Steven Zaillian

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Steven Zaillian
Born	30 January 1953 Fresno, California

Steven Zaillian (born 30 January 1953) is an American screenwriter, film director, editor, producer, and founder of Film Rites. He won an Academy Award for his screenplay for Schindler's List and he has been nominated two times for Awakenings and Gangs of New York.

The Times called him "the most artful and subtle screenwriter Hollywood has had since Robert Towne."

Zaillian was born in Fresno, California, the son of Jim Zaillian, a radio news reporter. He graduated from San Francisco State University and lives in Los Angeles, California. ^[1]

Contents 1 Career 1.1 Writer filmography 1.2 Director filmography 2 References 3 External links

[edit] Career

[edit] Writer filmography

Film	Year	Director	Oscar wins	Oscar nominations	Notes
The Falcon and the Snowman	1985	John Schlesinger
Awakenings	1990	Penny Marshall		3	nominated for Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
Schindler's List	1993	Steven Spielberg	7	9	won Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
Searching for Bobby Fischer	1993	Zaillian		1	directorial debut, also wrote
Jack the Bear	1993	Marshall Herskovitz			screenplay
Clear and Present Danger	1994	Phillip Noyce			screenplay
Mission: Impossible	1996	Brian De Palma			story
A Civil Action	1998	Zaillian		2	directed and wrote
Hannibal	2001	Ridley Scott			screenplay with David Mamet
Gangs of New York	2002	Martin Scorsese		10	nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay with Jay Cocks and Kenneth Lonergan
The Interpreter	2005	Sydney Pollack			screenplay with Scott Frank
All the King's Men	2006	Zaillian			directed and wrote
American Gangster	2007	Ridley Scott		2	wrote and produced
Moneyball	2010	Steven Soderbergh	-	-	screenplay
A Thousand Splendid Suns	TBA	TBA	-	-	screenplay

[edit] Director filmography

• Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
• A Civil Action (1998)
• All the King's Men (2006)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Steven Zaillian at the Internet Movie Database
• Writings at One for the Table

v • d • e The Films of Steven Zaillian 1990s Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) • A Civil Action (1998) 2000s All the King's Men (2006)

Persondata
NAME	Zaillian, Steven
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Film director
DATE OF BIRTH	30 January 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fresno, California
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH