Steven Spielberg

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Steven Spielberg Wiki Biography

Steven Allan Spielberg was born on 18 December 1946, in Cincinnati, Ohio USA, of part Ukrainian descent through his father, but into an othodox Jewish family. Also known as Steve Spielrock and Uncle Morty, Spielberg is an American film producer, director, screenwriter, actor and TV editor who has produced such popular and financially successful movies as “Jaws”, “Jurassic Park” and “Schindler’s List”. He has been active in the film industry since 1963

So just how rich is Steven Spielberg? Sources estimate that Steven’s net worth is now over $3.4 billion. This huge sum of course makes him one of the richest film producers in the world, and today Spielberg’s films are generally considered to be classical masterpieces of cinematography. Nowadays his earnings per year top $150 million, so you shouldn’t have any doubt about how rich he is, nor of the potential for his wealth to increase.

Steven Spielberg’s parents were a pianist Leah Adherer, and an electrical and computer engineer Arnold Spielberg. Spielberg attended Saratoga high school and later graduated from the California State University, but from early childhood Steven Spielberg was interested in making movies, and he even created the first one by himself as a teenager – it was short 8mm film, after which he made more of them, and showed his first movies to other kids from the neighbourhood for 25 cents, so even as a young child Steven was a successful entrepreneur. This talent later helped Spielberg not only become a famous TV producer, but consequently to build a great amount of net worth too.

Though the first award Steven Spielberg received was at the age of 13, he was not popular until 1975. His films cover many genres, from science fiction in his early days, to action films and subsequently environmental and humanistic themes, and he has achieved success in all these facets. His first blockbuster was “Jaws” in 1975, one of the highest grossing films ever, and a great boost to his net worth. He followed this with “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” in 1977, before moving into action-adventure with the first of the Indiana Jones films, “Raiders of the Lost Ark” in 1981; four more of the series ensued to 2008, all successful at the box office, and contributing regularly to Spielberg’s net worth.

Meantime, Steven Spielberg was constantly busy with films such as “ET the Extra-Terrestrial”, “Empire of the Sun”, “Back to the Future” and its sequel, “Jurassic Park”, “Schindler’s List” for which he won an Oscar for Best Director, “Armistad”, “Saving Private Ryan” – another Oscar –  “Munich” and “War Horse”, among many others.

The box office takings for all the films that Spielberg has directed are assessed as almost $10 billion, which makes him the director grossing the most in cinema history.

Though today Spielberg is 67 years old, he continues his activity in the entertainment industry. His net worth is certain to rise when takings for recent movies “The Hundred-Foot Journey” in 2014 and “Bridge of Spies” in 2015 are calculated, together with three other films still in development as of late 2015.

Perhaps nothing says more about Steven Spielberg’s net worth as his homes and estates. He is the owner of the Quele farm in the East Hampton Village, Malibu mansion in Los Angeles, California, Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles, Brentwood estate in Northeast Washington, San Remo Building apartments in Manhattan, and East Hampton mansion in Eastern Long Island, among others. He is also an aviator, flying around in his Bombardier Global Express XRS.

In his personal life, Steven Spielberg first met Amy Irving in 1976, but they married only in 1985, had a son, but divorced in 1989 although remaining friends; the cost to Steven was just $100 million. Spielberg has been married to Kate Capshaw since 1991, and they have three children, plus an adopted son.

Spielberg, TV producer and director, is also known to be a fan of a video gaming. He loves to play Wii, Xbox 360 and PS 3. Moreover, once he was even worked together with EA games and it looks like this deal was quite successful, as Spielrock is known not only as a talented film maker, but also as a great businessman.

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Steven Spielberg Quick Info

Full Name Steven Spielberg
Net Worth $3.5 Billion
Date Of Birth December 18, 1946
Place Of Birth Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Height 5 ft 7 in (1.715 m)
Profession Film Producer, Film director, Screenwriter, Entrepreneur, Television producer, Actor, Film Editor, Television Director, Businessperson
Education California State University, Long Beach, Brookdale Community College, Saratoga High School, Arcadia High School
Nationality American
Spouse Kate Capshaw (m. 1991), Amy Irving (m. 1985–1989)
Children Sasha Spielberg, Max Spielberg, Mikaela Spielberg, Sawyer Spielberg, Destry Spielberg
Parents Arnold Spielberg, Leah Adler
Siblings Anne Spielberg
Nicknames Steve Spielberg , Stephen Spielberg , Steven Spielrock , Steven Allan Spielberg , Steven Speilberg , Uncle Morty , Steven
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Steven-Allan$002DSpielberg/9648109188
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000229
Awards Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, Academy Awards for the category of Best Director, Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for his work as a creative producer, Best Picture Oscar, Federal Cross of Merit, honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) by…
Nominations Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay – Motion Picture, César Award for Best Foreign Film, BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film, Satellite Award for Best Director, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay, AACTA International Award for Best D…
Movies “Jaws” (1975), “Jurassic Park”, “Schindler’s List”, “ET the Extra-Terrestrial”, “Empire of the Sun”, “Back to the Future”, “Schindler’s List”
TV Shows Amazing Stories, Tiny Toon Adventures, High Incident, Freakazoid!, Invasion America, Pinky and the Brain, Toonsylvania, On the Lot, Jakers! The Adventures of Dennis Mitchell

Steven Spielberg Trademarks

  1. Frequently uses (and helped re-popularize) the “dolly zoom” in-camera effect used to signify/evoke an impactful moment or realization, famously employed in “Jaws” upon Chief Brody witnessing the shark attack from his beach chair.
  2. Ardent champion of the “cutting-in-camera” philosophy
  3. Known on-set for being able to work and come up with ideas very quickly (the best example of this would be the filming of “Saving Private Ryan”, where Spielberg came up with angles and shot ideas on the spot, due to the fact that the film was largely un-storyboarded). Perhaps this is a habit he picked up after the filming of “Jaws”, which was, very famously, a torturously slow shoot due to technical problems.
  4. His films are almost always edited by Michael Kahn.
  5. Is credited for starting the summer blockbuster tradition with 1975’s first $100 million megahit, Jaws (1975).
  6. Since Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), all of his movies have featured visual effects (even those that were undetected) by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), the F/X house created by his friend George Lucas. The only exception has been The Terminal (2004), which had F/X work by Digital Imageworks.
  7. A common theme in many of his films is ordinary people who discover something extraordinary – people, places, artifacts, creatures, etc. (Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)).
  8. Protagonists in his films often come from families with divorced parents, with fathers portrayed as reluctant, absent or irresponsible, most notably in _et: the Extra-Terrestrial_ (Elliot’s mother is divorced and father is absent) and Catch Me If You Can (2002) (Frank Abagnale’s mother and father split early in the film). This reflects Spielberg’s own experience as a youth with his parents breaking up.
  9. Frequently casts Tom Hanks, Richard Dreyfuss, Harrison Ford, Frank Welker and Tom Cruise.
  10. Important images, or characters, are often seen through the rear-view mirror of a car (Duel (1971), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Jurassic Park (1993), Schindler’s List (1993), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)).
  11. Frequently uses a piano as an element in key scenes (Schindler’s List (1993), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Minority Report (2002)).
  12. Frequent references to Disney films, music, or theme parks
  13. Consistent references to World War II.
  14. His films often show children in some sort of danger.
  15. He often uses images of the sun (Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), The Color Purple (1985), Empire of the Sun (1987), Saving Private Ryan (1998)).
  16. Onscreen performers staring, usually at something off-camera.
  17. Often shows shooting stars (Jaws (1975)).
  18. Frequently uses music by John Williams.
  19. Uses powerful flashlights in dark scenes (Jurassic Park (1993); The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)). The outline of the beam is often made visible through dust, mist, or fog.

