Hossein Amini
Hossein Amini (born 1966) is an Iranian screenwriter who has been working since the 1990s. He was nominated numerous awards for the 1997 film The Wings of the Dove, including an Academy Award for Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay.
Amini's first screenplay was for the 1994 TV movie The Dying of the Light, which was directed by Peter Kosminsky. The TV movie covered the murder of Sean Devereux, an aid worker who was murdered in Somalia in 1993 for criticizing arms sales.[1] It was nominated "Best Single Drama" at the British Academy Television Awards.[2] Amini also wrote an adapted screenplay of the 1895 novel Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy. Producer Andrew Eaton commissioned the screenplay in 1995,[3] and it was filmed by Michael Winterbottom as Jude, released in 1996.[4] Amini also wrote a screenplay for another TV movie, Deep Secrets, which aired in 1996.[5]
Amini wrote the adapted screenplay for The Wings of the Dove, which was based on the 1902 eponymous novel by Henry James.[6] The film, directed by Iain Softley, was released in 1997 and received critical claim. Amini was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay.[7]
[edit] Screenwriting credits
- The Dying of the Light (1994)
- Deep Secrets (1996)
- Jude (1996)
- The Wings of the Dove (1997)
- The Four Feathers (2002)
- Killshot (2009)
- Shanghai (2010)
- Drive (2011)
- 47 Ronin (2012)
- Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
[edit] References
- ^ "Kosminsky, Peter (1956-)". Screenonline. British Film Institute. http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/574737/. Retrieved September 22, 2011.
- ^ "Television Nominations 1994". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. http://www.bafta.org/awards/television/nominations/?year=1994. Retrieved September 22, 2011.
- ^ Jackson, Andrew (December 6, 1995). "A Wessex tale of Auld Reekie". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/a-wessex-tale-of-auld-reekie-1524299.html.
- ^ Mars–Jones, Adam (October 3, 1996). "Hardier than the rest: Jude". The Independent.
- ^ Dyja, Eddie (1998). BFI Film and Television Handbook 1997. British Film Institute. p. 342. ISBN 978-0-85170-637-5.
- ^ Denerstein, Robert (October 23, 1997). "Director a sucker for James' complexity". Rocky Mountain News.
- ^ "The Official Academy Awards® Database". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/BasicSearchInput.jsp. Retrieved September 22, 2011.
