Steven Spielberg - Milestones

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• 2004: Again paired with Tom Hanks for "The Terminal" also starred Catherine Zeta-Jones
• 2003: Received star of the Hollywood Walk of Fame (January 10, 2003)
• 2002: Served as a co-executive producer on Woody Allen's "Hollywood Ending"
• 2002: Directed the sci-fi thriller "Minority Report", starring Tom Cruise and Colin Farrell
• 2002: Reunited with Tom Hanks who co-starred as an FBI agent pursuing the first teenager ever to make the Ten Most Wanted list in "Catch Me If You Can", starring Leonardo DiCaprio
• 2002: With the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, served as presenter of "Broken Silence", a series of five documentaries about Holocaust survivors; aired on Cinemax
• 2002: Executive produced the hit Sci-Fi Channel miniseries "Taken"
• 2002: Was an executive producer of "The Tuxedo", starring Jackie Chan
• 2001: With Hanks, produced the HBO WWII miniseries "Band of Brothers"
• 2001: Returned to filmmaking with "A.I. Artificial Intelligence", based on a story by the late Stanley Kubrick; also wrote screenplay
• 1998: Bounced back with the acclaimed WWII story "Saving Private Ryan", starring Tom Hanks; earned second Best Director Academy Award
• 1997: Helmed the sequel "The Lost World: Jurassic Park"
• 1997: "Amistad", a film based on a real-life 19th-century legal case involving slaves who staged a mutiny on the ship carrying them to North America, was subject of some controversy; author Barbara Chase-Riboud claimed that the film's script was based in part on her book; subsequent threats of lawsuits and articles tainted film's release
• 1996: Received story credit on the premiere episode of "High Incident", an ABC cop drama, the first hour-long dramatic series from DreamWorks; reportedly was highly involved with production, even personally choosing each cast member, and operating a camera during portions of the pilot
• 1996: "Champs", an ABC sitcom from executive producer Gary David Goldberg, became the first DreamWorks TV series (only lasted for a month)
• 1995: Announced that DreamWorks SKG would grant their filmmakers "moral rights" to protect the original versions of their films after release
• 1994: Announced, along with mogul David Geffen and former Disney executive Jeffrey Katzenberg, the formation of DreamWorks SKG, a multimedia entertainment company for the production of live-action and animated features, TV programming, music and interactive software
• 1994: Invested in a CD-ROM company Knowledge Adventure; participated in the creation of five titles
• 1994: Formed the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation to videotape the testimonies of Holocaust survivors
• 1993: Directed his most commercially successful feature, "Jurassic Park"; film outgrossed "E.T." to become the top movie of all time (to that date)
• 1993: Co-produced and directed his most critically acclaimed feature, "Schindler's List"; first feature shot in black-and-white; won Best Director Oscar as well as the Best Picture award
• 1992: Signed a one-year deal to produce "seaQuest DSV" a 22-episode series, a joint effort between Universal and Amblin Entertainment
• 1992: With wife Kate Capshaw, co-hosted "Shattered Lullabies", a documentary on high infant mortality rates in the USA, broadcast on Lifetime as an episode of "Your Family Matters"
• 1991: Helmed the lavish "Peter Pan" update "Hook" starring Robin Williams as a grown-up Peter and Dustin Hoffman as the title character
• 1989: TV acting debut as himself in a segment of "The Tracey Ullman Show" (Fox)
• 1989: Directed the second sequel "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"
• 1989: Stumbled a bit with the romance "Always", a remake of the 1943 feature "A Guy Named Joe"; third film with Richard Dreyfuss
• 1989: Served as a founding member and VP of the Artists Rights Foundation
• 1987: Made the underrated WWII drama "Empire of the Sun", which featured a young Christian Bale in his debut
• 1986: Executive produced first animated feature, "An American Tail"
• 1985: Produced and directed "The Color Purple", adapted from Alice Walker's novel; movie received 11 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, but not one for Best Director
• 1985: First TV series as executive producer, "Amazing Stories" (NBC)
• 1984: Formed production company, Amblin Entertainment
• 1984: Directed the sequel "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"
• 1983: Helmed the "Kick the Can" segment of "Twilight Zone - The Movie"
• 1982: First film as producer, "Poltergeist", helmed by Tobe Hooper
• 1982: Helmed the blockbuster "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"; also served as one of the producers; became the top-grossing movie of all time pulling in $399 million in its initial release; earned third Best Director Oscar nomination as well as a Best Picture nod; re-released on 20th anniversary in March 2002 with minor changes and enhanced digital effects
• 1981: First collaboration with executive producer George Lucas; first collaboration with actor Harrison Ford, "Raiders of the Lost Ark"; garnnered second Best Director Academy Award nomination
• 1980: Made a cameo appearance as the Cook County Clerk at the end of John Landis's "The Blues Brothers"
• 1979: Had rare flop with the large-scale comedy "1941"
• 1978: First feature as executive producer, Robert Zemeckis's "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"
• 1977: Reteamed with Dreyfuss on the sci-fi classic "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"; received first Best Director Oscar nomination
• 1975: Breakthrough feature film, the summer blockbuster "Jaws"; also first collaboration with actor Richard Dreyfuss; film brought in 100 days over schedule (and comparably over budget); reportedly the first director to do so
• 1974: Feature directorial debut, "The Sugarland Express"
• 1973: Wrote story for feature film, "Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies"
• 1971: First feature-length film for TV, "Duel" (ABC)
• 1969: TV directing debut with the "Eyes" episode of the anthology series "Night Gallery"; segment starred Joan Crawford
• 1968: Signed to seven-year contract as TV director with Universal-MCA
• 1968: Professional debut with 24-minute short, "Amblin'" (shown at Atlanta Film Festival)
• 1962: Made first amateur 8mm feature film, "Firelight" at age 16; father hired local theater to screen film
• 1960: Won first contest with 40-minute war film, "Escape to Nowhere" at age 13
• ---: Will direct Tom Cruise in "War of the Worlds," which chronicles a Martian invasion of Earth (lensed 2004)
• Made first 8mm (3 1/2 min.) Film while in grade school; set up a tree-planting business to pay for film and equipment while in teens