Steven Spielberg Quotes

  • [on John Ford] I try to watch a John Ford film before I start work on any movie simply because he inspires me, and I’m very sensitive to the way he paints his pictures, and the way he blocks people, and frames the action while giving the illusion that there’s things happening outside of the camera when there’s not. He celebrates the frame, not just what happens inside of it. He’s like a classic painter. So I have to watch The Searchers (1956). I have to. Almost every time. I never tire of it. It has so many superlatives.
  • [on directing] I just love it. This is something that I’ll be doing for the rest of my life. [2016]
  • [on Super 8mm] For me, 8mm was the beginning of everything. (…) When I think of 8mm, I think of the movies. [2016]
  • [on Kodak’s new Super 8 camera and film in general] When I watch the news, I expect and want it to look like live television. However, I don’t want that in my movies. I want our century-plus medium to keep its filmic look and I like seeing very fine, swimming grain up there on the screen. To me, it’s just more alive and it imbues an image with mystery, so it’s never literal. I love movies that aren’t literally up in my face with images so clear there is nothing left to our imaginations. Had I shot it on a digital camera, the Omaha Beach landings in Saving Private Ryan (1998) would have crossed the line for those that found them almost unbearable. Paintings done on a computer and paintings done on canvas require an artist to make us feel something. To be the curser or the brush, that is the question and certainly both can produce remarkable results. But doesn’t the same hold true for the cinematic arts? Digital or celluloid? Vive la difference! Shouldn’t both be made available for an artist to choose? [2016]
  • [After watching Showgirls (1995)] Sometimes I hate this town.
  • [on Back to the Future (1985)] I just think the movie is so rich in story, and so rich in occurrence that I really liked it. And it was all in the script too.
  • I could never have been an accountant. I got a D in math. [2015]
  • [on Richard Attenborough] Dickie Attenborough was passionate about everything in his life – family, friends, country and career. He made a gift to the world with his emotional epic Gandhi (1982) and he was the perfect ringmaster to bring the dinosaurs back to life as John Hammond in Jurassic Park (1993). He was a dear friend and I am standing in an endless line of those who completely adored him.
  • [on awarding the Palme d’Or to Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013) at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival] The film was a great love story that made all of us privileged, not embarrassed to be flies on the wall, but privileged to have been invited to see this story of deep love and deep heartbreak evolve from the beginning in a wonderful way where time stood still, because the director didn’t put any constraints on the narrative – he let the scenes play as long as scenes play in real life. We were absolutely spellbound by the brilliance of the performances and especially the way the director observed his players – the way he just let the characters breathe. The spaces were as important as what they said – what they weren’t saying – and we just felt that it was a profound love story and whether or not it plays in the United States was not a criterion for any of our choices. We didn’t think about how it was going to play; we just were really happy that somebody had the courage to tell the story the way they told it.
  • I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That’s never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad’s 8-millimeter movie camera. The thrill hasn’t changed at all. In fact, as I’ve gotten older, it’s actually increased, because now I appreciate the collaboration. When I was a kid, there was no collaboration, it’s you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself. My job was constantly to keep a movie family going. I’m blessed with the same thing that John Ford and Howard Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock were blessed with, a mini-industry very similar to the one from the golden era of Hollywood, where it was the same people making movies with you each and every time. And it makes life so much more enjoyable when you get to go home to your family and go to work with your other family.
  • I’ve often wondered what gets me to direct and what gets me to produce. I’ve never been able to answer the question adequately even for myself. When something gets a stranglehold on me and compels me to direct it, I don’t question why. I don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. I just know what it feels like to be overwhelmed with a desire to make a movie. And I also know as a businessman what it means to be overwhelmed with a desire to produce a good story. But there’s a great difference between production and direction for me. Once I’m producing something, I never think, “Gee, I wonder what it would have been like if I had directed it.” I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I’ve never questioned the choices I make as a director. Whether in success or in failure, I’m proud of every single movie I’ve ever directed.
  • [on discovering his calling in life] I think it was ‘A Tale of Two Cities’. It was required reading. How do you require a child of let’s say twelve years-old to read ‘A Tale of Two Cities’? What I did was just make little stick figures in the dog-eared sections of the book, one frame at a time, in different positions. And it was like a flip-book. I just did flip-books and saw these images come to life. That was the first time I was able to create an image that moved.
  • [laughingly, to composer John Williams who first played the theme for Jaws (1975) on the piano] Well, that isn’t going to do it.
  • I think that science fiction is the child of every soul with an imagination. There’s no predicting what the next generation of imaginative writers and directors be giving all of us. Sci-fi, in a way, is the greatest exercise. It’s like turning your brain into a muscle. It just exercises every single aspect of your brain. It sometimes forces filmmakers to think, on the one hand, as a quantum physicist and, on the other hand, as a capricious idealist. It’s fun. It’s like when actors say they would rather play the villain than the hero because the villain has more character. Science fiction is the character of every genre. I actually have a dream sci-fi project that I’m not ready to talk about yet. But it’s in the early, early, early planning stages and I’m very excited about it. It will be an original screenplay. I’m not going to write it. I wrote the story and somebody else will write the screenplay. [2001]
  • The world would be a poorer place without Doctor Who (1963).
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) made so much money and rescued Columbia from bankruptcy. It was the most money I ever made, but it was a meagre success story. Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977) was a phenomenon and I was the happy beneficiary of a couple of points from that movie which I am still seeing money on today.
  • I said to George there’s only one person that can play Indy’s father and that’s James Bond, and the original James Bond and the greatest James Bond, Sean Connery.
  • [Interview on “Inside the Actors Studio” 14 March 1999] I think “cutting-in-the-camera” is the greatest lesson that any director can learn about filmmaking, because when you don’t got it, you don’t got it, and there’s no way to go back and get it…
  • [on beginning film production at the age of eleven] It cost me about fifty dollars to make the movie, and I would charge a quarter a ticket, and at the end of the summer I might have fifty-five dollars. That’s kind of the way Hollywood works today. Small margins.
  • [on A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)] A.I. is a Kubrick concept, a Kubrick approach, a Kubrick philosophy, generalled by Kubrick and charged by me.
  • It boggles my mind how much I feel is left on my plate. There are things on the other side of the supper table stewing in pots that I’m not really even aware of. I would retire if I didn’t feel that way. [2009]
  • I don’t plan my career. I don’t think I’ll go dark, dark, dark, then light, then dark. I react spontaneously to what falls into my arms, to what is right at the time. I’ve never made a conscious choice, except maybe for the Indiana Jones sequels and The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997). They’re the only times I’ve said, “Okay, I need to make these pictures for the public because they’re craving it.” Also, with Lost World, I hadn’t directed for three years so I wanted to do something I felt secure making. I didn’t want to make a serious picture like Schindler’s List (1993).
  • [on filming Lincoln (2012)] All during the picture I called Daniel Day-Lewis Mr. President, but that was my idea. I also wore a suit every day which I don’t usually do when I’m directing. Everybody was dressed up in their period wardrobe. I did not wear 19th century wardrobe. I wore pretty good clothes from this era. I just wanted to blend in. We knew we were in the 21st century at all times. But once you stepped onto the stages of the White House, everybody really felt that they were making a contribution to remembering this critical moment in our shared history.
  • [on Daniel Day-Lewis, preparing to portray Abraham Lincoln] Daniel did something first that made me sad. He wanted to wait a year. And it was a masterstroke because he had a year to do research. He had a year to find the character in his own private process. He had a year to discover how Lincoln sounded, and he found the voice. He had Lincoln so embedded in his psyche, in his soul, in his mind, that I would come to work in the morning and Lincoln would sit behind his desk, and we could begin.
  • [on film] My favorite and preferred step between imagination and image is a strip of photochemistry that can be held, twisted, folded, looked at with the naked eye, or projected on to a surface for others to see. It has a scent and it is imperfect. If you get too close to the moving image, it’s like impressionist art. And if you stand back, it can be utterly photo-realistic. You can watch the grain, which I like to think of as the visible, erratic molecules of a new creative language. After all, this “stuff” of dreams is mankind’s most original medium, and dates back to 1895. Today, its years are numbered, but I will remain loyal to this analogue art-form until the last lab closes.
  • [About the criticism he received for The Color Purple (1985)] Most of the criticism came from directors that felt that we had overlooked them, and that it should have been a black director telling a black story. That was the main criticism. The other criticism was that I had softened the book. I have always copped to that. I made the movie I wanted to make from Alice Walker’s book. Alice was on the set a lot of the time and could have always stepped forward to say, “You know, this is too Disney. This is not the way I envisioned the scene going down.” She was very supportive during filmmaking, and so I felt that we were doing a good job adapting her novel. There were certain things in the [lesbian] relationship between Shug Avery and Celie that were finely detailed in Alice’s book, that I didn’t feel could get a [PG-13] rating. And I was shy about it. In that sense, perhaps I was the wrong director to acquit some of the more sexually honest encounters between Shug and Celie, because I did soften those. I basically took something that was extremely erotic and very intentional, and I reduced it to a simple kiss. I got a lot of criticism for that.
  • There are parts of Hook (1991) I love. I’m really proud of my work right up through Peter being hauled off in the parachute out the window, heading for Neverland. I’m a little less proud of the Neverland sequences, because I’m uncomfortable with that highly stylized world that today, of course, I would probably have done with live-action character work inside a completely digital set. But we didn’t have the technology to do it then, and my imagination only went as far as building physical sets and trying to paint trees blue and red.
  • John has given movies a musical language that can be spoken and understood in every country on this planet. John Williams is the most common language through which people of all ages communicate and remember to each other why they love movies. I am the only person who can say that I’ve collaborated with John for exactly half of his life. Without question, he has been the single most significant contributor to my success as a filmmaker. This nation’s greatest composer and our national treasure is also one of the greatest friends I have ever had in my entire life.
  • Carlo Rambaldi was E.T.’s Geppetto.
  • [on Schindler’s List (1993)] Robin (Williams) would call me every week to cheer me up. And I’d tell him what scenes we’d shot.
  • I tried twice to get Cubby Broccoli to hire me to direct a Bond film. The first time I met him in person was after I’d done Duel (1971). I told him I wanted to do a Bond picture more than anything else in the world and he said, “We only hire British, experienced directors.” So I failed in both categories.
  • When I did War Horse (2011), I was struck by the reality of being out in the fresh air, seeing the sky changing and light moving, and seeing the performances in real time. But being corralled in a digital world with no way out on Tintin became so thrilling to me, I was completely enveloped and enraptured.
  • When you listen, you learn, You absorb like a sponge – and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.
  • Daniel Day-Lewis would have always been counted as one of the greatest of actors, were he from the silent era, the golden age of film or even some time in cinema’s distant future.
  • [About Munich (2005)] I am not attacking Israel with this film. In no way, shape or form am I doing that. I’m simply asking why the world feels that the only acceptable response to violence is counter-violence. I’m not answering that question. Just asking it.
  • [on his friend and frequent collaborator Michael Crichton] Michael’s talent out scaled even his own dinosaurs of ‘Jurassic Park.’ He was the greatest at blending science with big theatrical concepts, which is what gave credibility to dinosaurs again walking the earth. In the early days, Michael had just sold ‘The Andromeda Strain’ to Robert Wise at Universal and I had recently signed on as a contract TV director there. My first assignment was to show Michael Crichton around the Universal lot. We became friends and professionally ‘Jurassic Park,’ ‘ER,’ and ‘Twister’ followed. Michael was a gentle soul who reserved his flamboyant side for his novels. There is no one in the wings that will ever take his place.
  • I had a lot to prove when I made Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) because I had done three movies in a row that had gone wildly over budget and schedule, 1941 (1979), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and Jaws (1975). I was ready to turn over a new leaf and Raiders was my chance to make a movie responsibly – under schedule and under budget. Fortunately George Lucas gave me a lot of support and help with preparation. I wasn’t dreaming of big box office or making a classic; all I was focused on was making a film the audience would like and doing it in a way that was fiscally responsible. I think we were all surprised by the worldwide success of Raiders. I remember hearing people quote lines from the film or seeing kids pretend to be the characters, and realizing that the film had gone beyond box office success and had entered popular culture. That was one of the happy aftershocks of making that movie. More than anything, we want our films to be watchable and Raiders is a movie I can watch with my kids and completely detach myself from the fact that I directed it. I sit back and enjoy it. For a kid who grew up dreaming of making memorable images, it’s a thrill to know Raiders is one of those films where people just have to see the silhouette of the main character, and they immediately think, “Indiana Jones!”
  • [on Akira Kurosawa] Kurosawa is the pictorial Shakespeare of our time.
  • I’m very relaxed about Oscars. I’ll admit to you that I wasn’t relaxed before I won for Schindler’s List (1993). I was pretty much worried about it and almost wanted to get one behind me to get the anxiety out of my gut every time December reared its ugly head. So after I won for Schindler’s and Saving Private Ryan (1998), I have no expectations of ever winning again. Whatever happens, happens.
  • I’ve had darkness in all the films, in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Jaws (1975). There are moments in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) that are brutally dark. I just don’t think people have stopped to study. They may not have stopped to think when they assume that I suddenly developed a dark side because of Schindler’s List (1993). When critics carp about my dark side, I always wonder, “Well, did they really look in the shadows?”
  • I committed to directing Catch Me If You Can (2002) principally because Frank Abagnale Jr. did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard. And I’m a big fan of scams. I loved The Flim-Flam Man (1967). I loved Scarecrow (1973) with Gene Hackman. I loved Elmer Gantry (1960) – which I think is a bit of a scam movie. The Sting (1973) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) were kind of scams. You know, some of those villains, you have to sympathize with them.
  • In Saving Private Ryan (1998) I had a sense that I was establishing a template, based on the experiences communicated to me by the veterans who fought that morning on Dog Green, Omaha Beach, and their experiences, and the very few surviving photographs of the great war correspondent, Robert Capa. I combined those photographs to try to find a 24-frame-per-second equivalent for how I can show that kind of terror and chaos without making a movie that looked elegant and beautiful and in full living color, very much like war movies had been made in the past. It wasn’t that I was trying to break the mold of the old war movie approach, visually, but I was simply trying to validate all of this testimony that had been communicated to us, based on the young men that lived and survived that battle. I didn’t know it was going to establish a look for war movies, but it was certainly what I thought was right for that particular story.
  • [on working on The Pacific (2010), Band of Brothers (2001) and Saving Private Ryan (1998)] – What moved us to tell these stories, based on these survivors and veterans, was to see what happens to the human soul throughout this particular engagement. These islands were stepping stones to the mainland of Japan. We weren’t trained by the drill instructors stateside. We were trained by the enemy, in how to fight the enemy. They trained us how to fight like them. I don’t want to compare one war to the other, in terms of savagery, but there’s a level when nature and humanity conspire against the individual. To see what happens to those individuals, throughout the entire course of events, leading up to the dropping of the two atomic bombs, is something that was very, very hard for the actors, the writers and all of us to put on the screen, but we felt we had to try.
  • There’s no other way to learn about it, except through documentaries. I encourage documentarians to continue telling stories about World War II. I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn’t often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today. Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as “The Pacific.”
  • [on if the soldier’s journey is the ultimate hero’s journey] – For one thing, I don’t think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand. That’s not going to happen. In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who’s never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don’t look at war as a geopolitical endeavor. You look at war as something that is putting your best friend in jeopardy. You are responsible for the person in front of you and the person behind you, and the person to the left of you and the person to the right of you. Those are the small pods that will inadvertently create a hero, but that is someone else’s observation, not the observation of those kids in the foxholes.
  • [on Janusz Kaminski] I was watching television and saw his name on a TV movie, Wildflower (1991), that was beautifully photographed, so I called up the head of my TV department and asked him to consider hiring him to do a pilot we produced about the Civil War, Class of ’61 (1993). The director agreed to use Janusz and he was great. I think Janusz has brought a lighting style to my movies that I’d never had before. Even Allen Daviau who had done three pictures with me, who I think is the greatest lighting cameraman in town. But Janusz brought more daring, dangerous light into my films. I set the camera. I do all the blocking. I choose the lenses. I compose everything. But Janusz, basically, is my lighting guy. And he’s a master painter with light; he’s made tremendous contributions to my work through his art.
  • I’ve never used John Williams to tell people how to feel. I use John Williams to enhance my vision and my thoughts emotionally from scene to scene. He’ll signal when the shark is coming, which are the most famous single notes next to Beethoven’s Fifth. In telling a story, I will use every tool in my arsenal. I will do anything in my power to communicate the best story as I know how.
  • My movies are all different. I’ve tried to make every movie as if it was made by a different director, because I’m very conscious of not wanting to impose a consistent style on subject matter that is not necessarily suited to that style. So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it’s hard, because everybody has style. You can’t help it. It just comes off you like pollen. I mean, if you’re a bee, you’re a bee, but at the same time I try very hard to work a little out of the box every time I make a choice. And I had to go back to a box that I had helped invent in the 1980s to accomplish the task of bringing Indiana Jones back to life in the 21st century. We went right back to the blazing Technicolor style of the first three installments. For Munich (2005), I certainly tried to bring an early-70s Hollywood style, a cinéma-vérité style, with zoom-lenses, and a lot of the tools that were used to make movies in the 70s, one of my favorites being The Day of the Jackal (1973), the Fred Zinnemann film. But I didn’t want to update Indiana Jones to the 1950s beyond hair, makeup, costumes and cars. I wanted it to look very similar to the first three pictures.
  • I never know what I’m in for. Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong. For instance, with Schindler’s List (1993) I was pretty certain that whatever came my way in Poland I could tolerate, and just put my camera between myself and the subject, and protect myself by creating my own aesthetic distance. And immediately, on the first day of shooting, that broke down. I didn’t have that as a safety net and immediately I realized that that this was about to become the most personal professional experience of my life. It was a devastatingly insightful experience, but it’s something I still haven’t gotten over. I think back on the production of Schindler’s List with very sad memories, because of the subject matter, not because of the working experience. The working experience was nearly perfect because everybody held on to each other in that production. We formed a circle. It was very therapeutic, and for a lot of people, it changed their lives. A lot of the actors, a lot of the crew, it changed their lives. It changed my life, for sure. But other productions I’ve gone into with a blythe spirit, thinking, This film’s a pushover. It’s often when I take that attitude, the movie turns around and runs over me as if it were a tank. So I’ve tried my best to stop second-guessing what the working experience is going to be like. Because I’m usually wrong.
  • The one ingredient I bring to all of my films is the ability to listen to anybody who has a good idea on the production. I’m very collaborative with actors, with my writers, with my editor, my cinematographer, with Johnny Williams who does all of my scores. And I just think from a very young age my parents taught me probably the most valuable lesson of my life – sometimes it’s better not to talk, but to listen.
  • I think most of my movies are personal movies. I think the most personal movie I’ve made is Schindler’s List (1993). I think the second-most personal movie I have ever made is E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). I also find The Color Purple (1985) to be a personal film for me. So I’ve made a number of personal films. But I haven’t made a movie yet that is actually a mirror neuron of my factual life and I don’t think I ever will. My sister wrote a script about our lives and that might come around again some day, but I’ve always stayed away from anything that is too biographical.
  • [on James Cameron] He gets a lot of points for being a techno-brat, but he is a very emotional storyteller.
  • [on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)] Harrison became Indiana Jones in a millisecond. He came on set, he donned the hat and everything came with it; his laconic sense of humour, his willingness to take a punch…and get hurt by that punch. All the things that Harrison, George, Larry Kasdan and I originally created. He brought all this back to life as if no time had elapsed since the third movie. My favourite memories from the shoot are my deepening respect for Harrison, not only as an actor but as a dear friend. We’ve gone off and made other movies which mean our paths have not crossed all that often. I’m not the most social guy in the world and neither is Harrison, so we didn’t spend much time together, but we actually became great buddies on this movie, more even than on the first three. It’s the best thing that came out of this experience for me.
  • [on seeing The Godfather (1972) for the first time] I felt that I should quit, that there was no reason to continue directing because I would never reach that level of confidence.
  • [Receiving the Cecil B. DeMille award at the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards] Whenever I try to tell a risky story, whether it’s about sharks or dinosaurs, or about aliens or about history, I’ll always be thinking, “Am I going to get away with this?” When I don’t have that worry, I won’t make that movie.
  • Disney is the birthplace of imagination and has always been as close to the worldwide audience as any company ever has.
  • The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every two years.
  • {On his behavior following the premiere of a new film] My ritual is total blackout. No radio, no television, no internet, no newspapers. I just want to hear one number, which is the Monday-morning number.
  • At E3 games convention about partnership with EA: I am a gamer myself, and I really wanted to create a video game that I could play with my kids.
  • I interpret my dreams one way and make a movie out of them and people see my movies and make them part of their dreams.
  • If I weren’t a director, I would want to be a film composer.
  • The person I enjoy working for more than anyone else is George Lucas. He’s the best boss I ever had because he’s the most talented boss I ever had.
  • All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.
  • Duel (1971) was almost a once-in-a-lifetime story. You don’t get stories like that all the time.
  • I’ll probably never win an Oscar, but I’ll sure have a lot of fun! I really believe that movies are the great escape!
  • As long as there’s been Transformers, I’ve been one of the biggest fans. And I always thought that somewhere in this genius concept, there was a movie.
  • What kept us going was the thought that David Lean, at 54, had done this every day for a year. David Lean was our criterion for survival – on filming Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) in Tunisia.
  • I feel like I’ve been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.
  • During an interview with Roger Ebert regarding his film Munich (2005) and the response from Jewish critics that claim it depicts Israeli and Palestinian causes as morally equivalent: Frankly, I think that’s a stupid charge. The people who attack the movie based on ‘moral equivalence’ are some of the same people who say diplomacy itself is an exercise in ‘moral equivalence’ and that war is the only answer. That the only way to fight terrorism is to dehumanize the terrorists by asking no questions about who they are and where they come from. What I believe is, every act of terrorism requires a strong response, but we must also pay attention to the causes. That’s why we have brains and the power to think passionately. Understanding does not require approval. Understanding is not the same as inaction. Understanding is a very muscular act. If I’m endorsing understanding and being attacked for that, then I am almost flattered.
  • I had dinner with the founder of Yahoo! about seven years ago in Japan. I had my son, who is now sixteen, he was much younger then. I took him to a tea house. We had Geishas, they were serving us tea and I had a little soki and we were talking. And he kept sitting across from me and he kept saying “Yahoo! You have to know what Yahoo!”… and he was going crazy over this thing called Yahoo! And I thought he was actually out of his brain. You know, because he kept talking about Yahoo! and I thought he was trying to say “Yahoo!” And he was, but I had no idea what he was building. And he was so thrilled with what was happening in his world. And this was way beyond my world at that time. And how I look back. I thought: God if I could have been a little bit nicer to that guy, he might have called me up and offered me a chance to invest early. (2002).
  • I’ve learned that we can do just about anything under the sun with computers. So the question becomes, should we? Or, should we remind ourselves, as filmmakers, to be careful and remember that there is nothing more important than how a story is told? If storytelling becomes a byproduct of the digital revolution, then the medium itself is corrupted. On the other hand, if digital tools are simply a way to enhance a conventional story, then in that case, they can make telling that story easier. It’s easier and more practical to show 20,000 soldiers in the Crimean War using computers, obviously. So, that’s fine. But now, we have technology that can replace actors, or an entire performance in an already existing movie. We could cut out Humphrey Bogart and replace him with Vin Diesel, if somebody wanted. Who would want to? Well, there might be people who would. That’s why we have to be careful. Movies reflect our cultural heritage from the period in time in which they were made. Therefore, altering them can destroy that historical perspective. That’s disrespectful of history, which is a big issue for me. The situation is like walking a tightrope – we have to move forward, but we have to be careful.
  • Times have changed. It’s like when the first 747 landed at Los Angeles international airport: everybody thought flying through the sky was the most greatest marvel they had ever seen – floating through the air, seemingly in slow motion. Today we never even look at 747s. They’re a dime a dozen and it’s that way with the blockbuster. If there was one blockbuster every three years, it meant a lot more than when you have a blockbuster every three weeks. It’s the job of each of these studios to market these movies as the must-see movie of the year, so they go after blockbuster status by creating a grand illusion. Sometimes they’ve got a real engine behind that grand illusion, meaning the movie is damned good and the audience will say they got their money’s worth. Other times, the audience comes on the promise of seeing something they’ve never ever seen before and it becomes just another sci-fi action yarn and they feel disappointed.
  • What I’m saying is that I believe in showmanship.
  • After a scary movie about the world almost ending, we can walk into the sunlight and say, “Wow, everything’s still here. I’m OK!” We like to tease ourselves. Human beings have a need to get close to the edge and, when filmmakers or writers can take them to the edge, it feels like a dream where you’re falling, but you wake up just before you hit the ground.
  • Being a movie-maker means you get to live many, many lifetimes. It’s the same reason audiences go to movies, I think. When my daughter Sasha (Sasha Spielberg) was 5 years old, we would be watching something on TV and she’d point to a character on screen and say, “Daddy, that’s me.” Ten minutes later a new character would come on screen and she’d say, “No, Daddy. That’s me.” Throughout the movie she would pick different people to become. I think that’s what we all do. We just don’t say it as sweetly.
  • I’m as guilty as anyone, because I helped to herald the digital era with Jurassic Park (1993). But the danger is that it can be abused to the point where nothing is eye-popping any more. The difference between making Jaws (1975) 31 years ago and War of the Worlds (2005) is that today, anything I can imagine, I can realize on film. Then, when my mechanical shark was being repaired and I had to shoot something, I had to make the water scary. I relied on the audience’s imagination, aided by where I put the camera. Today, it would be a digital shark. It would cost a hell of a lot more, but never break down. As a result, I probably would have used it four times as much, which would have made the film four times less scary. Jaws is scary because of what you don’t see, not because of what you do. We need to bring the audience back into partnership with storytelling.
  • I think every film I make that puts characters in jeopardy is me purging my own fears, sadly only to re-engage with them shortly after the release of the picture. I’ll never make enough films to purge them all.
  • I don’t work weekends. Weekends are for my kids. And I have dinner at home every night when I’m not physically directing a movie – I get home by six. I put the kids to bed and tell them stories and take them to school the next morning. I work basically from 9.30 to 5.30 and I’m strict about that.
  • Godzilla (Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)) was the most masterful of all dinosaur movies because it made you believe it was really happening.
  • [When asked about being conflicted whether to make more artistic films, or more commercial films]: All the time, but when you have a story that is very commercial and simple, you have to find the art. You have to take the other elements of the film and make them as good as possible, and doing that will uplift the film.
  • The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle. Audiences are harder to please if you’re just giving them special effects, but they’re easy to please if it’s a good story. The audience is also the toughest critic – a good story that exists in your world may not be the first choice for an audience. So I just do the best I can.
  • I always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience.
  • With Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977), George (George Lucas) put the butter back into the popcorn.
  • Poltergeist (1982) is the darker side of my nature, it’s me when I was scaring my younger sisters half to death. In Poltergeist, I wanted to terrify and I also wanted to amuse – I tried to mix the laughs and screams together.
  • I’d rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.
  • I dream for a living.
  • I don’t drink coffee. I’ve never had a cup of coffee in my entire life. That’s something you probably don’t know about me. I’ve hated the taste since I was a kid.
  • I would love to see the British film industry get back on its feet again.
  • I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.
  • [on friend Joan Crawford]: She is five feet four, but she looks six feet on the screen. In a two-shot with anyone, even Gable, (Clark Gable), your eyes fix on her. She is imperious, yet with a childlike sparkle. She is haughty, yet tender. She has no great range as an actress, yet within the range she can perform better than any of her contemporaries.
  • Before I go off and direct a movie I always look at 4 films. They tend to be: Seven Samurai (1954), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) and The Searchers (1956).
  • [on winning the Best Director Oscar for Saving Private Ryan (1998)]: Am I allowed to say I really wanted this?
  • Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to and I see another movie I want to make.
  • I think that the Internet is going to effect the most profound change on the entertainment industries combined. And we’re all gonna be tuning into the most popular Internet show in the world, which will be coming from some place in Des Moines. We’re all gonna lose our jobs. We’re all gonna be on the Internet trying to find an audience.

Steven Spielberg Important Facts

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  • $72,000,000
  • $0 (Asked not to be paid.)
  • $250,000,000 (gross and profit participations)
  • $1,500,000 + % of gross
  • Both detectives Eddie Valiant in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and Holmes in Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) use magnifying glasses, and both were Spielberg productions.
  • Spielberg had directed Columbo: Murder by the Book (1971), the very first episode of that famous series (not counting two pilot films). In the 3rd season episode Mind Over Mayhem (1974), screenwriters Steven Bochco and Dean Hargrove named the boy genius character Steve Spelberg. That episode was in production (airing in February) while Spielberg’s breakthrough theatrical film The Sugarland Express (1974) was generating industry buzz prior to its April release.
  • He has directed ten films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture: Jaws (1975), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), The Color Purple (1985), Schindler’s List (1993), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Munich (2005), War Horse (2011), Lincoln (2012) and Bridge of Spies (2015). Of these, Schindler’s List (1993) is the only one to have won the award.
  • In the novelization for Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), there is the line “sixth sense”; Frank Marshall produced this and The Sixth Sense (1999) and Spielberg later directed Haley Joel Osment, the star of the latter film in A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001).
  • In Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), that film mentions bats, snakes, spiders and rats; these would appear in all the Indiana Jones films, Arachnophobia (1990) and The Goonies (1985), films either produced or directed by Spielberg.
  • In Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) and The Goonies (1985), Holmes and Data have much gadgetry on their person, like James Bond, and Spielberg and screenwriter Chris Columbus are huge Bond fans. Also, in the novelization for Holmes, it uses the words “a view to kill”, and the Bond film A View to a Kill (1985) was made the same year.
  • Gremlins (1984), the Back to the Future trilogy and Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) were all produced by Spielberg and all have eccentric inventors who create madcap inventions with pet dogs, Barney, Einstein and Uncas.
  • After having a great working relationship with Spielberg on Gremlins (1984), Spielberg produced the next two films Chris Columbus scripted, The Goonies (1985), based on an idea Spielberg had, and Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), which was Columbus’s idea, which altogether was two years working on those three films. Spielberg then wanted Columbus to script Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), a big step for Columbus as a writer. He accepted and went to meet Spielberg and George Lucas, two men he was very intimidated by, even though he had worked with Spielberg three times, and they were two of his cinematic heroes. Columbus acted as Spielberg and Lucas’s secretary on The Last Crusade for five days taking down all their ideas. Lucas dictated the screenplay to Columbus making him fearful of changing any of it, and that went against what Columbus had learned at film school. To him, the script seemed lifeless and without energy and there was nothing of Columbus in it. Columbus assumed Spielberg hired him for that last reason and when Columbus turned in the draft, he was fired from the picture for all the above flaws in the script. It was a defining moment in Columbus’s career, to never again ignore his base instincts on a movie, or to be intimidated by the people he worked with.
  • According to friend and veteran film editor Michael Kahn, Spielberg will not watch a cut of his film without temp music (temporary score).
  • He was a big fan of Twin Peaks (1990) and he was set to direct the first episode of the second season of the show before David Lynch decided to direct the episode himself.
  • Is best friends with George Lucas and Oprah Winfrey. He was also best friends with Robin Williams until he passed away.
  • The first major star he worked with was Joan Crawford, who appeared in the segment of the pilot episode for Rod Serling’s Night Gallery (1969) which he directed. Crawford was initially skeptical about working with the then-inexperienced director, but her fears were soon allayed when she met with him and watched him at work. He, meanwhile, was surprised to find that Crawford was not demanding and made none of the outlandish requests which stars of her caliber were usually known to make. On the contrary, she was happy to give him advice about various aspects of film making which she had learned throughout her years in motion pictures, and gave him a lot of much needed encouragement. They quickly developed a strong working relationship, and as a result of her kindness became close friends, remaining so until her death.
  • Five films he directed set the North American opening weekend record, more than any other director: Jaws (1975), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Jurassic Park (1993), and The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997). Additionally, two sequels to his films he declined to direct also set the opening weekend record: Jaws 2 (1978) and Jurassic World (2015).
  • For an AFI poll, Spielberg designated Lawrence of Arabia (1962) as his favourite film.
  • When promoting A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), which he wrote, he was asked why he had not written a film in the 19 years since Poltergeist (1982). He replied that the gap was not that long because he actually does rewrites on many of the scripts that he directs.
  • Has worked with several actors from the Star Wars films. -Harrison Ford and William Hootkins appeared in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). Screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan also wrote two Star Wars films. -Julian Glover and Michael Sheard appeared in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). -Samuel L. Jackson and Laura Dern appeared in Jurassic Park (1993). -Liam Neeson appeared in Schindler’s List (1993). -Ian Abercrombie (voice of Palpatine/Darth Sidious on the Clone Wars cartoon) appeared in The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997). -Christopher Lee appeared in 1941 (1979). -Max von Sydow appeared in Minority Report (2002). -Adam Driver appeared in Lincoln (2012). A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) featured Rena Owen and Brendan Gleeson, whose son Domhnall Gleeson appears in Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015). ‘_E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)_ was written by Harrison Ford’s then-girlfriend Melissa Mathison, and Eve Mavrakis, wife of Ewan McGregor, worked on Empire of the Sun (1987).
  • Was at one point considering directing a Harry Potter film. Although he never directed one of the films, he has directed several cast members in his films: -Maggie Smith appeared in Hook (1991). -Ralph Fiennes appeared in Schindler’s List (1993). -Julian Glover appeared in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). -Brendan Gleeson appeared in A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001). -Ciarán Hinds appeared in Munich (2005). -John Hurt and Jim Broadbent appeared in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). -George Harris appeared in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). -Toby Jones was in The Adventures of Tintin (2011). -David Thewlis and Peter Mullan appeared in War Horse (2011). It also featured Benedict Cumberbatch, who voiced Severus Snape on an episode of The Simpsons. Richard Harris’s son, Jared Harris, appeared in Lincoln (2012).
  • Has several career parallels to Oliver Stone. Both frequently direct historical dramas, many times about U.S. Presidents. For Spielberg, they were John Quincy Adams and Abraham Lincoln. For Stone, they were John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon and George W. Bush. Both have cast Anthony Hopkins as one of those Presidents, and in both cases, Hopkins was nominated for an Oscar. Hopkins (as Nixon) and Daniel Day-Lewis are also one of a pair of actors to be nominated for playing that same President. (The others were Frank Langella and Raymond Massey). They both frequently use John Williams to score their films. They have also used several of the same cast members: Wayne Knight, David Paymer, Bob Hoskins, Tommy Lee Jones, Hal Holbrook, James Spader, Colin Farrell, Martin Sheen, Tom Cruise, Kevin Costner, Elizabeth Banks, John Candy, Shia LaBeouf, Richard Dreyfuss and Bruce McGill. Stone also cast Josh Brolin and Colin Hanks in W. (2008), while Spielberg used both of their fathers in Catch Me If You Can (2002). Toby Jones appeared in The Adventures of Tintin (2011) and W. (2008). Spielberg also cast Kiefer Sutherland on an episode of Amazing Stories, while Donald Sutherland appeared in JFK (1991).
  • Steven and his wife Kate Capshaw are very close friends with Michelle Pfeiffer and her husband David E. Kelley. They often vacation together and went to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner together.
  • He presented the Oscar for Best Director at the 57th Academy Awards in 1985. The winner was Milos Forman for Amadeus (1984). During the presentation, Spielberg paid tribute to his friend François Truffaut who had recently died.
  • President of the jury at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
  • The film The Goonies (1985) was based on his group of childhood friends, which he referred to as the “goon squad.”.
  • He struggled with dyslexia his whole life but was not diagnosed until very recently (approx. 2007).
  • Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. [January 2003]
  • A lifelong fan of the 007 movies, he named Honor Blackman as his favorite Bond girl.
  • He lost the Best Director Oscar to Ang Lee both in 2006 and 2013.
  • Steven Spielberg was the first living person to have a playable Lego mini-figure modelled after him. It was sold with several sets as part of the Lego Studios product range in the early 2000s.
  • Is at his most productive and creative when working on more than one project at a time, be it as producer and/or director: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) + Poltergeist (1982) / Schindler’s List (1993) + Jurassic Park (1993) / War Horse (2011) + The Adventures of Tintin (2011), etc.
  • Formed his production company “Amblin Entertainment” with longtime friend and production associate Kathleen Kennedy in 1981.
  • A lifelong fan of the 007 movies, Spielberg has never directed a feature in the successful franchise, though he did the next best thing directing his share of notable 007 series alumni such as: Sean Connery: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) (Dr. No (1962) (original + 6)) Robert Shaw: Jaws (1975) (From Russia with Love (1963)) Burt Kwouk: Empire of the Sun (1987) (Goldfinger (1964), Casino Royale (1967), You Only Live Twice (1967)) Bruce Glover: The Psychiatrist: Par for the Course (1971) (Diamonds Are Forever (1971)) Christopher Lee: 1941 (1979) (The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)) Frank McRae: 1941 (1979) (Licence to Kill (1989)) Michael Lonsdale: Munich (2005) (Moonraker (1979)) Julian Glover: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) (For Your Eyes Only (1981)) John Rhys-Davies: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) (The Living Daylights (1987)) Alison Doody: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) (A View to a Kill (1985)) Christopher Walken: Catch Me If You Can (2002) (A View to a Kill (1985)) David Harbour: War of the Worlds (2005) (Quantum of Solace (2008)) Daniel Craig: Munich (2005), The Adventures of Tintin (2011) (Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012)),etc. Ralph Fiennes:Schindler’s List (1993) (Skyfall (2012)), etc. Toby Stephens, who played the villain in Die Another Day (2002), and played Bond himself on BBC Radio, is the son of Sir Robert Stephens (Empire of the Sun (1987)) and Dame Maggie Smith (Hook (1991)).
  • Claims his family name “Spielberg” has Austrian origins meaning “Play Mountain” when translated into English.
  • Father Arnold Spielberg was an innovator who worked on the first computer that was ever sold commercially back in 1950.
  • Attended the first AFI “Life Achievement Award” as a guest of his The Sugarland Express (1974) and Jaws (1975) producer Richard D. Zanuck where Spielberg’s lifelong hero John Ford was the honored recipient (Los Angeles / March 31 1973).
  • Confessed to host James Lipton that he has a phobia about “furniture with feet” (Inside the Actors Studio: Episode #5.9 (1999)).
  • Has made two films that, between them, feature four former U.S. Presidents. He has hired a British actor to play the President each time: Nigel Hawthorne as Martin Van Buren and Anthony Hopkins as John Quincy Adams in Amistad (1997), and Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln and Jared Harris as Ulysses S. Grant in Lincoln (2012).
  • Favorite indoor relaxation pursuits are watching golf on TV and playing his computer game “Assassin’s Creed”.
  • Belgium: (22 October 2011) honored as Commander in the Order of the Crown by outgoing Finance Minister Didier Reynders at the Hotel Amigo in Brussels ahead of the world premiere of Spielberg’s new film – “The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn.”
  • Will receive the 2012 David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Motion Pictures from the Producers Guild Of America (PGA) on January 21, 2012 in Los Angeles [September 21, 2011].
  • His favourite directors are David Lean, Preston Sturges, Frank Capra, Francois Truffut’, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford.
  • Ex son-in-law of Jules Irving.
  • In 1985, Spielberg purchased a Pacific Palisades hilltop estate from singer Bobby Vinton, a palatial residence that, over the years, had been home to producer David O. Selznick, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., spouses Cary Grant and Barbara Hutton, etc.
  • His publicist is Marvin Levy.
  • Lives in Los Angeles, Malibu, California and East Hampton, New York.
  • He directed six of the American Film Institute’s 100 Most Heart-Pounding Movies: Jaws (1975) at #2, Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) at #10, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) at #31, Jurassic Park (1993) at #35, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) at #44 and Saving Private Ryan (1998) at #45.
  • Is one of 9 directors to win the Golden Globe, Director’s Guild, BAFTA, and Oscar for the same movie, winning for Schindler’s List (1993). The other directors to achieve this are Mike Nichols for The Graduate (1967), Milos Forman for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), Richard Attenborough for Gandhi (1982), Oliver Stone for Platoon (1986), Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain (2005), Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Alfonso Cuarón for Gravity (2013), and Alejandro G. Iñárritu for The Revenant (2015).
  • Worked with both father and son Brolin actors. He worked with James Brolin in Catch Me If You Can (2002), and Josh Brolin in The Goonies (1985) and Into the West (2005).
  • Is an excellent shot with a shotgun. Actor Shia LaBeouf once said about his shooting, “He’s an Olympic shot. The hand-eye co-ordination of that man is unlike anything I’ve ever seen. If he weren’t a great director, he could be one of our greatest snipers”.
  • When Spielberg accepted the Cecil B. DeMille award at the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards he expressed his gratitude to DeMille for helping him come to love filmmaking in the first place, describing his earliest childhood memory of going to see DeMille’s The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) with his father. “I think my fate was probably sealed that day in 1952”, he said, recalling how the train wreck scene in that film inspired first a keen interest in electric train sets and eventually his passion for film.
  • In the 5th edition of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (edited by Steven Jay Schneider), 8 of Spielberg’s films are listed: Jaws (1975), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), The Color Purple (1985), Jurassic Park (1993), Schindler’s List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998).
  • Served on the Board for the Institute for the Study of Women in Men in Society for USC. Hosted events for the intellectual society at his screening room and offices on the Universal lot in the late 1980s.
  • Turned down the opportunity to direct Deep Impact (1998) and The Mask of Zorro (1998) to work on Saving Private Ryan (1998).
  • Is a fan of the works of Carl Barks, and cites them as a big inspiration on his storytelling.
  • Pulled out of his role as advisor to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, reacting to the Chinese government’s inaction over the genocide in Darfur (February 2008).
  • Owns homes in Pacific Palisades, California; New York City; East Hampton, New York; and Naples, Florida.
  • His dog Elmer starred in several of his films including Jaws (1975) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).
  • Is a fan of video games and says that their development is intriguing to him.
  • In 2007, Forbes estimated his earnings for the year 2006 to be $110 million.
  • Is a fan of Doctor Who (1963).
  • 2007- Ranked #2 on EW’s The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood.
  • Robbie Williams mentions him in his song “I Will Talk and Hollywood Will Listen”.
  • Burt Reynolds film “White Lightning” (1973) was originally slated to be Spielberg’s first theatrical feature and he spent months on pre-production.
