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...Indeed, an argument could be made that all five nominated films are independent; for what Hollywood filmmaker is more his own man than Steven Spielberg? He gets to do what he wants, whether it's a budget-busting remake of War of the Worlds or a medium-budget documentary-style thriller about the 1972 massacre of Israeli athletes and its revenge aftermath...
...BEST DIRECTOR Ang Lee, Brokeback Bennett Miller, Capote Paul Haggis, Crash George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck Steven Spielberg, Munich...
...Dershowitz attacked Spielberg’s film for what he saw as its confusion about the causes of terrorism. Dershowitz wrote that Spielberg attempts to link the Israelis who tracked and killed the Black September terrorists and future terror attacks against Western nations, and that Spielberg was mistaken in his suggestion that the “counterterrorism only incites more terrorism...
...Sweating the Details Steven Spielberg's Munich is about the terrorism at the 1972 Olympics and the revenge that followed [Dec. 12]. In 1997, TIME talked with the director while he worked on Amistad, the story of a Spanish ship that took abducted Africans...
...work himself, if the person assigned to the job can't hack it. In one scene the faces of the slaves are to be lighted by a lantern carried by one of the crew. But it isn't working. 'Let me do the light myself,' Spielberg says, holding the lantern so that the slaves' tortured faces are perfectly illuminated. He even shoots a second-unit 'insert' scene of a crumpled letter tossed onto a table. 'I like to sweat the details ... The second-unit stuff is what makes the audience eat the popcorn faster...