Jaws won three Oscars: Best Film Editing, Best Original Dramatic Score, and Best Sound. It was also nominated for Best Picture, losing to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Given its success, many ...

Jaws was too much of a popular phenomenon to ever expect to ... In time, Spielberg’s Great White blockbuster would spawn a wave of knockoffs and wannabes—Joe Dante’s Piranha, James Cameron’s Piranha ...

Much more than a mere creature feature, “Jaws” created a playbook that filmmakers have followed closely for 50 years. ... Sayles wrote both “Piranha” (1978) and “Alligator” ...

Jaws” forever changed the cinematic landscape, and 50 years later, the film has just as much bite. The tagline “You’ll never go in the water again” stretched into real life. The movie about a ...

Considering that 1978’s “Piranha” — directed by a young Joe Dante and written by a young John Sayles — was one of the first successful “Jaws” rip-offs, I believe this is splitting hairs.

Now more than 50 years ago, on June 20, 1975, Steven Spielberg’s "Jaws" changed the world of cinema forever. Essentially ...