  • Was originally in talks to direct The Mask of Zorro (1998) but later only produced it.
  • Went to the same college, CSULB as Frank Miranda.
  • (September 6, 1997) Attended the funeral of Princess Diana with friends Richard Attenborough, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and Tom Hanks.
  • Was originally set to direct Cape Fear (1991). He later recommended Martin Scorsese for the job and personally called the director, letting him know that this was a commercial film that had potential to be a hit, which would exercise more power for Scorcese to make his films.
  • Was offered the opportunity to direct California Split (1974), but job went to Robert Altman.
  • Is a huge fan of the actors Steve Martin, Bill Murray and Robin Williams. He is also proud to admit they are good friends of his.
  • He, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola presented Martin Scorsese with his first ever award for Best Director, for The Departed (2006).
  • Considered directing Memoirs of a Geisha (2005).
  • Is of Hungarian descent, which explains his surname, coming from the Austrian city where his ancestors lived.
  • According to Teri Garr, Spielberg told her on a set that one of his favorite movies is Viva Las Vegas (1964), starring Elvis Presley.
  • Awarded Kennedy Center Honors in 2006, with Dolly Parton, Smokey Robinson, Zubin Mehta, and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
  • Godfather of Gwyneth Paltrow.
  • Owns one of the largest gun collections on the East Coast. He shoots, but only privately.
  • Though he frequently works with Tom Hanks, Hanks is not, as of 2006, involved in Spielberg’s biopic about Abraham Lincoln, even though he is descended from the family of Lincoln’s mother, Nancy Hanks.
  • Both live-action adaptations of “The Incredible Hulk” have references to his films. The first used stock footage from Duel (1971). In the 2003 film by Ang Lee (Hulk (2003)), the impact of the Hulk hitting the ground causes ripples to form in nearby bodies of water, just as the Tyrannosaur does in Jurassic Park (1993).
  • Early in his career, while working for Universal Studios, he was asked to give a tour to a special guest who had just sold the film rights to one of his books to the studio. That guest was Michael Crichton, who later worked with Spielberg on Jurassic Park (1993).
  • On 19 July 2001 he purchased Bette Davis’ Oscar statuette, which she won for Jezebel (1938), at a Christie’s auction and returned it to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
  • On 14 December 2002 he bought Bette Davis’ Oscar, which she won for Dangerous (1935), at a Sotheby’s auction in New York to return it to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The statuette was among the memorabilia sold by the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain, which has emerged from bankruptcy protection.
  • In 1996, he purchased Clark Gable’s Oscar (which he won for It Happened One Night (1934)) to protect it from further commercial exploitation and gave it back to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, commenting that he could think of “no better sanctuary for Gable’s only Oscar than the Motion Picture Academy”.
  • Interviewed in “Directors Close Up: Interviews with Directors Nominated for Best Film by the Directors Guild of America”, ed. by Jeremy Kagan, Scarecrow Press, 2006.
  • Ranked #4 on Premiere’s 2006 “Power 50” list. Had ranked #2 in 2005.
  • Ranked #6 in the Power Rankings and #1 in the Money Rankings on Forbes’ 2006 Celebrity 100 List, with earnings of $332 million. Most of those earnings were from the 2005 sale of DreamWorks to Paramount Pictures.
  • Is the most represented filmmaker on the American Film Institute’s 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time, with five films on the list and three in the top ten. They are: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) at #58; The Color Purple (1985) at #51; Saving Private Ryan (1998) at #10; E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) at #6 and Schindler’s List (1993) at #3.
  • His iconic character “E.T.” from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) is ranked #26 on Premiere Magazine’s 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
  • Has an estimated fortune of $2.8 billion ($2,800,000,000), according to the “Los Angeles Business Journal”. The size of his fortune him the 14th richest person in the Los Angeles area and likely the wealthiest producer-director in the world (with only his friend George Lucas coming close).
  • His ten favourite films of all time are: Fantasia (1940); Citizen Kane (1941); A Guy Named Joe (1943); It’s a Wonderful Life (1946); The War of the Worlds (1953); Psycho (1960); Lawrence of Arabia (1962); 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); The Godfather (1972) and Day for Night (1973).
  • Once screened Lawrence of Arabia (1962) with director David Lean, who gave Spielberg a “live director’s commentary”, as Spielberg put it. Spielberg said that it was one of the best moments of his life, learning from a true master. Consequently, Spielberg stated that it helped him make better pictures and that commentary directly influenced every movie he has made since.
  • In December, he, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen sold DreamWorks SKG to Paramount Pictures Corporation for $1.6 billion.
  • In the 2005 edition of Forbes’ “400 Richest People in America”, his net worth is estimated at $2.7 billion, a $100 million improvement over 2004 (due mostly to his share of the DreamWorks Animation public stock offering). He, and good friend George Lucas (net worth: $3.5 billion) are the only filmmakers on the list.
  • Aside from producing The Goonies (1985), he also directed at least one scene in the movie.
  • He has always been very protective of his name. If his company is working on a film and he feels it is not up to his standards, he will remove his name as a producer.
  • Has been Honorary Member of the Society of Operating Cameramen (SOC) since 1995 and received the Governors Award “for his contributions in the advancement of the use of the motion picture camera”.
  • Ranked #1 in Empire (UK) magazine’s “The Greatest directors ever!” (2005).
  • Ranked #2 on Premiere’s 2005 Power 50 List, behind only Peter Jackson. Had the same ranking in 2004, behind Pixar bosses John Lasseter and Steve Jobs.
  • Graduated from Saratoga High School in Saratoga, California.
  • Wrote a letter to Polish writer/director Mira Hamermesh in appreciation of one of her films.
  • Directed 13 actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Liam Neeson; Ralph Fiennes; Anthony Hopkins; Tom Hanks; Melinda Dillon; Whoopi Goldberg; Oprah Winfrey; Margaret Avery; Christopher Walken; Daniel Day-Lewis; Tommy Lee Jones; Sally Field and Mark Rylance. Day-Lewis and Rylance won the award for their performances in Spielberg movies.
  • When he used product placement in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), he used Reese’s Pieces only because M & M’s parent company didn’t want their product associated with aliens and UFOs.
  • His longtime friend George Lucas originally wanted him to direct the third entry of the original Star Wars trilogy, Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983) and Spielberg was eager to do so, but Lucas was unsuccessful in getting him the job because of his dispute with the Director’s Guild at the time.
  • Described One Froggy Evening (1955) as “the most perfect cartoon ever made”.
  • In the 2004 edition of Forbes’ “400 Richest People in America”, his net worth is estimated at $2.6 billion, his highest showing yet. The only filmmaker ahead of him is his good friend George Lucas, whose worth is estimated at $3 billion.
  • To date, has never provided a director’s commentary on any of his films DVDs. [2004]
  • According to his interview on the series Inside the Actors Studio (1994), his favorite curse word is “Rats!”
  • Although close friend, George Lucas, has vowed to only shoot future movies digitally, Spielberg has been the most vocal film-maker of the opposing view: to continue shooting all of his movies on film. Other directors siding with Spielberg include Martin Scorsese and Oliver Stone.
  • When asked what are the films he’s made he would like to be remembered for, he said E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and Schindler’s List (1993).
  • Has worked with four actors from the Hannibal Lecter film series, in reverse order to the order in which the Lecter films came out. The first one he worked with was Ralph Fiennes in Schindler’s List (1993), who went on to play Francis Dollarhyde in Red Dragon (2002). His next film was The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), with Julianne Moore, who played Clarice Starling in the third Lecter film, Hannibal (2001). After this, he made Amistad (1997), with Anthony Hopkins, who began playing Hannibal Lecter in the second film, The Silence of the Lambs (1991). After this he made Saving Private Ryan (1998), which featured Dennis Farina, who played Jack Crawford in the original Lecter film, Manhunter (1986).
  • In 1983, he lost the Best Picture Oscar to Gandhi (1982), directed by Richard Attenborough. He later went on to direct six cast members, as well as Attenborough, in his later movies: Amrish Puri in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984); Roshan Seth in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984); Richard Attenborough in Jurassic Park (1993); Ben Kingsley in Schindler’s List (1993), Nigel Hawthorne in Amistad (1997), Martin Sheen in Catch Me If You Can (2002), and Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln (2012).
  • Was voted the 11th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
  • The first film he directed that was not scored by John Williams was The Color Purple (1985), which was scored by Quincy Jones.
  • Is set to produce a mini-series for HBO that will set out to debunk the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. The mini-series, written by David Leland, will focus on the historical reality of life in 500 A.D., when Arthur was thought to be King and will have no round table, Merlin, Lancelot, Excalibur, or knights. Camelot itself will be shown to have been a simple Roman fort and Arthur, named Artos in the film, will be portrayed as a humble blacksmith whose forging skills win him the English throne. It was expected to air sometime in 2004. [2003]
  • In Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), the humans and aliens use music and computers to communicate. Spielberg’s father was a computer scientist and his mother was a musician. This fact was only recently pointed out to him on Inside the Actors Studio (1994) by host James Lipton and he was unsurprisingly delighted when he realised the connection.
  • Ranked #1 in Premiere’s 2003 annual Hollywood Power List. It is the third time he received the top ranking (the others being in 1994 & 1995). He had ranked #6 in 2002.
  • According to the 2002 edition of Forbes’ “400 Richest People in America,” his fortune is estimated at $2.2 billion, a $100 million improvement over the 2001 estimate.
  • Michael Kahn has edited all of Spielberg’s theatrical features since Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), their first collaboration. Kahn did not, however, edit E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) because he was editing Poltergeist (1982). E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) was edited by Carol Littleton.
  • His father served in World War II in South East Asian Front.
  • Owns the rights to the Stephen King novel “The Talisman”. As of 2002, the book has not been made into a film. He is now producing this film for release in 2007.
  • When Spielberg received his undergraduate degree (about 35 years after he had first entered college), the orchestra played the theme from the “Indiana Jones” series of films as he walked up to and across the stage.
  • Received honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Yale University (27 May 2002).
  • On May 31, 2002, graduated from California State University Long Beach with a bachelor’s degree in film and electronic arts. He had dropped out of college in 1968 to concentrate on his career, but during the 2000s fulfilled his remaining graduation requirements via independent projects, which required correspondence courses and several term papers. For Spielberg, the school waived its requirement that all senior film majors must submit a completed 12-minute short film, accepting Schindler’s List (1993) in its place. He donned cap and gown and marched in the commencement ceremony with his fellow graduates.
  • Was irked when footage from his movie Duel (1971) was used as stock footage in an episode of The Incredible Hulk (1978). But since Universal Studios owned the rights to both the The Incredible Hulk series and the film of Duel, taking legal action was not possible. However, he subsequently updated his contracts to include a clause that would protect his future material from being used as stock footage.
  • Born at 6:16 PM EST.
  • According to the 2001 issue of Forbes’ “400 Richest People In America,” Spielberg’s fortune is $2.1 billion.
  • Was directing a childbirth scene when he received a call that Amy Irving was giving birth to their son Max Spielberg.
  • He is an Eagle Scout and was on an advisory board for the Boy Scouts of America. He left this position because he did not agree with the fact that the Boy Scouts of America discriminated against homosexuals.
  • Was asked to approve use of the theme music from Jaws (1975) for Swingers (1996). When he saw a cut of the film, he saw Vince Vaughn, whom he chose to play Nick Van Owen in The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997).
  • Often casts new actors based on their performances in other works. Rarely does auditions for major roles.
  • Flew Will Smith to his Hamptons home via helicopter to offer him the part in Men in Black (1997).
  • Personally offered the American Beauty (1999) script to Sam Mendes, who ended up winning the Academy Award for Best Director on the film, which was Mendes’s debut feature.
  • Almost directed Big (1988) with Tom Hanks starring, but didn’t want to steal the thunder of his sister, Anne Spielberg, who co-wrote the script.
  • Spent five months developing the script for Rain Man (1988) with Ronald Bass, but had to commit to his handshake deal to direct Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Spielberg gave all of his notes to Barry Levinson.
  • States that the work of David Lean has had a profound effect on his career.
  • Awarded the honor of Knight of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in New Years Honours 2001 by Queen Elizabeth II for his contribution to the British film industry. As a non-Commonwealth citizen, he will not be able to use the title. [December 2000]
  • During filming of their episode of Night Gallery (1969), Spielberg gave Joan Crawford the gift of a single red rose in a Pepsi bottle. During an on-set conversation with Detroit Free Press reporter Shirley Eder, Crawford pointed out Spielberg and said, “Go interview that kid, because he’s going to be the biggest director of all time!” Crawford and Spielberg remained good friends until her death in 1977.
  • Gwyneth Paltrow calls him Uncle Morty.
  • When he was a child, he sneaked onto the lot of Universal Studios during a tour and befriended an editor who showed him a few things about filmmaking.
  • Sits on USC School of Cinema-Television’s Board of Councilors.
  • Received the Distinguished Public Service Award, the U. S. Navy’s highest civilian honor, on Veterans Day 1999 for his work on the movie Saving Private Ryan (1998).
  • Born to Arnold Spielberg, a computer engineer, and Leah Adler, née Posner, a restaurateur and concert pianist.
  • Named Best Director of the 20th Century in an Entertainment Weekly on-line poll, substantially beating out runners-up Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick. [September 1999]
  • Godfather of Drew Barrymore and Gwyneth Paltrow.
  • He has one of the original Rosebud sleds from Citizen Kane (1941) in his house.
  • Co-founder (with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen) of DreamWorks SKG.
  • Awarded second annual John Huston Award for Artists Rights by the Artists Rights Foundation. [1995]
  • Donated $100,000 to the Democratic Party. [1996]
  • Attended Arcadia High School in Phoenix.
  • Attended California State University-Long Beach after being turned down by USC Cinema school twice.
  • He claims Richard Dreyfuss is his alter-ego.
  • Amy Irving gave birth to his son Max Spielberg on 13 June 1985.
  • There are seven children in the Capshaw-Spielberg family: Theo Spielberg, who was adopted by Kate Capshaw before their marriage and later adopted by Spielberg, born in 1988, Sasha Spielberg, born on 14 May 1990, Sawyer Spielberg, born on 10 March 1992, their adopted daughter Mikaela George Spielberg, born on 28 February 1996, and Destry Allen Spielberg, born on 1 December 1996. Kate Capshaw’s daughter Jessica Capshaw, born in 1976, is from her previous marriage. Steven Spielberg’s son Max Spielberg, born in 1985, is from his previous marriage to Amy Irving.
  • American Film Institute Life Achievement Award. [1995]
  • Involved in road accident and treated for an injured shoulder. [September 1997]
  • Chosen by Entertainment Weekly as the most powerful person in entertainment in 1997. [October 1997]
  • Jonathan Norman was sentenced to 25 years to life, for stalking Spielberg and threatening to rape him. [June 1998]
  • Received the Germany’s Cross of Merit with star for his sensible representation of Germany’s history in Schindler’s List (1993). [1998]
  • Is among the richest individuals in Hollywood.
  • Is a supporter of the Democratic Party.
  • Member of Theta Chi Fraternity (Zeta Epsilon Chapter, Long Beach State University). One of his fraternity brothers was Roger Ernest.

Steven Spielberg Filmography

Title Year Status Character Role
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West 1991 producer Producer
Cape Fear 1991 executive producer – uncredited Producer
A Brief History of Time 1991 Documentary executive producer – uncredited Producer
Back to the Future 1991 TV Series executive producer – 1 episode Producer
Warner Bros. Celebration of Tradition, June 2, 1990 1990 TV Movie documentary executive producer Producer
Arachnophobia 1990 executive producer Producer
Gremlins 2: The New Batch 1990 executive producer Producer
Roller Coaster Rabbit 1990 Short executive producer Producer
Back to the Future Part III 1990 executive producer Producer
Dreams 1990 executive producer: international version Producer
Joe Versus the Volcano 1990 executive producer Producer
Always 1989 producer Producer
Back to the Future Part II 1989 executive producer Producer
Dad 1989 executive producer Producer
Tummy Trouble 1989 Short executive producer Producer
The Land Before Time 1988 executive producer Producer
Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 executive producer Producer
*batteries not included 1987 executive producer Producer
Empire of the Sun 1987 producer Producer
Three O’Clock High 1987 executive producer – uncredited Producer
Innerspace 1987 executive producer Producer
Harry and the Hendersons 1987 executive producer – uncredited Producer
Amazing Stories 1985-1987 TV Series executive producer – 45 episodes Producer
An American Tail 1986 executive producer Producer
The Money Pit 1986 executive producer Producer
The Color Purple 1985 producer Producer
Young Sherlock Holmes 1985 executive producer Producer
Back to the Future 1985 executive producer Producer
The Goonies 1985 executive producer Producer
Fandango 1985 executive producer – uncredited Producer
Gremlins 1984 executive producer Producer
Twilight Zone: The Movie 1983 producer Producer
Poltergeist 1982 producer Producer
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 producer Producer
Continental Divide 1981 executive producer Producer
Used Cars 1980 executive producer Producer
I Wanna Hold Your Hand 1978 executive producer Producer
Escape to Nowhere 1961 Short producer – as Steve Spielberg Producer
Untitled Indiana Jones Project 2020 executive producer announced Producer
Bumblebee 2018 executive producer announced Producer
Untitled Jurassic World Sequel 2018 executive producer filming Producer
Ready Player One 2018 producer post-production Producer
The Papers 2017 producer filming Producer
Transformers: The Last Knight 2017 executive producer completed Producer
Gremlins 3 executive producer announced Producer
Halo TV Series executive producer announced Producer
Real Steel 2 executive producer announced Producer
Robopocalypse producer announced Producer
The Adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun producer announced Producer
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara producer pre-production Producer
The Talisman TV Mini-Series executive producer announced Producer
The Voyeur’s Motel producer announced Producer
Untitled Third Tintin Film executive producer announced Producer
Bull 2016-2017 TV Series executive producer – 18 episodes Producer
Five Came Back 2017 TV Series documentary executive producer – 3 episodes Producer
Finding Oscar 2016 Documentary executive producer Producer
All the Way 2016 TV Movie executive producer Producer
The BFG 2016 producer Producer
Public Morals 2015 TV Series executive producer – 10 episodes Producer
Minority Report 2015 TV Series executive producer – 4 episodes Producer
Bridge of Spies 2015 producer Producer
Under the Dome 2013-2015 TV Series executive producer – 39 episodes Producer
Extant 2014-2015 TV Series executive producer – 26 episodes Producer
Falling Skies 2011-2015 TV Series executive producer – 39 episodes Producer
The Whispers TV Series executive producer – 6 episodes, 2015 producer – 4 episodes, 2015 Producer
Jurassic World 2015 executive producer Producer
Auschwitz 2015 Documentary short producer Producer
Red Band Society 2014 TV Series executive producer – 2 episodes Producer
The Hundred-Foot Journey 2014 producer Producer
Transformers: Age of Extinction 2014 executive producer Producer
Lucky 7 2013 TV Series executive producer – 2 episodes Producer
Smash 2012-2013 TV Series executive producer – 32 episodes Producer
Don’t Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck 2013 Documentary executive producer Producer
Lincoln 2012 producer Producer
Men in Black 3 2012 executive producer Producer
The River 2012 TV Series executive producer – 8 episodes Producer
Terra Nova 2011 TV Series executive producer – 13 episodes Producer
War Horse 2011 producer Producer
Transformers: The Ride – 3D 2011 Short executive producer Producer
The Adventures of Tintin 2011 producer Producer
Real Steel 2011 executive producer Producer
Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero 2011 TV Series documentary executive producer Producer
Cowboys & Aliens 2011 executive producer Producer
Transformers: Dark of the Moon 2011 executive producer Producer
United States of Tara 2009-2011 TV Series executive producer – 36 episodes Producer
Super 8 2011 producer Producer
Locke & Key 2011 TV Movie executive producer Producer
True Grit 2010 executive producer Producer
Hereafter 2010 executive producer Producer
The Pacific 2010 TV Mini-Series executive producer – 10 episodes Producer
The Lovely Bones 2009 executive producer Producer
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 2009 executive producer Producer
Eagle Eye 2008 executive producer Producer
Dance with the Devil 2007 Short executive producer Producer
On the Lot 2007 TV Series executive producer – 4 episodes Producer
Transformers 2007 executive producer Producer
The Big Bad Heist 2007 Short executive producer Producer
Letters from Iwo Jima 2006 producer Producer
Flags of our Fathers 2006 producer Producer
Spell Your Name 2006 Documentary executive producer Producer
Monster House 2006 executive producer Producer
Munich 2005 producer Producer
Memoirs of a Geisha 2005 producer Producer
The Legend of Zorro 2005 executive producer Producer
Into the West 2005 TV Mini-Series executive producer – 6 episodes Producer
Dan Finnerty & the Dan Band: I Am Woman 2005 TV Movie executive producer Producer
The Terminal 2004 producer Producer
Voices from the List 2004 Video documentary executive producer Producer
Burma Bridge Busters 2003 TV Movie documentary executive producer Producer
Catch Me If You Can 2002 producer Producer
Taken 2002 TV Mini-Series executive producer – 10 episodes Producer
Men in Black II 2002 executive producer Producer
Price for Peace 2002 Documentary executive producer Producer
Broken Silence 2002 TV Mini-Series documentary executive producer Producer
We Stand Alone Together 2001 TV Movie documentary executive producer Producer
Band of Brothers 2001 TV Mini-Series executive producer – 10 episodes Producer
Jurassic Park III 2001 executive producer Producer
A.I. Artificial Intelligence 2001 producer Producer
Shrek 2001 executive producer – uncredited Producer
Semper Fi 2001 TV Movie executive producer Producer
Shooting War 2000 TV Movie documentary executive producer Producer
Eyes of the Holocaust 2000 Documentary executive producer Producer
Animaniacs: Wakko’s Wish 1999 Video executive producer – uncredited Producer
The Haunting 1999 executive producer – uncredited Producer
Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain 1998-1999 TV Series executive producer – 25 episodes Producer
Animaniacs 1993-1998 TV Series executive producer – 99 episodes Producer
Pinky and the Brain 1995-1998 TV Series executive producer – 60 episodes Producer
The Last Days 1998 Documentary executive producer Producer
Saving Private Ryan 1998 producer Producer
The Mask of Zorro 1998 executive producer Producer
Invasion America 1998 TV Series executive producer – 13 episodes Producer
Deep Impact 1998 executive producer Producer
Toonsylvania 1998 TV Series executive producer – 1 episode Producer
The Lost Children of Berlin 1997 Documentary executive producer Producer
Amistad 1997 producer Producer
Men in Black 1997 executive producer Producer
High Incident 1996-1997 TV Series executive producer – 13 episodes Producer
Freakazoid! 1995-1997 TV Series executive producer – 14 episodes Producer
Twister 1996 executive producer Producer
The Best of Roger Rabbit 1996 Video executive producer Producer
Survivors of the Holocaust 1996 TV Movie documentary executive producer Producer
Balto 1995 executive producer Producer
SeaQuest 2032 1993-1995 TV Series executive producer – 44 episodes Producer
Tiny Toons’ Night Ghoulery 1995 TV Movie executive producer Producer
Casper 1995 executive producer Producer
Yakko’s World: An Animaniacs Singalong 1994 Video executive producer Producer
The Flintstones 1994 executive producer – as Steven Spielrock Producer
I’m Mad 1994 Short executive producer Producer
Tiny Toons Spring Break 1994 TV Movie executive producer Producer
Schindler’s List 1993 producer Producer
We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story 1993 executive producer Producer
Family Dog 1993 TV Series executive producer – 1 episode Producer
Class of ’61 1993 TV Movie executive producer Producer
Trail Mix-Up 1993 Short executive producer Producer
Tiny Toon Adventures 1990-1992 TV Series executive producer – 98 episodes Producer
Fievel’s American Tails 1992 TV Series executive producer – 13 episodes Producer
The Plucky Duck Show 1992 TV Series executive producer Producer
Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation 1992 Video executive producer Producer
A Wish for Wings That Work 1991 TV Short executive producer – uncredited Producer
Lego Dimensions 2015 Video Game characters created by – uncredited Writer
Poltergeist 2015 based on the 1982 motion picture entitled “Poltergeist” screenplay by / based on the 1982 motion picture entitled “Poltergeist” story by Writer
Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault 2004 Video Game creator Writer
Medal of Honor: Rising Sun 2003 Video Game creator Writer
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault – Spearhead 2003 Video Game creator Writer
Medal of Honor: Frontline 2002 Video Game creator Writer
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault 2002 Video Game creator Writer
A.I. Artificial Intelligence 2001 screenplay Writer
Medal of Honor: Underground 2000 Video Game creator Writer
Medal of Honor 1999 Video Game creator Writer
High Incident TV Series creator – 32 episodes, 1996 – 1997 story – 1 episode, 1996 Writer
The Dig 1995 Video Game additional story elements / original concept Writer
Amazing Stories TV Series developer – 24 episodes, 1985 – 1986 story – 17 episodes, 1985 – 1987 writer – 1 episode, 1985 Writer
The Goonies 1985 story Writer
Poltergeist 1982 screenplay / story Writer
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 written by Writer
The Sugarland Express 1974 story Writer
Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies 1973 story Writer
Amblin’ 1968 Short written by Writer
Slipstream 1967 Short Writer
Firelight 1964 as Steve Spielberg Writer
Escape to Nowhere 1961 Short as Steve Spielberg Writer
Fighter Squad 1961 Short Writer
Untitled Indiana Jones Project 2020 announced Director
Ready Player One 2018 post-production Director
The Papers 2017 filming Director
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara pre-production Director
The BFG 2016 Director
Bridge of Spies 2015 Director
Lincoln 2012 Director
War Horse 2011 Director
The Adventures of Tintin 2011 Director
A Timeless Call 2008 Documentary short Director
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 2008 Director
Munich 2005 Director
War of the Worlds 2005 Director
The Terminal 2004 Director
Catch Me If You Can 2002 Director
Minority Report 2002 Director
A.I. Artificial Intelligence 2001 Director
The Unfinished Journey 1999 Documentary short Director
Saving Private Ryan 1998 Director
Amistad 1997 Director
The Lost World: Jurassic Park 1997 Director
Steven Spielberg’s Director’s Chair 1996 Video Game Director
Schindler’s List 1993 Director
Jurassic Park 1993 Director
Hook 1991 Director
The Visionary 1990 Video segment “: “Par for the Course” Director
Always 1989 Director
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989 Director
Empire of the Sun 1987 Director
The Color Purple 1985 Director
Amazing Stories 1985 TV Series 2 episodes Director
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 1984 Director
Strokes of Genius 1984 TV Mini-Series introductory segments, uncredited Director
Twilight Zone: The Movie 1983 segment “two” Director
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Director
Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Director
1941 1979 Director
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Director
Jaws 1975 Director
The Sugarland Express 1974 Director
Savage 1973 TV Movie Director
Something Evil 1972 TV Movie Director
Duel 1971 TV Movie Director
Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law 1971 TV Series 1 episode Director
Columbo 1971 TV Series 1 episode Director
The Psychiatrist 1971 TV Series 2 episodes Director
The Name of the Game 1971 TV Series 1 episode Director
Night Gallery 1969-1971 TV Series 2 episodes Director
Marcus Welby, M.D. 1970 TV Series 1 episode Director
Amblin’ 1968 Short Director
Slipstream 1967 Short unfinished Director
Firelight 1964 Director
Escape to Nowhere 1961 Short as Steve Spielberg Director
Fighter Squad 1961 Short Director
The Last Gun 1959 Short Director
Mezhzvyozdnyie voyny. Sila probuzhdayetsya 2015 has nothing to do with – credit only Miscellaneous
Boom Blox 2008 Video Game creative director Miscellaneous
A Remarkable Promise 2004 Short advisor Miscellaneous
What Lies Beneath 2000 idea – uncredited Miscellaneous
Men in Black Alien Attack 2000 Short creative consultant Miscellaneous
Twister: Ride It Out 1998 Short creative consultant Miscellaneous
Pinky and the Brain 1995-1997 TV Series presented by – 5 episodes Miscellaneous
Back to the Future… The Ride 1991 Short creative consultant Miscellaneous
An American Tail 1986 presenter Miscellaneous
The Money Pit 1986 presenter Miscellaneous
Back to the Future 1985 presenter Miscellaneous
The Goonies 1985 presenter Miscellaneous
Gremlins 1984 presenter Miscellaneous
The Incredible Hulk 1978 TV Series director – 1 episode Miscellaneous
Faces 1968/I production assistant – uncredited Miscellaneous
Paul 2011 Steven Spielberg (voice) Actor
Austin Powers in Goldmember 2002 Steven Spielberg / Famous Director (‘Austinpussy’) Actor
Vanilla Sky 2001 Guest at David Aames’ Party (uncredited) Actor
Men in Black 1997 Alien on TV Monitor (uncredited) Actor
The Lost World: Jurassic Park 1997 Popcorn-Eating Man (uncredited) Actor
Your Studio and You 1995 Short Backlot Tour Guide (uncredited) Actor
Tiny Toon Adventures 1991 TV Series Steven Spielberg
White Rabbit
Actor
Michael Jackson: Liberian Girl 1989 Video short Steven Spielberg (uncredited) Actor
Cyndi Lauper: The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough 1985 TV Movie Steven Spielberg (uncredited) Actor
Gremlins 1984 Man in Electric Wheelchair (uncredited) Actor
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 1984 Tourist at Airport (uncredited) Actor
The Blues Brothers 1980 Cook County Assessor’s Office Clerk Actor
Jaws 1975 Amity Point Lifestation Worker (voice, uncredited) Actor
Something Evil 1972 TV Movie Party Guest Actor
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Lincoln: An American Journey 2012 TV Movie Himself Self
The 12th Annual Golden Laurel Awards 2001 TV Special Himself – Presenter Self
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The 10 Commandments of Creativity 2001 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
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17th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards 2012 TV Special Himself Self
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The Martin Short Show 1999 TV Series Himself Self
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Biography of the Millennium: 100 People – 1000 Years 1999 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself (# 91) Self
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From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic 1999 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
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The Rosie O’Donnell Show 1999 TV Series Himself Self
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The Making of ‘Amistad’ 1999 Video documentary short Himself Self
Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis 2011 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
The 71st Annual Academy Awards 1999 TV Special Himself – Winner: Best Director & Nominee: Best Picture / Presenter: Stanley Kubrick Tribute Self
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Igniting the Sky: The Making of Cowboys & Aliens 2011 Video documentary short Himself Self
The 1999 Annual Golden Laurel Awards 1999 TV Special Himself Self
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Die goldene Kamera 1999 1999 TV Movie Himself Self
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AFI’s Master Class: The Art of Collaboration 2011 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Spielberg on Kubrick 1999 Video documentary short Himself Self
Breakfast 2011 TV Series Himself – Film Director Self
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Return to Jurassic Park: Dawn of a New Era 2011 Video documentary short Himself – Director Self
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AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Movies: The Antiheroes 1998 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
20 heures le journal 2008-2011 TV Series Himself Self
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A Decade of Difference: A Concert Celebrating 10 Years of the William J. Clinton Foundation 2011 Documentary Himself Self
AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Movies: America’s Greatest Movies 1998 TV Special documentary Himself Self
Hollywood’s Top Ten 2011 TV Series Himself – Jaws Director Self
To Life! America Celebrates Israel’s 50th 1998 TV Special Himself Self
2011 MTV Movie Awards 2011 TV Special Himself – Presenter Self
The 50th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards 1998 TV Special Himself Self
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The 55th Annual Golden Globe Awards 1998 TV Special Himself – Nominee: Best Motion Picture Drama & Best Director Self
The 83rd Annual Academy Awards 2011 TV Special Himself – Presenter: Best Picture Self
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Pioneers of Television 2011 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself Self
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2011 Writers Guild Awards 2011 TV Special Himself – Presenter Self
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The Oprah Winfrey Show 2004-2010 TV Series Himself Self
The Return of Steven Spielberg 1997 TV Short Himself Self
Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible 2010 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
The Force Returns: Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition 1997 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Tales from the Future 2010 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself Self
The Making of ‘E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial’ 1996 Video documentary Himself Self
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Jaws: The Inside Story 2010 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Biography 1996 TV Series documentary Himself Self
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The Future According to Steven Spielberg: An Interactive Guide to ‘Minority Report’ 2010 Video documentary short Himself Self
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Clint Eastwood 1996 TV Special documentary Himself Self
Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief 2010 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Steven Spielberg 1996 TV Special documentary Himself Self
