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His first Academy Award was actually the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1987. It is awarded to "Creative producers, whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production."

He won his first Academy Award for a film in 1994 when he won the Best Director Award for the film Schindler's List.

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Steven Spielberg has made more than 100 films, but less than ten have won Oscars

  1. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) (producer) won Best Achievement in Sound Editing

    Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) (producer) won Best Achievement in Art Direction, Best Achievement in Cinematography, and Best Achievement in Costume Design

    Shrek (2001) (executive producer) (uncredited) won Best Animated Feature

  2. Saving Private Ryan (1998) (producer) Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Sound Effects Editing, Best Film Editing and Best Sound
  3. Men in Black (1997) (executive producer) won Best Makeup
  4. Schindler's List (1993) (producer) Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, and Best Picture, Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
  5. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) (executive producer) won Best Sound Effects Editing, Best Visual Effects, and Best Film Editing
  6. Back to the Future (1985) (executive producer) won Best Sound Effects Editing
  7. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) (producer) won Best Sound Effects Editing, Best Visual Effects, Best Music, and Best Sound

His personal list of wins is much shorter

  1. Won Oscar Best Director for: Saving Private Ryan(1998)
  2. Won Oscar Best Director for: Schindler's List(1993)
  3. Won Oscar Best Picture for: Schindler's List (1993) Shared with: Gerald R. Molen and Branko Lustig
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He won 3 Oscars to date: One for directing Saving Private Ryan and two for Schindler's List: as director and as producer.

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Steven Spielberg won the Best Director Oscar for Schindler's List.

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1993 - Schindler's List won Best Director AND Best Picture

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a noble prize

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Schindler's List

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