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It should be noted that both were inevitable, if you read up on what lead to WWII and the rise of Hitler. Spielberg made other great films, and even if that war had not happened, he still would have won a lot of awards for his other movies. He has nothing to be ashamed of.

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Such nonsense! If he had the power, he would give up two silly awards in exchange for the lives of millions of innocent people who suffered horribly.

Anyway, Spielberg is a great talent. He would've still won awards based on a different event.

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You need to factor in that certain type of movies like war-themed or revolutions are more likely to win Oscars for the director like these past winners:

Patton, Deer Hunter, Lawrence of Arabia, From Here to Eternity, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Reds, Ghandi, Platoon, Born of the Fourth of July, Braveheart, The English Patient, The Hurt Locker, All Quiet on the Western Front.

Spielberg just increased his odds when he made war-themed films. It could've been Vietnam, WW1 or the Civil War.

Spielberg wasn't taken seriously as a director when he started. His movies were too popular and considered fluff by the Academy. His first "serious" work was The Color Purple. There was a lot of buzz that he made this movie to get an Oscar. But black-themed films have never won an Oscar for its director.

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It should be noted that the Academy doesn't have good taste in films. They probably only gave him the awards because they liked him, rather than his films. They are notorious for awarding people we've either never heard of, or films that were crap. There are some films that truly do deserve the Oscars they receive, but they are rare.

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And? What’s your point? Should Polanski thank Hitler, too?

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Okay, you tell him.

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Then he would have won for something else!

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No, he wouldn't have. Read up on the history of Spielberg and The Oscars. The Academy hated him enough to purposely snub him on several occasions. One of the pettiest things it did was give one of his movies (forget which, might have been The Color Purple) every single award except Best Director. Another time, it gave a foreign director Best Director based on a technicality allowing foreign movies to be eligible for an award two years after release. The Academy did this to send a message that it didn't care how commercially popular his movies were; in its eyes, he wasn't a "real" director. It's why he shot Schindlers List. He knew The Academy couldn't snub him as Best Director for a movie about The Holocaust.

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He would have won for something else!

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You are just repeating yourself. Repeating the same thing over and over again isn't going to make you more right.

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He would have won for something else!

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He has made WW2 movies because it was the the biggest event of the twentieth century, one of the biggest events ever, in human history. If WW2 hadn't happened, he would've made movies on other topics, and won for something else.

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I agree, he would have won for something else.

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He came extremely close with E.T.

Pretty much everyone thinks he was robbed. Had the academy not gone all biopic crazy that year with Gandhi, he would have received the gold statuette.

Now... E.T., as far as I know, has nothing to do with WW2. If he came close with that film, you can be sure he would have come close with another film afterwards.

Add to this the fact that:

1. He should have been nominated for Jaws (snubbed)
2. He was nominated for Close Encounters. Raiders I will not include because it has WW2 elements.
3. And he was nominated for E.T. Two nominations and 1 snub leading into 1983.

1983 to 2019 would have given him a lot of opportunities to be recognized for other films -- had WW2 never happened. Ergo:

He would have won for something else.

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J A W S

His masterpiece should have won something.

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Why target Spielberg? Let's just go ahead and thank Hitler for his overwhelming contribution to every World War 2 movie that's ever been made.

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The whole Neonazi subplot in Blues Brothers would never have happened either.

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Don’t forget JoJo Rabbit!....although it seems some critics wouldn’t mind...

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Did he thank Hitler in his Oscar speeches?

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Christian Bale thanked Satan for his role in Vice

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Perhaps he would of won more if WW2 never happened

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