The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards 2010 TV Special Himself Self
The 68th Annual Academy Awards 1996 TV Special Himself – Presenter: Honorary Award to Kirk Douglas Self
2009 Golden Globe Awards Red Carpet Special 2009 TV Special Himself Self
The Annual Artists Rights Foundation Honors Martin Scorsese 1996 TV Movie Himself Self
A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics 2009 TV Movie documentary Himself – Interviewee Self
Survivors of the Holocaust 1996 TV Movie documentary Himself (uncredited) Self
Climbing Spielberg 2009 Documentary Himself Self
Cyberspace 1996 TV Series Himself Self
Coming Attractions: The History of the Movie Trailer 2009 Documentary Himself Self
The Nuremberg Trial: War Crimes on Trial 1996 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen 2009 Video documentary Himself Self
The Making of ‘Jurassic Park’ 1995 Video documentary Himself Self
David Lean in Close-Up 2009 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
The Making of Steven Spielberg’s ‘Jaws’ 1995 Video documentary Himself Self
Previously On: E.R. 2009 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
The 47th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards 1995 TV Special Himself – Audience Member Self
The 81st Annual Academy Awards 2009 TV Special Himself – Presenter: Best Picture Self
Barbra: The Concert 1995 TV Special documentary Himself – Concert Attendee (uncredited) Self
The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards 2009 TV Special Himself – Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient Self
The Annual Artist Rights Foundation Honors Steven Spielberg 1995 TV Movie Himself – Winner: John Huston Award Self
Closing: Team Indy 2008 Video short Himself Self
The 67th Annual Academy Awards 1995 TV Special Himself – Presenter: Best Director Self
The 10th Annual ‘A Home for the Holidays’ with Faith Hill 2008 TV Movie Himself Self
La nuit des Césars 1978-1995 TV Series documentary Himself – César d’honneur / Himself Self
The Movie Loft 2008 TV Series Himself Self
American Cinema 1995 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Warner at War 2008 TV Movie documentary Narrator (voice) Self
The Siskel & Ebert Interviews 1995 TV Movie Himself – Interviewee Self
Indiana Jones 4: Pre-production 2008 Video short Himself Self
A Century of Cinema 1994 Documentary Himself Self
Adventures in Post-Production 2008 Video documentary short Himself – Director Self
The 20th Annual People’s Choice Awards 1994 TV Special Himself – Winner: Special Award Self
Iconic Props 2008 Video documentary short Himself Self
Newton’s Apple 1994 TV Series Himself Self
Indiana Jones 4: The Return of a Legend 2008 Video short Himself Self
The 66th Annual Academy Awards 1994 TV Special Himself – Winner: Best Picture & Best Director Self
Production Diary: Making of ‘The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ 2008 Video documentary Himself Self
Moving Image Salutes Steven Spielberg 1994 TV Movie Himself – Honoree Self
The Crystal Skulls 2008 Video documentary short Himself Self
The 46th Annual Director’s Guild Awards 1994 TV Special Himself – Winner Self
The Effects of Indy 2008 Video documentary short Himself Self
Face to Face 1994 TV Series Himself Self
Warrior Make-up 2008 Video documentary short Himself Self
The 51st Annual Golden Globe Awards 1994 TV Special Himself – Winner Self
Emulsional Rescue: Revealing ‘The Godfather’ 2008 Video short Himself Self
The Society of Operating Cameramen: Lifetime Achievement Awards 1994 Video Himself Self
Godfather World 2008 Video short Himself Self
The Making of ‘Jurassic Park’ 1993 Video short Himself Self
The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped 2008 Video short Himself Self
John & Leeza from Hollywood 1993 TV Series Himself Self
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Warren Beatty 2008 TV Special Himself Self
Shattered Lullabies 1992 Himself – Host Self
AFI’s 10 Top 10: America’s 10 Greatest Films in 10 Classic Genres 2008 TV Movie Himself Self
The South Bank Show 1982-1992 TV Series documentary Himself Self
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn’t 2008 Video documentary short Himself Self
The Magical World of Chuck Jones 1992 Documentary Himself Self
Achter de schermen bij ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ 2008 TV Short documentary Himself Self
The 64th Annual Academy Awards 1992 TV Special Himself – Presenter: Thalberg Award Self
Fantástico 2008 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Here’s Looking at You, Warner Bros. 1991 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Indiana Jones: An Appreciation 2008 Video short Himself Self
The Annual Artists Rights Foundation Gala 1991 TV Movie Himself Self
Indiana Jones and the Creepy Crawlies 2008 Video short Himself Self
The Movie Awards 1991 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Indy’s Friends and Enemies 2008 Video short Himself Self
E.T. – Entretenimento Total 1991 TV Series Himself Self
Raiders: The Melting Face! 2008 Video short Himself Self
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to David Lean 1990 TV Special Himself Self
Raiders of the Lost Ark: An Introduction 2008 Video documentary short Himself Self
Making Close Encounters 1990 Video documentary Himself Self
Temple of Doom: An Introduction 2008 Video documentary short Himself Self
The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson 1990 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
The Last Crusade: An Introduction 2008 Video documentary short Himself Self
Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones 1990 Documentary Himself Self
Great Bolshy Yarblockos! Making ‘A Clockwork Orange’ 2007 Video documentary short Himself Self
The Grand Opening of Universal Studios New Theme Park Attraction Gala 1990 TV Movie Himself – Speaker Self
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 2007 Video documentary short Himself Self
Siskel & Ebert: The Future of the Movies 1990 TV Movie Himself Self
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick 2007 Video documentary short Himself Self
The 62nd Annual Academy Awards 1990 TV Special Himself – Co-Presenter: Honorary Award to Akira Kurosawa Self
View from the Overlook: Crafting ‘The Shining’ 2007 Video documentary short Himself Self
The Home Show 1989 TV Series Himself Self
Our World 2007 Video documentary Himself Self
The Tracey Ullman Show 1989 TV Series Himself Self
Their War 2007 Video documentary Himself Self
NHK supesharu 1989 TV Series documentary Himself Self
On the Lot 2007 TV Series Himself Self
Steven Spielberg: An American Cinematheque Tribute 1989 TV Movie Himself – Honoree Self
British Film Forever 2007 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself Self
Today 1989 TV Series Himself Self
Spielberg on Spielberg 2007 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Premiere: Inside the Summer Blockbusters 1989 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Movies: 10th Anniversary Edition 2007 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town 1988 TV Special documentary Himself Self
A Tribute to Peter Bart: Newhouse Mirror Award 2007 Short Himself Self
Talking Pictures 1988 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of ‘Letters from Iwo Jima’ 2007 Video documentary short Himself Self
BAFTA British Academy Awards 1988 TV Special Himself Self
The 79th Annual Academy Awards 2007 TV Special Himself – Co-Presenter: Best Director Self
Citizen Steve 1987 Documentary short Himself – Kane Self
The 12th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards 2007 TV Special Himself – Presenter Self
The China Odyssey: ‘Empire of the Sun’, a Film by Steven Spielberg 1987 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
The 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards 2007 TV Special Himself – Presenter: Best Director Self
Funny, You Don’t Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville 1987 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
The Shark Is Still Working 2007 Documentary Himself Self
The 59th Annual Academy Awards 1987 TV Special Himself – Winner: Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award Self
The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts 2006 TV Special Himself – Honoree Self
The 44th Annual Golden Globe Awards 1987 TV Special Himself – Audience Member Self
Searching for Orson 2006 Documentary Himself Self
De película 1986 TV Series Himself – Interviewee Self
CC Variety TV 2006 Video short Himself Self
The 38th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards 1986 TV Special Himself – Nominee Self
50 Films to See Before You Die 2006 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Billy Wilder 1986 TV Special documentary Himself (uncredited) Self
Forbes Celebrity 100: Who Made Bank? 2006 TV Movie Himself Self
The 58th Annual Academy Awards 1986 TV Special Himself – Nominee: Best Picture Self
Shootout 2006 TV Series Himself Self
The Making of ‘The Goonies’ 1985 TV Short documentary Himself Self
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Sean Connery 2006 TV Special Himself Self
The Making of ‘Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom’ 1985 TV Movie documentary Himself (uncredited) Self
AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Cheers: America’s Most Inspiring Movies 2006 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Horizon 1985 TV Series documentary Himself – Director of ‘Indiana Jones’ films Self
Munich: Editing, Sound and Music 2006 Video short Himself Self
The 57th Annual Academy Awards 1985 TV Special documentary Himself – Presenter: Best Director Self
Munich: Memories of the Event 2006 Video short Himself Self
The Making of ‘Back to the Future’ 1985 TV Short documentary Himself Self
Munich: Portrait of an Era 2006 Video short Himself Self
Bitte umblättern 1984 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Munich: The Experience 2006 Video documentary short Himself Self
Northwest Afternoon 1984 TV Series Himself Self
Munich: The International Cast 2006 Video short Himself Self
The 55th Annual Academy Awards 1983 TV Special Himself – Nominee Self
Munich: The Mission – The Team 2006 Video documentary short Himself Self
New York, New York 1982 TV Series Himself Self
Munich: The On-Set Experience 2006 Video short Himself Self
The Making of ‘Poltergeist’ 1982 TV Short documentary Himself – Writer / Producer Self
The Sci-Fi Boys 2006 Documentary Himself Self
Chambre 666 1982 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
The 78th Annual Academy Awards 2006 TV Special Himself – Nominee: Best Picture & Best Director Self
The 54th Annual Academy Awards 1982 TV Special documentary Himself – Nominee: Best Director Self
Artour 2006 TV Series Self
Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
The 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards 2006 TV Movie documentary Himself – Nominee: Best Director Self
The Making of ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ 1981 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
The 11th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards 2006 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
The Dick Cavett Show 1981 TV Series Himself Self
The 100 Greatest Family Films 2005 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Star Wars: Music by John Williams 1980 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
‘War of the Worlds’: Production Diaries, East Coast – Exile 2005 Video documentary short Himself Self
The 52nd Annual Academy Awards 1980 TV Special Himself – Presenter Self
The H.G. Wells Legacy 2005 Video short Himself Self
Fantasy Film Festival 1979 TV Series Himself Self
‘War of the Worlds’: Characters – The Family Unit 2005 Video short Himself Self
The 50th Annual Academy Awards 1978 TV Special Himself – Nominee: Best Director Self
‘War of the Worlds’: Previsualization 2005 Video short Himself Self
Ciné regards 1978 TV Series documentary Himself Self
‘War of the Worlds’: Production Diaries, East Coast – Beginning 2005 Video documentary short Himself Self
The Making of ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ 1977 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
‘War of the Worlds’: Production Diaries, West Coast – Destruction 2005 Video documentary short Himself Self
TVTV Looks at the Academy Awards 1976 TV Special documentary Himself Self
‘War of the Worlds’: Production Diaries, West Coast – War 2005 Video documentary short Himself Self
Jaws: From the Set 1974 Video short Himself Self
‘War of the Worlds’: Revisiting the Invasion 2005 Video short Himself Self
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to John Ford 1973 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Designing the Enemy: Tripods and Aliens 2005 Video short Himself Self
Scoring ‘War of the Worlds’ 2005 Video short Himself Self
Steven Spielberg and the Original ‘War of the Worlds’ 2005 Video short Himself Self
We Are Not Alone 2005 Video short Himself Self
Best Ever Family Films 2005 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Animal Icons 2005 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Close-up 2005 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us 2005 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Waging the War of the Worlds: From H. G. Wells to Steven Spielberg 2005 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Comme au cinéma 2000-2005 TV Series documentary Himself – Interviewee Self
Smap×Smap 2005 TV Series Himself – Interviewee Self
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to George Lucas 2005 TV Special Himself Self
Enough Rope with Andrew Denton 2005 TV Series Himself Self
The 100 Greatest War Films 2005 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
2nd Annual Directors Guild of Great Britain DGGB Awards 2005 Video Himself – Sam Mendes Tribute Self
The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts 2004 TV Movie Himself Self
The Ultimate Film 2004 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Boarding: The People of ‘The Terminal’ 2004 Video documentary short Himself Self
Booking the Flight: The Script, the Story 2004 Video documentary short Himself Self
In Flight Service: The Music of ‘The Terminal’ 2004 Video documentary short Himself Self
Landing: Airport Stories 2004 Video documentary short Himself Self
Take Off: Making ‘The Terminal’ 2004 Video documentary short Himself Self
Waiting for the Flight: Building ‘The Terminal’ 2004 Video documentary short Himself Self
2nd Irish Film and Television Awards 2004 TV Special Himself Self
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing 2004 Documentary Himself Self
The Force Is with Them: The Legacy of ‘Star Wars’ 2004 Video documentary short Himself – Director, ‘Minority Report’ Self
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope 2004 Video documentary Himself Self
Artifact from the Future: The Making of ‘THX 1138’ 2004 Video documentary short Himself Self
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy 2004 Video documentary Himself – Filmmaker Self
La semaine du cinéma 2004 TV Series Himself Self
E! True Hollywood Story 2008 TV Series documentary Himself Archive Footage
Back to Room 666 2008 Documentary short Himself Archive Footage
The O’Reilly Factor 2007-2008 TV Series Himself – ‘Patriot’ (segment “Pinheads & Patriots”) / Himself Archive Footage
Oscar, que empiece el espectáculo 2008 TV Movie documentary Himself Archive Footage
La mandrágora 2008 TV Series Himself Archive Footage
Reinventando Hollywood 2008 TV Movie documentary Himself Archive Footage
Empreintes 2007 TV Series documentary Himself Archive Footage
Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness 2007 TV Series documentary Amity Point Lifestation Worker Archive Footage
Cámara negra. Teatro Victoria Eugenia 2007 TV Short documentary Himself Archive Footage
La tele de tu vida 2007 TV Series Himself Archive Footage
La imagen de tu vida 2006 TV Series Himself Archive Footage
The Queen 2006 Himself (uncredited) Archive Footage
Boffo! Tinseltown’s Bombs and Blockbusters 2006 Documentary Himself Archive Footage
Celebrity Debut 2006 TV Movie Himself Archive Footage
Biography 1998-2005 TV Series documentary Himself Archive Footage
Cinema mil 2005 TV Series Himself Archive Footage
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of ‘Gladiator’ 2005 Video documentary Himself Archive Footage
49º premis Sant Jordi de cinematografía 2005 TV Special Himself Archive Footage
The Last Mogul 2005 TV Special documentary Himself Archive Footage
The Dream Studio 2004 Video documentary short Himself Archive Footage
101 Biggest Celebrity Oops 2004 TV Special documentary Himself – #68: Box Office Hit to Box Office Flop Archive Footage
The Greatest 2003 TV Series documentary Himself Archive Footage
Gomorron 2002 TV Series Himself Archive Footage
Reflections of Evil 2002 Himself (Pookie Ride Narrator) Archive Footage
Who Is Alan Smithee? 2002 TV Movie documentary Himself Archive Footage
Omnibus 2001 TV Series documentary Himself Archive Footage
Great Performances 2000 TV Series Himself Archive Footage
Close Encounters: Proof of Alien Contact 2000 Video documentary Himself Archive Footage
1st Annual Mystery Science Theater 3000 Summer Blockbuster Review 1997 TV Short Himself Archive Footage
François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema – Love & Death 1996 TV Movie documentary Himself Archive Footage
Inside the White House 1995 TV Movie documentary Himself Archive Footage
The Universal Story 1995 TV Movie documentary Himself Archive Footage
Hollywood ’84 1984 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself Archive Footage
Coming Soon 1982 Video documentary Himself (uncredited) Archive Footage
Le Fossoyeur de Films 2017 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself Archive Footage
National Endowment for the Arts: United States of Arts 2017 TV Series documentary short Himself Archive Footage
Score: A Film Music Documentary 2016 Documentary Himself Archive Footage
60 Minutes 2013-2016 TV Series documentary Himself – Film Director (segment “The New Force Behind Star Wars”) / Himself – Director (segment “Lincoln”) Archive Footage
Entertainment Tonight 2015-2016 TV Series Himself Archive Footage
Extra 2015-2016 TV Series Himself Archive Footage
Carte Unlimited Platinium 2016 Video short Archive Footage
Duels 2016 TV Series documentary Himself Archive Footage
That’s So… 2016 TV Series documentary Himself Archive Footage
Autopsy: The Last Hours Of 2015 TV Series Himself Archive Footage
Atari: Game Over 2014 Documentary Himself (uncredited) Archive Footage
Missing Reel 2014 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself Archive Footage
The Second Annual ‘On Cinema’ Oscar Special 2014 TV Movie Himself (uncredited) Archive Footage
And the Oscar Goes To… 2014 TV Movie documentary Himself – Director Archive Footage
10 O’Clock Live 2013 TV Series Himself Archive Footage
Edición Especial Coleccionista 2013 TV Series Himself Archive Footage
On Set with ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ 2012 Video documentary Himself Archive Footage
Troldspejlet 1998-2012 TV Series Himself / Himself – Executive Producer Archive Footage
The True Story 2012 TV Series documentary Himself Archive Footage
The Story of Film: An Odyssey 2011 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself Archive Footage
The Big Picture 2011 TV Series Himself – Director Archive Footage
Brows Held High 2011 TV Series Himself Archive Footage
Inside the Actors Studio 2011 TV Series Himself Archive Footage
The People vs. George Lucas 2010 Documentary Himself Archive Footage
20 to 1 2010 TV Series documentary Himself Archive Footage
Kirk Douglas: Before I Forget 2009 Documentary Himself (uncredited) Archive Footage
Waking Sleeping Beauty 2009 Documentary Himself Archive Footage
Storm Stories 2009 TV Series documentary Himself Archive Footage
Looking Back to the Future 2009 Video documentary Himself Archive Footage
The Last Days of the Big Lie 2009 Documentary Himself Archive Footage

