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
Oscar Micheaux biography "Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only" by Patrick McGilligan and was inspired to produce "The Czar of Black Hollywood" because Micheaux's life mirrored his own. Mack told "The Huffington Post" he was shocked that, in spite of Micheaux's historical significance, there was "virtually nothing out there about [his] life". The film's executive producer, Frances Presley Rice, told the "Sun Sentinel" that Micheaux was the first "indie movie producer." In 2018, Mack was interviewed by the news site "Mic" for its "Black Monuments Project", which named Oscar Micheaux as one of its 50 African-Americans deserving of a statue. He said