Steven Spielberg filmography

Steven Spielberg is an American director, producer and writer. 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, DreamWorks Pictures, and DreamWorks Animation.

Spielberg in 2023

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 Holocaust, 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 exceeds $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.

Director and writer

Short film

Year	Film	Credited as			Notes
		Director	Producer	Writer
1959	The Last Gun	Yes	Yes	No
1961	Fighter Squad	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Escape to Nowhere	Yes	Yes	Yes
1967	Slipstream	Yes	Yes	Yes	Unfinished
1968	Amblin'	Yes	No	Yes	Also editor (Uncredited)

Feature film

Year	Title	Director	Producer	Writer	Notes	Refs.
1964	Firelight	Yes	No	Yes	Partially lost
1971	Duel	Yes	No	No	Extended theatrical version of original TV movie
1973	Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies	No	No	Story		[5]
1974	The Sugarland Express	Yes	No	Story	Theatrical film directing debut
1975	Jaws	Yes	No	No		[6]
1977	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Yes	No	Yes	Also visual effects concepts	[7]
1979	1941	Yes	No	No		[8]
1981	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Yes	No	No		[9]
1982	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Yes	Yes	No		[10]
	Poltergeist	No	Yes	Yes		[11][12]
1983	Twilight Zone: The Movie	Yes	Yes	No	Segment: "Kick the Can"	[13]
1984	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	Yes	No	No		[14]
1985	The Color Purple	Yes	Yes	No		[15]
	The Goonies	No	Executive	Story	Also uncredited second unit director and editor	[16]
1987	Empire of the Sun	Yes	Yes	No		[17]
1989	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	Yes	No	No		[18]
	Always	Yes	Yes	No		[19]
1991	Hook	Yes	No	No		[20]
1993	Jurassic Park	Yes	No	No		[21]
	Schindler's List	Yes	Yes	No		[22]
1997	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	Yes	No	No		[23]
	Amistad	Yes	Yes	No		[24]
1998	Saving Private Ryan	Yes	Yes	No		[25]
2001	A.I. Artificial Intelligence	Yes	Yes	Yes		[26]
2002	Minority Report	Yes	No	No		[27]
	Catch Me If You Can	Yes	Yes	No		[28]
2004	The Terminal	Yes	Yes	No		[29]
2005	War of the Worlds	Yes	No	No		[30]
	Munich	Yes	Yes	No		[31]
2008
	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	Yes	No	No		[32]
2011	The Adventures of Tintin	Yes	Yes	No	Also lighting consultant and uncredited virtual camera operator	[33]
	War Horse	Yes	Yes	No		[34]
2012	Lincoln	Yes	Yes	No		[35]
2015	Bridge of Spies	Yes	Yes	No		[36]
2016	The BFG	Yes	Yes	No		[37]
2017	The Post	Yes	Yes	No		[38]
2018	Ready Player One	Yes	Yes	No		[39]
2021	West Side Story	Yes	Yes	No	Also end title designer
2022	The Fabelmans	Yes	Yes	Yes
2026	Untitled science fiction film	Yes	Yes	Story	Post-production	[40][41]

Producing credits

Producer

Year	Title	Director	Notes	Ref.
1991	An American Tail: Fievel Goes West	Phil Nibbelink Simon Wells
2005	Memoirs of a Geisha	Rob Marshall
2006	Flags of Our Fathers	Clint Eastwood
	Letters from Iwo Jima
2011	Super 8	J. J. Abrams
2014	The Hundred-Foot Journey	Lasse Hallström
2015	Auschwitz	James Moll	Short film	[42]
2023	Maestro	Bradley Cooper
	The Color Purple	Blitz the Ambassador
2025	The Thursday Murder Club	Chris Columbus
	Hamnet	Chloé Zhao		[43]

Executive producer^[44]

