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Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
Based on a true story, Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List stars Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportunity to make money from the Nazis' rise to power. He starts a company to make cookware and utensils, using flattery and bribes to win military contracts, and brings in accountant and financier Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley) to help run the factory. By staffing his plant with Jews who've been herded into Krakow's ghetto by Nazi troops, Schindler has a dependable unpaid labor force. For Stern, a job in a war-related plant could mean survival for himself and the other Jews working for Schindler. However, in 1942, all of Krakow's Jews are assigned to the Plaszow Forced Labor Camp, overseen by Commandant Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes), an embittered alcoholic who occasionally shoots prisoners from his balcony. Schindler arranges to continue using Polish Jews in his plant, but, as he sees what is happening to his employees, he begins to develop a conscience. He realizes that his factory (now refitted to manufacture ammunition) is the only thing preventing his staff from being shipped to the death camps. Soon Schindler demands more workers and starts bribing Nazi leaders to keep Jews on his employee lists and out of the camps. By the time Germany falls to the allies, Schindler has lost his entire fortune -- and saved 1,100 people from likely death. Schindler's List was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and won seven, including Best Picture and a long-coveted Best Director for Spielberg, and it quickly gained praise as one of the finest American movies about the Holocaust. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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US Release Date
12/15/93
MPAA Rating
Rated R
Running Time
185 mins.
Locations
- Kracow, Poland
Language
- English
Box Office Total
$96,045,248
Awards
- Winner of the Best Supporting Actor award at the 1993 National Society of Film Critics [Fest Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 1994 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 1994 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 1993 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay award at the 1993 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 1993 National Society of Film Critics [Fest Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 1993 National Society of Film Critics [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion award at the 1993 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Winner of the Best Cinematography award at the 1993 National Society of Film Critics [Fest Awards.
- Winner of the Best Cinematography award at the 1992 Los Angeles Film Critics Association [ Awards.
- Winner of the David Lean Award award at the 1993 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Winner of the Best Production Design award at the 1992 Los Angeles Film Critics Association [ Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture - Drama award at the 1993 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Winner of the Best Adapted Screenplay award at the 1993 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Supporting Actor award at the 1993 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Art Direction award at the 1993 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Cinematography award at the 1993 New York Film Critics Circle [Festival Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Original Score award at the 1993 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 1993 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Cinematography award at the 1993 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Actor award at the 1993 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Winner of the Best Screenplay award at the 1993 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 1993 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Winner of the Best Score award at the 1993 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Supporting Actor award at the 1993 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 1993 Directors Guild of America [Festival/A Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or award at the 1993 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Winner of the Best Supporting Actor award at the 1993 New York Film Critics Circle [Festival Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Actor award at the 1993 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Foreign Film award at the 1994 French Academy of Cinema [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Score award at the 1993 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Winner of the Best Editing award at the 1993 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Supporting Actor award at the 1993 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Cinematography award at the 1993 American Society of Cinematographers [ Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 1993 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Winner of the 100 Greatest American Movies award at the 1998 American Film Institute [Festival/Awar Awards.
- Winner of the Best Supporting Actor award at the 1994 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Makeup award at the 1993 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 1993 New York Film Critics Circle [Festival Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Sound award at the 1993 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 1992 Los Angeles Film Critics Association [ Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 1993 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Costume Design award at the 1993 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
Distributor
- Universal Pictures
- Universal Studios Home Entertainment
