Voted the world's greatest film director by both critics and cinema-goers alike, his films have made nearly $8 billion (about £4bn) worldwide.

Named by both Premiere and Empire - the world's two most popular film magazines - as the most influential figure in the motion picture industry, he is a three-time Academy Award winner, whom Time has listed as one of the 100 greatest people of the 20th century.

Over the space of four decades, he has directed 24 films, three of which became highest grossing films, and has won countless awards, both artistic and civilian, including an honorary knighthood (the Queen made him a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2001).

He is Steven Spielberg, and from May 16-22, the Oxford Mail and the Phoenix Picturehouse in Jericho, Oxford, will be staging a seven-day celebration of some of his greatest films, prior to the release of his latest - and long-awaited - blockbuster, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Eight films, ranging from Duel to Jaws, to ET and Schindler's List, all on the big screen, screened especially for you.

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