Steven Spielberg has come out like one of the great losers of the Oscars of these years and it is not the first time far from it.
Best Actor and Best Production Design in the Oscar 2013 for a film that aspired to twelve awards it has ended up being a bad balance.
It seems that the Hollywood Academy He has great facility for nominating films directed by Steven Spielberg, but they end up receiving little prize.
Up to 19 Spielberg films have made it to the Oscar with some candidacy, adding between all of them up to 120 nominations, of which only 32 became prizes, and mostly technical aspects were awarded.
An even more devastating fact is that 9 of those 19 films were empty, some of them despite being among the great favorites and starting with a good number of nominations, such as the cases of "The purple color" in 1985 that opted for 11 awards, "The Empire of the Sun" that aspired to 6 in 1987, or more recently in 2011 "Horse of battle»Who chose 6 others.
The first award that Steven Spielberg collected from the Academy was the Irwing thalberg in 1986, in recognition of his great work in the world of cinema, but until then seven of his films had already been at the gala, four of them with a nomination for best film, none of them took it and he with up to three nominations for the Oscar for best director, awards that he did not receive either.
Precisely the year before receiving the Irwing Thalberg, he had been the great loser of the Oscars, since his film "The Color Purple", for which he was not even nominated for best director, was left empty after being one of the great favorites with 11 nominations.
After the Irwing Thalberg, things were not much better for his next films either «The Sun's empire»He was left without an award despite his six nominations in 1987 and«Hook»The same thing happened to him in 1991 despite his five candidacies.
But in 1993 came the great year for Steven Spielberg with two films that forced the Academy to recognize his merits, that year «Schindler's List" Y "Jurassic Park»They sweep the Oscars gala, taking ten statuettes between them. The first one obtains 7 awards from twelve nominations, including the Oscar for best film and the one for best director for Spielberg, the second sweeps the technical sections by taking the three Oscars for which it was nominated.
But again in 1997 he would return to the gala with one of his favorite films and once again he was empty. «Friendship»That year he was up for seven awards, although he was left out for best film and best direction and finally did not win a single award.
Although in 1998 «Save Private Ryan»Gave what is Steven Spielberg's last joy at the Oscars so far, the film won five awards including best director, although it lost in the best picture category to" Shakespeare in Love. " Finally, five awards that can be considered a great success for the film that year.
After that, five more films have gone through the gala with a total of 28 nominations and only the two turned into prizes, the two of «Lincoln«.
As in 1993 Spielberg was the great winner of the Oscars, in 2005 he was the great defeated when arriving with two films that added eight nominations and leaving empty, «Munich»Was up for five awards including those for best film and best director and«War of the Worlds»To three, all of them technical.
Spielberg's story in the Academy Awards It has been reflected in his latest film "Lincoln", many nominations and finally few awards and of little relevance.
The great news has been that Daniel Day-Lewis becomes the first performer to be awarded an Oscar for a director's tape.
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