(12 Sep 2025)
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Los Angeles – 11 September 2025
1. Wide Jaws exhibition signage
2. UPSOUND Steven Spielberg takes stage, audience stands to applaud
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Steven Spielberg, director:
"I just really was not ready to uh endure the um the amount of obstacles that were thrown in our path, starting with Mother Nature. You know, I really thought my hubris was we could take a Hollywood crew, go out 12 miles out into the Atlantic Ocean and shoot an entire movie with a mechanical shark. I thought that was going to go swimmingly. And I had, I had really no idea that the second you tempt Mother Nature and tempt fate, everything starts to conspire against you and us. And um it was what you’ve read about and what the exhibition kind of suggests — this was a real exercise in hubris and futility. But because all of us never wanted to quit, and that was the whole reason we finished the movie."
4. Close on buoy in Jaws exhibit
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Steven Spielberg, director:
"Why would anybody. When we shot the opening scene of Chrissy Watkins being taken by the shark and we had a buoy floating in the water, how did anybody know to take the buoy and take it home and sit on it for 50 years and then loan it to the academy? How did they know? I didn’t know. I thought my career was virtually over halfway through production on Jaws."
6. Various of "Jaws" exhibit at Academy Museum
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Steven Spielberg, director:
"A lot of people vomited because it was—the people were going up and down. I’ve never seen so much vomit in my life. I haven’t – in the six months out to sea, I have never seen so many people getting sick. For some reason I never got seasick, and I think that is only because I had the weight of this production on my shoulders. I didn’t have time to get sick."
8. Wide exhibit with moving shark
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Steven Spielberg, director:
"I’m very proud of the movie. The film, it certainly cost me a pound of flesh but gave me a ton of career."
10. UPSOUND orchestra plays "Jaws" theme
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Steven Spielberg, director:
"I’m just so proud of the work they’ve done. What they’ve put together here—this exhibition—is just awesome. Every room, every room, you know, has the minutiae of how this picture got together and proves that this motion picture industry is really, truly a collaborative art form, no place for auteurs."
12. Various "Jaws" exhibit signage
13. Wide of animatronic shark in museum
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Amy Homma, Academy Museum director:
"The largest object in our collection is Bruce the shark, and that is over 25 ft long. And that’s been hanging in our museum since we first opened in 2021. So it only made sense for us to think about devoting more space, more energy, more time into telling the stories of ‘Jaws,’ and so then that led to us developing Jaws: The Exhibition."
15. Wide Jaws concept art pan right to t-shirt
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Jenny He, curator:
"First I would highlight the concept illustration of the shark by production designer Joe Alves. This is never before—the original has never before been on public view. And this image is so famous because it made its way onto crew shirts. It made its way as the official emblem of the production, and we have the opportunity to show the original at the exhibition. I also want to highlight Quint’s fighting chair that was atop the Orca. Of course Robert Shaw sat in it, and it’s the original production object."
17. Wide chair from Jaws production
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Amy Homma, Academy Museum director:
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