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TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of Steven Spielberg.

Steven Spielberg
Director Facts
Birth:
December 18, 1946
Biography:
Without a doubt one of the most influential film personalities in the history of film, Steven Spielberg is perhaps Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. Spielberg has countless big-grossing, critically acclaimed credits to his name, as producer, director and writer. ...more about Steven Spielberg

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CAREER SPAN

Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1950s
No Reviews
1
1960s
No Reviews
3
1970s
2.8012
3
total ranking of 2.8012
1980s
3.3260
7
total ranking of 3.3260
1990s
3.0266
6
total ranking of 3.0266
2000s
3.0269
9
total ranking of 3.0269
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards for each movie.
Overall Director Score: Steven Spielberg is ranked overall as 3.4762 of of 4 directors3.4762
Steven Spielberg Movie Rankings
1
Steven Spielberg directed by Raiders of the Lost Ark
Steven Spielberg scores a combined 4 out of 4 directors for Raiders of the Lost Ark4.0000
In 1936, as WWII looms near, Indiana Jones is hired by the Government to find the Ark of the Covenant, which is believed to still hold the ten commandments and mystical powers. Meanwhile, agents of Hitler are also seeking the Ark. ...more about Raiders of the Lost Ark
Director Awards
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Director
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
  • Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Director
  • American Movie Awards - Best Director
  • BAFTA Awards - Best Production Design/Art Direction
  • Boston Society of Film Critics Awards - Best Director
  • Directors Guild of America, USA - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
  • Golden Globes, USA - Best Director - Motion Picture
  • Writers Guild of America, USA - Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
2
Steven Spielberg directed by Jaws
Steven Spielberg scores a combined 3.9366 out of 4 directors for Jaws3.9366
After a teenager and a child are attacked by a Great White shark in a quiet beach community, the new police chief attempts to catch the killer shark before it can strike again. ...more about Jaws
Director Awards
  • BAFTA Awards - Best Direction
  • Directors Guild of America, USA - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
  • Golden Globes, USA - Best Director - Motion Picture
3
Steven Spielberg directed by E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Steven Spielberg scores a combined 3.9287 out of 4 directors for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial3.9287
An extra terrestrial is accidentally left behind on Earth. He befriends a boy named Elliot and his family. ET tries to build a device to contact his home planet to rescue him, but the longer ET stays on Earth the closer his bond to Elliot becomes. ...more about E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Director Awards
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Director
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
  • Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Director
  • BAFTA Awards - Best Direction
  • BAFTA Awards - Best Production Design/Art Direction
  • Boston Society of Film Critics Awards - Best Director
  • David di Donatello Awards - Best Director - Foreign Film (Migliore Regista Straniero)
  • Directors Guild of America, USA - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
  • Golden Globes, USA - Best Director - Motion Picture
  • Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director
  • Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Director
  • National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Director
  • Writers Guild of America, USA - Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen
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4
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Steven Spielberg scores a combined 3.6325 out of 4 directors for Saving Private Ryan3.6325
When the Army discovers three out of four brothers have been killed in battle during WWII, it becomes one unit's mission is to save the fourth brother whose last known location is far behind enemy lines. ...more about Saving Private Ryan
Director Awards
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Director
  • Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Director
  • Chicago Film Critics Association Awards - Best Director
  • Directors Guild of America, USA - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
  • Empire Awards, UK - Best Director
  • Golden Globes, USA - Best Director - Motion Picture
  • Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists - Best Director - Foreign Film (Regista del Miglior Film Straniero)
  • Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director
  • Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards - Best Director
  • London Critics Circle Film Awards - Director of the Year
  • Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Director
  • Online Film Critics Society Awards - Best Director
  • Satellite Awards - Best Director of a Motion Picture
  • Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards - Best Director
  • Toronto Film Critics Association Awards - Best Director
