Steven Spielberg has had a rather impressive 5 decades.
The renowned filmmaker has earned 3 Academy Awards during his illustrious career. As if that wasn’t enough, however, the Ready Player One director has become the first director to have grossed more than $10 billion at the box office.
Spielberg’s latest feature, Ready Player One, earned over $117 million in theatres since being released during the last weekend of March.
Of the 33 films which the 71-year-old has released, 1982’s ET: The Extra-Terrestrial has grossed the highest with $435,110,554, followed by Jurassic Park from 1993 with $402,453,882 and 1975’s Jaws which earned $260 million.
Spielberg recently spoke about films made by streaming services such as Netflix, that is films that aren’t released in theaters, saying, “fewer and fewer filmmakers are going to struggle to raise money or to compete at Sundance and possibly get one of the specialty labels to release their films theatrically.”
Spielberg’s closest competitor when it comes to box office glory is Peter Jackson of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit fame who has a tally of $6 billion.
