List of awards and nominations received by Steven Spielberg
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The following is a list of awards and nominations received by Steven Spielberg. Steven Spielberg is an American filmmaker. He began his career in the New Hollywood era and is currently the most commercially successful director. Spielberg is recipient of various awards including three Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, twelve Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, three Directors Guild of America Awards, and seven Producers Guild of America Awards. Spielberg has received nine nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director making him the third most-nominated director behind Martin Scorsese (10) and William Wyler (12). Spielberg won this category twice for his holocaust epic Schindler's List (1993) and the World War II drama Saving Private Ryan (1998). He holds the record for most nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture with 13 nods for the science-fiction drama E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), the period drama The Color Purple (1985), Schindler's List (1993), Saving Private Ryan (1998), the war dramas Munich (2005), Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), and War Horse (2011), the historical epics Lincoln (2012), Bridge of Spies (2015), and The Post (2017), the musical West Side Story (2021), the coming-of-age drama The Fabelmans (2022), and the romance drama Maestro (2023). For his work on television, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program for A Pinky and the Brain Christmas (1995), and three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series for the HBO war drama series Band of Brothers (2001), the science-fiction series Taken (2003), and the HBO war drama series The Pacific (2010). He also won seven Daytime Emmy Awards for producing the animated series Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Freakazoid!, Pinky and the Brain, and Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain. As a producer for productions Broadway he was nominated twice for the Tony Award for Best Musical for Water for Elephants (2024) and Death Becomes Her (2025). Over his career, Spielberg has received various honors and honorary awards including the BAFTA Fellowship in 1986, the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1987, a Career Golden Lion in 1993, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1995, the Honorary César in 1995, the Directors Guild of America's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000, a Motion Picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2006, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2009, and the Honorary Golden Bear in 2023. He was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2015 and the National Medal of Arts in 2024 from President Joe Biden. He was made an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2001, and was made both a Knight and Officer of the France's Legion of Honour in 2004 and 2008, respectively.