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Steven Zaillian

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Steven Zaillian

Born Jan 30, 1953 · 73 years35 titles 33 movies · 2 TV
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Biography

Steven Zaillian (born January 30, 1953) is an Armenian-American screenwriter, film director, film editor, producer, and founder of Film Rites, a film production company. 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 attended Sonoma State University, graduated from San Francisco State University and lives in Los Angeles. Description above from the Wikipedia article Steven Zaillian, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Also known as

Steven Ernest Bernard Zaillian

Born

Jan 30, 1953

Fresno, California, USA

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

3

Acting credits

5

Directing

19

Writing

19

Other crew

Most critically rated

Highest TMDB score (min 100 votes)

Most commercially successful

Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)

Career timeline

By release / first air year · movie & TV merged

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1977 2 title(s)

1978 1 title(s)

1980 1 title(s)

1985 1 title(s)

1990 1 title(s)

1993 3 title(s)

1994 1 title(s)

1996 1 title(s)

1998 1 title(s)

2001 1 title(s)

2002 1 title(s)

2005 1 title(s)

2006 1 title(s)

2007 1 title(s)

2008 1 title(s)

2009 1 title(s)

2010 1 title(s)

2011 2 title(s)

2012 3 title(s)

2014 2 title(s)

2016 1 title(s)

2018 4 title(s)

2019 1 title(s)

2021 1 title(s)

2024 1 title(s)