Schindler's List (1993)

Synopsis of Schindler's List

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, Rovi

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Theatrical Feature Running Time:

196 mins

Director(s):

Steven Spielberg

Writer(s):

Steven Zaillian, Kurt Luedtke

Producer(s):

Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen, Branko Lustig

Theatrical MPAA Rating:

R(Adult Situations, Watch With Your Teen, Profanity, Not For Children, Graphic Violence, Nudity)

Categories:

War

• 1998 - American Film Institute - 100 Greatest American Movies
• 1994 - British Academy of Film and Television Arts - Best Supporting Actor
• 1994 - British Academy of Film and Television Arts - Best Picture
• 1994 - British Academy of Film and Television Arts - Best Director
• 1993 - British Academy of Film and Television Arts - Best Picture
• 1993 - British Academy of Film and Television Arts - Best Supporting Actor
• 1994 - British Academy of Film and Television Arts - Best Picture
• 1994 - British Academy of Film and Television Arts - Best Picture
• 1993 - British Academy of Film and Television Arts - David Lean Award
• 1993 - Directors Guild of America - Best Director
• 1993 - Golden Globe - Best Picture - Drama
• 1993 - Hollywood Foreign Press Association - Best Director
• 1993 - Hollywood Foreign Press Association - Best Screenplay
• 1993 - Hollywood Foreign Press Association - Best Picture - Drama
• 1992 - Los Angeles Film Critics Association - Best Picture
• 1992 - Los Angeles Film Critics Association - Best Production Design
• 1992 - Los Angeles Film Critics Association - Best Cinematography
• 1993 - National Board of Review - Best Picture
• 1993 - National Society of Film Critics - Best Director
• 1993 - National Society of Film Critics - Best Picture
• 1993 - National Society of Film Critics - Best Supporting Actor
• 1993 - National Society of Film Critics - Best Cinematography
• 1993 - New York Film Critics Circle - Best Cinematography
• 1993 - New York Film Critics Circle - Best Supporting Actor
• 1993 - New York Film Critics Circle - Best Picture

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