Steven Spielberg's Best Movies
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Steven Spielberg's Best Movies

His movies have racked up too many Oscars to count. How would you rank the director's finest?

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1 Jaws
Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss contend with a killer shark on the loose in this classic 1975 blockbuster, Spielberg's first hit. 873 1891
2 Saving Private Ryan
Tom Hanks stars as a World War II captain on a mission to find Private Ryan (Matt Damon) and send him home. 872 1924
3 Schindler's List
After a spate of blockbusters, Spielberg took on somber fare with this Oscar-winning film about Holocaust hero Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson). 871 1837
4 Raiders of the Lost Ark
The inaugural film of the Indiana Jones franchise sent Harrison Ford on a search for the Ark of the Covenant. 869 1897
5 Jurassic Park
Spielberg adapts the Michael Crichton novel about scientists who clone dinosaurs and set them loose in a theme park. 851 1775
6 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
A young Henry Thomas and Drew Barrymore try to send E.T. back home to his mothership, bringing tears to adults and kids alike. 631 1671
7 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
This early Spielberg hit starred Richard Dreyfus as a man who encounters a UFO and becomes engrossed with them. 528 1452
8 Catch Me If You Can
Leonardo DiCaprio plays a first-class con man who eludes an FBI agent (Tom Hanks) during a gripping chase around the world. 178 1418
9 Lincoln
Through stellar performances, this sweeping biopic becomes an intimate look at the president's battle to end slavery. 161 319
10 Minority Report
This Philip K. Dick adaptation imagines a futuristic world where cops arrest criminals before the crimes are committed. 44 1306
11 Empire of the Sun
Christian Bale was a lad when he took on the role of a British boy captured during World War II and placed in a Japanese internment camp. 43 1199
12 War of the Worlds
A massive fleet of blood-sucking tripods descends on earth to harvest humans. Tom Cruise evades their grip. 4 1418
13 A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
Originally a Stanley Kubrick project, the movie is a chronicle of a young robot's attempts at becoming a real boy. -86 1004
14 Munich
Eric Bana plays a Mossad agent charged with killing the men responsible for the 1972 massacre of eleven Israeli Olympic athletes. -101 1187
15 Amistad
African slaves are thrown in jail for mutiny aboard a slave ship. Luckily they have Anthony Hopkins on their side. -103 1089
16 The Color Purple
This powerful adaptation of the Alice Walker novel stars Whoopi Goldberg in the first major film of her career. -103 1253
17 Hook
Dustin Hoffman plays the one-handed villain in this imagined Peter Pan sequel, where Peter (Robin Williams) is all grown up. -142 1340
18 The Sugarland Express
Spielberg's first movie -- about criminals on the run and starring Goldie Hawn -- displays his magic touch right from the start. -233 795