Steven Spielberg 15 years ago... It was a very good year

Spiels directed the groundbreaking Jurassic Park and the utterly deserving Best Picture winner Schindler's List in 1993.

Any directors you can think of who have had that big a run through the calendar?

 

Schindler's List was OK and all, but it's no Goonies.

 

Probably Spielberg in some other year.

According to IMDB, Raiders Of The Lost Ark was released on 6/12/81; E.T. on 6/11/82. That's a monster pair in the space of a calendar year.

 

Jurassic Park is overrated.

 

And that's giving it all the best of it.

 

Not sure it was overrated -- not like it won best picture or anything. Did sell a ton of tickets, though.

 

Riiiiiiiiiiiight.

No one had seen realistic dinosaurs on screen until he did it.

Incredible film.

 

It did. Fact it was ticketed for below my demographic probably affected my feelings on my first viewing of it. Have glanced at portions, since, and doesn't seem to me to have aged well.

 

In 1939, Victor Fleming directed "The Wizard Of Oz" and "Gone With The Wind."
Think maybe that trumps Jurassic Park?

 

I saw Wizard of Oz (again) on the TV the other day. That really is one way-out, creepy film on a bunch of levels. Way ahead of its time, though.

 

Good pull on Victor Fleming - I didn't know the same guy directed both of those movies.
In 1974, Francis Ford Coppola directed "Godfather II" and "The Conversation", both of which were nominated for best picture.

 

Oliver Stone: Platoon (1986) and Wall Street (1987).