# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steven-zaillian
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:32:18.228Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/steven-zaillian"
name: "Steven Zaillian"
slug: "steven-zaillian"
description: "Steven Ernest Bernard Zaillian is an American screenwriter, film director and producer. He won an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a WGA Award, and a Golden Globe Award for his screenplay for the film 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."
tagline: "American film director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/a8OqAfO2m7TAuewIS0dOv4ip1Vr.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1953-01-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           22.035888
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0001873"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump