Schindler's List

Told from the perspective of businessman Oskar Schindler who saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory. Schindler's List is based on a true story, illustrated in black and white and controversially filmed in many original locations.

As everybody suspected, including the HFPA, Steven Spielberg was a director able to transcend the mere greatness of pop-culture entertainment (see  Jaws, E. T.