7 times Steven Spielberg should have won Best Picture

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By Chad Comello

It’s hard to believe that Schindler’s List is the only Steven Spielberg film to win Best Picture. Here’s how I’d change that—if only in my dreams.

As excellent as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is, c’mon—it’s Jaws.

Sorry, Gandhi. Your subject did lots of great things for the world, but beating E.T. isn’t one of them.

Hot take: this is the best Indiana Jones movie, and by awarding Driving Miss Daisy the Academy chose... poorly.

Harvey Weinstein’s hatchet job on this epic in favor of Shakespeare in Love is very, very low on his list of sins, but it’s still there.

Chicago was hot stuff at the time, but this sci-fi noir still sizzles decades later.

Sure, Argo is good, but have you seen the acting GOAT portray the presidenting GOAT in a film by the directing GOAT?

Everything Everywhere All At Once was undeniable this year, but there’s no denying the power of Spielberg’s deeply personal auto-biopic.