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Jaws is regarded as a watershed film in motion picture history, the father of the summer blockbuster movie and one of the first "high concept" films. [ 2 ] [ 89 ] Due to the film's success in advance screenings, studio executives decided to distribute it in a much wider release than ever before.
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Spielberg won the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan, as well as receiving six other nominations. [3] Three of Spielberg's films—Jaws, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and Jurassic Park—achieved box office records, originated, and came to epitomize the blockbuster film. [4]
The 1975 horror film "Jaws" is based on the 1974 novel about a police chief, marine biologist and shark hunter hunting down a great white shark attacking beachgoers at a summer resort town.
This is a list of American films released in 1978. Box office The ... Jaws 2: Universal: $77,737,272 8 Revenge of the Pink Panther: United Artists: $49,579,269 9
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Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley.It stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, who, with the help of a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a professional shark hunter (Robert Shaw), hunts a man-eating great white shark that attacks beachgoers at a summer resort town.