Here’s a chart showing all the Academy Award nominations and wins of movies directed by Steven Spielberg. The total is 145 nominations and 33 wins, which is a pretty normal ratio considering most categories have 5 nominees.
Additionally, 2 of Spielberg’s movies won a [Special Achievement Academy Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Achievement_Academy_Award): Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Raiders of the Lost Ark, both for Sound Effects Editing. This award is very rare (only awarded once this century) and doesn’t follow the usual nominee-and-award pattern of other categories, so those are represented but with an asterisk.
![[OC] Steven Spielberg films and the Oscars](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/5dcjrke48rge1-1300x1024.png)
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Here’s a chart showing all the Academy Award nominations and wins of movies directed by Steven Spielberg. The total is 145 nominations and 33 wins, which is a pretty normal ratio considering most categories have 5 nominees.
Additionally, 2 of Spielberg’s movies won a [Special Achievement Academy Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Achievement_Academy_Award): Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Raiders of the Lost Ark, both for Sound Effects Editing. This award is very rare (only awarded once this century) and doesn’t follow the usual nominee-and-award pattern of other categories, so those are represented but with an asterisk.
See also [a similar chart for Martin Scorsese](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1bfi08r/oc_martin_scorsese_films_and_the_oscars/).
Data source: IMDB. Tools: Google Sheets, Photoshop.
The two films that had direct or indirect mention of the Holocaust did best.
The Color Purple got shafted
My neighbor went to school with his nephew in Virginia
The 80’s was definitely his decade
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