Spotlight: Steven Spielberg's Charity Work
“I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends’ lives. I was never on the inside of that. I was always on the outside.” – Steven Spielberg
Director, Executive Screenwriter, Restaurateur, and Producer Steven Spielberg has been listed as the most powerful and influential figure in the motion picture industry. Spielberg has won three Academy Awards. He has been nominated for six Academy Awards for the category of Best Director, winning two of them (Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan_), and seven of the films he directed were up for the Best Picture Oscar (_Schindler’s List won). In 1987 he was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for his work as a creative producer. Spielberg received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1995.
The Righteous Persons Foundation was established with Spielberg’s earnings from “Schindler’s List” to fund projects which impact on modern Jewish life (e.g. “to engage Jewish youth, to support the arts, to promote tolerance and to strengthen the commitment to social justice”). As of fall 1995, the foundation had made 30 grants totaling nearly $10 million. The organization projected to distribute more than $40 million over its first decade of existence.
Charities & foundations supported
Steven Spielberg has supported the following charities:
- American Humane Association
- Anti-Defamation League
- BID 2 BEAT AIDS
- Bush Clinton Katrina Fund
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
- Entertainment Industry Foundation
- Film Foundation
- Healthy Child Healthy World
- International Medical Corps
- Joining Forces
- Make-A-Wish Foundation
- Motion Picture and Television Fund Foundation
- (RED)
- Righteous Persons Foundation
- USC Shoah Foundation Institute
- Women's Cancer Research Fund
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