# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hossein-amini
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:27:38.051Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hossein-amini"
name: "Hossein Amini"
slug: "hossein-amini"
description: "Hossein Amini is an Iranian-born British screenwriter and film director who has worked as a screenwriter since the early 1990s. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Wings of the Dove (1997). 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 both wrote and directed The Two Faces of January, an adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel."
tagline: "Screenwriter, film director"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1966-01-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.64
  momentum:             6.950786402841198
  historical:           12.681104
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0024925/"
    handle:    "nm0024925"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9C%8D%E8%BE%9B%C2%B7%E9%98%BF%E7%B1%B3%E5%B0%BC"
    title: "霍辛·阿米尼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A3%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A"
    title: "حسين أميني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "حسين امينى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hossein_Amini"
    title: "Hossein Amini"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hossein_Amini"
    title: "Hossein Amini"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AD%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C_(%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%85%E2%80%8C%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%87%E2%80%8C%D9%86%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B3)"
    title: "حسین امینی (فیلم‌نامه‌نویس)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hossein_Amini"
    title: "Hossein Amini"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hossein_Amini"
    title: "Hossein Amini"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hossein_Amini"
    title: "Hossein Amini"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9B%E3%82%BB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%9F%E3%83%8B"
    title: "ホセイン・アミニ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hossein_Amini"
    title: "Hossein Amini"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A5%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD"
    title: "Амини, Хуссейн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%83%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD_%D0%90%D0%BC%D1%96%D0%BD%D1%96"
    title: "Гусейн Аміні"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AD%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C"
    title: "حسین امینی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1371315"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump