seem positively predictive across the decades following the film,\u00a0Minority Report\u00a0is that rare science fiction film both action-packed and with something deeper on its mind. Costarring with Cruise are Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton and Max Von Sydow, the film engaged audiences, critics and box office attendance alike.

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\u00a0Catch Me If You Can re-teamed Spielberg and Tom Hanks, along with Leonardo Di Caprio, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen and a new young actress named Amy Adams, to take audiences back to the 1960s and the real-life story of a teenaged swindler named Frank Abagnale, Jr. who kited over $2.8 million in forged checks while posing as an airline pilot, doctor, lawyer, and other guises to live the high life after running away from a broken home. The film is breezy fun in its recreation of the era, yet has a tender, pained heart beneath all the fun, making for a highly entertaining, often comedic caper with tenderness at its center, Catch Me If You Can caught on with audiences during the holiday season (it was released on Christmas Day), making the film the second of a one-two box office punch for Spielberg in 2002.

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Scoping out a shot of a potentially ill-fated affair in Minority Report with director of photography Janusz Kaminski.
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It\u2019s been said, both by critics, and also addressed by the filmmaker himself, that the events of 9/11 and subsequent sea changes in American politics and the nation itself lead Spielberg to reflect through his films on the state of the United States, and with the 2004 film The Terminal, Spielberg began to question and ask questions of us all about where we were headed. Concerning a foreigner, Viktor Navorski (played by Tom Hanks) traveling to New York City on a mission of love, only to find himself trapped for months within the John F. Kennedy Airport by the newly formed Transportation Security Agency\u2019s unbending and illogical rules and red tape (in the name of protecting the homeland), The Terminal is both a satire of reactionary bureaucracy that fails to protect the humanity it claims to protect and a light, romantic comedy at once, a melding of Capra and Sturges parable of a man stuck in a sleek and soulless threshold to what has long been called \u201cthe land of the free.\u201d Co-starring with Hanks are Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stanley Tucci, Chi McBride, Diego Luna, Zo\u00eb Saldana, Kumar Pallana and Barry Shabaka Henley in a sweet yet slightly sorrowful and deeply humanistic story of the importance of community and the bonds we have no matter where our original points of departure may lie.

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Dakota Fanning and Tom Cruise as Rachel and Ray Ferrier, taking shelter from the strange storms outside as their director takes them through the paces.
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Eric Bana, who plays Mossad agent Avner Kaufman, chats with Spielberg on the set of Munich.
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Two classics in a classic 1932 Ford Roadster: Steven Spielberg in the driver\u2019s seat with his executive producer George Lucas as his copilot.
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Steven Spielberg discovered Belgium artist Herg\u00e9\u2019s The Adventures of Tintin in the summer of 1981 when numerous European critics would compare the exploits in Raiders of the Lost Ark with that of Herg\u00e9\u2019s boy journalist\u2019s adventures. He immediately saw the potential of the Tintin folios for adaptation into a live-action film. After years of development, Spielberg and Amblin set the project aside, only to resurrect it nearly three decades later in collaboration with filmmaker Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings). Together the two filmmakers\u2014with Spielberg directing and Jackson producing\u2014brought Tintin to the International screen using state-of-the-art performance capture and 3D imagery developed and perfected by Jackson\u2019s wizards at WETA Digital. Starring Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Toby Jones, Nick Frost and Simon Pegg, and adapted by writers Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish, The Adventures of Tintin marks Spielberg\u2019s first animated feature film as a director. The film was released on December 21, 2011.\nEnchanted by Michael Morpurgo\u2019s book War Horse, and the staged version of Morpurgo\u2019s moving WWI drama about the bonds of a horse, Joey, and Albert Narracott, an English country boy who raises Joey before both are separated and sent into the ravages of battle in the war. War Horse stars newcomer Jeremy Irvine, up-and-coming talents Tom Hiddleston and Benedict Cumberbatch, and seasoned performers including Emily Watson, Peter Mullan, David Thewlis and Emily Watson. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including nods for Best Picture, Best Cinematography, and Best Original Score. It was released on December 25, 2011, a mere four days after The Adventures of Tintin, giving family audiences a double-feature in cinemas that holiday season.

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The transformative actor Daniel Day-Lewis inhabits the person of Abraham Lincoln for the film about the great President. Spielberg has said he missed working with Mr. Lincoln once the film wrapped.
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Bridge of Spies came to Spielberg as a pitch by writer Matt Charman, and its story, set in the Cold War between the States and the USSR in 1957, struck a personal chord with the director who has recalled how his father Arnold traveled to Russia on business and viewed the downed U-2 spy plane at the crux of the real-life and screen story Spies. After deciding it was his next film to direct, Spielberg brought in the Oscar-winning filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen to rewrite Charman\u2019s original script. Tom Hanks was signed to play James B. Donovan, a lawyer who helps broker the exchange of American serviceman Gary Powers (pilot of the down U-2 plane) for his client Rudolf Abel (played in the film in an Oscar-winning supporting performance by Mark Rylance), an embedded Soviet spy caught by the FBI and on trial in New York City. Bridge of Spies added another chapter to Spielberg\u2019s films on historical events retold through film. It was honored with six Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Original Score, the latter composed by Thomas Newman, marking Spielberg\u2019s first time working with a composer other than John Williams since 1985\u2019s The Color Purple.

