Steven Spielberg's blockbuster Jaws was released into theaters June 20, 1975. It starred Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfus. It was based on the novel by Peter Benchley about a great white shark terrorizing the town of Amity, a beach community in New York.
It won three Academy Awards: Best Sound, Best Film Editing and Best Original Score for John Williams. It was also nominated for Best Picture. In 2001, the Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. The American Film Institute has listed it as #48 on the list of the greatest American movies of all time. John Williams' score has been listed as #6 on 100 Years of Film Scores. It is ranked as the second-most thrilling movie behind Psycho.
