Steven Spielberg

Spielberg has since devoted all his earnings from the film to the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, which has documented more than 100,000 hours of Holocaust survivors’ testimonies, and the Righteous Persons Foundation, which grants money to various projects affecting modern Jewish life. Spielberg’s award-winning 1998 film Saving Private Ryan broke ground in its harrowing portrayal of World War II combat.