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Hossein Amini (Persian: حسین امینی; born 18 January 1966) is an Iranian-born British screenwriter and film director who has worked as a screenwriter since the early 1990s. He was nominated for numerous awards for the 1997 film The Wings of the Dove , including an Academy Award for Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay .
Hossein Amini is a screenwriter and director who was born in Iran and moved to England at 11. He has been nominated for an Oscar for The Wings of the Dove and created the TV series McMafia and The Alienist.
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Hossein Amini was born in Iran, and when he was 11 years old, he and his family moved to England. Amini's first screenplay was for the 1994 TV movie The Dying of the Light, which was directed by Peter Kosminsky. The TV movie covered the murder of Sean Devereux, an aid worker who was murdered in Somalia in 1993 for criticizing arms sales.
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Hossein Amini (Persian: حسین امینی; born 18 January 1966) is an Iranian-born British screenwriter and film director. Amini has worked as a screenwriter since the early 1990s. He was nominated for numerous awards for the 1997 film The Wings of the Dove, including an Academy Award for Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay. He also won a "Best Adapted Screenplay" award from the Austin Film ...
- Michelangelo Antonioni. L’avventura. My favorite among Antonioni’s trilogy of alienation (La notte and L’eclisse are the other two). For me, these films capture the slow and painful death of love with astonishing intuition and almost no dialogue.
- Jean-Luc Godard. Contempt. This was a film I watched again and again before making The Two Faces of January. Not only for the Mediterranean backdrop and colors but for the way it showed a woman falling out love with her husband over a single incident.
- Louis Malle. The Fire Within. The best film about alcoholism I’ve ever seen. Not so much about drinking as the alcoholic’s search for meaning in a world that is slowly losing definition.
- Federico Fellini. La dolce vita. For all its other virtues, it is the party scenes that have stuck with me. I feel like I’ve been to many parties like these.
Hossein Amini Hossein Amini at arrivals for Premiere of THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY at the Los Angeles Film Festival (LAFF), Regal Cinemas LA Live, Los Angeles, CA June 17, 2014. Photo By: Michael ...
May 9, 2023 · Hossein Amini stopped by the Script Apart podcast recently to break down one of his early drafts of the movie 'Drive'. by Al Horner - updated on May 9, 2023. Hossein Amini fell in love with storytelling because, when his world turned upside down as a kid, creating his own worlds on the page gave him a sense of control.
