Steven Spielberg

77, from Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Artwork for The Lost World: Jurassic ParkImage of Steven Spielberg

Biography

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, writer and producer. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, he is the most commercially successful director of all time. Spielberg is the recipient of various accolades, including three Academy Awards, a Kennedy Center honor, four Directors Guild of America Awards, two BAFTA Awards, a Cecil B. DeMille Award and an AFI Life Achievement Award. Seven of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".

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 gained acclaim from critics and audiences. He made his directorial film debut with The Sugarland Express (1974), and became a household name with the 1975 summer blockbuster Jaws. He then directed huge box office successes Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and the Indiana Jones original trilogy (1981-89). Spielberg subsequently explored drama in the acclaimed The Color Purple (1985) and Empire of the Sun (1987).

After a brief hiatus, Spielberg directed the science fiction thriller Jurassic Park (1993), the highest-grossing film ever at the time, and the Holocaust drama Schindler's List (1993), which has often been listed as one of the greatest films ever made. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for the latter and for the 1998 World War II epic Saving Private Ryan. Spielberg continued in the 2000s with science fiction films A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Minority Report (2002) and War of the Worlds (2005). He also directed the adventure films The Adventures of Tintin (2011) 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 musical West Side Story (2021); and the semi-autobiographical drama The Fabelmans (2022). He has been a producer on several successful films, including Poltergeist (1982), Gremlins (1984), Back to the Future (1985) and Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) as well as the miniseries Band of Brothers (2001).

Spielberg co-founded Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks, and has served as a producer for many successful films and television series. He is also known for his long collaboration with the composer John Williams, with whom he has worked for all but five of his feature films. Several of Spielberg's works are among the highest-grossing and greatest films all time. Premiere ranked him first place in the list of 100 Most Powerful People in Movies in 2003. In 2013, Time listed him as one of the 100 most influential people.

Timeline

2025Future projects

  • Poster for Untitled Jurassic World Movie

    Executive Producer

2024Aged 78

  • Poster for The Bloody Hundredth

    Self - Filmmaker

  • Poster for Transformers One

    Executive Producer

2023Aged 77

  • Poster for STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • Poster for The Fabelmans: A Family in Film

    Self

  • Poster for Où est parti E.T. ? L'Enfance selon Spielberg

    Himself (archive)

  • Poster for The Moviemakers: Spielberg

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for The Making of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

    Self

  • Poster for Albert Brooks: Defending My Life

    Self

  • Poster for 'Saving Private Ryan': Boot Camp

    Self

  • Poster for Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford

    Self

  • Poster for Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain

    Self

  • Poster for Oprah & The Color Purple Journey

    Self

  • Poster for AFI Life Achievement Award: 50th Anniversary Special

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Maestro

    Producer

  • Poster for The Color Purple

    Producer

2022Aged 76

  • Poster for The Stories of West Side Story

    Self

  • Poster for Denzel Washington - Un modèle américain

    Self

  • Poster for Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

    Self

  • Poster for Jurassic World Dominion

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for The Fabelmans

    Producer

  • Poster for Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous: Hidden Adventure

    Executive Producer

2021Aged 75

  • Poster for Hannibal Hopkins et Sir Anthony

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for I Am Alfred Hitchcock

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age

    Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

  • Poster for Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It

    Self

  • Poster for Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy

    Self

  • Poster for Something's Coming: West Side Story

    Self

  • Poster for Oslo

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for West Side Story

    Producer

2019Aged 73

  • Poster for Peter Falk Versus Columbo

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

    Self

  • Poster for Men in Black: International

    Executive Producer

2018Aged 72

2017Aged 71

  • Poster for Score: A Film Music Documentary

    Self

  • Poster for Five Came Back

    Self

  • Poster for The Untameable Kirk Douglas

    Self - Filmmaker

  • Poster for Three Kinds of Close Encounters

    Self

  • Poster for Spielberg

    Self

  • Poster for How Star Wars Was Saved in the Edit

    Himself (Archive Footage) (Voice)

  • Poster for Transformers: The Last Knight

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for The Post

    Producer

2016Aged 70

  • Poster for Mike Nichols: An American Master

    Self

  • Poster for De Palma

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • Poster for Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book

    Self

  • Poster for Video Games: The New Masters of the World

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Mifune: The Last Samurai

    Self - Filmmaker

  • Poster for All the Way

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for The BFG

    Producer

  • Poster for Finding Oscar

    Executive Producer

2015Aged 69

  • Poster for Everything Is Copy

    Self

  • Poster for Back in Time

    Self

  • Poster for Auschwitz

    Producer

  • Poster for Poltergeist

    Original Film Writer

  • Poster for Jurassic World

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Bridge of Spies

    Producer

2014Aged 68

  • Poster for And the Oscar Goes To...

