Steven Spielberg will soon have a special night at the museum.

The icon has been chosen as the honoree for the Museum of Modern Art‘s Film Benefit presented by Chanel. The gala will take place at the New York institution on Nov. 12. As part of the honoree spotlight, MoMA will present a screening series toasting Spielberg in the Roy and Niuta Titus theaters. Eight Spielberg films are in MoMA’s collection: 1974’s The Sugarland Express, 1975’s Jaws, 1977’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1982’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, 1984’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, 1985’s The Color Purple and 1987’s Empire of the Sun.

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News of the honor comes on the heels of the EGOT winner’s most recent film, Disclosure Day, starring Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Colman Domingo, Eve Hewson and Wyatt Russell. He comes to the shine after receiving a dozens of accolades like a Kennedy Center honor, the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama, a National Medal of Arts from President Joe Biden, and three Oscars from a record nine nominations for best director and the most best picture nominations as a producer with 14.

“MoMA’s support of Steven Spielberg extends back over a half-century, beginning when we helped introduce him to audiences as part of New Directors/New Films in 1974,” said Rajendra Roy, MoMA’s Celeste Bartos chief curator of film. “Since then, he has repeatedly demonstrated that being an artist and an entertainer can be simultaneous aspirations, though few have mastered the combination as expertly as he has. His global influence is unparalleled, and his dedication to film preservation is inspiring and completely aligned with the Museum’s mission to save and celebrate film history.”

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Chanel, a longtime champion of the cinematic arts, has been a sponsor of MoMA’s annual Film Benefit since 2011 and has served as the lead sponsor of film at MoMA since 2021. Spielberg will follow in the footsteps of previous honorees like last year’s, Sofia Coppola, and Samuel L. Jackson, Guillermo del Toro, Penélope Cruz, George Clooney, Laura Dern, Martin Scorsese, Julianne Moore, Tom Hanks, Cate Blanchett, Alfonso Cuarón, Tilda Swinton, Quentin Tarantino, Pedro Almodóvar, Kathryn Bigelow, Tim Burton and Baz Luhrmann.

MoMA’s Department of Film cares for more than 30,000 films and 1.5 million film stills. The fundraiser supports the continued maintenance and growth of the collection in addition to virtual programming and a schedule of film series, premieres, festivals and retrospectives.

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