Steven Spielberg Movies

Want to know the best Steven Spielberg movies?  How about the worst Steven Spielberg movies?  Curious about Steven Spielberg’s box office grosses or which Steven Spielberg movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Steven Spielberg movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

My first memory of Steven Spielberg? It was June 12th 1981. On that Friday morning, my father told me we were going to see a movie that was opening that I had never heard of before. My father could tell that I was not really interested. So he tried to get me excited about the movie. He said, “Look this movie is by the guy that made Star Wars and the guy that made Close Encounters.  They got together and made a movie, it is supposed to be pretty good.” So we got ready and headed to an early afternoon showing of this movie.

When Raiders of the Lost Ark ended, I was convinced I had seen the greatest movie ever made. I went back that night to watch the movie a second time with some of my friends. Watching it the second time I really paid attention to the opening credits. Starring Harrison Ford (“hey that’s Han Solo”), story by George Lucas (“the Star Wars guy“), and directed by Steven Spielberg. I went to bed that night thinking, there is lots to learn about movies. Over thirty years later and I still go to bed thinking there is lots to learn about movies.

Steven Spielberg (1946-) has to be the most successful director of all time.  He has had it all.  Blockbuster movie after blockbuster movie.  Critical darling after critical darling.  Oscar® winning movie after Oscar® winning movie.  His IMDb page shows 55 directing credits from 1959-2016. This page will rank 30 Steven Spielberg movies from Best to Worst in seven different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, video games and documentaries were not included in the rankings.

So many classic movies

So many classic movies

Steven Spielberg Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Steven Spielberg Movies Can Be Ranked 7 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Steven Spielberg movies by the stars of the movies.
  • Sort Steven Spielberg movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Steven Spielberg movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Steven Spielberg movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and Oscar® wins each Steven Spielberg movie received.
  • Sort Steven Spielberg movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
One hit after another

One hit after another

Possibly Interesting Facts About Steven Spielberg

1. Steven Spielberg (1972-) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.

2. Steven Spielberg has been nominated for 15 Oscars® in different categories in his career.  He has won 3 Oscars®.  Two for directing…Schindler’s List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998).  His third Oscar® win was for producing Schindler’s List (1993).

3. Steven Spielberg has been nominated for 7 Best Director Oscars® and 11 Best Director Golden Globes®.  He has two Golden Globe® wins….Schindler’s List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998).

4. Steven Spielberg has been married two times.  His first marriage was to actress Amy Irving (1985-1989)…they have one child.  His second marriage was to actress Kate Capshaw (1991-)…they have 5 children.

5. Steven Spielberg has many other IMDb credits.  Currently he has 150 producing credits, 21 writing credits, 12 acting credits and 8 editor credits.

6. When looking at adjusted worldwide box office grosses….Spielberg has an incredible 6 movies that have grossed over 1 BILLION.  Three of those six are actually pushing the 2 billion mark.  E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Jurassic Park (1993) and Jaws (1975).

7. Of the 28 Steven Spielberg directed movies…they have earned an incredible 112 Oscars® nominations. That is an average of 4.00 nominations per movie.

8. Of the 28 Steven Spielberg directed movies…..they have won 31 Oscars®.

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21 thoughts on “Steven Spielberg Movies

  1. So you don’t recommend me trying to find Audrey Hepburn’s last movie then? That was my primary reason for being interested in Always.

  2. Well, I suppose since your latest movie page dealt with Steven’s potential successors – none of whom measured up – I suppose I should stop by here.

    Well. I am not sure how to break this to you. I have never seen a single James Cameron film. I looked over the list. Not one. Really.

    And looking over the titles to see which ones I could see me renting, and well. None of them interest me. Titanic I boycotted because everyone in school loved the film while my friends wanted to be unique. Plus, we hated the song.

    Yet that is the only theme/genre that might have interested me. Aliens? No. Science Fiction? No. Avatar? I don’t even know the point of that. Arnold action movies? No. (I have seen some of his- Arnold’s – comedies, though.) Weird titles I hadn’t heard of? No.

    Yes, I know he is Canadian. There are lots of others originally from Canada. Cameron is *not* my cup of tea.

    I am not a fan of blockbusters, and S.S. has made a career out of them. As such, it is pointless going over top ten, or percentage of all his films, or favourites. But unlike Cameron, I’ve seen some of his films and am interested in some I’ve not seen. So…..

    I am most familiar with his TV movie Duel starring Bruce Dern and for which no one warned me about the huge spiders that would appear. Despite the spiders, it is one of Dad’s favourite films of all times. And S.S. directed the priemiere episode of Columbo starring Jack Cassidy (David’s father) as the killer. Cassidy played the killer three times. Yeah, Columbo.

    Oh, yes. This is Steven’s movie hub, not television’s hub….

    Movies I have seen, in movie score order:

    Raiders of the Lost Ark

    Catch Me if You Can …hmmm. a spy film with co-starring roles to Martin Sheen and Christopher Walken…hmmm.

    Hook

    Amistad..oh, Oscar history lesson

    1941

    The Twilight Zone: The movie…well, it is the twilight zone

    Hmmm….regarding some of the famous S.S. titles I haven’t seen:

    I’ve explained how I’ve managed to not see E.T. yet.

    There are several films that I haven’t seen that I have no interest in seeing…

    war films…dinosaur attack films…Cruise films post-Mission Impossible…remakes of classic films which should have been left alone…and disturbing films with much too admire but difficult to watch (Schindler’s list) which I’ll not see ever.

    I would like to see for sure, alphabetically:

    Always

    Empire of the sun

    I may eventually see on TV, alphabetically, since they are admirable films though not my genre:

    Close encounters on the Third Kind

    The Color Purple – I read this in grade 12 and likely would avoid otherwise as it is also very difficult material.

    1. As for Steven Spielberg…of the ones you have not seen….I would recommend Empire of the Sun(Christian Bale is awesome in the lead role), Close Encounters(Dreyfuss is outstanding), and E.T.(I am sure your friend has seen it by now….lol). I have not seen The Color Purple or Amistad but other than those two movies I think I have seen all the rest of his movies. I would say you are not missing much by not seeing A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Always or War of the Worlds. Thanks for stopping by and checking out this movie pages…which I noticed is missing S.S. last two movies…War Horse and Tin Tin…I am such a slacker.

    1. Hey gurkha-soldier…thanks for the visit….glad you like my movie page…I enjoy Christopher Nolan myself.

  3. the best movies of Spielberg is War of the Worlds . Steven Spielberg is very good , I love the movie War of the Worlds ..

    1. Hey Steven Cameron…nice name…lol. Thanks for the votes….I was somewhat disappointed in War of the Worlds…the first half of the movie was awesome…the final quarter was very disappointing….thanks for stopping by and for the comments.

  4. So many of Spielberg’s movies have wit, clever little cameos, memorable set-pieces and great entertainment value. I’m currently compiling my own top 100 favourite movies list and provisionally Spielberg has 7 entries – no other director has more than 3. Enough said.

    Good work Cogerson. I will refer back regularly to this page.

    1. Hey Greensleeves…I agree Spielberg would be my winner as well….just the quantity of movies….gives him the edge over Cameron….either way this list is a great list of great movies…they have and will be referenced for a very long time…..I look forward to your Top 100 list….it should be a good one…thanks for stopping by.

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