Steven Spielberg ("Schindler's List" won). In 1987, he was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for his work as a creative producer. Drawing from his own experiences in Scouting, Spielberg helped the Boy Scouts of America develop a merit badge in cinematography in order to help promote filmmaking as a marketable skill. The badge was launched at the 1989 National Scout Jamboree, which Spielberg attended, and where he personally counseled many boys in their work on requirements. That same year, 1989, saw the release of "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade". The opening scene shows a teenage Indiana Jones in scout
Oscar Whisky his first steeplechase victory. The Dipper Novices' Chase at Cheltenham on 1 January saw a rematch between Oscar Whisky and Taquin de Seuil. The race was run on very soft ground which led to six of the seventeen fences being omitted for safety reasons. Oscar Whisky took the lead before the last fence and held off a challenge from Taquin de Seuil to win by three quarters of a length. Only two horses turned out to oppose Oscar Whisky in the Grade I Scilly Isles Novices' Chase at Sandown on 1 February. Starting at odds of 1/6 he did not