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Altman

    Self

  • Poster for Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins

    Self

  • Poster for From Gizmo to Gremlins: Creating the Creatures

    Self

  • Poster for Kubrick Remembered

    Self

  • Poster for The Concert for Valor

    Self

  • Poster for Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

    Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

  • Poster for Transformers: Age of Extinction

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for The Hundred-Foot Journey

    Producer

2013Aged 67

  • Poster for Lincoln: An American Journey

    Self

  • Poster for Milius

    Self

  • Poster for Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

    Self

  • Poster for Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck

    Self

  • Poster for Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth

    Self

  • Poster for Drew: The Man Behind the Poster

    Himself

2012Aged 66

2011Aged 65

  • Poster for Return to Jurassic Park

    Self

  • Poster for Paul

    Self

  • Poster for Hollywood between Paranoia and Sci-Fi: The Power of Myth

    Self

  • Poster for AFI's Master Class - The Art of Collaboration: Steven Spielberg and John Williams

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan

    Self

  • Poster for Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis

    Self

  • Poster for Locke & Key

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Super 8

    Producer

  • Poster for Transformers: Dark of the Moon

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Cowboys & Aliens

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Real Steel

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for The Adventures of Tintin

    Producer

  • Poster for War Horse

    Producer

2010Aged 64

  • Poster for Jaws: The Inside Story

    Self

  • Poster for Tales from the Future

    Self

  • Poster for Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible

    Self

  • Poster for Hereafter

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for True Grit

    Executive Producer

2009Aged 63

2008Aged 62

  • Back to Room 666

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't

    Self

  • Poster for The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped

    Self

  • Poster for Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'

    Self

  • Poster for Adventures in Post-Production

    Self

  • Poster for Indiana Jones 4: The Return of a Legend

    Self

  • Poster for Warner at War

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Lego Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Brick

    Thanks

  • Poster for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

    Director

  • Poster for A Timeless Call

    Director

  • Poster for Eagle Eye

    Executive Producer

2007Aged 61

  • Poster for AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition

    Self

  • Poster for Spielberg on Spielberg

    Self

  • Poster for Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'

    Self

  • Poster for View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'

    Self

  • Poster for The Visions of Stanley Kubrick

    Self

  • Poster for Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001

    Self

  • Poster for Fog City Mavericks

    Himself

  • Poster for Transformers

    Executive Producer

2006Aged 60

2005Aged 59

  • Poster for George Lucas: Creating an Empire

    Self

  • Poster for Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us

    Self

  • Poster for War of the Worlds

    Director

  • Poster for The Legend of Zorro

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Memoirs of a Geisha

    Producer

  • Poster for Munich

    Producer

2004Aged 58

2003Aged 57

  • Poster for Behind the Ears: The True Story of Roger Rabbit

    Self

  • Poster for Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera

    Self

  • Poster for Robert Capa: In Love and War

    Himself

  • Poster for The Light and Magic of 'Indiana Jones'

    Self

  • Poster for The Sound of 'Indiana Jones'

    Self

  • Poster for The Stunts of 'Indiana Jones'

    Self

  • Poster for The Music of 'Indiana Jones'

    Self

  • Poster for Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy

    Self

2002Aged 56

  • Poster for The Music of E.T.: A Discussion with John Williams

    Self

  • Poster for Star Wars vs. Star Trek: The Rivalry Continues

    Self

  • Poster for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special

    Self

  • Poster for Austin Powers in Goldmember

    Steven Spielberg / Famous Director ('Austinpussy')

  • Poster for Price for Peace

    Producer

  • Poster for Minority Report

    Director

  • Poster for Men in Black II

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Catch Me If You Can

    Producer

2001Aged 55

  • Poster for Lawrence of Arabia: A Conversation with Steven Spielberg

    Self

  • Poster for Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

    Self

  • Poster for The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'

    Self

  • Poster for The Joe Spinell Story

    (archive footage)

  • Poster for The Beginning: Making 'Episode I'

    Self

  • Poster for R2-D2: Beneath the Dome

    Self

  • Poster for Vanilla Sky

    Guest at David Aames' Party (uncredited)

  • Poster for Semper Fi

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for A.I. Artificial Intelligence

    Producer

  • Poster for Jurassic Park III

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company

    Producer

2000Aged 54

1999Aged 53

1998Aged 52

  • Poster for Deep Impact

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for The Mask of Zorro

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Saving Private Ryan

    Director

  • Poster for The Last Days

    Executive Producer

1997Aged 51

  • In the Teeth of Jaws

    Self

  • Poster for The Making of 'The Lost World'

