Steven Spielberg
Known for: Directing
Steven Allan Spielberg KBE (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, Spielberg is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema and is the highest-grossing film director of all time. Among other accolades, he has received three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and three BAFTA Awards, as well as the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1995, an honorary knighthood in 2001, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2006, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2009, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015, and the National Medal of Arts in 2023. According to Forbes, he is the wealthiest celebrity. Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. He moved to California and studied film in college. After directing several episodes for television, including Night Gallery and Columbo, he directed the television film Duel (1971), which Barry Diller approved. He made his theatrical debut with The Sugarland Express (1974), also beginning his decades-long collaboration with composer John Williams, with whom he has worked for all but five of his theatrical releases. He became a household name with the summer blockbuster Jaws (1975). He continued directing acclaimed escapist box-office hits with Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and the original Indiana Jones trilogy (1981–1989). He also explored drama in The Color Purple (1985) and Empire of the Sun (1987). In 1993, Spielberg directed back-to-back hits with the science fiction thriller Jurassic Park, the highest-grossing film at the time, and the epic historical drama Schindler's List, which has often been ranked among the greatest films ever made. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for the latter as well as for the World War II epic Saving Private Ryan (1998). Spielberg has since directed the science fiction films A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Minority Report (2002), War of the Worlds (2005) and Ready Player One (2018); the historical dramas Amistad (1997), Munich (2005), War Horse (2011), Lincoln (2012), Bridge of Spies (2015) and The Post (2017); the comedies Catch Me If You Can (2002) and The Terminal (2004); the animated film The Adventures of Tintin (2011); the musical West Side Story (2021); and the family drama The Fabelmans (2022). Spielberg co-founded Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks Pictures, and he has served as a producer for many successful films and television series, among them Poltergeist (1982), Gremlins (1984), Back to the Future (1985), An American Tail (1986), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Animaniacs (1993), Freakazoid! (1995), Twister (1996), Band of Brothers (2001) and Transformers (2007). Several of Spielberg's works are considered among the greatest films in history, and some are among the highest-grossing films of all time. Seven of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". In 2013, Time listed him among the 100 most influential people. In 2023, Spielberg was the recipient of the first-ever Time 100 Impact Award in the US. Description above from the Wikipedia article Steven Spielberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Series
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Series
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
Series
Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975
Series
Saturday Night Live
Self
1975
Series
Saturday Night Live
Audience Member (uncredited)
1975
Series
Ciné regards
Self
1978
Series
Wetten, dass..?
Self
1981
Series
CBS News Sunday Morning
Self
1979
Series
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
Series
60 Minutes
Self
1968
Film
Jaws
Amity Point Lifestation Worker (voice) (uncredited)
1975
Series
The Drew Barrymore Show
Self
2020
Series
Spécial cinéma
Self
1974
Film
Men in Black
Alien on TV Monitor (uncredited)
1997
Series
People's Choice Awards
Self - Winner
1975
Series
Omnibus
1967
Film '72
Self
1971
Series
Taff
self
1997
Series
The Oscars
Self
1953
Series
The South Bank Show
Self
1978
Film
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Tourist at Airport (uncredited)
1984
Series
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
1975
Series
Tiny Toon Adventures
White Rabbit (voice)
1990
Series
Tiny Toon Adventures
Steven Spielberg (voice)
1990
Series
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
1978
Film
Vanilla Sky
Self (uncredited)
2001
Film
Gremlins
Man in Electric Wheelchair (uncredited)
1984
Film
Paul
Steven Spielberg
2011
Film
The Blues Brothers
Cook County Assessor's Office Clerk
1980
Series
The Tracey Ullman Show
1987
Series
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Self - Guest
2025
Film
The Bloody Hundredth
Self - Filmmaker
2024
Series
Mr. Scorsese
Self
2025
Film
Austin Powers in Goldmember
Steven Spielberg / Famous Director ('Austinpussy')
2002
Series
Reunited Apart
Self
2020
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
Self
1967
Series
LIGHT & MAGIC
Self (uncredited)
2022
Series
LIGHT & MAGIC
Self - Co-Writer, Producer
2022
Series
LIGHT & MAGIC
Self - Director, Jurassic Park
2022
Series
LIGHT & MAGIC
Self
2022
Series
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
Self
2018
Series
Primetime Glick
2001
Series
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
Self
2021
Film
John Candy: I Like Me
Self - Director, 1941 (archive footage)
2025
Please Turn the Page
Self
1977
Series
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
1973
Series
Some Good News
Self
2020
Series
The Directors
Self
1999
Series
Leçon de Cinéma
Self
2004
Series
Challenger: The Final Flight
Self - Director "Close Encounters" (archive footage)
2020
Film
Marty, Life Is Short
Self
2026
Film
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Self
2025
Series
UFOs: Investigating the Unknown
Self (archive footage)
2023
Film
Music by John Williams
Self - Filmmaker
2024
Series
Epic Ride: The Story of Universal Theme Parks
