Paramount's "The Adventures of Tintin, " directed by Steven Spielberg, also was denied in the category.

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Nearly every film directed by Steven Spielberg since "Schindler's List" (1993) has radiated a distinctive luster, a kind of visual autograph.

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Topping the list: Jaws, released in 1975 and directed by Steven Spielberg.

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"The problem with tools - which is what robots are - is that we become dependent on them, " says Wilson, whose new novel Robopocalypse is being made into a film directed by Steven Spielberg.

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The central drama of the movie, written by Tony Kushner and another screenwriter and directed by Steven Spielberg--the central drama is the deepening moral ambivalence of a Mossad agent who is involved in this.

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