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Spielberg and cinematographer Janusz Kaminski train their lenses on another important chapter of American history in The Post.
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While in the middle of preparing for the highly technical marvels of Ready Player One (2018), Spielberg quickly mounted and delivered The Post, about the Nixon-era revelations of The Pentagon Papers, and how the nation\u2019s first female daily newspaper publisher and her legendary editor fought to expose a cover-up contained within said documents. Starring Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, and an ensemble cast of some of the finest actors working today including Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Paulson, Tracy Letts, Carrie Coon, Bradley Whitford, Bruce Greenwood\u2014The Post\u00a0was nominated as Best Motion Picture of the Year by the Academy Awards, along with Golden Globe nominations for Best Motion Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay (by first-time feature screenwriter Liz Hannah and Josh Singer (First Man), Best Performance nominations for Streep and Hanks, and Best Original Score. The film opened in select cities on December 22, 2017 before going wide on January 12, 2018.

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    Steven Spielberg

    Timeline of Steven Spielberg, born December 18, 1946. He is an American filmmaker. Spielberg started in Hollywood directing television and theater.

    Born:

    December 18, 1946

    Place:

    Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.

    Title:

    Filmmaker and director

    Education:

    California State University, Long Beach (BA)

    1946

    \"Born\"/
    17 December 1946

    Born

    Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to an Orthodox Jewish family. His mother, Leah (Adler) Posner (born 1920), was a restaurateur and concert pianist, and his father, Arnold Spielberg (born 1917), was an electrical engineer involved in the development of computers.

    1949

    31 December 1949

    Haddon Township

    In 1950, his family moved to Haddon Township, New Jersey when his father took a job with RCA. Three years later, the family moved to Phoenix, Arizona. Spielberg attended Hebrew school from 1953 to 1957, in classes taught by Rabbi Albert L. Lewis.

    1958

    01 April 1958

    First home movie

    His first home movie was of a train wreck involving his toy Lionel trains, then age 12. Throughout his early teens, and after entering high school, Spielberg continued to make amateur 8 mm \"adventure\" films.

    1962

    31 December 1962

    Firelight

    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 was made for $500, most of which came from his father, and was shown in a local cinema for one evening, which earned back its cost.

    1965

    13 April 1965

    Graduation Saratoga High School

    After attending Arcadia High School in Phoenix for three years, his family next moved to Saratoga, California where he later graduated from Saratoga High School in 1965.

    1966

    31 August 1966

    California state university, long beach

    In Los Angeles, he applied to the University of Southern California's film school, but was turned down because of his \"C\" grade average. He then applied and was admitted to California State University, Long Beach, where he became a brother of Theta Chi Fraternity.

    1966

    31 December 1966

    Universal Studio

    While still a student, he was offered a small unpaid intern job at Universal Studios with the editing department. He was later given the opportunity to make a short film for theatrical release, the 26-minute, 35mm, Amblin', which he wrote and directed.

    1968

    31 December 1968

    Directing contract

    Studio vice president Sidney Sheinberg was impressed by the film, which had won a number of awards, and offered Spielberg a seven-year directing contract. It made him the youngest director ever to be signed for a long-term deal with a major Hollywood studio.

    1975

    19 June 1975

    JAWS

    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.


    1977

    24 May 1977

    Close Encouters of the Third Kind

    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.

    1981

    11 June 1981

    Raiders of the lost ark

    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.


    1982

    25 May 1982

    E.T

    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.


    1987

    10 December 1987

    Empire of the Sun

    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.


    1993

    08 June 1993

    Jurassic Park

    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.


    1993

    29 November 1993

    Schindler's List

    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).

    1994

    11 October 1994

    DreamWorks

    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 1996, he directed 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 film of 1997 behind James Cameron's Titanic.


