Spielberg in 2023
Steven Spielberg is an American filmmaker. He is considered one of the founding pioneers of the New Hollywood era, as well as one of the most popular directors and producers in film history.[ 1] He is also one of the co-founders of Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks Pictures .
In a career spanning more than five decades, Spielberg's films have spanned many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as archetypes of modern Hollywood escapist filmmaking.[ 2] In later years, his films began addressing humanistic issues such as the transatlantic slave trade , civil rights , war, and terrorism .
Spielberg won the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan , as well as receiving six other nominations.[ 3] Three of Spielberg's films—Jaws , E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial , and Jurassic Park —achieved box office records, originated, and came to epitomize the blockbuster film.[ 4] The worldwide box office receipts of all Spielberg-directed films exceed $10 billion, making him the highest-grossing director in cinematic history .
Film
Spielberg has worked as a producer, executive producer, director, or in an otherwise creative capacity on several films where he was not credited.
Key
†
Denotes films that have not yet been released
Year
Film
Budget
Domestic
Total worldwide
1971
Duel
$450,000
N/A
N/A
1974
The Sugarland Express
$3,000,000
$6,500,000
$12,000,000
1975
Jaws
$9,000,000
$280,100,000
$490,700,000
1977
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
$19,400,000
$135,190,000
$306,100,000
1979
1941
$35,000,000
$23,400,000
$90,000,000
1981
Raiders of the Lost Ark
$20,000,000
$248,100,000
$389,900,000
1982
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
$10,500,000
$438,000,000
$792,900,000
1984
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
$28,200,000
$180,000,000
$333,100,000
1985
The Color Purple
$15,000,000
$98,500,000
$142,000,000
1987
Empire of the Sun
$25,000,000
$22,200,000
$66,700,000
1989
Always
$31,000,000
$43,900,000
$74,100,000
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
$48,000,000
$197,200,000
$474,200,000
1991
Hook
$70,000,000
$119,700,000
$300,100,000
1993
Jurassic Park
$63,000,000
$402,500,000
$1,046,000,000
Schindler's List
$22,000,000
$96,100,000
$322,200,000
1997
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
$73,000,000
$229,100,000
$618,600,000
Amistad
$36,000,000
$44,300,000
$58,300,000
1998
Saving Private Ryan
$70,000,000
$216,500,000
$485,000,000
2001
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
$100,000,000
$78,600,000
$235,900,000
2002
Minority Report
$102,000,000
$132,000,000
$358,400,000
Catch Me If You Can
$52,000,000
$164,600,000
$352,100,000
2004
The Terminal
$60,000,000
$77,900,000
$219,400,000
2005
War of the Worlds
$132,000,000
$234,300,000
$603,900,000
Munich
$70,000,000
$47,000,000
$131,000,000
2008
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
$185,000,000
$317,100,000
$790,700,000
2011
The Adventures of Tintin
$135,000,000
$77,600,000
$374,000,000
War Horse
$70,000,000
$79,900,000
$177,600,000
2012
Lincoln
$65,000,000
$183,000,000
$275,300,000
2015
Bridge of Spies
$40,000,000
$72,300,000
$165,600,000
2016
The BFG
$140,000,000
$55,500,000
$195,200,000
2017
The Post
$50,000,000
$81,900,000
$193,800,000
2018
Ready Player One
$175,000,000
$137,000,000
$607,874,422
2021
West Side Story
$100,000,000
$38,530,000
$76,000,000
2022
The Fabelmans
$40,000,000
$17,350,000
$45,580,000
2026
Disclosure Day
$116,636,645
$124,053,103
$240,689,748
Total
$2,209,550,000
$4,615,394,000
$10,874,380,000
Television
Amazing Stories (1985–87) writing credits
Season
Ep.
Title
Credited as
1
1
"Ghost Train"
Story by
2
"The Main Attraction"
3
"Alamo Jobe"
4
"Mummy Daddy"
5
"The Mission"
6
"The Amazing Falsworth"
7
"Fine Tuning"
10
"Remote Control Man"
11
"Santa '85"
12
"Vanessa in the Garden"
Written by
14
"No Day at the Beach"
Story by
16
"Gather Ye Acorns"
18
"Dorothy and Ben"
19
"Mirror, Mirror"
2
1
"The Wedding Ring"
5
"You Gotta Believe Me"
6
"The Greibble"
14
"Blue Man Down"
References
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↑ Directors with two or more Oscars
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↑ "Room 222/Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies (1969/1973); Music by Jerry Goldsmith" . Film Score Monthly . 2015. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved December 11, 2015 .
