Steven Spielberg effects provided by friend George Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic company, the film would eventually become the highest-grossing film of all time (at the worldwide box office) with $914.7 million. This would be the third time that one of Spielberg's films became the highest-grossing film ever. Spielberg's next film, "Schindler's List", was based on the true story of Oskar Schindler, a man who risked his life to save 1,100 Jews from the Holocaust. "Schindler's List" earned Spielberg his first Academy Award for Best Director (it also won Best Picture). With the film a huge success at the box office, Spielberg
Robin Spielberg centers while on tour. She has also performed fundraisers for medical and other charities. In 2014 Spielberg was invited to give a TEDx talk on "The Healing Power of Music" in Lancaster, Pennsylvania's inaugural TEDx event. Spielberg is author of the memoir "Naked on the Bench" (2013), which Kirkus called a "well-paced musical memoir about the value of perseverance" which avoids sentimentality and balances happy moments with darker content such as being stalked. Spielberg also writes about music therapy in her memoir. In 2016 Spielberg began teaching at Millersville University as an instructor in the music business technology department, teaching