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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 1473548" data-attributes="member: 1246">Dec. 15, 1993On this day in 1993, Schindler’s List, starring Liam Neeson in the true story of a German businessman who saves the lives of more than a thousand Polish Jews during the <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/the-holocaust" target="_blank">Holocaust</a>, opens in theaters. The film was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and took home seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. It was the first Best Director win for Spielberg, who had been nominated in the category for three of his earlier films: 1977’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark and 1982’s E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. Schindler’s List was adapted from Thomas Keneally’s 1982 book Schindler’s Ark, about the Catholic businessman Oskar Schindler, who saved a large number of Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in a factory that made supplies for the German army. The film co-starred Ben Kingsley as Schindler’s Jewish accountant and Ralph Fiennes as an evil Nazi officer.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 1473548, member: 1246"] Dec. 15, 1993 On this day in 1993, [I]Schindler’s List,[/I] starring Liam Neeson in the true story of a German businessman who saves the lives of more than a thousand Polish Jews during the [URL='http://www.history.com/topics/the-holocaust']Holocaust[/URL], opens in theaters. The film was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and took home seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. It was the first Best Director win for Spielberg, who had been nominated in the category for three of his earlier films: 1977’s [I]Close Encounters of the Third Kind, [/I]1981’s [I]Raiders of the Lost Ark[/I] and 1982’s [I]E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial[/I]. [I]Schindler’s List[/I] was adapted from Thomas Keneally’s 1982 book [I]Schindler’s Ark[/I], about the Catholic businessman Oskar Schindler, who saved a large number of Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in a factory that made supplies for the German army. The film co-starred Ben Kingsley as Schindler’s Jewish accountant and Ralph Fiennes as an evil Nazi officer. [/QUOTE]

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