Steven Zaillian

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1953-01-30 (72 years old)

Place of Birth

Fresno, California, USA

Steven Zaillian

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 arti...

Production

1993

Schindler's List

as Screenplay

2014

Life Itself

as Executive Producer

2006

2002

Gangs of New York

as Screenplay

1990

Awakenings

as Screenplay

2007

American Gangster

as Screenplay

1994

1998

A Civil Action

as Screenplay

2001

Hannibal

as Screenplay

1998

A Civil Action

as Director

1998

A Civil Action

as Producer

2011

Moneyball

as Screenplay

2012

The Cold Light of Day

as Executive Producer

1980

2014

2006

1993

Jack the Bear

as Screenplay

2006

2011

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

as Executive Producer

2007

American Gangster

as Executive Producer

1977

2009

The Cove

as Thanks

1978

Starhops

as Editor

2018

Red Sparrow

as Producer

2019

The Irishman

as Screenplay

2010

Welcome to the Rileys

as Executive Producer

2018

The Current War

as Executive Producer

2018

My Dinner with Hervé

as Executive Producer

2021

2005

The Interpreter

as Screenplay

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