Steven Spielberg

79 years old Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

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.

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Recent movies

# Name Character Rating
1 Disclosure Day (2026)
Recently popular movies 		Director / Writer 8
2 Breakdown: 1975 (2025) Self - Director of JAWS (archive footage) -
3 Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story (2025) Self 10
4 SNL50: The Homecoming Concert (2025) Self 8
5 Music by John Williams (2024) Self - Filmmaker 10
6 The Bloody Hundredth (2024) Self - Filmmaker 7.5
7 Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford (2023) Self 7
8 Albert Brooks: Defending My Life (2023) Self 8
9 The Fabelmans (2022) Director / Writer 7.3
10 Something's Coming: West Side Story (2021) Self -
11 Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony (2021) Self (archive footage) -
12 West Side Story (2021) Director / Writer 6.8
13 Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age (2021) Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) 7
14 Peter Falk versus Columbo (2019) Self (archive footage) 8
15 Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019) Self 8.5
16 Schindler's List: 25 Years Later (2018) Self -
17 Ready Player One (2018) Director / Writer 7.6
18 How Star Wars Was Saved in the Edit (2017) Self (voice) (archive footage) -
19 The Post (2017) Director / Writer 7.2
20 Spielberg (2017) Self 6.9
21 Score: A Film Music Documentary (2017) Self 8.5
22 Five Came Back (2017) Self -
23 Mifune: The Last Samurai (2016) Self - Filmmaker -
24 The BFG (2016) Director / Writer 6.9
25 Everything Is Copy (2015) Self -
26 Back in Time (2015) Self 7.9
27 Bridge of Spies (2015)
Oscars 2016 		Director / Writer 7.4
28 Poltergeist (2015) Director / Writer 5.3
29 Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014) Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) -
30 Lincoln: An American Journey (2013) Self -
31 Milius (2013) Self 8.3
32 Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth (2013) Self -
33 Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story (2013) Self -
34 Drew: The Man Behind the Poster (2013) Self 8
35 Lincoln (2012)
Oscars 2013 		Director / Writer 7
36 Stanley Kubrick in Focus (2012) Self -
37 Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of (2012) Self -
38 Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan (2012) Self 7
39 War Horse (2011)
Oscars 2012 		Director / Writer 7.3
40 The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
Oscars 2012 		Director / Writer 7.5
41 Return to Jurassic Park (2011) Self -
42 Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis (2011) Self -
43 Paul (2011) Steven Spielberg 7.2
44 Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible (2010) Self 8
45 Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009) Self (archive footage) 7.8
46 The Shark Is Still Working (2009) Self -
47 Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather' (2008) Self -
48 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) Director / Writer 6.1
49 Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange' (2007) Self 9
50 The Visions of Stanley Kubrick (2007) Self -
51 View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining' (2007) Self -
52 Munich (2005)
Oscars 2006 		Director / Writer 7.5
53 War of the Worlds (2005)
Oscars 2006 		Director / Writer 6.5
54 Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138' (2004) Self 7
55 The Force Is with Them: The Legacy of 'Star Wars' (2004) Self -
56 Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2004) Self -
57 Voices from the List (2004) Self - Host 8
58 Double Dare (2004) Self -
59 Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy (2004) Self 7
60 The Terminal (2004) Director / Writer 7.4
61 A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope (2004) Self 7
62 Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003) Self -
63 Behind the Ears: The True Story of Roger Rabbit (2003) Self 6
64 Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy (2003) self -
65 Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera (2003) Self 7
66 Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) Steven Spielberg / Famous Director ('Austinpussy') 6.3
67 Minority Report (2002)
Oscars 2003 		Director / Writer 7.6
68 Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Oscars 2003 		Director / Writer 8
69 The Beginning: Making Episode I (2001) Self -
70 The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' (2001) Self -
71 A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Oscars 2002 		Director / Writer 7.2
72 Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001) Self 7
73 Vanilla Sky (2001)
Oscars 2002 		Self (uncredited) 6.6
74 The Joe Spinell Story (2001) (archive footage) 7
75 What Lies Beneath (2000) Director / Writer 6.8
76 American Beauty: Look Closer... (2000) Self 6
77 The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut' (1999) Self -
78 Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Oscars 1999 		Director / Writer 8.4
79 The Making of 'Scarface' (1998) Self (archive footage) -
80 Amistad (1997)
Oscars 1998 		Director / Writer 6.9
81 The Making of 'The Lost World' (1997) Self -
82 The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Oscars 1998 		Director / Writer 6.6
83 Men in Black (1997)
Oscars 1998 		Alien on TV Monitor (uncredited) 7.5
84 Your Studio and You (1995) Backlot Tour Guide 10
85 The Making of 'Jurassic Park' (1995) Self 7
86 The Making of 'Jaws' (1995) Self 9
87 Jurassic Park (1993) Director / Writer 8.2
88 Schindler's List (1993) Director / Writer 8.7
89 Hook (1991) Director / Writer 7.3
90 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Director / Writer 8.3
91 Always (1989) Director / Writer 5.8
92 Empire of the Sun (1987) Director / Writer 7.8
93 The Color Purple (1985) Director / Writer 8
94 The Goonies (1985) Director / Writer 8
95 Gremlins (1984) Man in Electric Wheelchair (uncredited) 7.6
96 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) Director / Writer 7.8
97 Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) Director / Writer 7.1
98 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Director / Writer 7.9
99 Poltergeist (1982) Director / Writer 7.5
100 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Director / Writer 8.3
101 The Blues Brothers (1980) Cook County Assessor's Office Clerk 7.9
102 1941 (1979) Director / Writer 6.1
103 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Recently popular movies 		Director / Writer 7.6
104 Jaws (1975) Director / Writer 7.7
105 The Sugarland Express (1974) Director / Writer 5.4
106 Duel (1971) Director / Writer 7.8
107 Directed by John Ford (1971) Self (2009) 6
108 Night Gallery (1969) Director / Writer -
109 Old Man's War Director / Writer -