Steven Spielberg is forty years old or older.
New Hollywood , sometimes referred to as the `` American New Wave '' , usually refers to a movement in American film history from the mid-to-late 1960s ( Bonnie and Clyde , The Graduate ) to the early 1980s ( Heaven 's Gate , One from the Heart ) when a new generation of young filmmakers came to prominence in United States , influencing the types of films produced , their production and marketing , and the way major studios approached film-making . Steven Allan Spielberg , , ( born December 18 , 1946 ) is an American director , producer , and screenwriter . Spielberg 's early science-fiction and adventure films , such as Jaws ( 1975 ) , Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 ) , Raiders of the Lost Ark ( 1981 ) , and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ( 1982 ) , were seen as archetypes of modern Hollywood escapist filmmaking .