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
Which Lie Did I Tell? Something About Mary", "North by Northwest" and "Chinatown". The next section covers how he gets movie ideas, and details four examples and why he didn't pursue them. "The Old Guy," inspired by the true story about an elderly criminal (recently made into a 2018 movie, "The Old Man and The Gun," apparently without Goldman's participation). Goldman learned of the story in an April 1999 article in the San Francisco Chronicle. "The Good Guy," an original story idea linking characters in the Littleton, Colorado school shooting and the JonBenet Ramsey murder, which took place in Boulder, CO. "The Mastermind," expanding on