successful movies, icluding six that are ranked in the top

25 highest grossing films to date. Many have associated

Spielberg’s success and fame with his movie sensation, E.T.,

while others argue that it was gained by some of his other

works such as Jaws, Saving Private Ryan and Schindler’s

List. The purpose of this paper is to uncover,through

research, which film, in fact, made Spielberg a Hollywood

icon as well as one of its highest paid directors.

Author, Virginia Meachum insists that Spielberg’s first

smash hit, Jaws, not only made him famous, but was the sole

spark that ignited his successful career. She claims that

it was the movie’s sequels that continued to put him in the

position as one of the most popular directors in America.

She adds, to prove the films success, that Jaws holds the

record for the highest grossing film of all time. Meachum

also stresses that Spielberg would have never been able to

gain success if he had not, at first, followed his childhood

dreams and lived in a world of pure imagination (Meachum

In contrast, Alexander Walker states that if Jaws put

him on the map, it was E.T. that made him a star and

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