His first professional TV job came when he was hired to do one of the segments for the 1969 pilot episode of Night Gallery. The segment, “Eyes,” starred Joan Crawford, and she and Spielberg were reportedly close friends until her death.
Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, film producer, video game designer and studio executive. In a career spanning five decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres.
Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an archetype of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years, his films began addressing such issues as the Holocaust, slavery, war and terrorism. He is considered one of the most popular and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema.He is also one of the co-founders of the DreamWorks movie studio.
Spielberg won the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindler's List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998). Three of Spielberg's films, Jaws (1975), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and Jurassic Park (1993), achieved box office records, each becoming the highest-grossing film made at the time. To date, the unadjusted gross of all Spielberg-directed films exceeds $8.5 billion worldwide. Forbes puts Spielberg's wealth at $3.0 billion.
Films directed by Steven Spielberg
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2012 Lincoln
2011 War Horse
2011 The Adventures of Tintin
2008 A Timeless Call
2008 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2005 Munich
2005 War of the Worlds
2004 The Terminal
2002 Catch Me If You Can
2002 Minority Report
2001 A.I. Artificial Intelligence
1999 The Unfinished Journey
1998 Saving Private Ryan
1997 Amistad
1997 The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1993 Schindler's List
1993 Jurassic Park
1991 Hook
1989 Always
1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1987 Empire of the Sun
1985 The Color Purple
1984 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
1983 Twilight Zone: The Movie (segment 2)
1982 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark
1979 1941
1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1975 Jaws
1974 The Sugarland Express
1973 Savage
1972 Something Evil
1971 Duel
1968 Amblin'
1967 Slipstream
1964 Firelight
1961 Escape to Nowhere (as Steve Spielberg)
1961 Fighter Squad
1959 The Last Gun
