Steven Spielberg is one of the industry's most successful and influential filmmakers. In a career that's spanned more than four decades, he's won three Oscars and made box office history with classic hits like Jaws (1975), Jurassic Park (1993) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), the latter of which became the highest-grossing movie of all time. Spielberg's earlier films, many of which fall into the genres of adventure and sci-fi, were seen as archetypes of modern Hollywood blockbuster film making.