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Best Actor in a Leading Role. Liam Neeson. 1994 Nominee Oscar. Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Ralph Fiennes. 1994 Winner Oscar. Best Director. Steven Spielberg. 1994 Winner Oscar. Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published. Steven Zaillian. 7 more. American Cinema Editors, USA. 1994 Winner Eddie.
It was nominated for twelve awards at the 66th Academy Awards, and won seven, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. The film won numerous other awards, including seven BAFTAs and three Golden Globes .
Mar 22, 1994 · "Schindler's List," Steven Spielberg's wrenching drama about the Holocaust, dominated the 66th annual Academy Awards last night, winning seven Oscars, including those for best picture and...
- Keneally Wasn't The First Person Leopold Page Told About Oskar Schindler.
- Schindler Made More Than One List.
- Steven Spielberg First Learned of Schindler in The Early 1980s.
- Spielberg Refused to Accept A Salary For Making The Movie.
- The Movie Was A Gamble For Universal, So They Made Spielberg A Dino-Sized Deal.
- Spielberg Didn't Want A Movie Star with Hollywood Clout to Portray Schindler.
- Spielberg Did His Own Research.
- The Little Girl in The Red Coat Was Real.
- The Movie Wasn't Supposed to Be in English.
- The Studio Didn't Want The Movie to Be in Black and White.
The film rights to Page’s story were actually first purchased by MGM for $50,000 in the 1960s after Page had similarly ambushed the wife of film producer Marvin Gosch at his leather shop. Mrs. Gosch told the story to her husband, who agreed to produce a film version, even going so far as hiring Casablancaco-screenwriter Howard Koch to write the scr...
Seven lists in all were made by Oskar Schindler and his associates during the war, while four are known to still exist. Two are at the Yad Vashem in Israel, one is at the US Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., and one privately owned list was unsuccessfully auctioned offvia eBay in 2013. The movie refersto the first two lists created in 1944, oth...
Former MCA/Universal president Sid Sheinberg, a father figure to Spielberg, gavethe director Keneally’s book when it was first published in 1982, to which Spielberg allegedly replied, “It’ll make a helluva story. Is it true?” Eventually the studio bought the rights to the book, and when Page met with Spielberg to discuss the story, the director pro...
Though Spielberg is already an extremely wealthy man as a result of the many big-budget movies that have made him one of Hollywood’s most successful directors, he decided that a story as important as Schindler’s List shouldn’t be made with an eye toward financial reward. The director relinquished his salary for the movie and any proceeds he would s...
When Spielberg finally decided to make Schindler’s List, it had taken him so long that Sheinberg and Universal balked. The relatively low-budget $23 million three-hour black-and-white Holocaust movie was too much of a risk, so they asked Spielberg to make another project that had been brewing at the studio: Jurassic Park. Make the lucrative summer ...
Kevin Costner and Mel Gibson auditioned for the role of Oskar Schindler, and actor Warren Beatty was far enough along in the process that he even made it as far as a script reading. But according to Spielberg, Beatty was dropped because, “Warren would have played it like Oskar Schindler through Warren Beatty.” For the role, Spielberg cast then rela...
In order to gain a more personal perspective on the film, Spielberg traveledto Poland before principal photography began to interview Holocaust survivors and visit the real-life locations that he planned to portray in the movie. While there, he visited the former Gestapo headquarters on Pomorska Street, Schindler’s actual apartment, and Amon Goeth’...
A symbol of innocence in the movie, the little girl in the red coat who appears during the liquidation of the ghetto in the movie was based on a real person. In the film, the little girl is played by actress Oliwia Dabrowska, who—at the age of three—promised Spielberg that she would not watch the film until she was 18 years old. She allegedly watch...
For a better sense of reality, Spielberg originally wanted to shoot the movie completely in Polish and German using subtitles, but he eventually decided against it because he felt that it would take away from the urgency and importance of the images onscreen. According to Spielberg, “I wanted people to watch the images, not read the subtitles. Ther...
The only person at MCA/Universal who agreed with Spielberg and director of cinematography Janusz Kaminski’s decision to shoot the movie in black and white was Sheinberg. Everyone else lobbied against the idea, saying that it would stylize the Holocaust. Spielberg and Kaminski chose to shoot the film in a grimy, unstylish fashion and format inspired...
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Oscar™ Best Picture - Winning Movies. Schindler's List. 1993. Steven Spielberg. Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall ... 8.6. 176,584. Drama Oskar Schindler is a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportunity to make money from the Nazis' rise to power.
Nov 13, 2009 · Schindler’s List, starring Liam Neeson in the true story of a German businessman who saves the lives of more than a thousand Polish Jews during the Holocaust, opens in theaters. The film was...
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Spielberg is the recipient of various awards including three Academy Awards (with two for Best Director), two British Academy Film Awards, twelve Emmy Awards, nine Golden Globe Awards, three Directors Guild of America Awards, and seven Producers Guild of America Awards.