Himself
2025
Series
Five Came Back
Self
2017
Series
The Early Show
Self
1999
Film
Breakdown: 1975
Self - Director of JAWS (archive footage)
2025
Series
Legends of Cinema
Self (archive footage)
2016
Film
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford
Self
2023
Film
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Self
2019
Film
Spielberg
Self
2017
Film
Score: A Film Music Documentary
Self
2017
Film
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
Self
2004
Film
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Self (archive footage)
2009
Film
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Self
2025
Film
Altman
Self
2014
Film
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Self
2021
Film
Denzel Washington: A Model American
Self
2022
Film
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2021
Film
The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
Self
1995
Film
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
Self
2001
Film
Steven Spielberg, the “New Hollywood” Prodigy
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2025
Film
Back in Time
Self
2015
Series
The 90s Greatest
self
2018
Film
Directed by John Ford
Self (2009)
1971
Film
The Shark Is Still Working
Self
2009
Film
Forever Hollywood
Self
1999
Film
50 Films to See Before You Die
Self
2006
Film
Albert Brooks: Defending My Life
Self
2023
Film
The Beginning: The Making of Star Wars Episode I
Self
2001
Film
Lost in the Garden of the World
Self
1975
Film
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
Self
2008
Film
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
Self
2004
Film
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2014
Film
Peter Falk versus Columbo
Self (archive footage)
2019
Film
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Self (archive footage)
2021
Film
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Self
2013
Film
The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson
Self
1990
Film
Mike Nichols: An American Master
Self
2016
Film
Mifune: The Last Samurai
Self - Filmmaker
2016
Film
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
Self (uncredited)
2001
Film
Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
Self
2016
Film
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Self
2022
Film
Room 666
Self
1985
Film
The Making Of The Goonies
Self
1985
Film
Inside the Worlds of Epic Universe
Self
2025
Film
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Self
2003
Film
Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera
Self
2003
Film
George Lucas: Creating an Empire
Self
2005
Film
American Beauty: Look Closer...
Self
2000
Film
Return to Jurassic Park
Self
2011
Film
Close Up
Self (archive footage)
2012
Film
Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
self
2003
Film
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
Self
2000
Film
Something Evil
Party Guest
1972
Film
Fog City Mavericks
Self
2007
Film
Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros.
Self
1991
Film
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
Self
2012
Film
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
Self
2001
Into the Breach: Saving Private Ryan
Self
1999
Film
From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic
Self
1999
Film
Martin Scorsese Directs
Self
1990
Film
The Magical World of Chuck Jones
Self
1992
Film
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster
Self
2013
Film
Oprah & The Color Purple Journey
Self
2023
Film
Milius
Self
2013
Film
François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay
Self (archive footage)
2024
Film
Tales from the Future
Self
2010
Film
Inventing David Geffen
Self
2012
Film
Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis
Self
2011
Film
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
Self (archive footage)
2018
Film
A Century of Cinema
Self
1994
Film
Your Studio and You
Backlot Tour Guide
1995
Film
The Force Is with Them: The Legacy of 'Star Wars'
Self
2004
Film
The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
Self
1981
Film
The Making of 'The Lost World'
Self
1997
Film
Double Dare
Self
2004
Fallen Kingdom: Malcolm's Return
Self
2018
Film
Everything Is Copy
Self
2015
Film
Five Came Back
Self
2017
Film
Something's Coming: West Side Story
Self
2021
Film
The Fabelmans: A Family in Film
Self
2023
Film
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
Self - Interviewee
2004
Film
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
Self
1987
Film
Remembering Stanley Kubrick
Self
1999
Film
The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'
Self
1984
Film
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
Self
2004
Film
The Making of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Self
2023
Film
The Sci-Fi Boys
Self
2006
Stanley Kubrick in Focus
Self
2012
Film
Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible
Self
2010
Film
Warner at War
Narrator (voice)
2008
Film
The 'E.T.' Journals
Self
2012
Film
Three Kinds of Close Encounters
Self
2017
Film
Star Wars: Music by John Williams
Self
1980
Film
The Untameable Kirk Douglas
Self - Filmmaker
2017
Film
The Making of Back to the Future
Self
1986
Film
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
Self
2007
Film
Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean
Self
2026
Fallen Kingdom: Aboard The Arcadia
Self
2018
Film
The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
Self
2009
Film
Looking Back to the Future
Self (archive footage)
2009
Film
The Universal Story
Self (archive footage)
1996
Film
The Concert for Valor
Self
2014
Film
The Making of 'Jaws'
Self
1995
Film
The Stories of West Side Story
Self
2022
Film
The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'
Self
1996
Film
The Music of 'Indiana Jones'
Self
2003
Film
Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
Self
2012
Film
Lincoln: An American Journey
Self
2013
Film
The Making of Poltergeist
Self
1982
Series
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
1994
Film
Nickelodeon Studios Opening Day Celebration!
