The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/ShabtaiBenOron on 2024-12-19 13:39:33.

Original Title: TIL that even though he won the Academy Awards for best picture and director for “Gandhi” in 1982, Richard Attenborough was disappointed and openly claimed that Steven Spielberg’s “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” should have won. Spielberg cast him as John Hammond in “Jurassic Park” to thank him.