Jurassic Park is a 1993 American film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on Michael Crichton's novel, following a group of visitors to an island theme park who find themselves fighting to survive after a security failure allows genetically recreated dinosaurs to roam free. The film combined practical animatronic effects with newly developed computer-generated imagery to render its dinosaurs, a technical approach widely credited with changing how visual effects were made in mainstream cinema afterward. Jurassic Park became the highest-grossing film in the world at the time of its release and eventually the oldest film to pass one billion dollars in worldwide box office receipts.
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Which Academy Awards did Jurassic Park win?
It won three Oscars in 1994: Visual Effects, Sound and Sound Effects Editing.
At the 66th Academy Awards, held on March 21, 1994 and honoring films released in 1993, Jurassic Park won three awards. It won Visual Effects, credited to Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett and Michael Lantieri. It won Sound, credited to Gary Summers, Gary Rydstrom, Shawn Murphy and Ron Judkins, and Sound Effects Editing, credited to Gary Rydstrom and Richard Hymns.
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Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg
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Jurassic Park is a 1993 American film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on Michael Crichton's novel, following a group of visitors to an island theme park who find themselves fighting to survive after a security failure allows genetically recreated dinosaurs to roam free.
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Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Michael Crichton and David Koepp, based on Crichton's 1990 novel.
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Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Michael Crichton and David Koepp, based on Crichton's 1990 novel.
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