The film Schindler's List was based on whose Booker Prize winning novel of 1982?
"Schindler's List Schindler's List is a 1993 American epic historical period drama film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian. It is based on the novel ""Schindler's Ark"" by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally. The film follows Oskar Schindler, a Sudeten German businessman, who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees from the Holocaust by employing them in his factories during World War II. It stars Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as SS officer Amon Göth, and Ben Kingsley as Schindler's Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern. Ideas for a film about the ""Schindlerjuden"""
"Wales in Sydney. In 1996 the State Library purchased this material from a private collector. Keneally has been awarded honorary doctorates including one from the National University of Ireland. Thomas Keneally Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) is a prolific Australian novelist, playwright, and essayist. He is best known for writing ""Schindler's Ark"", the Booker Prize-winning novel of 1982 which was inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. The book would later be adapted to Steven Spielberg's ""Schindler's List"", which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Both Keneally's parents (Edmund Thomas Keneally and Elsie"
"Thomas Keneally Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) is a prolific Australian novelist, playwright, and essayist. He is best known for writing ""Schindler's Ark"", the Booker Prize-winning novel of 1982 which was inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. The book would later be adapted to Steven Spielberg's ""Schindler's List"", which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Both Keneally's parents (Edmund Thomas Keneally and Elsie Margaret Coyle) were born to Irish fathers in the timber and dairy town of Kempsey, New South Wales, and, though born in Sydney, his early years were also spent"
"was a visiting professor at UCI where he taught the graduate fiction workshop for one quarter in 1985. From 1991 to 1995, he was a visiting professor in the writing program at UCI. He is most famous for his book ""Schindler's Ark"" (1982) (later republished as ""Schindler's List""), which won the Booker Prize and is the basis of the film ""Schindler's List"" that was directed by Steven Spielberg. In January 2009, UCI Professor Reg Penner won the Faraday Medal for his research with nanowires. University of California, Irvine The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine), is a public"
"here, the foundation will still go on. Pfefferberg died on March 9, 2001, aged 87, in Beverly Hills. Poldek Pfefferberg Leopold ""Poldek"" Pfefferberg (March 20, 1913 – March 9, 2001), also known as Leopold Page, was a Polish-American Holocaust survivor who inspired the Australian writer Thomas Keneally to write the Booker prize-winning novel ""Schindler's Ark"", which in turn was the basis for Steven Spielberg's critically acclaimed 1993 film ""Schindler's List"". Pfefferberg was born into a Jewish family in Kraków, then a part of the Austria-Hungary. He gained a master's degree in philosophy and physical education from the Jagiellonian University. Pfefferberg"
"books, including 30 novels. He is particularly famed for his ""Schindler's Ark"" (1982) (later republished as ""Schindler's List""), the first novel by an Australian to win the Booker Prize and is the basis of the film ""Schindler's List"". He had already been shortlisted for the Booker three times prior to that: 1972 for ""The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith"", 1975 for ""Gossip from the Forest"", and 1979 for ""Confederates"". Many of his novels are reworkings of historical material, although modern in their psychology and style. Keneally has also acted in a handful of films. He had a small role in Fred"
"while en route home from a film festival in Europe. Pfefferberg took the opportunity to tell Keneally the story of Oskar Schindler. He gave him copies of some materials he had on file, and Keneally soon decided to make a fictionalised treatment of the story. After extensive research and interviews with surviving ""Schindlerjuden"", his 1982 historical novel ""Schindler's Ark"" (published in the United States as ""Schindler's List"") was the result. The novel was adapted as the 1993 movie ""Schindler's List"" by Steven Spielberg. After acquiring the rights in 1983, Spielberg felt he was not ready emotionally or professionally to tackle"
"Keneally, and Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of the novel, ""Schindler's List"". Poldek Pfefferberg, one of the survivors, persuaded Thomas Keneally to write the novel and Steven Spielberg to produce the film. In 2012, there were estimated to be over 8,500 descendants of ""Schindlerjuden"" living across the United States, Europe, and Israel. The original list of ""Schindlerjuden"" who were transported to Schindler's Brünnlitz factory in Brněnec, occupied Czechoslovakia, was prepared by Mietek Pemper, Itzhak Stern and Oskar Schindler during September and October of 1944. That list likely no longer exists. Another list with 1,000 names, compiled by Pemper upon the prisoners'"
"Poldek Pfefferberg Leopold ""Poldek"" Pfefferberg (March 20, 1913 – March 9, 2001), also known as Leopold Page, was a Polish-American Holocaust survivor who inspired the Australian writer Thomas Keneally to write the Booker prize-winning novel ""Schindler's Ark"", which in turn was the basis for Steven Spielberg's critically acclaimed 1993 film ""Schindler's List"". Pfefferberg was born into a Jewish family in Kraków, then a part of the Austria-Hungary. He gained a master's degree in philosophy and physical education from the Jagiellonian University. Pfefferberg was a high-school teacher in Kraków until 1939 and the physical education professor at Kościuszko Gymnasium in Podgórze."
