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Saul Zaentz ( / ˈzænts /; February 28, 1921 – January 3, 2014) was an American film producer and record company executive. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture three times and, in 1996, was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
Jan 5, 2014 · Saul Zaentz, an acclaimed independent film producer who adapted literary works for the screen and won best-picture Academy Awards for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” “Amadeus” and “The...
Jan 5, 2014 · Saul Zaentz with the Oscar he won for The English Patient in 1997. Photograph: Blake Sell/Reuters. The English Patient. This article is more than 10 years old. Obituary. Saul Zaentz...
Jan 6, 2014 · Film producer Saul Zaentz, who won best picture Oscars for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus and The English Patient, has died aged 92. A Hollywood heavyweight, Zaentz only entered the...
Saul Zaentz was born in 1921 in Passaic, New Jersey of Russian-Polish immigrants. At the outbreak of World War II he enlisted in the US Army, serving on troop transports in the Atlantic, Pacific and Mediterranean, rising to the rank of sergeant major. He moved to San Francisco in 1948 and found a job at music distributor Melody Sales.
Jan 4, 2014 · SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Saul Zaentz, a music producer whose second career as a filmmaker brought him best-picture Academy Awards for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” ’'Amadeus” and “The English Patient,” has died. He was 92.
Nov 22, 2023 · History. Saul Zaentz ( 12 February, 1921 - 3 January, 2014) was an American film producer. He was the founder of the Saul Zaentz Company. Middle-earth Enterprises, that owns the worldwide film, stage, and merchandise rights to J.R.R. Tolkien 's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, until 2022, was a division of the Saul Zaentz Company and it ...
