Clint Eastwood and Steven Spielberg have each won two Best Director Oscars. Spielberg was born in 1946 and was a filmmaking prodigy by the age of 13. They called them "pictures" when the teenaged Spielberg honed his craft as a camera-wielding autodidact. Universal VP Sid Scheinberg believed in Spielberg and stuck with him through the difficult production of "Jaws." Where Spielberg was a maestro of sentimental escapism over the first decade of his career, Eastwood generally knocked out rowdy crowd-pleasers.