Schindler's List (1993)
Academy Award for Best Director (Steven Spielberg)
Academy Award for Best Film Editing (Michael Kahn)
Academy Award for Best Original Score (John Williams)
Academy Award for Best Picture (Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen, Branko Lustig)
Academy Award for Best Production Design (Ewa Braun)
Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (Steven Zaillian)
Amanda Award for Best Foreign Feature Film
National Film RegistryAward nominations: Academy Award for Best Actor (Liam Neeson)
Academy Award for Best Costume Design
Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (Ralph Fiennes)Award details: (details at IMDb)
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Schindler's List is a 1993 American historical period drama, directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg and scripted by Steven Zaillian. It is based on the novel Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, an Australian novelist. The film is based on the life of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. It stars Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as Schutzstaffel officer Amon Goeth, and Ben Kingsley as Schindler's Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern. Ideas for a film about the Schindlerjuden were proposed as early as 1963. Poldek Pfefferberg, one of the Schindlerjuden, made it his life's mission to tell the story of Schindler. Spielberg became interested in the story when executive Sid Sheinberg sent him a book review of Schindler's Ark. Universal Studios bought the rights to the novel, but Spielberg, unsure if he was ready to make a film about the Holocaust, tried to pass the project to several other directors before finally deciding to direct the film himself. Principal photography took place in Kraków, Poland, over the course of 72 days in 1993.