What was Steven Spielberg’s first hit movie?

Steven Spielberg is an American motion-picture director and producer. Steven Spielberg’s first hit was Jaws (1975).

Jaws (1975) established him as a leading director, and it was one of the highest-grossing films of all time.

Since launching the summer blockbuster with Jaws (1975), he has amassed an extraordinary number of commercially successful and critically acclaimed credits as a director, producer, or writer, and he has done more to define popular film-making than anyone else since the mid-1970s.

Spielberg struck gold once more with Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), starring Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones.

In 1982, Spielberg produced and directed two films. The first was Poltergeist (1982), but the highest-grossing film of all time at the time was E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982).

Steven Spielberg has received three Academy Awards, a Kennedy Center honor, a Cecil B. DeMille Award, and an AFI Life Achievement Award.

Seven of his films have been added to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. In 2013, Time listed him as one of the 100 most influential people.