Hollywood legend Steven Spielberg won the Best Director – Motion Picture at the Golden Globes for his semi-autobiographical film `The Fabelmans`. This is his third win and 20th nomination at the Golden Globes.
Accepting the award for his autobiographical drama, Spielberg said, “I`ve been hiding from this story since I was 17 years old. I put a lot of things in my way of this story,” reports `Variety`.
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He continued, “I told this story in parts and parcels all through my career. `E.T.` Has a lot to do with this story. `Close Encounters` has a lot to do with this story. But I never had the courage to hit this story head-on until (`Fabelmans` co-writer) Tony Kushner (and I) were working on `Munich` a long time ago, (and he) started telling me about all these stories about (his) life. And we started a conversation.”
He further mentioned, quoted by `Variety`, “The conversation lasted all through `Munich,` all through `Lincoln` and `West Side Story`. And my wife Kate was always saying, `You have to tell this`. And during COVID, I didn`t know if any of us were going to have the chance to tell any of our stories again in March, April, May of 2020”.
Spielberg added, “Everything I`ve done up to this point has made me ready to finally be honest about the fact that it`s not easy to be a kid. The fact that everybody sees me as a success story… But nobody really knows who we are until we`re courageous enough to tell everyone who we are. And I spent a lot of time trying to figure out when I could tell that story and I figured it out when I turned 74 years old. I said, `You better do it now`. And I`m really, really happy I did.”
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