    Himself

  • Poster for The Lost World: Jurassic Park

    Popcorn-Eating Man (uncredited)

  • Poster for Men in Black

    Alien on TV Monitor (uncredited)

  • Poster for Blacks and Jews

    Self

  • Poster for Amistad

    Producer

1996Aged 50

1995Aged 49

  • Poster for In Search of Clarity: The Architecture of Gwathmey Siegel

    Self

  • Poster for Your Studio and You

    Backlot Tour Guide

  • Poster for The Making of 'Jurassic Park'

    Self

  • Poster for The Making of 'Jaws'

    Self

  • Poster for Casper

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Tiny Toon Night Ghoulery

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Balto

    Producer

1994Aged 48

  • Poster for A Century of Cinema

    Self

  • Poster for Tiny Toon Spring Break

    Executive Producer

  • I'm Mad

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for The Flintstones

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for DeGenerazione

    Thanks

1993Aged 47

  • Poster for Trail Mix-Up

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Class of '61

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Jurassic Park

    Director

  • Poster for We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Schindler's List

    Producer

1992Aged 46

  • Poster for The Magical World of Chuck Jones

    Self

  • Poster for Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Abdulladzhan, or Dedicated to Steven Spielberg

    In Memory Of

1991Aged 45

  • Poster for Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros.

    Self

  • Poster for Hook

    Director

  • Poster for Back To The Future: The Ride

    Creative Consultant

  • Poster for A Brief History of Time

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

    Producer

  • Poster for A Wish for Wings That Work

    Executive Producer

1990Aged 44

  • Poster for Nickelodeon Studios Opening Day Celebration!

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Martin Scorsese Directs

    Self

  • Poster for The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson

    Self

  • Poster for Joe Versus the Volcano

    Producer

  • Poster for Dreams

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Back to the Future Part III

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Roller Coaster Rabbit

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Gremlins 2: The New Batch

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Arachnophobia

    Executive Producer

1989Aged 43

  • Poster for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

    Director

  • Poster for Tummy Trouble

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Dad

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Back to the Future Part II

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Always

    Producer

1988Aged 42

  • Poster for Who Framed Roger Rabbit

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for The Land Before Time

    Executive Producer

1987Aged 41

  • Poster for The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun

    Self

  • Poster for Innerspace

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Empire of the Sun

    Producer

  • Poster for *batteries not included

    Executive Producer

1986Aged 40

  • Poster for The Making of Back to the Future

    Self

  • Poster for The Money Pit

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Amazing Stories

    Story

  • Poster for An American Tail

    Executive Producer

1985Aged 39

1984Aged 38

  • Poster for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

    Tourist at Airport (uncredited)

  • Poster for Gremlins

    Man in Electric Wheelchair (uncredited)

  • Poster for The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'

    Self

1983Aged 37

  • Poster for Twilight Zone: The Movie

    Producer

1982Aged 36

  • Poster for Room 666

    Self

  • Poster for The Making of Poltergeist

    Self

  • Poster for Poltergeist

    Story

  • Poster for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

    Producer

1981Aged 35

  • Poster for Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark

    Self

  • Poster for The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'

    Self

  • Poster for Raiders of the Lost Ark

    Director

  • Poster for Continental Divide

    Executive Producer

1980Aged 34

  • Poster for Star Wars: Music by John Williams

    Himself

  • Poster for The Blues Brothers

    Cook County Assessor's Office Clerk

  • Poster for Used Cars

    Executive Producer

1979Aged 33

  • Poster for 1941

    Director

1978Aged 32

  • Poster for I Wanna Hold Your Hand

    Executive Producer

1977Aged 31

  • Poster for UFO's Are Here!

    Self

  • Poster for Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    Writer

1976Aged 30

  • Poster for TVTV Looks at the Oscars

    Self

1975Aged 29

  • Poster for Lost in the Garden of the World

    Self

  • Poster for Jaws

    Amity Point Lifestation Worker (voice) (uncredited)

1974Aged 28

  • Poster for New England Our Way

    Himself

  • Poster for The Sugarland Express

    Story

1973Aged 27

  • Poster for Savage

    Director

  • Poster for Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies

    Story

1972Aged 26

  • Poster for Something Evil

    Party Guest

1971Aged 25

  • Poster for Directed by John Ford

    Self (2009)

  • Poster for LA 2017

    Director

  • Poster for Duel

    Director

1969Aged 23

  • Poster for Night Gallery

    Director

1968Aged 22

  • Poster for Amblin'

    annoying guy in van

Year unknown