Spielberg

If “Dawson’s Creek” was a mirror of Williamson’s starry-eyed years spent idolizing Steven Spielberg and dreaming of making it out of his small town, “The Waterfront” tells a murkier chapter of his family history.

In the five decades following Steven Spielberg’s groundbreaking masterpiece, most sharksploitation has been chopped up and diluted into chum, tossed into the water by careless, filmmaking fishermen.

Even Steven Spielberg’s relatively hopeful “A.I.: Artificial Intelligence” had a pessimistic edge to its vision of the future.

“Sinners” puts Coogler in the same company as renowned filmmakers Nolan, Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, who have the clout and expertise to shoot on film, said Keighley.

In 1991, veteran stunt coordinator Jack Gill began lobbying for an Oscar for stunts, securing the support of the likes of Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Brad Pitt and Arnold Schwarzenegger for the idea.