Steven Speilberg is a Executive Producer of Lucky 7.
Steven Spielberg, one of the industry's most successful and influential filmmakers, is a principal partner of DreamWorks Studios. He has directed, produced or executive-produced some of the top-grossing films of all time, including "Jurassic Park" and "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial." Among his myriad honors, he is a three-time Academy Award® winner, earning two Oscars® for Best Director and Best Picture for "Schindler's List" and a third Oscar for Best Director for "Saving Private Ryan." He is a recipient of the DGA's Lifetime Achievement Award, the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award, the prestigious Irving G. Thalberg Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and a Kennedy Center Honor.
In 2012 Spielberg directed Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis in "Lincoln," based in part on Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals, with a screenplay by Tony Kushner. The DreamWorks Pictures/Twentieth Century Fox film, in association with Participant Media, garnered 12 Academy Award nominations and has earned over $275 million worldwide. The film won two Oscars, including Daniel Day-Lewis' third Oscar for Best Actor playing the iconic 16th President, as well as Best Production Design.
Spielberg has not limited his success to the big screen. He was an executive producer on the long-running, Emmy-winning TV drama "E.R.," produced by his Amblin Entertainment company and Warner Bros. Television for NBC. On the heels of their experience on "Saving Private Ryan," he and Tom Hanks teamed to executive-produce the 2001 HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers," based on Stephen Ambrose's book about a U.S. Army unit in Europe in World War II. Among its many awards, the project won both Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for Outstanding Miniseries. He and Hanks more recently reunited to executive-produce the acclaimed 2010 HBO miniseries "The Pacific," this time focusing on the Marines in WWII's Pacific theatre. "The Pacific" won eight Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Miniseries.
Among other shows Spielberg executive-produced were the Emmy-winning SyFy Channel miniseries "Taken," the TNT miniseries "Into the West," the Showtime series "The United States of Tara" and NBC's "Smash." In addition to "Lucky 7," he is currently an executive producer on TNT's "Falling Skies" and CBS' "Under the Dome," based on the novel by Stephen King.