Spielberg won his first Oscar for Best Director for the 1993 film about a factory owner who hires more than a thousand Jews as workers during the Holocaust and thus saves them from concentration camps in Germany. The movie was based on a book by Thomas Kenneally, who wrote it after meeting a man who was employed in one of Schindler's factories. Ralph Fiennes was nominated for an Oscar for his breakout role as Amon Goeth and apparently resembled Goeth so much when dressed in his uniform that Mila Pfefferberg, who was on Schindler's list and had seen the real Goeth, started shaking when she met him.
