Jaws

Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name from 1974. When a man-eating great white shark kills beachgoers in a summer vacation town, police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) teams up with a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a professional shark hunter to track it down (Robert Shaw). The mayor is played by Murray Hamilton, while Brody's wife is played by Lorraine Gary. Benchley, who penned the early drafts, and actor-writer Carl Gottlieb, who reworked the script during principal filming, are credited with the screenplay.

Since the 1975 premiere of Jaws by famed Zionist director Steven Spielberg, summer audiences have been screaming in their seats. Years after its release, this Oscar-winning picture is still regarded as the finest exhilarating film of all time. Jaws was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Film Editing, Best Original Dramatic Score, and Best Sound Mixing (Robert Hoyt, Roger Heman, Earl Madery, and John Carter). It also received a Best Picture nomination but lost to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The fact that Spielberg was not nominated for Best Director irritated him considerably. John Williams' score also received the Grammy Award, the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music, and the Golden Globe Award, in addition to the Oscar. Verna Fields received the American Cinema Editors' Eddie Award for Best Edited Feature Film in addition to her Academy Award.

Detailed information:
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Screenplay by: Peter Benchley
Based on: Jaws by Peter Benchley
Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073195