↑ Breznican, Anthony (June 20, 2015). "Jaws anniversary: Steven Spielberg on how it was almost a different movie" . Entertainment Weekly . Archived from the original on July 1, 2019. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
↑ "Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)" . Rotten Tomatoes . Archived from the original on April 30, 2019. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
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↑ Tobias, Scott (October 24, 2007). "Poltergeist : 25th Anniversary Edition" . The A.V. Club . Archived from the original on May 19, 2019. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
↑ "An ancient conspiracy theory about Poltergeist has just been confirmed" . The Independent . July 18, 2017. Retrieved June 15, 2023 .
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↑ "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" . Lucasfilm.com . Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
↑ Maslin, Janet (December 18, 1985). "Film: 'The Color Purple,' From Steven Spielberg" . The New York Times . Archived from the original on July 21, 2019. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
↑ Ware, J. Gabriel (October 9, 2022). "The Goonies All Started With A Simple Question In Steven Spielberg's Mind" . SlashFilm . Retrieved May 14, 2025 .
↑ Byrge, Duane (December 11, 2018). " 'Empire of the Sun': THR's 1987 Review" . The Hollywood Reporter . Archived from the original on May 2, 2019. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
↑ "Ruins, rejection and daddy issues: The inside story of 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade' " . The Independent . June 28, 2019. Archived from the original on July 1, 2019. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
↑ Vishnevetsky, Ignatiy; Chavez, Danette (July 14, 2017). "Revisiting Always , Steven Spielberg's worst movie" . The A.V. Club . Archived from the original on September 3, 2017. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
↑ Kennedy, Michael (February 22, 2018). "Steven Spielberg Admits That He Had 'No Confidence' In Hook " . Screen Rant . Archived from the original on February 3, 2019. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
↑ Phipps, Keith (June 11, 2018). " 'Jurassic Park' at 25: How Spielberg's Dinos-Run-Wild Blockbuster Changed the Game" . Rolling Stone . Archived from the original on May 9, 2019. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
↑ Deerwester, Jayme (December 6, 2018). "Steven Spielberg: At 25, 'Schindler's List' is even more relevant now" . USA Today . Archived from the original on August 9, 2019. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
↑ "The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) – Steven Spielberg, Director" . amblin.com . Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
↑ Beyl, Cameron (January 4, 2017). "Steven Spielberg's Amistad (1997) – The Directors Series" . The Directors Series . Archived from the original on January 5, 2017. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
↑ Rubin, Steven Jay (July 24, 2018). " 'Saving Private Ryan' at 20: How Spielberg's vivid D-Day story changed war movies forever" . Los Angeles Times . Archived from the original on June 26, 2019. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
↑ Ebert, Roger (July 7, 2011). "A.I. Artificial Intelligence Movie Review (2001) – Roger Ebert" . Rogerebert.com . Archived from the original on May 17, 2019. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
↑ Liptak, Andrew (June 30, 2017). "Minority Report holds up because it's about surveillance, not gadgets" . The Verge . Archived from the original on June 29, 2019. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
↑ Staff (December 25, 2017). " 'Catch Me If You Can': THR's 2002 Review" . The Hollywood Reporter . Archived from the original on January 11, 2018. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
↑ Beyl, Cameron (January 17, 2017). "Steven Spielberg's The Terminal (2004) – The Directors Series" . The Directors Series . Archived from the original on January 18, 2017. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
↑ Salemme, Danny (October 30, 2018). "Steven Spielberg Admits War of the Worlds Ending Doesn't Make Sense" . Screen Rant . Archived from the original on June 5, 2019. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
↑ Ebert, Roger (December 22, 2005). "Munich Movie Review & Film Summary (2005) – Roger Ebert" . RogerEbert.com . Archived from the original on June 7, 2019. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
↑ Franich, Darren (October 27, 2011). "Steven Spielberg defends worst scene in 'Indiana Jones 4' " . CNN . Archived from the original on May 17, 2019. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
↑ Lawrence, Will (October 13, 2011). "Steven Spielberg on making 'The Adventures of Tintin' " . The Daily Telegraph . Archived from the original on July 28, 2019. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
↑ Galloway, Stephen (December 2, 2011). " 'War Horse': The Making of Steven Spielberg's WWI Epic" . The Hollywood Reporter . Archived from the original on August 18, 2018. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
↑ Fleming, Mike Jr. (December 6, 2012). "Steven Spielberg On Making 'Lincoln' – Interview" . Deadline Hollywood . Archived from the original on July 7, 2019. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
↑ Thorpe, Vanessa (November 14, 2015). "Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies – and the role our father played" . The Guardian . Archived from the original on January 22, 2018. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
↑ Setoodeh, Ramin (May 14, 2016). "Steven Spielberg on 'The BFG': 5 Things You Need to Know" . Variety . Archived from the original on February 28, 2017. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
↑ Freedland, Jonathan (January 19, 2018). "Steven Spielberg: 'The urgency to make The Post was because of Trump's administration' " . The Guardian . Archived from the original on July 16, 2019. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
↑ Robinson, Tasha (March 30, 2018). "Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One improves immensely on the book" . The Verge . Archived from the original on May 28, 2019. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
↑ D'Alessandro, Anthony (May 23, 2024). "Universal Dates Steven Spielberg Event Movie For Summer 2026" . Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved May 23, 2024 .
