Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg

Director & Actor (b. 1946)
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The ThumbScore for Steven Spielberg (80.2%) is the average audience approval rating across 35 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Steven's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

35
Movies
80.2%
Avg ThumbScore
Drama
Top Genre

Audiences rate Steven Spielberg’s films higher than 93% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

Free to watch now (26 Oct): Saving Private Ryan (Kanopy, Hoopla) · Raiders of the Lost Ark (Pluto TV) · Close Encounters of the Third Kind (YouTube, Tubi) · Catch Me If You Can (Kanopy, Pluto TV) · The Terminal (Kanopy, Hoopla, Pluto TV) · Minority Report (Kanopy) and 8 more.

Frequent Collaborators

Tom Hanks (5)Harrison Ford (4)Jeff Goldblum (3)Mark Rylance (3)Richard Dreyfuss (3)

Steven Allan Spielberg KBE (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, Spielberg is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema and is the highest-grossing film director of all time. Among other accolades, he has received three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and three BAFTA Awards, as well as the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1995, an honorary knighthood in 2001, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2006, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2009, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015, and the National Medal of Arts in 2023. According to Forbes, he is the wealthiest celebrity. Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and grew up in Phoenix, Arizona.

He moved to California and studied film in college. After directing several episodes for television, including Night Gallery and Columbo, he directed the television film Duel (1971), which Barry Diller approved. He made his theatrical debut with The Sugarland Express (1974), also beginning his decades-long collaboration with composer John Williams, with whom he has worked for all but five of his theatrical releases. He became a household name with the summer blockbuster Jaws (1975). He continued directing acclaimed escapist box-office hits with Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and the original Indiana Jones trilogy (1981–1989). He also explored drama in The Color Purple (1985) and Empire of the Sun (1987). In 1993, Spielberg directed back-to-back hits with the science fiction thriller Jurassic Park, the highest-grossing film at the time, and the epic historical drama Schindler's List, which has often been ranked among the greatest films ever made.

Born 1946-12-18 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

On ThumbScore, Steven Spielberg appears in 35 films with an average audience score of 80.2%, most frequently in the Drama genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Steven Spielberg movie, ranked by audience score

Schindler's List
Schindler's List
1993
👍 93%
Saving Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan
1998
👍 91%
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981
👍 91%
Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park
1993
👍 90%
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989
👍 89%
Bridge of Spies
Bridge of Spies
2015
👍 89%
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
👍 87%
Duel
Duel
1971
👍 87%
War Horse
War Horse
2011
👍 86%
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
1984
👍 85%
Catch Me If You Can
Catch Me If You Can
2002
👍 85%
Jaws
Jaws
1975
👍 83%
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997
👍 83%
The Terminal
The Terminal
2004
👍 82%
Minority Report
Minority Report
2002
👍 82%
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001
👍 81%
Lincoln
Lincoln
2012
👍 81%
Hook
Hook
1991
👍 79%
The Color Purple
The Color Purple
1985
👍 79%
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982
👍 78%
War of the Worlds
War of the Worlds
2005
👍 78%
Empire of the Sun
Empire of the Sun
1987
👍 78%
The Sugarland Express
The Sugarland Express
1974
👍 77%
The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin
2011
👍 75%
The Post
The Post
2017
👍 75%
1941
1941
1979
👍 75%
Always
Always
1989
👍 75%
Munich
Munich
2005
👍 74%
The BFG
The BFG
2016
👍 74%
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2008
👍 74%
Ready Player One
Ready Player One
2018
👍 73%
Amistad
Amistad
1997
👍 72%
Disclosure Day
Disclosure Day
2026
👍 72%
The Fabelmans
The Fabelmans
2022
👍 71%
West Side Story
West Side Story
2021
👍 63%