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    ", + "page_last_modified": "" + }, + { + "page_name": "Steven Spielberg Birthday", + "page_url": "https://nationaltoday.com/birthday/steven-spielberg/", + "page_snippet": "Steven Spielberg has had an undeniable impact on Hollywood in the last 50 years. Keep reading to learn more about this great filmmaker.Steven Allan Spielberg, born on December 18, 1946, is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is the all-time most commercially successful director and a key figure in the New Hollywood movement. Spielberg has received numerous honors, including two Best Director Oscars, three Academy Awards, a Kennedy Center Award, a Cecil B. DeMille Award, and an A.F.I. Life Achievement Award. Spielberg has received numerous honors, including two Best Director Oscars, three Academy Awards, a Kennedy Center Award, a Cecil B. DeMille Award, and an A.F.I. Life Achievement Award. He was also listed among the 100 Most Important People of the Century in 2013 by \u201cTime\u201d magazine. Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to Leah Frances and Arnold Spielberg. He was raised in Phoenix, Arizona, and later relocated to California, where he attended college to study film. After directing various episodes of T.V. series such as \u201cNight Gallery\u201d and \u201cColumbo,\u201d he directed the T.V. movie \u201cDuel\u201d (1971), which won praise from reviewers and viewers. Following that, he was the director of the commercially successful films \u201cClose Encounters of the Third Kind\u201d (1977), \u201cE.T. the Extra-Terrestrial\u201d (1982), and the \u201cIndiana Jones\u201d franchise. Later, in \u201cThe Color Purple\u201d (1985) and \u201cEmpire of the Sun\u201d (1987), Spielberg explored drama.", + "page_result": " Steven Spielberg Birthday
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    Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to Leah Frances and Arnold Spielberg. He was raised in Phoenix, Arizona, and later relocated to California, where he attended college to study film. After directing various episodes of T.V. series such as \u201cNight Gallery\u201d and \u201cColumbo,\u201d he directed the T.V. movie \u201cDuel\u201d (1971), which won praise from reviewers and viewers. Then, in 1974, he made his feature film directing debut with \u201cThe Sugarland Express.\u201d After directing the summer smash \u201cJaws\u201d in 1975, he became well-known. Following that, he was the director of the commercially successful films \u201cClose Encounters of the Third Kind\u201d (1977), \u201cE.T. the Extra-Terrestrial\u201d (1982), and the \u201cIndiana Jones\u201d franchise. Later, in \u201cThe Color Purple\u201d (1985) and \u201cEmpire of the Sun\u201d (1987), Spielberg explored drama.

    After a brief hiatus, he directed the Holocaust drama \u201cSchindler\u2019s List\u201d and the science-fiction thriller \u201cJurassic Park\u201d (both in 1993). The former became the highest-grossing movie ever at the time, and the latter has been hailed as one of the best movies ever produced. In 1998, he oversaw the production of the WWII epic \u201cSaving Private Ryan.\u201d In the 2000s, Spielberg continued to produce science fiction, including \u201cWar of the Worlds,\u201d \u201cMinority Report,\u201d and \u201cA.I. Artificial Intelligence\u201d (2005). Along with the historical dramas \u201cAmistad\u201d (1997), \u201cMunich\u201d (2005), \u201cWar Horse\u201d (2011), \u201cLincoln\u201d (2012), \u201cBridge of Spies\u201d (2015), \u201cThe Post\u201d (2017), and the musical \u201cWest Side Story,\u201d he also directed the children\u2019s adventure movies \u201cThe Adventures of Tintin\u201d (2011), \u201cThe B.F.G.\u201d (2016), and \u201cReady Player One\u201d (2018). He also co-founded DreamWorks and Amblin Entertainment and has produced several movies and television shows.

    Several of Spielberg\u2019s productions rank among the highest-grossing movies ever. The Library of Congress recognized nine of his films as being \u201cculturally, historically, or aesthetically important\u201d and added them to the National Film Registry. Between 1985 and 1989, Spielberg was married to actress Amy Irving, but they divorced. He later married actress Kate Capshaw on October 12, 1991. He has seven children.

    Career timeline

    1974
    He Makes His Directorial Debut

    \u201cThe Sugarland Express\u201d is released as Spielberg\u2019s feature film directing debut.

    1975
    He Breaks Into the Industry

    After directing \u201cJaws,\u201d he becomes well-known in the industry.

    1984
    Spielberg Establishes a Production Company

    He co-founds DreamWorks and Amblin Entertainment.

    1993
    His Two Big Projects Make it Big

    After a brief hiatus, he directs the Holocaust drama \u201cSchindler\u2019s List\u201d and the science-fiction thriller \u201cJurassic Park.\u201d

    1994
    He Wins Academy Awards

    Spielberg is awarded the title of Best Director and Best Picture for \u201cSchindler\u2019s List.\u201d

    2013
    Spielberg is Honored in \u201cTime\u201d Magazine

    \u201cTime\u201d magazine lists him as one of the 100 Most Important People of the Century.

    Why We Love Steven Spielberg

    1. He\u2019s made three of the highest-grossing movies

      Not once, not twice, but three times, he has directed films with the largest global box office take of all time. In 1975, \u201cJaws\u201d more than tripled the previous record and made $470 million. Then, in 1982, \u201cE.T. The Extra-Terrestrial\u201d brought in $792 million, knocking \u201cStar Wars\u201d from the number-one spot. \u201cJurassic Park,\u201d which made $914 million worldwide in 1993, then surpassed \u201cE.T.\u201d

    2. He has created a great legacy

      Spielberg was chosen as the most influential person of his generation in 1996 by \u201cLife\u201d magazine. Spielberg was placed first in the \u201cForbes\u201d magazine list of the Most Influential Celebrities of 2014.

    3. He is charitable

      \u201cSchindler\u2019s List\u201d was a big hit at the box office, earning $322 million against a $22 million budget, but Spielberg never received anything. Spielberg gave the Shoah Foundation, which preserves testimonials from Holocaust survivors, all of the money owed to him. Additionally, Spielberg still won\u2019t sign any \u201cSchindler\u2019s List\u201d-related items, preventing anyone from making money from it.

    5 Surprising Facts

    1. He earned $1 for his first film

      Spielberg made his first film at 16, a science-fiction film called \u201cFirelight,\u201d for which he received $1.

    2. No dime for \u201cSchindler\u2019s List\u201d

      Being Jewish, the holocaust-themed film was a personal project for him, and he donated all the proceeds to charity.

    3. \u201cJames Bond\u201d producer turned him down

      Barbara Broccoli told Spielberg he needed more experience before taking on the role of a \u201cJames Bond\u201d director when he approached her about directing one of the films.

    4. He was diagnosed with dyslexia

      Spielberg experienced bullying during his school years because no one was aware that he had dyslexia at the time and was struggling to read.

    5. He\u2019s a dog lover

      Spielberg has a great love for dogs \u2014 one of his dogs was even cast in several of his films.

    Steven Spielberg FAQs

    Does Steven Spielberg have a dog?

    Yes, he does.

    For which movie did Spielberg win his first Oscar?

    \u201cSchindler\u2019s List\u201d was the movie he won his first Oscar for.

    When did Steven Spielberg make his first movie??

    He made his first movie in 1974.

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        \n American filmmaker Steven Spielberg has been wholeheartedly embraced by both mainstream audiences and critics throughout his long and prolific career. Having made a number of modern classics, going all the way back to 1975's "Jaws," Spielberg is universally regarded by both his peers and film historians as one of the greatest American filmmakers in the history of the medium. Born in Cincinnati and raised primarily in Phoenix, Arizona, Spielberg began making super 8 short films when he was still in his teens. At 16 he made his first feature length film, the science fiction adventure film "Firelight" (1963). His 1971 made-for-TV road thriller "Duel" proved to be the break he needed to make the leap into movies. After the success of "Duel," Spielberg directed the critically acclaimed crime drama "Sugarland Express" (1974), which starred Goldie Hawn. It was his next film about a renegade great white shark off the coast of a New England resort town that would make the phrase "blockbuster" practically identical with Spielberg's name. Released in the summer of 1975, "Jaws," which was made for $9 million dollars, grossed over $470 million at the box office, making it one of the most financially successful films ever, up until that point. The film was also nominated for Best Picture and took home three Academy Awards. For Spielberg, the success of "Jaws" would prove to be just the start of one of the most charmed filmmaking careers in Hollywood history. Over the next several decades he directed a wide array of universally beloved films that are now considered modern classics. These films include, but are not limited to: "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977), "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981), "ET the Extra-Terrestrial" (1982), "Schindler's List" (1993), "Jurassic Park" (1993) "Lincoln" (2012). In addition to directing, Spielberg was also a prolific producer. Throughout his six decades in show business, Spielberg produced over 150 film and television projects. Furthermore, he's also taken home three Academy Awards, and has received scores of other nominations for his film and television work. In 2018 Spielberg directed his 32nd feature length film, "Ready Player One." The film was an adaptation of a popular 2011 science fiction novel by Ernest Cline, and was well-received by both critics and audiences. Spielberg's films remain benchmarks in terms of special, visual and sound effects, as well as in the public reaction they arouse.\n

