11. Schindler’s List Ranked Eighth Best American Film Ever
In 2007, the American Film Institute honored the 1994 film when it listed the 100 greatest American movies of all time. The film won Spielberg an Academy Award for Best Director and also won Best Picture. For Spielberg, though, the film wasn’t about success but about coming to terms with his people’s history and making the world aware of the horrors of the Holocaust.
