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Hossein Amini
Iran
Hossein Amini (Persian: حسین امینی; born 18 January 1966) is an Iranian-born British screenwriter and film director who has worked as a screenwriter since the early 1990s. He was…
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Hossein Amini (Persian: حسین امینی; born 18 January 1966) is an Iranian-born British screenwriter and film director who has worked as a screenwriter since the early 1990s. He was nominated for numerous awards for the 1997 film The Wings of the Dove, including an Academy Award for Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay. He also won a "Best Adapted Screenplay" award from the Austin Film Critics Association for his screenplay adaptation of Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive (2011), based on the novel by James Sallis. For his directorial debut, he wrote and directed The Two Faces of January, an adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hossein Amini, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2026
Break
Movie Writer
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2026
Clayface
Movie Screenplay
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2023
The Pigeon Tunnel
Movie Executive Producer
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2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi
TV show Teleplay
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2018
The Alienist
TV show Executive Producer
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2018
McMafia
TV show Writer
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2017
The Snowman
Movie Screenplay
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2016
Our Kind of Traitor
Movie Writer
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2015
The Third Man: A Filmmaker's Influence
Movie Self
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2014
The Two Faces of January
Movie Director
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2013
47 Ronin
Movie Screenplay
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2012
Snow White and the Huntsman
Movie Screenplay
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2011
Drive
Movie Screenplay
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2010
Shanghai
Movie Writer
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2008
Killshot
Movie Screenplay
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2002
The Four Feathers
Movie Screenplay
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1997
The Wings of the Dove
Movie Screenplay
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1996
Deep Secrets
Movie Screenplay
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1996
Jude
Movie Writer
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1994
The Dying of the Light
Movie Writer
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Ibelin
Movie Screenplay
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Break
Movie Writer