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        \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n
        \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Credit\n \n \n \n \n
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n Jurassic World 4\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n -\n 2025
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n Transformers One\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n -\n 2024
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n \n \n 88%\n \n \n \n \n The Bloody Hundredth\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n -\n 2024
        \n \n \n \n 82%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 95%\n \n \n \n \n The Color Purple\n \n \n Producer\n \n $60.6M\n 2023
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n \n \n 100%\n \n \n \n \n Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford\n \n \n Self\n \n -\n 2023
        \n \n \n \n 97%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 93%\n \n \n \n \n Albert Brooks: Defending My Life\n \n \n Self\n \n -\n 2023
        \n \n \n \n 70%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 88%\n \n \n \n \n Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $174.5M\n 2023
        \n \n \n \n 52%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 91%\n \n \n \n \n Transformers: Rise of the Beasts\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $156.7M\n 2023
        \n \n \n \n 92%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 83%\n \n \n \n \n The Fabelmans\n \n \n Director,
        Screenwriter,
        Producer\n         		\n $17.3M\n 2022
        \n \n \n \n 29%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 77%\n \n \n \n \n Jurassic World Dominion\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $376.0M\n 2022
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America\n \n \n Self\n \n -\n 2022
        \n \n \n \n 92%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 93%\n \n \n \n \n West Side Story\n \n \n Director,
        Producer\n         		\n $38.5M\n 2021
        \n \n \n \n 75%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 69%\n \n \n \n \n Oslo\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n -\n 2021
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy\n \n \n Self\n \n -\n 2021
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n Robopocalypse\n \n \n Producer\n \n -\n 2021
        \n \n \n \n 19%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 53%\n \n \n \n \n Cats\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $27.2M\n 2019
        \n \n \n \n 23%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 66%\n \n \n \n \n Men in Black: International\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $80.0M\n 2019
        \n \n \n \n 91%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 74%\n \n \n \n \n Bumblebee\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $127.2M\n 2018
        \n \n \n \n 87%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 68%\n \n \n \n \n First Man\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $44.8M\n 2018
        \n \n \n \n 46%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 48%\n \n \n \n \n Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $416.7M\n 2018
        \n \n \n \n 72%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 77%\n \n \n \n \n Ready Player One\n \n \n Director,
        Producer\n         		\n $137.0M\n 2018
        \n \n \n \n 88%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 74%\n \n \n \n \n The Post\n \n \n Director,
        Producer\n         		\n $81.4M\n 2017
        \n \n \n \n 92%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 90%\n \n \n \n \n Spielberg\n \n \n Self\n \n -\n 2017
        \n \n \n \n 16%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 43%\n \n \n \n \n Transformers: The Last Knight\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $130.1M\n 2017
        \n \n \n \n 82%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 88%\n \n \n \n \n Finding Oscar\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $21.3K\n 2016
        \n \n \n \n 87%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 83%\n \n \n \n \n All the Way\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n -\n 2016
        \n \n \n \n 74%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 57%\n \n \n \n \n The BFG\n \n \n Director,
        Producer\n         		\n $55.5M\n 2016
        \n \n \n \n 84%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 77%\n \n \n \n \n Mifune: The Last Samurai\n \n \n Self\n \n $61.9K\n 2015
        \n \n \n \n 100%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 76%\n \n \n \n \n Everything Is Copy\n \n \n Unknown (Character)\n \n -\n 2015
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n \n \n 47%\n \n \n \n \n Back in Time\n \n \n Self\n \n -\n 2015
        \n \n \n \n 91%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 87%\n \n \n \n \n Bridge of Spies\n \n \n Director,
        Producer\n         		\n $72.3M\n 2015
        \n \n \n \n 71%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 78%\n \n \n \n \n Jurassic World\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $652.6M\n 2015
        \n \n \n \n 69%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 81%\n \n \n \n \n The Hundred-Foot Journey\n \n \n Producer\n \n $54.2M\n 2014
        \n \n \n \n 18%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 50%\n \n \n \n \n Transformers: Age of Extinction\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $245.4M\n 2014
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n \n \n 57%\n \n \n \n \n Atari: Game Over\n \n \n Unknown (Character)\n \n -\n 2014
        \n \n \n \n 90%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 80%\n \n \n \n \n Lincoln\n \n \n Director,
        Producer\n         		\n $182.2M\n 2012
        \n \n \n \n 67%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 70%\n \n \n \n \n Men in Black 3\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $179.0M\n 2012
        \n \n \n \n 92%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 72%\n \n \n \n \n Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan\n \n \n Unknown (Character)\n \n -\n 2011
        \n \n \n \n 75%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 74%\n \n \n \n \n War Horse\n \n \n Director,
        Producer\n         		\n $79.9M\n 2011
        \n \n \n \n 75%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 74%\n \n \n \n \n The Adventures of Tintin\n \n \n Director,
        Producer\n         		\n $77.6M\n 2011
        \n \n \n \n 60%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 73%\n \n \n \n \n Real Steel\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $85.5M\n 2011
        \n \n \n \n 44%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 43%\n \n \n \n \n Cowboys & Aliens\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $100.2M\n 2011