Year	Title	Director	Notes	Ref.
1978	I Wanna Hold Your Hand	Robert Zemeckis
1980	Used Cars
1981	Continental Divide	Michael Apted
1984	Gremlins	Joe Dante
1985	Back to the Future	Robert Zemeckis
	Young Sherlock Holmes	Barry Levinson
	Fandango	Kevin Reynolds	Uncredited
1986	An American Tail	Don Bluth
	The Money Pit	Richard Benjamin
1987	Batteries Not Included	Matthew Robbins
	Three O'Clock High	Phil Joanou	Uncredited
	Innerspace	Joe Dante
	Harry and the Hendersons	William Dear	Uncredited
1988	Who Framed Roger Rabbit	Robert Zemeckis
	The Land Before Time	Don Bluth
1989	Back to the Future Part II	Robert Zemeckis
	Tummy Trouble	Rob Minkoff Frank Marshall	Short film
	Dad	Gary David Goldberg
1990	Arachnophobia	Frank Marshall	Also uncredited second unit director
	Dreams	Akira Kurosawa
	Back to the Future Part III	Robert Zemeckis
	Roller Coaster Rabbit	Rob Minkoff Frank Marshall	Short film
	Gremlins 2: The New Batch	Joe Dante
	Joe Versus the Volcano	John Patrick Shanley
1992	Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation	Rich Arons Ken Boyer Kent Butterworth Barry Caldwell Alfred Gimeno Art Leonardi Byron Vaughns	Direct-to-video
1993	Trail Mix-Up	Barry Cook	Short film
	We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story	Dick Zondag Ralph Zondag Phil Nibbelink Simon Wells
1994	The Flintstones	Brian Levant
1995	Casper	Brad Silberling
	Balto	Simon Wells
1996	Twister	Jan de Bont
1997	Men in Black	Barry Sonnenfeld
1998	The Mask of Zorro	Martin Campbell
	Deep Impact	Mimi Leder
1999	Wakko's Wish	Liz Holzman Rusty Mills Tom Ruegger	Direct-to-video
2001	Jurassic Park III	Joe Johnston
2002	Men in Black II	Barry Sonnenfeld
2005	The Legend of Zorro	Martin Campbell
2006	Monster House	Gil Kenan
2007	Transformers	Michael Bay
2008	Eagle Eye	D. J. Caruso
2009	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	Michael Bay
	The Lovely Bones	Peter Jackson
2010	Hereafter	Clint Eastwood
	True Grit	Coen Brothers
2011	Transformers: Dark of the Moon	Michael Bay
	Cowboys & Aliens	Jon Favreau
	Real Steel	Shawn Levy
2012	Men in Black 3	Barry Sonnenfeld
2014	Transformers: Age of Extinction	Michael Bay
2015	Jurassic World	Colin Trevorrow
2017	Transformers: The Last Knight	Michael Bay		[45]
2018	Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom	J.A. Bayona
	First Man	Damien Chazelle
	Bumblebee	Travis Knight
2019	Men in Black: International	F. Gary Gray		[46]
2022	Jurassic World: Dominion	Colin Trevorrow
2023	Transformers: Rise of the Beasts	Steven Caple Jr.
	Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny	James Mangold		[47]
2024	Twisters	Lee Isaac Chung
	Transformers One	Josh Cooley		[48]
2025	How to Train Your Dragon	Dean DeBlois
	Jurassic World Rebirth	Gareth Edwards		[49]

Documentary film

Year	Film	Director	Ref.
1998	The Last Days	James Moll
2000	A Holocaust szemei	János Szász
2006	Spell Your Name	Sergey Bukovsky	[50]
2013	Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck	Laurent Bouzereau	[51]
2016	Finding Oscar	Ryan Suffern	[52]

Cameos

Year	Film	Role
1975	Jaws	Amity Point Lifestation Worker (voice)
1980	The Blues Brothers	Cook County Assessor
1984	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	Tourist at Airport
	Gremlins	Man in Electric Wheelchair
1990	Gremlins 2: The New Batch	Man in scooter
1997	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	Man Eating Popcorn
	Men in Black	Alien on TV Monitor
2001	Vanilla Sky	Guest at party
2002	Austin Powers in Goldmember	Himself
2011	Paul	Himself (voice)

Documentary appearances

Year	Film
1982	Room 666
2000	Chuck Jones: Extremes & Inbetweens – A Life in Animation
2001	Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
2004	Double Dare
	The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
2005	Directed by John Ford
2006	The Shark Is Still Working
2010	Hollywood Don't Surf!
2011	Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
2013	Drew: The Man Behind the Poster
2015	Everything Is Copy
	Back in Time
2016	Mike Nichols: American Masters
	Score: A Film Music Documentary
2017	Spielberg
2019	The Movies
2022	Light & Magic
2023	Albert Brooks: Defending My Life
2024	Music by John Williams
2025	Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

