Steven Spielberg: How Many Oscars Did He Win & for Which Movies?

Steven Spielberg has more than 30 films as a director, and it is difficult to count how many projects are in his filmography as a producer.

Spielberg is first and foremost a rich and generous man, and it is not about how much money he has in his bank account. His cinema is built on the unbridled imagination that lives in him from his childhood and the moral principles that he is willing to share with anyone who turns to his films.

Steven Spielberg is known to everyone who watches movies at least occasionally, and it might seem that the director has at least a dozen Oscars. But this is not the case — although Spielberg has been nominated more than 20 times, he has only managed to win the award three times.

1. Schindler's List (1993) — Best Picture and Best Director

Steven Spielberg took a long time to make a film based on monstrous and heroic real-life events, delayed production, even tried to hand the adaptation of Thomas Keneally's book Schindler's Ark to Sydney Pollack, Martin Scorsese and Roman Polanski — all three of them refused for their own reasons.

Spielberg approached the work not only with respect for history and those involved in the events, but also with a sense of responsibility and reverent care. As a result, Schindler's List became one of the most important interpretations of the horrors of the Holocaust and a monument to courage and humanism.

Spielberg refused a fee for his work on the film, investing the money in the creation of the Shoah Foundation, which is dedicated to preserving documentary evidence about the victims of genocide.

2. Saving Private Ryan (1998) — Best Director

Steven Spielberg has made perhaps the greatest war action movie of all time — gritty, spectacular and uncompromising, yet humane in its nature. Now every movie that tries to demonstrate the horrors of World War II is compared to Saving Private Ryan — and no one could do it better.

Of course, Spielberg should have won another Oscar for Best Picture for this movie, but he only got Best Director. The main award was snatched by Shakespeare in Love, which was pushed to victory by producer Harvey Weinstein.