Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Tristar Pictures, Universal Pictures This article was originally published in October 2015. On June 20, 2025, Jaws celebrates its 50th anniversary — please don’t tell the killer shark that it fell short of the No. 1 spot on this list . Because of his enduring mainstream popularity (not to mention the amount of blockbuster filmmakers whose careers he’s inspired), Steven Spielberg doesn’t always receive his due, dismissed