        \n \n \n \n 35%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 55%\n \n \n \n \n Transformers: Dark of the Moon\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $352.4M\n 2011
        \n \n \n \n 81%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 75%\n \n \n \n \n Super 8\n \n \n Producer\n \n $127.0M\n 2011
        \n \n \n \n 70%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 62%\n \n \n \n \n Paul\n \n \n Self\n \n $37.4M\n 2011
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n The Adventures of Tintin\n \n \n Director,
        Producer\n         		\n -\n 2011
        \n \n \n \n 95%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 85%\n \n \n \n \n True Grit\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $171.0M\n 2010
        \n \n \n \n 47%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 38%\n \n \n \n \n Hereafter\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $32.7M\n 2010
        \n \n \n \n 31%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 52%\n \n \n \n \n The Lovely Bones\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $44.0M\n 2009
        \n \n \n \n 20%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 57%\n \n \n \n \n Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $402.1M\n 2009
        \n \n \n \n 26%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 62%\n \n \n \n \n Eagle Eye\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $101.1M\n 2008
        \n \n \n \n 77%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 53%\n \n \n \n \n Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull\n \n \n Director\n \n $317.0M\n 2008
        \n \n \n \n 57%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 85%\n \n \n \n \n Transformers\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $319.0M\n 2007
        \n \n \n \n 91%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 86%\n \n \n \n \n Letters From Iwo Jima\n \n \n Producer\n \n $13.8M\n 2006
        \n \n \n \n 76%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 69%\n \n \n \n \n Flags of Our Fathers\n \n \n Producer\n \n $33.6M\n 2006
        \n \n \n \n 75%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 64%\n \n \n \n \n Monster House\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $73.7M\n 2006
        \n \n \n \n 100%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 91%\n \n \n \n \n The Shark Is Still Working\n \n \n Unknown (Character)\n \n -\n 2006
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n Searching for Orson\n \n \n Unknown (Character)\n \n -\n 2006
        \n \n \n \n 78%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 83%\n \n \n \n \n Munich\n \n \n Director,
        Producer\n         		\n $47.4M\n 2005
        \n \n \n \n 36%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 83%\n \n \n \n \n Memoirs of a Geisha\n \n \n Producer\n \n $57.0M\n 2005
        \n \n \n \n 28%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 48%\n \n \n \n \n The Legend of Zorro\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $45.4M\n 2005
        \n \n \n \n 76%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 42%\n \n \n \n \n War of the Worlds\n \n \n Director\n \n $234.3M\n 2005
        \n \n \n \n 61%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 73%\n \n \n \n \n The Terminal\n \n \n Director,
        Producer\n         		\n $77.0M\n 2004
        \n \n \n \n 88%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 83%\n \n \n \n \n Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust\n \n \n Unknown (Character)\n \n -\n 2004
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic\n \n \n Unknown (Character)\n \n -\n 2004
        \n \n \n \n 97%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 79%\n \n \n \n \n Double Dare\n \n \n Self\n \n -\n 2003
        \n \n \n \n 96%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 89%\n \n \n \n \n Catch Me if You Can\n \n \n Director,
        Producer\n         		\n $164.4M\n 2002
        \n \n \n \n 38%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 45%\n \n \n \n \n Men in Black II\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $192.4M\n 2002
        \n \n \n \n 89%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 80%\n \n \n \n \n Minority Report\n \n \n Director\n \n $132.0M\n 2002
        \n \n \n \n 49%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 37%\n \n \n \n \n Jurassic Park III\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $181.2M\n 2001
        \n \n \n \n 76%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 64%\n \n \n \n \n A.I.: Artificial Intelligence\n \n \n Director,
        Screenwriter\n         		\n $78.6M\n 2001
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n Semper Fi\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n -\n 2001
        \n \n \n \n 43%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 65%\n \n \n \n \n The Legend of Bagger Vance\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $30.7M\n 2000
        \n \n \n \n 57%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 65%\n \n \n \n \n Road Trip\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $68.5M\n 2000
        \n \n \n \n 79%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 87%\n \n \n \n \n Gladiator\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $187.7M\n 2000
        \n \n \n \n 25%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 20%\n \n \n \n \n The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $35.2M\n 2000
        \n \n \n \n 49%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 66%\n \n \n \n \n The Road to El Dorado\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $50.8M\n 2000
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n Shooting War\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n -\n 2000
        \n \n \n \n 90%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 79%\n \n \n \n \n Galaxy Quest\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $71.4M\n 1999
        \n \n \n \n 87%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 93%\n \n \n \n \n American Beauty\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $130.1M\n 1999
        \n \n \n \n 92%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 92%\n \n \n \n \n The Last Days\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $419.8K\n 1998
        \n \n \n \n 84%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 73%\n \n \n \n \n The Mask of Zorro\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $93.8M\n 1998
        \n \n \n \n 92%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 52%\n \n \n \n \n Antz\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $90.7M\n 1998
        \n \n \n \n 94%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 95%\n \n \n \n \n Saving Private Ryan\n \n \n Director,
        Producer\n         		\n -\n 1998
        \n \n \n \n 45%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 43%\n \n \n \n \n Deep Impact\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $140.4M\n 1998
        \n \n \n \n 78%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 79%\n \n \n \n \n Amistad\n \n \n Director,
