Schindlers List is a 1993 American English-language Biography Drama movie starring Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall, Embeth Davidtz and Katarzyna Tlalka. The movie is inspired from Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally. The film follows Oskar Schindler, a Sudeten German businessman, who saved more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees from the Holocaust by employing them in his factories during World War II. Amblin Entertainment was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Branko Lustig, Steven Spielberg and Gerald R. Molen. Schindlers List is written by Thomas Keneally and Steven Zaillian and it is directed by Steven Spielberg. Universal Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the motion picture. Schindlers List was released on 25th December 1993 and takes a screen time of 195 minutes. and it received positive reviews from critics when it was released and became successful at box office. Schindlers List was made on a budget of $22 million and it was a super hit at box office gross of $322 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Steven Zaillian. Cinematography was done by Janusz Kami ski and editing by Michael Kahn. The music was composed by John Williams. At the 1994 Oscar Awards It won 7 awards including: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Film Editing and Best Music, Original Score.