Saturn Award for Best Director to win the Academy Award for Best Director. Spielberg was also the first to win Best Director from both the Saturn Awards and the Academy Awards at the same year, but for different movies (Saturn Award for "Jurassic Park", and Academy Award for "Schindler's List", both in 1993); Peter Jackson was the first to win both for the same film ("", in 2003) while Alfonso Cuarón was the second (for "Gravity" in 2013). Notes: "†" indicates an Academy Award-winning movie on the same category. "‡" indicates an Academy Award-nominated movie on the same category. Saturn Award for Best Director The
Steven Spielberg the base of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Spielberg supported Hillary Clinton for President of the United States in the 2016 election. He donated US$1 million to Priorities USA, a pro-Clinton Super PAC. In 2018, Spielberg and his wife Kate Capshaw donated $500,000 to the March for Our Lives student demonstration in favor of gun control in the United States. A collector of film memorabilia, Spielberg purchased a balsa Rosebud sled from "Citizen Kane" (1941) in 1982. He bought Orson Welles's own directorial copy of the script for the radio broadcast "The War of the Worlds" (1938) in 1994.