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Steven Zaillian

Name in Native Language: "Steven Ernest Bernard Zaillian" (English/EN)
Screenwriter / Film Producer / Film Director / Executive Producer | * 01/30/1953 (71) | Fresno, California
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Steven Ernest Bernard Zaillian (born January 30, 1953) is an American screenwriter, film director and producer. He won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award for his screenplay Schindler's List (1993) and has earned Oscar nominations for the films Awakenings, Gangs of New York, Moneyball and The Irishman. He was presented with the Distinguished Screenwriter Award at the 2009 Austin Film Festival and the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement from the Writers Guild of America in 2011. Zaillian is the founder of Film Rites, a film production company. He has also created, written and directed the limited series The Night Of (2016) and Ripley (2024). ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Thriller | Crime

Known for these Movies & Shows

Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chi ...

The Irishman

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2019 | 3.8/5 | 3h 29min
Crime, Drama, History
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A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer. ...

Searching for Bobby Fischer

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1993 | 3.6/5 | 1h 50min
Drama
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This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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2011 | 3.7/5 | 2h 38min
Thriller, Crime, Mystery
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The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II. ...

Schindler's List

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1993 | 4.3/5 | 3h 15min
Drama, History, War
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Awards & Nominations for Steven Zaillian

Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement Writers Guild of America Awards Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Golden Globe Awards British Academy Film Awards Austin Film Festival 3x USC Scripter Awards Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay 3x Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
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Movies with Steven Zaillian as Crew(38)

Writing/Screenplay2023 Dark Web
Production/Producer2021 Those Who Wish Me Dead
Writing/Screenplay2019 The Irishman
Production/Executive Producer2018 My Dinner with Hervé
Production/Executive Producer2018 The Current War
Production/Producer2018 Red Sparrow
Production/Executive Producer2014 Life Itself
Writing/Screenplay2014 Exodus: Gods and Kings
Production/Executive Producer2012 The Cold Light of Day
Production/Executive Producer2011 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Writing/Writer2011 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Writing/Screenplay2011 Moneyball
Production/Executive Producer2010 Welcome to the Rileys
Crew/Thanks2009 The Cove
Crew/Thanks2008 Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Production/Executive Producer2007 American Gangster
Writing/Screenplay2007 American Gangster
Directing/Director2006 All the King's Men
Production/Producer2006 All the King's Men
Writing/Writer2006 All the King's Men
Writing/Screenplay2005 The Interpreter
Writing/Screenplay2002 Gangs of New York
Writing/Screenplay2001 Hannibal
Directing/Director1998 A Civil Action
Production/Producer1998 A Civil Action
Writing/Screenplay1998 A Civil Action
Writing/Story1996 Mission: Impossible
Writing/Screenplay1994 Clear and Present Danger
Writing/Screenplay1993 Jack the Bear
Directing/Director1993 Searching for Bobby Fischer
Writing/Screenplay1993 Searching for Bobby Fischer
Writing/Screenplay1993 Schindler's List
Writing/Screenplay1990 Awakenings
Writing/Screenplay1985 The Falcon and the Snowman
Editing/Editor1980 Below the Belt
Editing/Editor1978 Starhops
Editing/Editor1977 Breaker! Breaker!
Editing/Editor1977 Kingdom of the Spiders

TV Shows/Series with Steven Zaillian as Crew(7)

Writing/Writer2024 RIPLEY
Production/Executive Producer2024 RIPLEY
Directing/Director2024 RIPLEY
Production/Executive Producer2016 The Night Of
Writing/Teleplay2016 The Night Of
Directing/Director2016 The Night Of
Creator/Creator2016 The Night Of

Born: Friday, 01/30 1953 (January) in Fresno, California (current age: 71 years + 84 days)
Zodiac sign: Aquarius (Chinese zodiac sign: Snake)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: San Francisco State University, Crescenta Valley High School, Cinema Department at San Francisco State University, Sonoma State University
Member of: Writers Guild of America, West
Other names for Steven Zaillian (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Steven Ernest Bernard Zaillian"
Steven Zaillian frequently works together with these people:
Garrett Basch (9x, Crew)
Ridley Scott (7x, Crew)
Martin Scorsese (6x, Actor)
Sacha Gervasi (6x, Crew)
Sydney Pollack (5x, Crew)
James Horner (5x, Crew)
Avy Kaufman (5x, Crew)
Don Hulette (4x, Crew)
Ellen Lewis (4x, Crew)
G. A. Aguilar (4x, Crew)
Chris O'Hara (4x, Crew)
Richard Price (3x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:2858, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 04/18/2024