Hossein Amini
Screenwriter, film director · Iran · On the map · Writers · Born 1966 · age 60
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).
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Robyn Slovo Produced The Two Faces of January (2014)
Oscar Isaac Hossein directed The Two Faces of January (2014)
Max Minghella Produced The Two Faces of January (2014)
David Dencik Hossein wrote The Snowman and McMafia- Simon Cornwell Produced Our Kind of Traitor (2016)
Martin Scorsese Produced The Snowman (2017)
Viggo Mortensen Hossein directed The Two Faces of January (2014)
John le Carré Produced Our Kind of Traitor (2016)
Jo Nesbø Produced The Snowman (2017)
Nicolas Winding Refn Directed Drive (2011)
Shekhar Kapur Directed The Four Feathers (2002)
Eddie Marsan Hossein wrote Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
John Madden Directed Killshot (2008)
Tomas Alfredson Directed The Snowman (2017)
Marc Platt Produced Drive (2011)- Donna Gigliotti Produced Shanghai (2010)
Iain Softley Directed The Wings of the Dove (1997)
Mike Medavoy Produced Shanghai (2010)
Michael Uslan Produced Clayface (2026)- Stanley R. Jaffe Produced The Four Feathers (2002)
Joe Pingue Directed Drive (2011)
Andrew Eaton Produced Jude (1996)
Gigi Pritzker Produced Drive (2011)- Gloria Borders Produced Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
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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.
