Why would anyone keep a prop from the set of "Jaws?" Steven Spielberg was musing about what it felt like while making his 1975 oceanic classic, and how little he thought any of it would matter when shooting the now-legendary opening scene of a woman night-swimming past an ocean buoy. His primary concern was keeping his job as a 26-year-old director amid unfolding disasters. "How did anybody know to take the buoy and take it home and sit on it for 50 years?" he said. That prop is among the first things visitors will see as they enter a 50th anniversary "Jaws" exhibit opening Sunday and running through July at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. The exhibition featuring more than 200 pieces from the culture-changing blockbuster is the first full show in the four-year history of the museum that is dedicated to a single film. It comes amid a bevy of celebrations of the film's five-decade life, including a theatrical re-release last week. Spielberg spoke to a gathering of media at the museum after touring the exhibit, which takes visitors chronologically through the film's three acts, with some relic or recreation from virtually every scene. "I'm just so proud of the work they've done," the 78-year-old said. "What they've put together here at this exhibition is just awesome. Every room has the minutiae of how this picture got together." "Clearly this is a very historic initiative for us," museum director Amy Homma said before introducing the director and also announced the museum plans a full Spielberg retrospective in 2028. What's inside the "Jaws" exhibit "Jaws" has been essential to the Academy Museum, which opened in 2021 and is operated by the organization that gives out the Oscars. The only surviving full-scale... Read More