Steven Spielberg Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie Category
2016 AFI Award AFI Awards, USA Movie of the Year Bridge of Spies (2015) Won
2016 David David di Donatello Awards Best Foreign Film (Miglior Film Straniero) Bridge of Spies (2015) Won
2016 Truly Moving Picture Award Heartland Film The BFG (2016) Won
2015 Truly Moving Picture Award Heartland Film Bridge of Spies (2015) Won
2014 Winsor McCay Award Annie Awards Won
2013 AFI Award AFI Awards, USA Movie of the Year Lincoln (2012) Won
2013 International Theater Award Tokyo Anime Award The Adventures of Tintin (2011) Won
2013 Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award American Cinema Editors, USA Won
2013 Christopher Award Christopher Awards Feature Films Lincoln (2012) Won
2013 Cinema for Peace Award Cinema for Peace Awards Most Valuable Movie of the Year Lincoln (2012) Won
2013 IFC Award Iowa Film Critics Awards Best Director Lincoln (2012) Won
2013 NTFCA Award North Texas Film Critics Association, US Best Director Lincoln (2012) Won
2013 Movies for Grownups Award AARP Movies for Grownups Awards Best Director Lincoln (2012) Won
2012 AFI Award AFI Awards, USA Movie of the Year War Horse (2011) Won
2012 Christopher Award Christopher Awards Feature Films War Horse (2011) Won
2012 Truly Moving Picture Award Heartland Film Lincoln (2012) Won
2012 OFTA Film Award Online Film & Television Association Best Animated Picture The Adventures of Tintin (2011) Won
2012 Lifetime Achievement Award in Motion Pictures PGA Awards Won
2012 PGA Award PGA Awards Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures The Adventures of Tintin (2011) Won
2011 SLFCA Award St. Louis Film Critics Association, US Best Animated Feature Film The Adventures of Tintin (2011) Won
2011 AFI Award AFI Awards, USA TV Program of the Year The Pacific (2010) Won
2011 Bronze Wrangler Western Heritage Awards Theatrical Motion Picture True Grit (2010) Won
2011 Truly Moving Picture Award Heartland Film War Horse (2011) Won
2011 INOCA International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA) Best Animated Feature The Adventures of Tintin (2011) Won
2011 PGA Award PGA Awards Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television The Pacific (2010) Won
2010 Filmmaker’s Award Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA Won
2010 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Miniseries The Pacific (2010) Won
2009 BAFTA Games Award BAFTA Awards Best Casual Game Boom Blox (2008) Won
2008 Lifetime Achievement Award Visual Effects Society Awards Won
2008 Cecil B. DeMille Award Golden Globes, USA Due to the ceremony canceled in 2008 the award will be handed out at the 2009 ceremony. Won
2007 AFI Award AFI Awards, USA Movie of the Year Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) Won
2006 Kennedy Center Honors The Kennedy Center Honors Won
2006 AFI Award AFI Awards, USA Movie of the Year Munich (2005) Won
2006 Bronze Wrangler Western Heritage Awards Television Feature Film Into the West (2005) Won
2006 Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award Art Directors Guild Won
2006 Lifetime Achievement Award Chicago International Film Festival Won
2006 Lifetime Achievement Award Chicago International Film Festival Won
2006 Founders Award International Emmy Awards Won
2005 WAFCA Award Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards Best Director Munich (2005) Won
2005 KCFCC Award Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards Best Director Munich (2005) Won
2004 Akira Kurosawa Award Tokyo International Film Festival Won
2004 Special David David di Donatello Awards Won
2003 Star on the Walk of Fame Walk of Fame Motion Picture On 10 January 2003. At 6801 Hollywood Blvd. Won
2003 Critics Choice Award Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards Best Director Catch Me If You Can (2002) Won
2003 Christopher Award Christopher Awards Television & Cable Broken Silence (2002) Won
2003 Empire Award Empire Awards, UK Best Director Minority Report (2002) Won
2003 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Miniseries Taken (2002) Won
2003 Saturn Award Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA Best Director Minority Report (2002) Won
2002 Saturn Award Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA Best Writing Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001) Won
2002 Lifetime Achievement Award ShoWest Convention, USA Won
2002 AFI Award AFI Awards, USA TV Movie or Mini-Series of the Year Band of Brothers (2001) Won
2002 Christopher Award Christopher Awards Television & Cable Band of Brothers (2001) Won
2002 Hollywood Movie of the Year Hollywood Film Awards Minority Report (2002) Won
2002 Readers’ Choice Award Mainichi Film Concours Best Foreign Language Film Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001) Won
2002 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Miniseries Band of Brothers (2001) Won
2002 PGA Award PGA Awards Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television Band of Brothers (2001) Won
2001 Future Film Festival Digital Award Venice Film Festival Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001) Won
2001 Britannia Award BAFTA/LA Britannia Awards Excellence in Film Won
2001 Billy Wilder Award National Board of Review, USA Won
2000 Daytime Emmy Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Children’s Animated Program Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain (1998) Won
2000 Lifetime Achievement Award Directors Guild of America, USA Won
2000 Vanguard Award Image Awards Won
2000 PGA Hall of Fame – Motion Pictures PGA Awards E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Won
1999 SEFCA Award Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards Best Director Saving Private Ryan (1998) Won
1999 Critics Choice Award Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards Best Director Saving Private Ryan (1998) Won
1999 Czech Lion Czech Lions Best Foreign Language Film (Nejlepsí zahranicní film) Saving Private Ryan (1998) Won
1999 DFWFCA Award Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards Best Director Saving Private Ryan (1998) Won
1999 Daytime Emmy Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Special Class Animated Program Pinky and the Brain (1995) Won
1999 DGA Award Directors Guild of America, USA Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures Saving Private Ryan (1998) Won
1999 Empire Award Empire Awards, UK Best Director Saving Private Ryan (1998) Won
1999 Golden Camera Golden Camera, Germany Millennium Award Won
1999 Silver Ribbon Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Best Foreign Director (Regista del Miglior Film Straniero) Saving Private Ryan (1998) Won
1999 Oscar Academy Awards, USA Best Director Saving Private Ryan (1998) Won
1999 Golden Globe Golden Globes, USA Best Director – Motion Picture Saving Private Ryan (1998) Won
1999 OFTA Film Award Online Film & Television Association Best Picture Saving Private Ryan (1998) Won
1999 OFTA Film Award Online Film & Television Association Best Drama Picture Saving Private Ryan (1998) Won
1999 OFTA Film Award Online Film & Television Association Best Director Saving Private Ryan (1998) Won
1999 OFCS Award Online Film Critics Society Awards Best Director Saving Private Ryan (1998) Won
1999 Milestone Award PGA Awards Won
1999 PGA Award PGA Awards Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures Saving Private Ryan (1998) Won
1998 TFCA Award Toronto Film Critics Association Awards Best Director Saving Private Ryan (1998) Won
1998 ACCA Awards Circuit Community Awards Best Director Saving Private Ryan (1998) Won
1998 Truly Moving Picture Award Heartland Film Saving Private Ryan (1998) Won
1998 KCFCC Award Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards Best Director Saving Private Ryan (1998) Won
1998 Sierra Award Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards Best Director Saving Private Ryan (1998) Won
1998 LAFCA Award Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Best Director Saving Private Ryan (1998) Won
1998 Vision Award PGA Awards Theatrical Motion Pictures Amistad (1997) Won
1998 Audience Award Rembrandt Awards Best Director The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) Won
1997 Daytime Emmy Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Children’s Animated Program Animaniacs (1993) Won
1997 Daytime Emmy Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Special Class Animated Program Freakazoid! (1995) Won
1997 Truly Moving Picture Award Heartland Film Amistad (1997) Won
1997 OFTA Film Hall of Fame Online Film & Television Association Creative Won
1996 Daytime Emmy Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Children’s Animated Program Animaniacs (1993) Won
1996 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or Less) A Pinky & the Brain Christmas (1995) Won
1995 Life Achievement Award American Film Institute, USA Won
1995 CEC Award Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera) Schindler’s List (1993) Won
1995 Honorary César César Awards, France Won
1995 Readers’ Choice Award Kinema Junpo Awards Best Foreign Language Film Schindler’s List (1993) Won
1995 ALFS Award London Critics Circle Film Awards Director of the Year Schindler’s List (1993) Won
1995 Readers’ Choice Award Mainichi Film Concours Best Foreign Language Film Schindler’s List (1993) Won
1994 Saturn Award Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA Best Director Jurassic Park (1993) Won
1994 President’s Award Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA Won
1994 ShoWest Award ShoWest Convention, USA Director of the Year Won
1994 Governors’ Award Society of Camera Operators Won
1994 Amanda Amanda Awards, Norway Best Foreign Feature Film (Årets utenlandske spillefilm) Schindler’s List (1993) Won
1994 Board of the Governors Award American Society of Cinematographers, USA Won
1994 Yoga Award Yoga Awards Worst Foreign Director Jurassic Park (1993) Won
1994 Jackie Coogan Award Young Artist Awards Won
1994 Blue Ribbon Award Blue Ribbon Awards Best Foreign Language Film Jurassic Park (1993) Won
1994 CFCA Award Chicago Film Critics Association Awards Best Director Schindler’s List (1993) Won
1994 Czech Lion Czech Lions Best Foreign Language Film (Nejlepsí zahranicní film) Jurassic Park (1993) Won
1994 DFWFCA Award Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards Best Director Schindler’s List (1993) Won
1994 DGA Award Directors Guild of America, USA Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures Schindler’s List (1993) Won
1994 Hochi Film Award Hochi Film Awards Best Foreign Language Film Schindler’s List (1993) Won
1994 Hugo Hugo Awards Best Dramatic Presentation Jurassic Park (1993) Won
1994 Jupiter Award Jupiter Award Best International Film Schindler’s List (1993) Won
1994 Jupiter Award Jupiter Award Best International Director Schindler’s List (1993) Won
1994 Readers’ Choice Award Mainichi Film Concours Best Foreign Language Film Jurassic Park (1993) Won
1994 Oscar Academy Awards, USA Best Picture Schindler’s List (1993) Won
1994 Oscar Academy Awards, USA Best Director Schindler’s List (1993) Won
1994 NSFC Award National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA Best Director Schindler’s List (1993) Won
1994 Golden Globe Golden Globes, USA Best Director – Motion Picture Schindler’s List (1993) Won
1994 People’s Choice Award People’s Choice Awards, USA People’s Choice Awards Honoree Won
1994 David Lean Award for Direction BAFTA Awards Schindler’s List (1993) Won
1994 BAFTA Film Award BAFTA Awards Best Film Schindler’s List (1993) Won
1994 PGA Award PGA Awards Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures Schindler’s List (1993) Won
1993 Career Golden Lion Venice Film Festival Won
1993 BSFC Award Boston Society of Film Critics Awards Best Director Schindler’s List (1993) Won
1993 Daytime Emmy Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Animated Program Tiny Toon Adventures (1990) Won
1993 Truly Moving Picture Award Heartland Film Schindler’s List (1993) Won
1993 Jupiter Award Jupiter Award Best International Film Jurassic Park (1993) Won
1993 Jupiter Award Jupiter Award Best International Director Jurassic Park (1993) Won
1993 KCFCC Award Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards Best Director Schindler’s List (1993) Won
1991 Daytime Emmy Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Animated Program Tiny Toon Adventures (1990) Won
1990 Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award American Cinema Editors, USA Won
1990 Hugo Hugo Awards Best Dramatic Presentation Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Won
1990 Wise Owl Award Retirement Research Foundation, USA Television and Theatrical Film Fiction Dad (1989) Won
1989 American Cinematheque Award American Cinematheque Gala Tribute Won
1987 Blue Ribbon Award Blue Ribbon Awards Best Foreign Language Film The Color Purple (1985) Won
1987 Christopher Award Christopher Awards Best Picture Empire of the Sun (1987) Won
1987 KCFCC Award Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards Best Director Empire of the Sun (1987) Won
1987 NBR Award National Board of Review, USA Best Director Empire of the Sun (1987) Won
1987 Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award Academy Awards, USA Won
1986 David David di Donatello Awards Best Foreign Producer (Migliore Produttore Straniero) Back to the Future (1985) Won
1986 DGA Award Directors Guild of America, USA Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures The Color Purple (1985) Won
1986 Academy Fellowship BAFTA Awards Won
1985 Truly Moving Picture Award Heartland Film The Color Purple (1985) Won
1985 KCFCC Award Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards Best Director The Color Purple (1985) Won
1985 Showmanship Award Publicists Guild of America Motion Picture Won
1984 Nocciola d’Oro Giffoni Film Festival Won
1984 Jupiter Award Jupiter Award Best International Film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) Won
1983 Blue Ribbon Award Blue Ribbon Awards Best Foreign Language Film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Won
1983 BSFC Award Boston Society of Film Critics Awards Best Director E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Won
1983 David David di Donatello Awards Best Foreign Director (Migliore Regista Straniero) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Won
1983 Fotogramas de Plata Fotogramas de Plata Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Won
1983 Man of the Year Hasty Pudding Theatricals, USA Won
1983 Kinema Junpo Award Kinema Junpo Awards Best Foreign Language Film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Won
1983 Readers’ Choice Award Kinema Junpo Awards Best Foreign Language Film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Won
1983 NSFC Award National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA Best Director E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Won
1983 Sant Jordi Sant Jordi Awards Mejor Película Infantil E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Won
1982 ShoWest Award ShoWest Convention, USA Director of the Year Won
1982 Saturn Award Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA Best Director Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Won
1982 Marquee American Movie Awards Best Director Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Won
1982 BSFC Award Boston Society of Film Critics Awards Best Director Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Won
1982 Truly Moving Picture Award Heartland Film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Won
1982 Hugo Hugo Awards Best Dramatic Presentation Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Won
1982 Jupiter Award Jupiter Award Best International Film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Won
1982 KCFCC Award Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards Best Director E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Won
1982 Readers’ Choice Award Kinema Junpo Awards Best Foreign Language Film Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Won
1982 LAFCA Award Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Best Director E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Won
1981 Jupiter Award Jupiter Award Best International Film Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Won
1978 Saturn Award Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA Best Director Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) Won
1978 David David di Donatello Awards Best Foreign Film (Miglior Film Straniero) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) Won
1974 Best Screenplay Cannes Film Festival The Sugarland Express (1974) Won
1973 Best First Film Taormina International Film Festival Duel (1971) Won
1973 Grand Prize Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival Duel (1971) Won
1972 Gold Remi Award WorldFest Houston Short Subject – Live Action Amblin’ (1968) Won
1969 CINE Golden Eagle CINE Competition Short Films Amblin’ (1968) Won
1968 Jury Award Atlanta Film Festival Best Short Film Amblin’ (1968) Won
2016 AFI Award AFI Awards, USA Movie of the Year Bridge of Spies (2015) Nominated
2016 David David di Donatello Awards Best Foreign Film (Miglior Film Straniero) Bridge of Spies (2015) Nominated
2016 Truly Moving Picture Award Heartland Film The BFG (2016) Nominated
2015 Truly Moving Picture Award Heartland Film Bridge of Spies (2015) Nominated
2014 Winsor McCay Award Annie Awards Nominated
2013 AFI Award AFI Awards, USA Movie of the Year Lincoln (2012) Nominated