1990
Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'
Self
2004
Film
Kubrick Remembered
Self
2014
Film
Jaws: The Inside Story
Self
2010
Film
New England Our Way
Self
1974
Film
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
Self
2013
Film
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
Self
2001
Film
Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us
Self
2005
Film
The Making of 'Scarface'
Self (archive footage)
1998
Film
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
Self
2007
Film
Où est parti E.T. ? L'Enfance selon Spielberg
Self (archive footage)
2023
Film
Video Games: The New Masters of the World
Self (archive footage)
2016
Film
The Sound of 'Indiana Jones'
Self
2003
Film
Trumbull Land
Self (archive footage)
2018
Film
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
Self
1976
Film
The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped
Self
2008
Film
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special
Self
2002
Film
Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'
Self
2007
Film
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
Self
2004
Film
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
Self
2007
Film
The Making of 'The Color Purple'
Self
2003
Film
The Moviemakers: Spielberg
Self - (archive footage)
2023
Film
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
Self
2013
Film
The Making of '1941'
Self
1996
Film
Hollywood between Paranoia and Sci-Fi: The Power of Myth
Self
2011
Film
David Lean: A Life in Film
Self
1985
Film
Blacks and Jews
Self
1997
Film
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Self
2004
Film
Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of
Self
2012
Film
The Director's Vision: Hollywood's Best Discuss Their Craft
himself
1998
Film
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
Self
2007
Film
Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'
Self
2008
Film
TVTV: Video Revolutionaries
Self
2018
Film
Robert Capa: In Love and War
Self
2003
Film
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
Self
2007
Film
Filip and Fredrik meet Steven Spielberg - for a minute
Self
2019
Film
From Gizmo to Gremlins: Creating the Creatures
Self
2014
Film
Jaws: The Restoration
Self
2012
Film
In the Teeth of Jaws
Self
1997
Film
A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of Spies
Self
2016
Film
Star Wars vs. Star Trek: The Rivalry Continues
Self
2002
Film
Searching for Orson
Self
2006
Film
Spielberg on Spielberg
Self
2007
Film
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: The 20th Anniversary Celebration
Self
2002
Film
The Joe Spinell Story
(archive footage)
2001
Film
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Popcorn-Eating Man (uncredited)
1997
Film
UFO's Are Here!
Self
1977
Film
Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins
Self
2014
Film
Gremlins, an american nightmare!
Himself (Footage)
2026
Film
The E.T. Reunion
Self
2002
Film
The Middle Passage
Self
1997
Film
A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics
Self
2009
Back to Room 666
Self (archive footage)
2008
Film
How Star Wars Was Saved in the Edit
Self (voice) (archive footage)
2017
Creating A.I.
Self
2002
Film
The Music of E.T.: A Discussion with John Williams
Self
2002
Film
Voices from the List
Self - Host
2004
Film
The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'
Self
1999
Film
Survivors of the Shoah: Visual History Foundation
2004
Coming Attractions: The History of the Movie Trailer
Self
2009
Film
AFI's Master Class - The Art of Collaboration: Steven Spielberg and John Williams
Self
2011
Film
FULL DISCLOSURE: THE REALITY BEHIND SPIELBERG'S DISCLOSURE DAY
Himself
2026
Film
Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Self
1981
Film
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: A Look Back
Self
2002
Film
Behind the Ears: The True Story of Roger Rabbit
Self
2003
Film
Lawrence of Arabia: A Conversation with Steven Spielberg
Self
2001
Film
In Search of Clarity: The Architecture of Gwathmey Siegel
Self
1995
Film
Duel: A Conversation with Director Steven Spielberg
Self
2004
Film
Spielberg on Kubrick
Self
1999
Film
Encountering the Unknown: Inside DISCLOSURE DAY
Himself
2026