| Jaws | |
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| 4 Nominations / 1 Win | |
| Year | 1975 |
| Director | Steven Spielberg |
| Writer | Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb |
| Starring | Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss |
| 48th Academy Awards | |
Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg based on Peter Benchley's 1974 novel of the same name. The film stars Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, and Murray Hamilton. The screenplay is credited to both Benchley, who wrote the first drafts, and actor-writer Carl Gottlieb, who rewrote the script during principal photography. Shot mostly on location on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, the film had a troubled production, going over budget and past schedule. As the art department's mechanical sharks suffered many malfunctions, Spielberg decided to mostly suggest the animal's presence, employing an ominous, minimalistic theme created by composer John Williams to indicate the shark's impending appearances.
Wins
- Best Picture — Richard D. Zanuck, David Brown
Nominations
- Best Film Editing — Verna Fields
- Best Original Score — John Williams
- Best Picture — Richard D. Zanuck, David Brown
- Best Sound Mixing — Robert L. Hoyt, Roger Heman Jr., Earl Madery, John Carter
Plot
In a warmy night on Amity Island, a small community whose business is its beaches, a young woman named Chrissie Watkins goes skinny dipping and gets violently pulled under while treading water. The next morning, Chief Martin Brody and Deputy Hendricks discover her remains. When the medical examiner informs Brody that Chrissie was killed by a shark, his first inclination is to close the beaches to swimmers. This doesn't sit well with Mayor Larry Vaughn and several of the local businessmen. Brody backs down to his regret as that weekend a young boy named Alex Kintner is killed by the predator. The dead boy's mother puts out a bounty on the shark and Amity is soon swamped with amateur hunters and fisherman hoping to cash in on the reward. A local fisherman with much experience hunting sharks, Quint, offers to hunt down the creature for a hefty fee. Soon, Quint, Brody and Matt Hooper from the Oceanographic Institute are at sea hunting the Great white shark. As Brody succinctly surmises after their first encounter with the creature, Quint's going to need a bigger boat.
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