Other non-credited roles

Year	Film	Role	Ref.
1983	Scarface	Co-directed one scene for Brian De Palma	[53]
1984	The NeverEnding Story	Assisted in post-production	[54]
2000	Gladiator	Creative consultant	[55]
2005	Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith	Second unit director	[56]
2011	Fright Night	Storyboarding scenes and assistance with editing	[57]
2013	The Wolf of Wall Street	Co-directed one scene for Martin Scorsese	[58]
2019	How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World	Provided some story suggestions to Dean DeBlois	[59]
2025	Jurassic World Rebirth	Creative consultant	[60]

Box office performances of feature films

Year	Film	Distributor	Budget	Domestic	Total Worldwide
1971	Duel	Universal Pictures	$450,000	N/A	N/A
1974	The Sugarland Express		$3,000,000	$6,500,000	$12,000,000
1975	Jaws		$9,000,000	$265,900,000	$476,500,000
1977	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Columbia Pictures	$19,400,000	$135,190,000	$306,100,000
1979	1941	Universal Pictures / Columbia Pictures	$35,000,000	$23,400,000	$90,000,000
1981	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Paramount Pictures	$20,000,000	$248,100,000	$389,900,000
1982	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Universal Pictures	$10,500,000	$438,000,000	$792,900,000
1984	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	Paramount Pictures	$28,200,000	$180,000,000	$331,000,000
1985	The Color Purple	Warner Bros.	$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	Universal Pictures	$31,000,000	$43,900,000	$74,100,000
	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	Paramount Pictures	$48,000,000	$197,200,000	$474,200,000
1991	Hook	TriStar Pictures	$70,000,000	$119,700,000	$300,100,000
1993	Jurassic Park	Universal Pictures	$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	DreamWorks Pictures	$36,000,000	$44,300,000	$58,300,000
1998	Saving Private Ryan	DreamWorks Pictures / Paramount Pictures	$70,000,000	$216,500,000	$485,000,000
2001	A.I. Artificial Intelligence	Warner Bros. Pictures / DreamWorks Pictures	$100,000,000	$78,600,000	$235,900,000
2002	Minority Report	20th Century Fox	$102,000,000	$132,000,000	$358,400,000
	Catch Me If You Can	DreamWorks Pictures	$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	Paramount Pictures / DreamWorks Pictures	$132,000,000	$234,300,000	$603,900,000
	Munich	Universal Pictures / DreamWorks Pictures	$70,000,000	$47,000,000	$131,000,000
2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	Paramount Pictures	$185,000,000	$317,100,000	$790,700,000
2011	The Adventures of Tintin	Paramount Pictures / Sony Pictures Releasing	$135,000,000	$77,600,000	$374,000,000
	War Horse	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$70,000,000	$79,900,000	$177,600,000
2012	Lincoln	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures / 20th Century Fox	$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	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$140,000,000	$55,500,000	$195,200,000
2017	The Post	20th Century Fox	$50,000,000	$81,900,000	$179,800,000
2018	Ready Player One	Warner Bros. Pictures	$175,000,000	$137,000,000	$583,000,000
2021	West Side Story	20th Century Studios	$100,000,000	$38,530,000	$76,000,000
2022	The Fabelmans	Universal Pictures	$40,000,000	$17,350,000	$45,580,000
Total			$2,094,550,000	$4,557,194,000	$10,751,080,000

Television

As director

Year	Title	Notes
1969, 1971	Night Gallery	Pilot movie segment B "Eyes" Ep. 4 segment A "Make Me Laugh"
1970	Marcus Welby, M.D.	Ep. 1–24 "The Daredevil Gesture"
1971	The Name of the Game	Ep. 3–16 "L.A. 2017"
	The Psychiatrist	Ep. 1–2 "The Private World of Martin Dalton" and Ep. 1–6 "Par for the Course"
	Columbo	Ep. 1–1 "Murder by the Book"
	Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law	Ep. 1–3 "Eulogy for a Wide Receiver"
	Duel	Television film, extended film version was also released to cinemas
1972	Something Evil	Television film
1973	Savage	Television film, also editor
1984	Strokes of Genius	TV series (introductory segments hosted by Dustin Hoffman)
1985–1987	Amazing Stories	Ep. 1–1 "Ghost Train" and Ep. 1–5 "The Mission" (part of Amazing Stories: Book One) Also developer, writer of several episodes and executive producer