  • Writers Guild of America, USA - Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
5
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Steven Spielberg scores a combined 3.2520 out of 4 directors for Close Encounters of the Third Kind3.2520
When several locals witness a strange alien encounter, they are all mysteriously drawn to a remote location in Wyoming. There they see the government contacting and communicating with a spaceship. ...more about Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Director Awards
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Director
  • Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Director
  • BAFTA Awards - Best Direction
  • BAFTA Awards - Best Production Design/Art Direction
  • Directors Guild of America, USA - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
  • Golden Globes, USA - Best Director - Motion Picture
  • Writers Guild of America, USA - Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen
6
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Steven Spielberg scores a combined 3.1167 out of 4 directors for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade3.1167
Renowned archeologist and expert in the occult, Dr. Indiana Jones, returns for the 3rd and final Indy film. Teaming up with his father, Indiana sets out to try and find the Holy Grail. ...more about Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
7
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Steven Spielberg scores a combined 3.1099 out of 4 directors for Catch Me If You Can3.1099
Mastering the art of forgery by the age of 21, Frank W. Abagnale managed to steal millions of dollars from the government and major corporations. FBI agent Carl Hanratty has made it his mission to catch Abagnale, who always seems one-step ahead. ...more about Catch Me If You Can
Director Awards
  • Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Director
  • Satellite Awards - Best Art Direction
8
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Steven Spielberg scores a combined 3.0926 out of 4 directors for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom3.0926
Renowned archeologist and expert in the occult, Dr. Indiana Jones, is back in action in the 2nd Indy film. He teams up with a night club singer and a 12 year old named Short Round. ...more about Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Director Awards
  • Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Director
9
Color Purple, The (1985)
Steven Spielberg scores a combined 3.0499 out of 4 directors for Color Purple3.0499
Chronicling the life of a young black girl during the turn of the century as she endures the hardships of incest, poverty and abuse. ...more about Color Purple
Director Awards
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
  • Directors Guild of America, USA - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
  • Golden Globes, USA - Best Director - Motion Picture
  • Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director
10
Minority Report (2002)
Steven Spielberg scores a combined 3.0465 out of 4 directors for Minority Report3.0465
In the future murder no longer exists. The government has the ability to predict when a murder will take place and arrest the guilty before they can commit the crime. But when the program's lead guy, Chief Anderton, is accused he has to prove the future is wrong. ...more about Minority Report
Director Awards
  • Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Director
  • Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Director
  • Empire Awards, UK - Best Director
  • Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists - Best Director - Foreign Film (Regista del Miglior Film Straniero)
  • Online Film Critics Society Awards - Best Art Direction
  • Online Film Critics Society Awards - Best Director
  • Visual Effects Society Awards - Best Effects Art Direction in a Motion Picture
11
Jurassic Park (1993)
Steven Spielberg scores a combined 3.0329 out of 4 directors for Jurassic Park3.0329
Scientists have discovered a way to bring dinosaurs back from extinction. On a far off island is essentially a dinosaur zoo, but when a greedy, disgruntled employee deactivates the security, the creatures are able to roam free. ...more about Jurassic Park
Director Awards
  • Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Director
12
Munich (2005)
Steven Spielberg scores a combined 3.0143 out of 4 directors for Munich3.0143
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. ...more about Munich
Director Awards
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Achievement in Directing
  • Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Director
  • Directors Guild of America, USA - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
  • Golden Globes, USA - Best Director - Motion Picture
  • Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director
  • Online Film Critics Society Awards - Best Director
  • Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards - Best Director
13
Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)
Steven Spielberg scores a combined 2.9995 out of 4 directors for Artificial Intelligence: AI2.9995
In the not-so-far future the polar ice caps have melted and the resulting raise of the ocean waters has drowned all the coastal cities of the world. ...more about Artificial Intelligence: AI
Director Awards
  • Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Director
