For the first time in a long time, mogul Oprah Winfrey has been deposed from her top spot on Forbes' Most Influential Celebrities list. The man who took her place? None other than director Steven Spielberg. 

According to Reuters, the reason the award-winning director was able to depose the TV media mogul was in large part due to his success with the film, Lincoln, which swept the awards and took in $275 million at the box office.

Almost half of all of Forbes' readers voted Spielberg as influential.

"A celebrity's 'Influential' score represents how that person is perceived as influencing the public, their peers, or both," Gerry Philpott, president of E-Poll Market Research, which conducted the study for Forbes, told the magazine.

More to the point, Oprah lost her influence in part because of her retreat from the public eye to focus on the development of OWN -- the Oprah Winfrey Network. 

However, a retreat from the public eye doesn't necessarily mean one is not influential, as #3 celebrity George Lucas -- he of Star Wars fame -- proved. Even though he hasn't done anything of note this year in the public eye, he sold his company to the Walt Disney Corporation for more than $4 billion, hence the vote of confidence.

"Directors Ron Howard and Martin Scorsese placed fourth and fifth on the list respectively. Other high-ranking celebrities in the top 10 of the list included television physician Mehmet Oz, ABC TV journalist Barbara Walters and U2 singer and activist Bono," reports Reuters.

For a complete list of celebrities who made the list, visit www.forbes.com