As executive producer

Year	Title	Notes	Ref.
1990–1992	Tiny Toon Adventures	Also voiced himself (Episode: "Buster and Babs Go Hawaiian")
1991	A Wish for Wings That Work
1992	The Water Engine
	The Plucky Duck Show
1993–1995	SeaQuest DSV
1993	Family Dog
1993–1998	Animaniacs
1993	Class of '61
1994	Tiny Toon Adventures: Spring Break
1995–1998	Pinky and the Brain
1995	Tiny Toon Adventures: Night Ghoulery
1995–1997	Freakazoid!
1996	Champs
1996–1997	High Incident	Also co-creator and story co-writer in "Pilot"
1996	Survivors of the Holocaust	Also starring as himself	[61]
1998–1999	Toonsylvania
1998	Invasion America
1998–1999	Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain
2000	Shooting War	Documentary
2001	Price for Peace
	We Stand Alone Together
	Band of Brothers
	Semper Fi
2002	Taken
2003	Burma Bridge Busters
2004	Voices from the List
2005	Into the West
	Dan Finnerty & the Dan Band: I Am Woman
2009–2011	United States of Tara
2010	The Pacific
2011–2015	Falling Skies
2011	Terra Nova
	Locke & Key
2012–2013	Smash
2012	The River
2013	Lucky 7		[62][63]
2013–2015	Under the Dome
2014–2015	Extant
	Red Band Society
2015	The Whispers
	Public Morals
	Minority Report
2016	All the Way	Television film
2016–2019	Bull		[64]
2017	Five Came Back	Also starring as himself
2019	Why We Hate	Documentary
2020	Amazing Stories
2020–2022	Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous		[65]
2020–2023	Animaniacs
2021	Oslo	Television film
2022–2024	Halo
2023–present	Gremlins
2023-2025	Tiny Toons Looniversity
2023	Life on Our Planet	Documentary
2024	Masters of the Air
2024–present	Jurassic World: Chaos Theory

Amazing Stories (1985–87) writing credits

Season	Ep.	Title	Director	Credited as
1	1	"Ghost Train"	Himself	Story by
	2	"The Main Attraction"	Matthew Robbins
	3	"Alamo Jobe"	Michael D. Moore
	4	"Mummy Daddy"	William Dear
	5	"The Mission"	Himself
	6	"The Amazing Falsworth"	Peter Hyams
	7	"Fine Tuning"	Bob Balaban
	10	"Remote Control Man"	Bob Clark
	11	"Santa '85"	Phil Joanou
	12	"Vanessa in the Garden"	Clint Eastwood	Written by
	14	"No Day at the Beach"	Lesli Linka Glatter	Story by
	16	"Gather Ye Acorns"	Norman Reynolds
	18	"Dorothy and Ben"	Thomas Carter
	19	"Mirror, Mirror"	Martin Scorsese
2	1	"The Wedding Ring"	Danny DeVito
	5	"You Gotta Believe Me"	Kevin Reynolds
	6	"The Greibble"	Joe Dante
	14	"Blue Man Down"	Paul Michael Glaser

Video games

Year	Title	Notes	Ref.
1982	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Writer
1995	The Dig	Writer
1996	Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair
1999	Medal of Honor	Designer
2000	Medal of Honor: Underground
2002	Medal of Honor: Allied Assault	Writer
	Quest for the Code		[66]
2008	Boom Blox	Designer
2009	Boom Blox Bash Party	Designer
	Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings	Creative consultant	[67]
–	LMNO	Cancelled	[68]

Music videos

Year	Title	Credited as				Ref.
		Director	Producer	Writer	Other
1985	"The Goonies 'R' Good Enough"	No	Yes	No	Actor	[69][70]
1989	"Liberian Girl"	No	No	No	Cameo
2022	"Cannibal"	Yes	No	No	No	[71][72]

Books

Year	Title	Role
2020	Ready Player Two	Creative consultant in the final draft[73]

See also

• Steven Spielberg's unrealized projects