↑ Deadline Hollywood [@DEADLINE] (June 18, 2025). "Screenwriter and Steven Spielberg's longtime collaborator David Koepp on the upcoming Untitled Steven Spielberg Film, which he penned: "We finished shooting about 3 weeks ago… It's a very emotional experience this movie" " (Tweet ). Retrieved June 22, 2025 – via X (formerly Twitter) .
↑ Auschwitz (2015) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb
↑ https://www.lucasfilm.com/news/music-by-john-williams-premiere https://amblin.com/movie/music-by-john-williams https://imagine-entertainment.com/documentary/music-by-john-williams///
↑ "Film Releases" . Variety Insight . Variety Media . Archived from the original on October 13, 2018. Retrieved July 8, 2018 .
↑ " 'Transformers' Animated Prequel Sets Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson and More Voice Cast" . April 27, 2023.
↑ Spell Your Name (2006) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb
↑ Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck (2013) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb
↑ Finding Oscar (2016) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb
↑ "The untold truth of Scarface" . Looper. June 5, 2020. Archived from the original on June 15, 2020. Retrieved October 29, 2020 .
↑ "EXCLUSIVE: THE NEVER-BEFORE-TOLD TALE OF STEVEN SPIELBERG'S INVOLVEMENT IN 'THE NEVERENDING STORY' " . MTV. Archived from the original on September 19, 2020. Retrieved October 29, 2020 .
↑ Buchanan, Kyle (November 7, 2024). "With 'Gladiator II,' Ridley Scott Returns to the Arena" . The New York Times . Archived from the original on November 8, 2024. Retrieved February 16, 2026 .
↑ "Steven Spielberg helped out on Revenge of the Sith" . March 31, 2005. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved December 4, 2015 .
↑ Anders, Charlie Jane (August 18, 2011). "Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Marti Noxon gives us a tutorial on how to do horror-comedy right" . io9 . Archived from the original on February 18, 2014. Retrieved May 23, 2012 .
↑ "Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio Finally Open Up About 'Wolf of Wall Street' " . The Hollywood Reporter . December 4, 2013. Retrieved April 4, 2024 .
↑ cloneweb (June 22, 2018). "Dragons 3 Le Monde Caché : Rencontre avec Dean DeBlois et Brad Lewis" – via YouTube.
↑ Deadline [@DEADLINE] (June 18, 2025). "#JurassicWorldRebirth screenwriter David Koepp discusses working closely with Steven Spielberg on the script and building Scarlett Johansson's character Zora with the actress herself" (Tweet ). Retrieved June 20, 2025 – via X (formerly Twitter) . {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
↑ Survivors of the Holocaust (TV Movie 1996) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb
↑ "The night Steven Spielberg called... and Kay Mellor won the prize of a lifetime" . www.yorkshirepost.co.uk . March 15, 2013. Retrieved October 19, 2020 .
↑ Zeitchik, Steven (September 24, 2013). "In 'Lucky 7,' the lives of a more ordinary number" . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved October 19, 2020 .
↑ Porter, Rick (May 9, 2019). "Steven Spielberg's Amblin TV Leaves CBS' 'Bull' Over Harassment Scandal" . The Hollywood Reporter . Archived from the original on May 9, 2019. Retrieved May 9, 2019 .
↑ Erik Pederson (July 28, 2020). " 'Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous': Premiere Date & Teaser For Netflix Toon Series From EPs Steven Spielberg, Colin Trevorrow & Frank Marshall" . Deadline Hollywood . Archived from the original on July 28, 2020.
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↑ CyndiLauperVEVO (September 27, 2010). "Cyndi Lauper – The Goonies 'r' Good Enough" . Archived from the original on January 3, 2017. Retrieved November 28, 2016 – via YouTube.
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↑ Legaspi, Althea (July 18, 2022). "Steven Spielberg Directs Marcus Mumford's Video for "Cannibal" " . Rolling Stone . Retrieved August 13, 2022 .
↑ Jones, Damian (July 18, 2022). "Marcus Mumford confirms Steven Spielberg directed video for recent single "Cannibal" " . NME . Retrieved August 13, 2022 .
↑ "Ready Player One Book Sequel Coming with Spielberg's Input" . ComingSoon.net . December 11, 2017. Retrieved October 13, 2024 .
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