  • Empire Awards, UK - Best Director
  • Golden Globes, USA - Best Director - Motion Picture
  • World Soundtrack Awards - WSA Best Original Song Written Directly for a Film
14
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Steven Spielberg scores a combined 2.9441 out of 4 directors for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull2.9441
In 1957, Indiana Jones is thrust back in action, venturing into the jungles of South America in a race against Soviet agents to find the mystical Crystal Skull. ...more about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
  • Not Available on DVD
15
Amistad (1997)
Steven Spielberg scores a combined 2.9403 out of 4 directors for Amistad2.9403
AMISTAD is about a 1839 mutiny onboard a slave ship that is traveling towards the Northeast Coast of America. Much of the story involves a court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt. ...more about Amistad
Director Awards
  • Directors Guild of America, USA - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
  • Golden Globes, USA - Best Director - Motion Picture
  • Satellite Awards - Best Director of a Motion Picture
  • Satellite Awards - Outstanding Art Direction
16
War of the Worlds (2005)
Steven Spielberg scores a combined 2.9295 out of 4 directors for War of the Worlds2.9295
Ray Ferrier is a working class man living in New Jersey. He's estranged from his family, his life isn't in order, and he's too caught up with himself. But the unthinkable and, ultimately, the unexpected happens to him in an extraordinary sense. ...more about War of the Worlds
Director Awards
  • Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Direction
  • Empire Awards, UK - Best Director
17
Sugarland Express, The (1974)
Steven Spielberg scores a combined 2.9250 out of 4 directors for Sugarland Express2.9250
Lou-Jean, a blonde woman, tells her husband, who is imprisoned, to escape. They plan to kidnap their own child, who was placed with foster parents. The escape is partly successful, they take a hostage, who is a policeman and are pursued through to Texas.. ...more about Sugarland Express
Director Awards
  • Writers Guild of America, USA - Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
18
Empire of the Sun (1987)
Steven Spielberg scores a combined 2.8897 out of 4 directors for Empire of the Sun2.8897
Based on J. G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, tells the story of a boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. ...more about Empire of the Sun
Director Awards
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
  • Directors Guild of America, USA - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
  • Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director
  • National Board of Review, USA - Best Director
19
Terminal, The (2004)
Steven Spielberg scores a combined 2.8046 out of 4 directors for Terminal2.8046
An Eastern European visitor (Hanks) becomes a resident of a New York airport terminal when a war breaks out and erases his country from the map, voiding his passport. He makes friends with the airport staff and falls in love with a flight attendant. ...more about Terminal
20
Lost World: Jurassic Park, The (1997)
Steven Spielberg scores a combined 2.7603 out of 4 directors for Lost World: Jurassic Park2.7603
Four years after the failure of Jurassic Park on Isla Nublar, John Hammond reveals to Ian Malcolm that there was another island ("Site B") on which dinosaurs were bred before being transported to Isla Nublar. ...more about Lost World: Jurassic Park
Director Awards
  • Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Director
  • Rembrandt Awards - Best Director
21
Always (1989)
Steven Spielberg scores a combined 2.5309 out of 4 directors for Always2.5309
Pete Sandich and buddy Al Yackey are daredevil aerial forest-fire fighters. Pete finds True Love with Dorinda but won't give up the job. When he takes one risk too many, Dorinda faces deep grief and cannot easily put her life back together. ...more about Always
22
Hook (1991)
Steven Spielberg scores a combined 2.5169 out of 4 directors for Hook2.5169
Peter Pan (Williams) has grown up to be a cut-throat merger and acquisitions lawyer, and is married to Wendy's granddaughter. Captain Hook (Hoffman) kidnaps his children, and Peter returns to Never Land with Tinkerbell (Roberts). ...more about Hook
Director Awards
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
23
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Steven Spielberg scores a combined 2.4866 out of 4 directors for A.I. Artificial Intelligence2.4866
Started by Stanley Kubrick and finished by Spielberg, this project was adapted from Brian Aldiss's 1966 short story "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long." The film explores the idea of programming a child robot so that he is able to love. ...more about A.I. Artificial Intelligence
  • Not Available on DVD
24
Escape to Nowhere (1961)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
25
Fighter Squad (1961)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
26
Firelight (1964)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
27
Last Gun, The (1959)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
28
Unfinished Journey, The (1999)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
29
Untitled Steven Spielberg/Abraham Lincoln Project (2007)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD