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Profile | プロフィール

Born / 生年月日
December 18, 1946 | Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Age / 年齢
78 years old (as of 2025)

Occupation / 職業
Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter

映画監督、プロデューサー、脚本家

Nationality / 国籍
American (アメリカ)

Biography | 経歴

[English] Steven Spielberg is the most commercially successful and culturally significant filmmaker in the history of American cinema. His artistry is defined by an instinctive mastery of popular storytelling, merging large-scale spectacle with profound emotional intimacy. From inventing the summer blockbuster with Jaws (1975) to capturing the pure wonder of childhood in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), he has fundamentally altered the commercial and creative landscape of Hollywood. However, his most enduring contribution is his rigorous engagement with historical justice; Schindler’s List (1993) remains the definitive cinematic witness to the Holocaust, leading to the establishment of the USC Shoah Foundation. Across five decades and an unprecedented $10 billion career box office, Spielberg has proven that popular cinema can carry the weight of humanity’s most serious moral and historical claims.

[日本語] スティーヴン・スピルバーグは、アメリカ映画史上、最も商業的に成功し、かつ文化的に多大な影響を及ぼした映画作家です。その作家性は、大衆的な語りのメカニズムに対する本能的な熟達と、大規模なスペクタクルの中に繊細な感情的親密さを共存させる稀有な能力によって定義されます。『ジョーズ』（1975年）で「夏のブロックバスター」という概念を発明し、『E.T.』（1982年）で幼少期の驚異と孤独を完璧に描き出すなど、彼はハリウッドの商業的・創造的景観を根本から変容させました。しかし、彼の最も息の長い貢献は、歴史的正義への真摯な取り組みにあります。『シンドラーのリスト』（1993年）は、ホロコーストという悲劇に対する決定的な映画的証言であり、USCショア財団の設立へと繋がる歴史的転換点となりました。50年以上のキャリアと、累計興行収入100億ドルを超えるという前例のない記録は、ポピュラー映画が人類の最も深刻な道徳的・歴史的課題を背負い得ることを証明しています。

Filmography | 監督作品

Feature Films as Director — Selected (監督長編作品 — 主要作品)

Television — Selected (テレビ — 主要作品)

Awards & Recognition | 受賞歴

Academy Awards (アカデミー賞)

Winner as Director: 2 🏆

• Best Director – Schindler’s List (1994) 🏆
• Best Director – Saving Private Ryan (1999) 🏆

Films directed — total Oscar wins (across career): 17+ 🏆

Selected winning films:

• Schindler’s List (1994): Best Picture 🏆, Best Director 🏆, Best Adapted Screenplay 🏆, Best Cinematography 🏆, Best Film Editing 🏆, Best Art Direction 🏆, Best Original Score 🏆 (7 wins)
• Saving Private Ryan (1999): Best Director 🏆, Best Cinematography 🏆, Best Film Editing 🏆, Best Sound 🏆, Best Sound Effects Editing 🏆 (5 wins)
• Jaws (1976): Best Film Editing 🏆, Best Original Score 🏆, Best Sound 🏆
• E.T. (1983): Best Original Score 🏆, Best Sound 🏆, Best Sound Effects Editing 🏆, Best Visual Effects 🏆

Nominated for Best Director: 7 times 🌟

Total Academy Award nominations across directed films: Over 50

Golden Globe Awards

Winner as Director: 3 🏆

• Best Director – Schindler’s List (1994) 🏆
• Best Director – Saving Private Ryan (1999) 🏆
• Best Director – The Fabelmans (2023) 🏆

Directors Guild of America (DGA)

Winner: 3 🏆

• Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film – Schindler’s List (1994) 🏆
• Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film – Saving Private Ryan (1999) 🏆
• Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film – The Fabelmans (2023) 🏆

Cannes Film Festival (カンヌ国際映画祭)

• Best Screenplay – The Sugarland Express (1974) 🏆 (co-winner)

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

• Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (1987) 🏆; for consistent high quality of production

American Film Institute (AFI)

• AFI Life Achievement Award (1995) 🏆; the youngest recipient at the time of the award’s history

Kennedy Center Honors

• Kennedy Center Honors (2006) 🏆

Presidential Medal of Freedom

• Presidential Medal of Freedom (2015) 🏆

Other Honours

• USC Shoah Foundation: Founded by Spielberg in 1994 following Schindler’s List; has recorded more than 55,000 testimonies in sixty-three countries; universally recognized as the most significant single institutional contribution of his career to the preservation of Holocaust history
• DreamWorks SKG: Co-founded with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen in 1994; one of the most significant institutional contributions to the restructuring of the Hollywood studio system in the past three decades
• Amblin Entertainment: His production company, through which an extraordinary range of films have been produced across his career, including films directed by others that have been recognized as among the most significant popular films of their decades

Box Office Achievements | 興行成績

Career worldwide box office as director: Over $10 billion

Steven Spielberg is the only director in the history of cinema whose directorial career box office exceeds $10 billion. He has directed five of the twenty highest-grossing films of all time (adjusted for inflation), and his career encompasses the most commercially successful period in the history of Hollywood cinema.

External Links | 外部リンク

• IMDb
• Wikipedia (English)
• Wikipedia (日本語)
• USC Shoah Foundation
• Amblin Entertainment