'The film certainly cost me a pound of flesh': Spielberg returns to 'Jaws' via new Academy Museum exhibit

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On Sunday, Sept. 14, the Academy Museum opens its largest single-film exhibition yet, celebrating the 50th anniversary of “Jaws.”

Highlights include Spielberg’s personal notes and props, iconic items like the “Amity Island” sign and interactive stations that put visitors in the filmmaker’s shoes.

The show underscores both the movie’s lasting cultural bite and the museum’s push to draw crowds by honoring a blockbuster that redefined Hollywood.

When he made his 1975 blockbuster “Jaws,” Steven Spielberg was just 26 — a wunderkind director taking on a killer-shark thriller that nearly sank his budding career before launching him into Hollywood history . On Wednesday, stepping onto