Who Won the Movie?
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- Spielberg, Shaw, Scheider, Dreyfuss, Williams and the shark are nominated; Dreyfuss is mentioned with an immediate probably-not qualification. — Bill Simmons
- The first Spielberg choice credits a career-launching, industry-changing and exceptionally entertaining movie while acknowledging luck. — Chris Ryan
- Spielberg’s repeated practical and artistic decisions rescued a production another director might have lost: the unseen shark, effective small score, replacement actors and repeated script rewrites all worked. — Sean Fennessey
- The final response agrees with Spielberg but makes a substantial case for Quint as an irreplaceable supporting character. — Bill Simmons
- Coogler is compared with the young director, whose early television experience is cited as years of preparation.
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