The blockbuster filmmaker’s long-awaited Oscars triumph is paralleled only by Spielberg’s—but there’s a key difference.
The world’s most popular director sits in the crowd, waiting for the star on stage to open the envelope. When his movie is named, he embraces his wife and then walks to the stage. It’s been almost two decades since his breakthrough, the movie that made him a popular and artistic juggernaut: a director who can concoct images no one has seen before, who directs with unprecedented scale and style, who can bend studios to his will and draw audiences on the strength of his name alone.
Such critiques arrived as soon as Spielberg started making “adult” movies. “Mr. Spielberg’s film is a tribute to Hollywood,” the New York Times’ Vincent Canby wrote of 1985’swas nominated for 11 Oscars and won exactly zero, tying the record for most nominations without an award. Two years later the director’s first attempt at a World War II drama,, presented a Japanese POW camp through the eyes of a British boy, played by 12-year-old Christian Bale. The Village Voice’s J.
“I’m drawn to working at a large scale because I know how fragile the opportunity to marshal those resources is ,” he’s said. “I know that there are so many filmmakers out there in the world who would give their eye teeth to have the resources I put together, and I feel I have the responsibility to use them in the most productive and interesting way.” His movies will continue to be intricately constructed, deeply serious, mammoth technical achievements. He will keep making exactly the kinds of movies he’s always made.
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