Schindler’s List, starring Liam Neeson in the true story of
a German businessman who saves the lives of more than
a thousand Polish Jews during the Holocaust, opened in
theaters.

The film was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and took
home seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best
Director.

It was the first Best Director win for Spielberg, who had
been nominated in the category for three of his earlier
films: 1977’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1981’s
Raiders of the Lost Ark and 1982’s E.T.: The Extra-
Terrestrial.

Director Steven Spielberg will be 79 December 18th.
 

On November 26, 1942, Casablanca, a World War II-era drama
starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premiered in
New York City; it went on to become one of the most beloved
Hollywood movies in history.

By the time James Cameron took the stage to accept his Academy
Award for Best Director on the night of March 23, 1998, the Oscar dominance of his blockbuster film Titanic was all but assured.

Titanic tied the record for most Oscar nominations with 14—joining 1950’s All About Eve—and by night’s end would tie with Ben Hur
(1959) for most wins by sweeping 11 categories, including the
coveted Best Picture.

The Sound of Music is a 1965 musical drama film produced
and directed by Robert Wise from a screenplay written by
Ernest Lehman, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr,
and Eleanor Parker. The film is an adaptation of the 1959
stage musical, composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics
by Oscar Hammerstein II.

On November 21, 1980, 350 million people around the world
tuned in to television’s popular primetime drama “Dallas” to
find out who shot J.R. Ewing, the character fans loved to hate.
J.R. had been shot on the season-ending episode the previous
March 21, which now stands as one of television’s most famous cliffhangers.

The plot twist inspired widespread media coverage and left
America wondering “Who shot J.R.?” for the next eight
months.

The November 21 episode solved the mystery, identifying Kristin Shepard, J.R.’s wife’s sister-in-law and his former mistress, as
the culprit.