6 Regrets Filmmakers Had Over Their Oscar Winning Movies

1. Steven Spielberg And E.T's Digital Alterations

Steven Spielberg is one of the most treasured filmmakers working today, and his Amblin Entertainment classic E.T. is often considered to be one of his finest works.

As with other seminal eighties classics, E.T. did, however, run into some controversy years after its original release. Like Star Wars, which Spielberg cites as a primary reason for his digital amendments to E.T., the director's family classic was re-released with digital alterations years later. In came a CGI puppet in certain sequences, out went the guns on FBI agents. It was really odd, and it appears as though the director agrees, having revealed his only regret regarding the film related to those remasters.

Speaking to Screen Rant, Spielberg remarked that, although "social media wasn’t as profound as it is today," a backlash - "a loud negative voice about, ‘How could you ruin our favourite childhood film by taking the guns away and putting walkie-talkies in their hands among other things’" - erupted.

Continuing, Spielberg said that he "learned a big lesson and that’s the last time I decided to ever mess with the past. What’s done is done, and um, I’ll never go back and do another movie I’ve made and I have control over to enhance or change."

At least we'll never have to fear the retroactive insertion of CGI gophers into Raiders anytime soon.