STEVEN SPIELBERG FINALLY GETS OSCAR NOMINATION FOR SHARK MOVIE
Steven Spielberg receives Best Director Academy Award nomination for West Side Story, the musical about two rival gangs, the Sharks and the Jets.
That nomination means he is the first director to be nominated across six different decades in the category of Best Director.
That's a category he very famously - thanks to having a live film crew film his reaction to the nominations - wasn't nominated in for Jaws.
As the nominations for the 1976 Academy Awards were being announced, a confident Spielberg welcomed in a live TV crew to capture his reaction at being nominated for Jaws, let's just say it didn't quite go to plan...there was no Best Director nomination for Jaws.
Cue Spielberg uttering those now famous lines: "I got beaten out by Fellini."
Spielberg wouldn't win an Oscar for one of his films until 1994, for Schindler's List. He'd do the same in 1999 for Saving Private Ryan.
Here's how all of Steven Spielberg's Oscar nomanations play out over the last decades.
1970s
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Best Director - Oscar nominee 1978
1980s
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Best Director - Oscar nominee 1982
E.T. - the extra-terrestrial (1982)
Best Director - Oscar nominee 1983
Best Picture - Oscar nominee 1983
The Color Purple (1985)
Best Picture - Oscar nominee 1986
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Winner - 1987
1990s
Schindler's List (1993)
Best Director - Oscar winner 1994
Best Picture - Oscar winner 1994
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Best Director - Oscar winner 1999
Best Picture - Oscar nominee 1999
2000s
Munich (2005)
Best Achievement in Directing - Oscar nominee 2006
Best Motion Picture of the Year - Oscar nominee 2006
Letters From Iwo Jima (2096)
Best Motion Picture of the Year - Oscar nominee 2007
2010s
War Horse (2011)
Best Motion Picture of the Year - Oscar nominee 2012
Lincoln (2012)
Best Achievement in Directing - Oscar nominee 2013
Best Motion Picture of the Year - Oscar nominee 2013
Bridge of Spies (2015)
Best Motion Picture of the Year - Oscar nominee 2016
The Post (2017)
Best Motion Picture of the Year - Oscar nominee 2018
2020s
West Side Story (2021)
Best Director 2022
Best Picture 2022
Words by Dean Newman
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