February 23, 1997
Schindler's List is shown on NBC, the first network to
broadcast a movie without commercial interruption.
Ford Motor Company, which sponsored the broadcast,
showed one commercial before and after the film.The 1993 film about
German factory owner Oskar Schindler, who saved the lives of Jewish workers in
his factory during World War II, was Spielberg's most ambitious movie to date.
The picture, filmed in black and white, won Spielberg his first Academy Award
as Best Director, and it also garnered Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay
awards. The film's screenplay, by Thomas Keneally and Steven Zallian, was
adapted from Keneally's novel, Schindler's Ark, published in 1982.
Spielberg
started making amateur films in his teens, and by the late 1970s he had become
heavily involved in production and scriptwriting. He gained fame early in his
career for directing such blockbusters as Jaws, Close Encounters of the
Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., Poltergeist, and a string of
other phenomenal successes. He established his own independent production
company, Amblin' Entertainment, in 1984, where he produced Gremlins, Back to
the Future, Arachnophobia, Cape Fear, and more. In 1994, he formed
DreamWorks SKG with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, and the following year
the trio announced a partnership with Microsoft Corporation, called DreamWorks
Interactive, which produced interactive games and teaching tools. Just months
before he released Schindler's List, Spielberg released Jurassic
Park, which featured computer-generated dinosaurs that took the world by
storm. He won his second Academy Award for Best Director in 1999 for Saving
Private Ryan. Virtually all of Spielberg's films have been box office
smashes.
February 23, 1997
Schindler's List is shown on NBC, the first network to broadcast a movie without commercial interruption.
Ford Motor Company, which sponsored the broadcast, showed one commercial before and after the film.
The 1993 film about
German factory owner Oskar Schindler, who saved the lives of Jewish workers in
his factory during World War II, was Spielberg's most ambitious movie to date.
The picture, filmed in black and white, won Spielberg his first Academy Award
as Best Director, and it also garnered Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay
awards. The film's screenplay, by Thomas Keneally and Steven Zallian, was
adapted from Keneally's novel, Schindler's Ark, published in 1982.
Spielberg started making amateur films in his teens, and by the late 1970s he had become heavily involved in production and scriptwriting. He gained fame early in his career for directing such blockbusters as Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., Poltergeist, and a string of other phenomenal successes. He established his own independent production company, Amblin' Entertainment, in 1984, where he produced Gremlins, Back to the Future, Arachnophobia, Cape Fear, and more. In 1994, he formed DreamWorks SKG with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, and the following year the trio announced a partnership with Microsoft Corporation, called DreamWorks Interactive, which produced interactive games and teaching tools. Just months before he released Schindler's List, Spielberg released Jurassic Park, which featured computer-generated dinosaurs that took the world by storm. He won his second Academy Award for Best Director in 1999 for Saving Private Ryan. Virtually all of Spielberg's films have been box office smashes.
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