Schindler's List is a 1993 American historical drama film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian. Oskar Schindler was a flawed German industrialist and Nazi Party member who saved roughly 1,200 Jewish forced laborers during the Holocaust, driven initially by cheap labor and profit before evolving into a dedicated rescuer. It is based on the historical novel Schindler's Ark (1982) by Thomas Keneally. The film follows Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who saved more than a thousand mostly Polish–Jewish refugees from the Holocaust by employing them in his factories during World War II. It stars Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as SS officer Amon Göth, and Ben Kingsley as Schindler's Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern. Best Picture at the 66th Academy Awards, March 21, 1994 — hosted by Whoopi Goldberg at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. 46.26 million US viewers. Wiki link Wiki link Poster: TMDB (this product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB).