Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List went on to clean up at the Oscars the following year.
“We offered Jurassic Park exclusively to Steven Spielberg – who still hadn’t signed with CAA,” Ovitz writes in his autobiography, Who is Michael Ovitz?.
Sheinberg, who had turned Spielberg onto Schindler’s List, wanted to make Jurassic Park – but Spielberg and his collaborators had it in their back pocket.
The New York Times praised Jurassic Park as “a true movie milestone, presenting awe- and fear-inspiring sights never before seen on the screen”.