        Producer\n         		\n -\n 1997
        \n \n \n \n 91%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 80%\n \n \n \n \n Men in Black\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $250.1M\n 1997
        \n \n \n \n 53%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 51%\n \n \n \n \n The Lost World: Jurassic Park\n \n \n Director,
        Film Editing\n         		\n $229.1M\n 1997
        \n \n \n \n 63%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 58%\n \n \n \n \n Twister\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $241.7M\n 1996
        \n \n \n \n 56%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 70%\n \n \n \n \n Balto\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $11.2M\n 1995
        \n \n \n \n 52%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 50%\n \n \n \n \n Casper\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $100.3M\n 1995
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n \n \n 50%\n \n \n \n \n Survivors of the Holocaust\n \n \n Unknown (Character)\n \n -\n 1995
        \n \n \n \n 23%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25%\n \n \n \n \n The Flintstones\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $130.5M\n 1994
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n \n \n 31%\n \n \n \n \n Class of '61\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n -\n 1993
        \n \n \n \n 98%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 97%\n \n \n \n \n Schindler's List\n \n \n Director,
        Producer\n         		\n $96.6M\n 1993
        \n \n \n \n 38%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 50%\n \n \n \n \n We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $8.6M\n 1993
        \n \n \n \n 92%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 91%\n \n \n \n \n Jurassic Park\n \n \n Director,
        Film Editing\n         		\n $415.3M\n 1993
        \n \n \n \n 29%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 76%\n \n \n \n \n Hook\n \n \n Director\n \n $116.3M\n 1991
        \n \n \n \n 75%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 77%\n \n \n \n \n Cape Fear\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $76.4M\n 1991
        \n \n \n \n 57%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 62%\n \n \n \n \n An American Tail: Fievel Goes West\n \n \n Producer\n \n $20.2M\n 1991
        \n \n \n \n 80%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 78%\n \n \n \n \n Back to the Future Part III\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n -\n 1990
        \n \n \n \n 67%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 54%\n \n \n \n \n Joe Versus the Volcano\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $39.1M\n 1990
        \n \n \n \n 68%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 86%\n \n \n \n \n Akira Kurosawa's Dreams\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $1.7M\n 1990
        \n \n \n \n 71%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 59%\n \n \n \n \n Gremlins 2: The New Batch\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $40.5M\n 1990
        \n \n \n \n 62%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 85%\n \n \n \n \n Back to the Future Part II\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $116.4M\n 1989
        \n \n \n \n 67%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 58%\n \n \n \n \n Always\n \n \n Director,
        Producer\n         		\n -\n 1989
        \n \n \n \n 84%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 94%\n \n \n \n \n Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade\n \n \n Director\n \n $195.1M\n 1989
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n Amazing Stories: The Movie\n \n \n Director\n \n -\n 1989
        \n \n \n \n 65%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 79%\n \n \n \n \n The Land Before Time\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $45.8M\n 1988
        \n \n \n \n 96%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 85%\n \n \n \n \n Who Framed Roger Rabbit\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $152.8M\n 1988
        \n \n \n \n 67%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 64%\n \n \n \n \n *batteries not Included\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $32.9M\n 1987
        \n \n \n \n 78%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 90%\n \n \n \n \n Empire of the Sun\n \n \n Director,
        Producer\n         		\n $22.0M\n 1987
        \n \n \n \n 77%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 71%\n \n \n \n \n An American Tail\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $44.9M\n 1986
        \n \n \n \n 50%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 58%\n \n \n \n \n The Money Pit\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $30.9M\n 1986
        \n \n \n \n 93%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 94%\n \n \n \n \n Back to the Future\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $247.0K\n 1985
        \n \n \n \n 65%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 63%\n \n \n \n \n Young Sherlock Holmes\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n $18.1M\n 1985
        \n \n \n \n 73%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 94%\n \n \n \n \n The Color Purple\n \n \n Director,
        Producer\n         		\n $93.4M\n 1985
        \n \n \n \n 77%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 91%\n \n \n \n \n The Goonies\n \n \n Writer,
        Executive Producer\n         		\n $935.0K\n 1985
        \n \n \n \n 86%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 78%\n \n \n \n \n Gremlins\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n -\n 1984
        \n \n \n \n 77%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 82%\n \n \n \n \n Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom\n \n \n Director\n \n -\n 1984
        \n \n \n \n 59%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 55%\n \n \n \n \n Twilight Zone: The Movie\n \n \n Director,
        Producer\n         		\n -\n 1983
        \n \n \n \n 88%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 79%\n \n \n \n \n Poltergeist\n \n \n Screenwriter,
        Producer,
        Film Editing\n         		\n $121.8M\n 1982
        \n \n \n \n 99%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 72%\n \n \n \n \n E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial\n \n \n Director,
        Producer\n         		\n $439.2M\n 1982
        \n \n \n \n 93%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 96%\n \n \n \n \n Raiders of the Lost Ark\n \n \n Director,
        Film Editing\n         		\n $248.2M\n 1981
        \n \n \n \n 72%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 92%\n \n \n \n \n The Blues Brothers\n \n \n Cook County Assessor's Office Clerk (Character)\n \n -\n 1980
        \n \n \n \n 38%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 49%\n \n \n \n \n 1941\n \n \n Director\n \n -\n 1979
