Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg, born December 18, 1946, is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is currently the most commercially successful director.

Spielberg became a household name for directing 1975's summer blockbuster Jaws. He then directed box office successes Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and the adventure films in the Indiana Jones series. Spielberg later explored drama in The Color Purple and Empire of the Sun.

After a brief hiatus, he directed back-to-back box office successes with the acclaimed science fiction action film Jurassic Park and the holocaust drama Schindler's List. In 1998, he directed the World War II epic Saving Private Ryan, which was both a critical and commercial success. Spielberg continued in the 2000s with science fiction, including A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Minority Report and War of the Worlds. He has since directed several fantasy films including The Adventures of Tintin, and Ready Player One, and the historical dramas War Horse, Lincoln, and The Post.

In addition to filmmaking, he co-founded Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks, and has served as a producer for many television series and films. Spielberg is also known for his long time collaboration with 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 films of all time and have received acclaim; seven of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

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