Claim: Steven Spielberg is a director.

Munich is a 2005 American-Canadian historical drama political thriller film based on Operation Wrath of God , the Israeli government 's secret retaliation against the Palestine Liberation Organization after the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics . The film was produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth .   Based on the book Vengeance about Yuval Aviv , who states he was a Mossad agent , Munich follows a squad of assassins as they track down and kill alleged members of the group Black September , which had kidnapped and murdered eleven Israeli athletes .   Shot in Malta , Budapest , Paris and New York City , Munich was a critical success but is also one of Spielberg 's lowest-grossing films . It garnered positive reviews and five Academy Awards nominations : Best Picture , Best Director -LRB- Spielberg -RRB- , Best Adapted Screenplay -LRB- Kushner and Roth -RRB- , Best Film Editing -LRB- Michael Kahn -RRB- and Best Original Score -LRB- John Williams -RRB- . Its worldwide box office gross was $ 130,358,911 .