"off the train. When Thomas Keneally's 1982 novel ""Schindler's Ark"" was adapted into the movie Schindler's List, Bankier's historical role was combined composite character, along with the historical roles of Itzhak Stern and Mietek Pemper into a character called ""Itzhak Stern"". This was a distortion, most likely caused by the fact that most of Keneally's and Spielberg's historical witnesses knew Schindler from his subsequent time in Brünnlitz, not in Kraków, where most of the film transpired, and Bankier did much of his work. According to American Holocaust historian David M. Crowe: Bankier’s skills as a businessman and a black marketeer"
"Oskar Schindler Oskar Schindler (28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was a German industrialist and a member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. He is the subject of the 1982 novel ""Schindler's Ark"" and its 1993 film adaptation, ""Schindler's List"", which reflected his life as an opportunist initially motivated by profit, who came to show extraordinary initiative, tenacity, courage, and dedication to save the lives of his Jewish employees."
"""Schindler's List"" as an influence on his 1995 film ""Death and the Maiden"". The success of ""Schindler's List"" led filmmaker Stanley Kubrick to abandon his own Holocaust project, ""Aryan Papers"", which would have been about a Jewish boy and his aunt who survive the war by sneaking through Poland while pretending to be Catholic. According to scriptwriter Frederic Raphael, when he suggested to Kubrick that ""Schindler's List"" was a good representation of the Holocaust, Kubrick commented, ""Think that's about the Holocaust? That was about success, wasn't it? The Holocaust is about 6 million people who get killed. ""Schindler's List"" is"
"on Schindler, kept in two cabinets in his back room. After 50 minutes of entreaties, Pfefferberg was finally able to convince Keneally to write the book; and Pfefferberg became an advisor, accompanying Keneally to Poland where they visited Kraków and other sites associated with the Schindler story. Keneally dedicated ""Schindler's Ark"" to Pfefferberg: ""who by zeal and persistence caused this book to be written."" After the publication of ""Schindler's Ark"" in 1982, Pfefferberg worked to persuade Steven Spielberg to film Keneally's book, using his acquaintance with Spielberg's mother to gain access. A carbon copy of Schindler's original 13-page list, of"
"Schindler was that ""it was the fact that you couldn't say where opportunism ended and altruism began. And I like the subversive fact that the spirit breatheth where it will. That is, that good will emerge from the most unlikely places"". The book was later made into a film titled ""Schindler's List"" (1993) directed by Steven Spielberg, earning the director his first Best Director Oscar. Keneally's meeting with Pfefferberg and their research tours are detailed in ""Searching for Schindler: A Memoir"" (2007). Some of the Pfefferberg documents that inspired Keneally are now housed in the State Library of New South"
"Steven Zaillian Steven Ernest Bernard Zaillian (born January 30, 1953) is an American screenwriter, director, film editor, and producer. He won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award for his screenplay ""Schindler's List"" (1993) and has also earned Oscar nominations for ""Awakenings"", ""Gangs of New York"" and ""Moneyball"". He was presented with the Distinguished Screenwriter Award at the 2009 Austin Film Festival and the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement from the Writers Guild of America in 2011. Zaillian is the founder of Film Rites, a film production company. Zaillian was born in Fresno, California of Armenian"
"a Nazi officer right before his eyes. Oskar Schindler was portrayed in the Thomas Keneally novel ""Schindler's Ark"" (the basis for Steven Spielberg's film ""Schindler's List""). In an especially dramatic event, 300 of Schindler's workers were deported to the Auschwitz death camp despite his efforts, and he personally intervened to return them to him. Other notable people include Mordechai Gebirtig, who was one of the most influential and popular writers of Yiddish songs and poems. He was shot there in 1942. Miriam Akavia, an Israeli writer, survived the Kraków ghetto and concentration camps. Renowned dermatologist and co-discoverer of Reyes Syndrome,"
"$1.9 billion today.) Other high-performing films credited to him are ""Schindler's List"" (1993) and ""Back to the Future"" (1985). Sheinberg famously wanted to change the name from ""Back to the Future"" to ""Space Man From Pluto"" despite the film having nothing to do with outer space, spacemen, or the dwarf planet Pluto. In 1982, Thomas Keneally published his historical novel ""Schindler's Ark"", which he wrote after a chance meeting with Pfefferberg in Los Angeles in 1980. Sheinberg sent director Spielberg a copy of the book along with a ""New York Times"" review. Sheinberg greenlit the film on condition that Spielberg"
"Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett, Michael Lantieri ""Schindler's List - John Williams ""Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life"" ""Orlando"" ""The Piano - Andrew McAlpine ""Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers"" ""' ""Shadowlands - Richard Attenborough, Brian Eastman Douglas Slocombe Michael Grade 47th British Academy Film Awards The 47th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1994, honoured the best films of 1993. Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List won the award for Best Film (and later won the Academy Award for Best Picture). ""Shadowlands"" was voted Best British Film of 1993. ""Schindler's List"" also"
"of children to escape the ghetto. He also found people who were willing to house them temporarily. After the liquidation of the ghetto Bosko looked for Jewish families that hid from the Nazis. Whoever he found he managed to bring to Madritsch's textile factory. Then he organized a rescue. The Gestapo found out about the rescue. Bosko was arrested, accused and then executed on 18 September 1944. In 1964, Yad Vashem recognized Oswald Bosko as Righteous Among the Nations. In 1982, Bosko appeared in the historically-based novel ""Schindler's List"", written by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally. Oswald Bosko Oswald Bosko was"
"his first Oscar in 1993 for the production of ""Schindler's List"", a film based on the novel of Thomas Keneally (which is, in turn, based on the true-life story of a German manufacturer who saved hundreds of Jews during World War II). Lustig himself has a cameo early in the film as a nightclub maitre d’. In July 2015, Lustig presented the Oscar to Yad Vashem for eternal safekeeping. He received his second Oscar for the epic movie ""Gladiator"" about a struggle for power in Imperial Rome, in 2001. Other major Hollywood films that Lustig has worked on as a"
"1989, and follows the events in ""The Merchant of Venice"". In this play Shylock gets his wealth back and becomes a Jew again. The ""Star Trek"" franchise sometimes quote and paraphrase Shakespeare, including ""The Merchant of Venice"". One example is the Shakespeare-aficionado Chang in """" (1991), a Klingon, who quotes Shylock. Steven Spielberg's ""Schindler's List"" (1993) depicts SS Lieutenant Amon Göth quoting Shylock's ""Hath Not a Jew eyes?"" speech when deciding whether or not to rape his Jewish maid. In David Fincher's 1995 crime thriller ""Seven"", a lawyer, Eli Gould, is coerced to remove a pound of his own flesh"
"loses sight of the larger story that must be told and retold.” Elie Wiesel told ""The New York Times"" that Crowe’s biography of Oskar Schindler, the Righteous Gentile made famous in Steven Spielberg’s ""Schindler’s List"", added complexity to the film without “’even altering the story.’” The result, he continued, was that ""Oskar Schindler: The Untold Story of His Life, Wartime Activities, and the True Story Behind the List"" (2004; 2007), “’made Schindler more human, and also more extraordinary.’” ""Oskar Schindler"" was later chosen as a selection of the History Book Club. ""The Washington Post"" called Crowe’s principal book on the"
"and NEL. Originally publishing in paperback only, early books on the Sceptre list included Thomas Keneally’s ""Schindler’s Ark"" which had won the Booker Prize in 1982. Hodder & Stoughton also won the Booker Prize in 1985 with the publication of Keri Hulme’s ""The Bone People"", originally acquired from its New Zealand office. Other notable books on the Hodder & Stoughton list in this decade include Rosamunde Pilcher’s ""The Shell Seekers"", Elizabeth George’s ""A Great Deliverance"" and the first novel in Jean M. Auel’s prehistoric fiction series ""Earth’s Children® The Clan of the Cave Bear"", which was an international success and"
"Madhumalati Adhikari has critiqued the treatment of World War II and its effects on the characters of the novel. The novel won the 1992 Booker Prize, athe 1992 Governor General's Award, and the 2018 Golden Man Booker award. The book was adapted into a 1996 film by Anthony Minghella, starring Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Willem Dafoe, Colin Firth, and Juliette Binoche. The film received nine Academy Awards—including Best Picture and Director—at the 69th Academy Awards. The English Patient The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje. The book follows four dissimilar people brought together at an Italian"
"respectively. The winner, as chosen by a public vote, was Salman Rushdie's ""Midnight's Children"", and was announced on July 10 at the London Literature Festival. ""Midnight's Children"" not only won the 1981 Booker, but also the special 1993 Booker of Bookers prize, which commemorated the award's 25th anniversary. The shortlisted titles were: The Best of the Booker The Best of the Booker is a special prize awarded in commemoration of the Booker Prize's 40th anniversary. Eligible books included the 41 winners of the Booker Prize since its inception in 1969. The six shortlisted titles were announced on 12 May 2008"
