‘Maestro’ will score Steven Spielberg a lucky 13th Oscar nomination for Best Picture

“Maestro” brought together three filmmakers — the sophomore director Bradley Cooper and the screen masters Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese — as producers. “Maestro” chronicles the marriage of  famed composer Leonard Bernstein (Cooper) and his muse Felicia Montealegre (Carey Mulligan). You can catch this acclaimed films in cinemas before it starts streaming on Netflix on Dec. 20. Either way, you’re in for a treat.

While Scorsese has his own film, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” in contention for this year’s Oscars, Spielberg is also a producer on the musical remake of “The Color Purple.” (This fact was omitted in the original version of this article due to an editing error.) He is one of the most successful filmmakers of all time and has an Oscars track record to prove it. He’s won two of his nine bids for Best Director: in 1994 for “Schindler’s List” and 1999 for “Saving Private Ryan.” While he also won Best Picture for the former, “Saving Private Ryan” lost to “Shakespeare in Love” in a huge upset.

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Spielberg has contended for Best Picture a record 12 times. Here’s the breakdown:

• “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” in 1983, shared with Kathleen Kennedy — lost to “Gandhi.”

• “The Color Purple” in 1986, shared with Kennedy, Frank Marshall, and Quincy Jones — lost to “Out of Africa.”

• “Schindler’s List” in 1994, shared with Gerald R. Molen and Branko Lustig — WON.

• “Saving Private Ryan” in 1999, shared with  Ian Bryce, Mark Gordon, and Gary Levinsohn — lost to “Shakespeare in Love.”

• “Munich” in 2006, shared with Kennedy and Barry Mendel — lost to “Crash.”

• “Letters from Iwo Jima” in 2007, shared with Clint Eastwood and Robert Lorenz — lost to “The Departed.”

• “War Horse” in 2012, shared with Kennedy — lost to “The Artist.”

• “Lincoln” in 2013, shared with Kennedy — lost to “Argo.”

• “Bridge of Spies” in 2016, shared with Marc Platt and Kristie Macosko Krieger — lost to “Spotlight.”

• “The Post” in 2018, shared with Amy Pascal and Macosko Krieger — lost to “The Shape of Water.”

• “West Side Story” in 2022, shared with Macosko Krieger — lost to “CODA.”

• “The Fabelmans” in 2023, shared with Macosko Krieger and Tony Kushner — lost to “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”

As you can see, “Schindler’s List” marks his only Best Picture win. Eastwood, Arthur Freed, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Branko Lustig, Albert S. Ruddy, and Robert Wise have all won twice. The record for most Best Picture wins is three by  Sam Spiegel and Saul Zaentz. [Gardner has seven nominations, Kennedy has eight, and Scott Rudin, who has the second-highest number of Best Picture bids, has nine.]

“Maestro” has some big names behind it, with Cooper producing the film alongside Spielberg and Scorsese, who has three Best Picture nominations to his name. Fred Berner, Amy Durning, and Macosko Krieger all also produce the movie. It remains to be seen who exactly would be on the ballot.

We’re predicting “Maestro” will compete against “Oppenheimer,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Barbie,” “Past Lives,” “The Color Purple,” “Poor Things,” “The Holdovers,” “The Zone of Interest,” and “Anatomy of a Fall.”

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