2013 International Theater Award Tokyo Anime Award The Adventures of Tintin (2011) Nominated
2013 Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award American Cinema Editors, USA Nominated
2013 Christopher Award Christopher Awards Feature Films Lincoln (2012) Nominated
2013 Cinema for Peace Award Cinema for Peace Awards Most Valuable Movie of the Year Lincoln (2012) Nominated
2013 IFC Award Iowa Film Critics Awards Best Director Lincoln (2012) Nominated
2013 NTFCA Award North Texas Film Critics Association, US Best Director Lincoln (2012) Nominated
2013 Movies for Grownups Award AARP Movies for Grownups Awards Best Director Lincoln (2012) Nominated
2012 AFI Award AFI Awards, USA Movie of the Year War Horse (2011) Nominated
2012 Christopher Award Christopher Awards Feature Films War Horse (2011) Nominated
2012 Truly Moving Picture Award Heartland Film Lincoln (2012) Nominated
2012 OFTA Film Award Online Film & Television Association Best Animated Picture The Adventures of Tintin (2011) Nominated
2012 Lifetime Achievement Award in Motion Pictures PGA Awards Nominated
2012 PGA Award PGA Awards Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures The Adventures of Tintin (2011) Nominated
2011 SLFCA Award St. Louis Film Critics Association, US Best Animated Feature Film The Adventures of Tintin (2011) Nominated
2011 AFI Award AFI Awards, USA TV Program of the Year The Pacific (2010) Nominated
2011 Bronze Wrangler Western Heritage Awards Theatrical Motion Picture True Grit (2010) Nominated
2011 Truly Moving Picture Award Heartland Film War Horse (2011) Nominated
2011 INOCA International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA) Best Animated Feature The Adventures of Tintin (2011) Nominated
2011 PGA Award PGA Awards Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television The Pacific (2010) Nominated
2010 Filmmaker’s Award Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA Nominated
2010 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Miniseries The Pacific (2010) Nominated
2009 BAFTA Games Award BAFTA Awards Best Casual Game Boom Blox (2008) Nominated
2008 Lifetime Achievement Award Visual Effects Society Awards Nominated
2008 Cecil B. DeMille Award Golden Globes, USA Due to the ceremony canceled in 2008 the award will be handed out at the 2009 ceremony. Nominated
2007 AFI Award AFI Awards, USA Movie of the Year Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) Nominated
2006 Kennedy Center Honors The Kennedy Center Honors Nominated
2006 AFI Award AFI Awards, USA Movie of the Year Munich (2005) Nominated
2006 Bronze Wrangler Western Heritage Awards Television Feature Film Into the West (2005) Nominated
2006 Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award Art Directors Guild Nominated
2006 Lifetime Achievement Award Chicago International Film Festival Nominated
2006 Lifetime Achievement Award Chicago International Film Festival Nominated
2006 Founders Award International Emmy Awards Nominated
2005 WAFCA Award Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards Best Director Munich (2005) Nominated
2005 KCFCC Award Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards Best Director Munich (2005) Nominated
2004 Akira Kurosawa Award Tokyo International Film Festival Nominated
2004 Special David David di Donatello Awards Nominated
2003 Star on the Walk of Fame Walk of Fame Motion Picture On 10 January 2003. At 6801 Hollywood Blvd. Nominated
2003 Critics Choice Award Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards Best Director Catch Me If You Can (2002) Nominated
2003 Christopher Award Christopher Awards Television & Cable Broken Silence (2002) Nominated
2003 Empire Award Empire Awards, UK Best Director Minority Report (2002) Nominated
2003 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Miniseries Taken (2002) Nominated
2003 Saturn Award Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA Best Director Minority Report (2002) Nominated
2002 Saturn Award Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA Best Writing Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001) Nominated
2002 Lifetime Achievement Award ShoWest Convention, USA Nominated
2002 AFI Award AFI Awards, USA TV Movie or Mini-Series of the Year Band of Brothers (2001) Nominated
2002 Christopher Award Christopher Awards Television & Cable Band of Brothers (2001) Nominated
2002 Hollywood Movie of the Year Hollywood Film Awards Minority Report (2002) Nominated
2002 Readers’ Choice Award Mainichi Film Concours Best Foreign Language Film Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001) Nominated
2002 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Miniseries Band of Brothers (2001) Nominated
2002 PGA Award PGA Awards Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television Band of Brothers (2001) Nominated
2001 Future Film Festival Digital Award Venice Film Festival Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001) Nominated
2001 Britannia Award BAFTA/LA Britannia Awards Excellence in Film Nominated
2001 Billy Wilder Award National Board of Review, USA Nominated
2000 Daytime Emmy Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Children’s Animated Program Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain (1998) Nominated
2000 Lifetime Achievement Award Directors Guild of America, USA Nominated
2000 Vanguard Award Image Awards Nominated
2000 PGA Hall of Fame – Motion Pictures PGA Awards E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Nominated
1999 SEFCA Award Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards Best Director Saving Private Ryan (1998) Nominated
1999 Critics Choice Award Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards Best Director Saving Private Ryan (1998) Nominated
1999 Czech Lion Czech Lions Best Foreign Language Film (Nejlepsí zahranicní film) Saving Private Ryan (1998) Nominated
1999 DFWFCA Award Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards Best Director Saving Private Ryan (1998) Nominated
1999 Daytime Emmy Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Special Class Animated Program Pinky and the Brain (1995) Nominated
1999 DGA Award Directors Guild of America, USA Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures Saving Private Ryan (1998) Nominated
1999 Empire Award Empire Awards, UK Best Director Saving Private Ryan (1998) Nominated
1999 Golden Camera Golden Camera, Germany Millennium Award Nominated
1999 Silver Ribbon Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Best Foreign Director (Regista del Miglior Film Straniero) Saving Private Ryan (1998) Nominated
1999 Oscar Academy Awards, USA Best Director Saving Private Ryan (1998) Nominated
1999 Golden Globe Golden Globes, USA Best Director – Motion Picture Saving Private Ryan (1998) Nominated
1999 OFTA Film Award Online Film & Television Association Best Picture Saving Private Ryan (1998) Nominated
1999 OFTA Film Award Online Film & Television Association Best Drama Picture Saving Private Ryan (1998) Nominated
1999 OFTA Film Award Online Film & Television Association Best Director Saving Private Ryan (1998) Nominated
1999 OFCS Award Online Film Critics Society Awards Best Director Saving Private Ryan (1998) Nominated
1999 Milestone Award PGA Awards Nominated
1999 PGA Award PGA Awards Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures Saving Private Ryan (1998) Nominated
1998 TFCA Award Toronto Film Critics Association Awards Best Director Saving Private Ryan (1998) Nominated
1998 ACCA Awards Circuit Community Awards Best Director Saving Private Ryan (1998) Nominated
1998 Truly Moving Picture Award Heartland Film Saving Private Ryan (1998) Nominated
1998 KCFCC Award Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards Best Director Saving Private Ryan (1998) Nominated
1998 Sierra Award Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards Best Director Saving Private Ryan (1998) Nominated
1998 LAFCA Award Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Best Director Saving Private Ryan (1998) Nominated
1998 Vision Award PGA Awards Theatrical Motion Pictures Amistad (1997) Nominated
1998 Audience Award Rembrandt Awards Best Director The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) Nominated
1997 Daytime Emmy Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Children’s Animated Program Animaniacs (1993) Nominated
1997 Daytime Emmy Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Special Class Animated Program Freakazoid! (1995) Nominated
1997 Truly Moving Picture Award Heartland Film Amistad (1997) Nominated
1997 OFTA Film Hall of Fame Online Film & Television Association Creative Nominated
1996 Daytime Emmy Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Children’s Animated Program Animaniacs (1993) Nominated
1996 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or Less) A Pinky & the Brain Christmas (1995) Nominated
1995 Life Achievement Award American Film Institute, USA Nominated
1995 CEC Award Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera) Schindler’s List (1993) Nominated
1995 Honorary César César Awards, France Nominated
1995 Readers’ Choice Award Kinema Junpo Awards Best Foreign Language Film Schindler’s List (1993) Nominated
1995 ALFS Award London Critics Circle Film Awards Director of the Year Schindler’s List (1993) Nominated
1995 Readers’ Choice Award Mainichi Film Concours Best Foreign Language Film Schindler’s List (1993) Nominated
1994 Saturn Award Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA Best Director Jurassic Park (1993) Nominated
1994 President’s Award Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA Nominated
1994 ShoWest Award ShoWest Convention, USA Director of the Year Nominated
1994 Governors’ Award Society of Camera Operators Nominated
1994 Amanda Amanda Awards, Norway Best Foreign Feature Film (Årets utenlandske spillefilm) Schindler’s List (1993) Nominated
1994 Board of the Governors Award American Society of Cinematographers, USA Nominated
1994 Yoga Award Yoga Awards Worst Foreign Director Jurassic Park (1993) Nominated
1994 Jackie Coogan Award Young Artist Awards Nominated
1994 Blue Ribbon Award Blue Ribbon Awards Best Foreign Language Film Jurassic Park (1993) Nominated
1994 CFCA Award Chicago Film Critics Association Awards Best Director Schindler’s List (1993) Nominated
1994 Czech Lion Czech Lions Best Foreign Language Film (Nejlepsí zahranicní film) Jurassic Park (1993) Nominated
1994 DFWFCA Award Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards Best Director Schindler’s List (1993) Nominated
1994 DGA Award Directors Guild of America, USA Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures Schindler’s List (1993) Nominated
1994 Hochi Film Award Hochi Film Awards Best Foreign Language Film Schindler’s List (1993) Nominated
1994 Hugo Hugo Awards Best Dramatic Presentation Jurassic Park (1993) Nominated
1994 Jupiter Award Jupiter Award Best International Film Schindler’s List (1993) Nominated
1994 Jupiter Award Jupiter Award Best International Director Schindler’s List (1993) Nominated
1994 Readers’ Choice Award Mainichi Film Concours Best Foreign Language Film Jurassic Park (1993) Nominated
1994 Oscar Academy Awards, USA Best Picture Schindler’s List (1993) Nominated
1994 Oscar Academy Awards, USA Best Director Schindler’s List (1993) Nominated
1994 NSFC Award National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA Best Director Schindler’s List (1993) Nominated
1994 Golden Globe Golden Globes, USA Best Director – Motion Picture Schindler’s List (1993) Nominated
1994 People’s Choice Award People’s Choice Awards, USA People’s Choice Awards Honoree Nominated
1994 David Lean Award for Direction BAFTA Awards Schindler’s List (1993) Nominated
1994 BAFTA Film Award BAFTA Awards Best Film Schindler’s List (1993) Nominated
1994 PGA Award PGA Awards Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures Schindler’s List (1993) Nominated
1993 Career Golden Lion Venice Film Festival Nominated
1993 BSFC Award Boston Society of Film Critics Awards Best Director Schindler’s List (1993) Nominated
1993 Daytime Emmy Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Animated Program Tiny Toon Adventures (1990) Nominated
1993 Truly Moving Picture Award Heartland Film Schindler’s List (1993) Nominated
1993 Jupiter Award Jupiter Award Best International Film Jurassic Park (1993) Nominated
1993 Jupiter Award Jupiter Award Best International Director Jurassic Park (1993) Nominated
1993 KCFCC Award Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards Best Director Schindler’s List (1993) Nominated
1991 Daytime Emmy Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Animated Program Tiny Toon Adventures (1990) Nominated
1990 Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award American Cinema Editors, USA Nominated
1990 Hugo Hugo Awards Best Dramatic Presentation Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Nominated
1990 Wise Owl Award Retirement Research Foundation, USA Television and Theatrical Film Fiction Dad (1989) Nominated
1989 American Cinematheque Award American Cinematheque Gala Tribute Nominated
1987 Blue Ribbon Award Blue Ribbon Awards Best Foreign Language Film The Color Purple (1985) Nominated
1987 Christopher Award Christopher Awards Best Picture Empire of the Sun (1987) Nominated
1987 KCFCC Award Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards Best Director Empire of the Sun (1987) Nominated
1987 NBR Award National Board of Review, USA Best Director Empire of the Sun (1987) Nominated
1987 Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award Academy Awards, USA Nominated
1986 David David di Donatello Awards Best Foreign Producer (Migliore Produttore Straniero) Back to the Future (1985) Nominated
1986 DGA Award Directors Guild of America, USA Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures The Color Purple (1985) Nominated
1986 Academy Fellowship BAFTA Awards Nominated
1985 Truly Moving Picture Award Heartland Film The Color Purple (1985) Nominated
1985 KCFCC Award Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards Best Director The Color Purple (1985) Nominated
1985 Showmanship Award Publicists Guild of America Motion Picture Nominated
1984 Nocciola d’Oro Giffoni Film Festival Nominated
1984 Jupiter Award Jupiter Award Best International Film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) Nominated
1983 Blue Ribbon Award Blue Ribbon Awards Best Foreign Language Film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Nominated
1983 BSFC Award Boston Society of Film Critics Awards Best Director E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Nominated
1983 David David di Donatello Awards Best Foreign Director (Migliore Regista Straniero) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Nominated
1983 Fotogramas de Plata Fotogramas de Plata Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Nominated
1983 Man of the Year Hasty Pudding Theatricals, USA Nominated
1983 Kinema Junpo Award Kinema Junpo Awards Best Foreign Language Film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Nominated
1983 Readers’ Choice Award Kinema Junpo Awards Best Foreign Language Film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Nominated
1983 NSFC Award National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA Best Director E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Nominated
1983 Sant Jordi Sant Jordi Awards Mejor Película Infantil E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Nominated
1982 ShoWest Award ShoWest Convention, USA Director of the Year Nominated
1982 Saturn Award Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA Best Director Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Nominated
1982 Marquee American Movie Awards Best Director Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Nominated
1982 BSFC Award Boston Society of Film Critics Awards Best Director Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Nominated
1982 Truly Moving Picture Award Heartland Film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Nominated
1982 Hugo Hugo Awards Best Dramatic Presentation Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Nominated
1982 Jupiter Award Jupiter Award Best International Film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Nominated
1982 KCFCC Award Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards Best Director E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Nominated
1982 Readers’ Choice Award Kinema Junpo Awards Best Foreign Language Film Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Nominated
1982 LAFCA Award Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Best Director E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Nominated
1981 Jupiter Award Jupiter Award Best International Film Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Nominated
1978 Saturn Award Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA Best Director Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) Nominated
1978 David David di Donatello Awards Best Foreign Film (Miglior Film Straniero) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) Nominated
1974 Best Screenplay Cannes Film Festival The Sugarland Express (1974) Nominated
1973 Best First Film Taormina International Film Festival Duel (1971) Nominated
1973 Grand Prize Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival Duel (1971) Nominated
1972 Gold Remi Award WorldFest Houston Short Subject – Live Action Amblin’ (1968) Nominated
1969 CINE Golden Eagle CINE Competition Short Films Amblin’ (1968) Nominated
1968 Jury Award Atlanta Film Festival Best Short Film Amblin’ (1968) Nominated