Hollywood and mass media tend to give him more credit than he deserves, like he would be some kind of saint or uber-genius. I guess, that's because he was jewish, and in america jews have heavy influence in those medias, and they was putting "one of their own" on such cult pedestal.
Don't get me wrong. He was really gifted and talented, but there was a lot of people who had more day-to-day impact on life of people. Like, Louis Pasteur (in medicine, and food industry), Robert Koch (medicine), Paul Ehrlich (medicine, pharmacology), Niels Bohr (physics), Rene Descartes (mathematics). But in mass media, when are saying "genius", first associations come with A. Einstein.