        \n \n \n \n 94%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 85%\n \n \n \n \n Close Encounters of the Third Kind\n \n \n Director,
        Writer\n         		\n $3.1M\n 1977
        \n \n \n \n 97%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 90%\n \n \n \n \n Jaws\n \n \n Director\n \n $272.2M\n 1975
        \n \n \n \n 87%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 66%\n \n \n \n \n The Sugarland Express\n \n \n Director\n \n -\n 1974
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n \n \n 40%\n \n \n \n \n Savage\n \n \n Director\n \n -\n 1972
        \n \n \n \n 89%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 84%\n \n \n \n \n Duel\n \n \n Director\n \n -\n 1971
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n L.A. 2017\n \n \n Director\n \n -\n 1971
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n \n \n 20%\n \n \n \n \n Something Evil\n \n \n Director\n \n -\n 1971
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n \n \n 78%\n \n \n \n \n Night Gallery\n \n \n Director\n \n -\n 1969
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n \n \n 60%\n \n \n \n \n Amblin'\n \n \n Director,
        Screenwriter\n         		\n -\n 1968
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n \n \n 14%\n \n \n \n \n Firelight\n \n \n Director,
        Screenwriter\n         		\n -\n 1964
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        \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Credit\n \n \n
        \n \n \n \n 79%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 61%\n \n \n \n \n Halo\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n \n 2022\n \n 2024\n \n
        \n \n \n \n 85%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 69%\n \n \n \n \n Masters of the Air\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n \n 2024\n \n
        \n \n \n \n 50%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 73%\n \n \n \n \n Life on Our Planet\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n \n 2023\n \n
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n \n \n 40%\n \n \n \n \n Tiny Toons Looniversity\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n \n 2023\n \n
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n \n \n 48%\n \n \n \n \n The Late Show With Stephen Colbert\n \n \n Guest\n \n \n 2023\n \n
        \n \n \n \n 90%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 67%\n \n \n \n \n Animaniacs\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n \n 2020-2021\n \n 2023\n \n
        \n \n \n \n 92%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 78%\n \n \n \n \n Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n \n 2020-2022\n \n
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n \n \n 31%\n \n \n \n \n The Drew Barrymore Show\n \n \n Guest\n \n \n 2021\n \n
        \n \n \n \n 41%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 51%\n \n \n \n \n Amazing Stories\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n \n 2020\n \n
        \n \n \n \n 100%\n \n \n \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n Why We Hate\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n \n 2019\n \n
        \n \n \n \n 83%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 85%\n \n \n \n \n James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction\n \n \n Unknown (Character),
        Guest\n         		\n \n 2018\n \n
        \n \n \n \n 98%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 87%\n \n \n \n \n Five Came Back\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n \n 2017\n \n
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n \n \n 10%\n \n \n \n \n The View\n \n \n Guest\n \n \n 2016\n \n
        \n \n \n \n 82%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 90%\n \n \n \n \n Public Morals\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n \n 2015\n \n
        \n \n \n \n 77%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 62%\n \n \n \n \n Extant\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n \n 2014-2015\n \n
        \n \n \n \n 71%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 70%\n \n \n \n \n The Whispers\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n \n 2015\n \n
        \n \n \n \n 79%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 70%\n \n \n \n \n Falling Skies\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n \n 2011-2015\n \n
        \n \n \n \n 59%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 86%\n \n \n \n \n Red Band Society\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n \n 2014-2015\n \n
        \n \n \n \n 29%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 0%\n \n \n \n \n Lucky 7\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n \n 2013-2014\n \n
        \n \n \n \n 68%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 79%\n \n \n \n \n Smash\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n \n 2012-2013\n \n
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n \n \n 58%\n \n \n \n \n Saturday Night Live\n \n \n Unknown (Guest Star)\n \n \n 2012\n \n
        \n \n \n \n 62%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 65%\n \n \n \n \n Terra Nova\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n \n 2011\n \n
        \n \n \n \n 91%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 89%\n \n \n \n \n The Pacific\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n \n 2010\n \n
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n On the Lot\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n \n 2007\n \n
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n \n \n 100%\n \n \n \n \n Taken\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n \n 2002\n \n
        \n \n \n \n 97%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 96%\n \n \n \n \n Band of Brothers\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n \n 2001\n \n
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n Inside the Actors Studio\n \n \n Guest\n \n \n 1999\n \n
        \n \n \n \n 75%\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 84%\n \n \n \n \n Pinky & the Brain\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n \n 1995-1998\n \n
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n \n \n 86%\n \n \n \n \n seaQuest DSV\n \n \n Executive Producer\n \n \n 1993-1995\n \n
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n \n \n 82%\n \n \n \n \n Amazing Stories\n \n \n Director,
        Executive Producer,
        Writer\n         		\n \n 1985-1987\n \n
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n \n \n 79%\n \n \n \n \n Columbo\n \n \n Director\n \n \n 1971\n \n
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n Name of the Game\n \n \n Director\n \n \n 1971\n \n
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n \n \n 100%\n \n \n \n \n Night Gallery\n \n \n Director\n \n \n 1971\n \n
        \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n No Score Yet\n \n \n \n Marcus Welby, M.D.\n \n \n Director\n \n \n 1970\n \n
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