Dir: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss
124 minutes

Our Fright Night Screening on Saturday 30 August celebrates the film’s 50th Anniversary. When it was released in June 1975 it became the most successful film ever made and won three Oscars including one for its now-legendary score by John Williams.

Academy Award-winner Steven Spielberg was only twenty-six years old when he directed Jaws, a movie that changed the way audiences experienced movies by setting the standard for edge-of-your-seat suspense. Based on a novel by Peter Benchley, Jaws was a massive box office success, becoming the highest grossing movie in history.

Jaws won three Academy Awards: Best Film Editing, Best Original Dramatic Score, and Best Sound. In 2001, the Library of Congress selected Jaws for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

Jaws pushed the envelope behind the camera as well. It was filmed in Massachusetts in the summer of 1974 and was the first major motion picture to be filmed in the ocean.

John Williams created the suspenseful score for Jaws that became a cultural phenomenon, and its influence can be seen in countless horror and suspense films that followed. The two notes, “dun dun, dun dun, dun dun,” led to Williams’s first of 26 Grammy awards and second of five Academy Awards.

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