"the Paris Conservatoire. For his contribution to French culture in 2005 was awarded with Légion d'honneur, in addition to Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and Ordre national du Mérite. Andrzej Seweryn appeared in over fifty motion pictures, most them Polish, French and German productions. He is best known in the United States for his portrayal as Julian Scherner in the film ""Schindler's List"". Seweryn was allegedly chosen for the role of Scherner since he bore a striking physical resemblance to the actual Julian Scherner, based upon photographic evidence from World War II. He has also portrayed the French Revolutionary"
"Polish anti-Semitism"" It has also been banned in some high schools in the United States. The novel tells the story of Sophie (a Polish Roman Catholic who survived Auschwitz), Nathan (her brilliant Jewish lover who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia), and Stingo (a Southern transplant in post-World War II-Brooklyn who was in love with Sophie). It won the 1980 National Book Award and was a nationwide bestseller. A 1982 film version was nominated for five Academy Awards, with Meryl Streep winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Sophie. Kevin Kline and Peter MacNicol played Nathan and Stingo,"
"Argentina, with a dozen of Schindler Jews. In 1949, they settled there as farmers and were supported financially by a Jewish organization. In 1957, a bankrupt Oskar Schindler abandoned his wife and returned to Germany, where he died in 1974. Although they never divorced, they never saw each other again. In 1993, during the production of the film ""Schindler's List"", Emilie Schindler and a number of surviving Schindler Jews visited her husband's grave in Jerusalem; she was accompanied by Caroline Goodall, the actress who portrayed her in the film. After the film's release, Emilie's close friend and biographer, Erika Rosenberg,"
"celebration of Tchaikovsky in Leningrad in December 1990. He has also performed and recorded with his friend and fellow Israeli violinist Pinchas Zukerman on numerous occasions over the years. As well as playing and recording the classical music for which he is best known, Perlman has also played jazz, including an album made with jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, and in addition, klezmer. Perlman has been a soloist for a number of film scores such as the theme of the 1993 film ""Schindler's List"" by John Williams, which subsequently won an Academy Award for Best Original Score. More recently, he was"
"Schindler's List (soundtrack) ""Schindler's List: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack"" is the film score of the 1993 film of the same name, composed and conducted by John Williams. The original score and songs were composed by Williams, and features violinist Itzhak Perlman. The album won the Academy Award for Best Original Score, the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music, and the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media. It also received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Original Score. ""Theme from Schindler's List"" is one of the most recognized contemporary film scores, particularly the violin solo. Many high-level"
"film in black and white and approached it as a documentary. Cinematographer Janusz Kamiński wanted to give the film a sense of timelessness. John Williams composed the score, and violinist Itzhak Perlman performs the film's main theme. ""Schindler's List"" premiered on November 30, 1993, in Washington, D.C. and it was released on December 15, 1993, in the United States. Often listed among the greatest films ever made, it was also a box office success, earning $322 million worldwide on a $22 million budget. It was the recipient of seven Academy Awards (out of twelve nominations), including Best Picture, Best Director,"
"novel in 1982, inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. In 1980, Keneally met Pfefferberg in the latter's shop, and learning that he was a novelist, Pfefferburg showed him his extensive files on Oskar Schindler, including the original list itself. Keneally was interested, and Pfefferberg became an advisor for the book, accompanying Keneally to Poland where they visited Kraków and the sites associated with the Schindler story. Keneally dedicated ""Schindler's Ark"" to Pfefferberg: ""who by zeal and persistence caused this book to be written."" He said in an interview in 2007 that what attracted him to Oskar"
"descent, the son of Jim Zaillian, a radio news reporter. He attended Sonoma State University, graduated from San Francisco State University in 1975 with a degree in Cinema. He lives in Los Angeles. with his wife Elizabeth and their two children. Steven Zaillian Steven Ernest Bernard Zaillian (born January 30, 1953) is an American screenwriter, director, film editor, and producer. He won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award for his screenplay ""Schindler's List"" (1993) and has also earned Oscar nominations for ""Awakenings"", ""Gangs of New York"" and ""Moneyball"". He was presented with the Distinguished Screenwriter"