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Steven Zaillian

1953 - Today

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Steven Ernest Bernard Zaillian (born January 30, 1953) is an Armenian-American screenwriter, film director and producer. He won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award for his screenplay Schindler's List (1993) and has earned Oscar nominations for the films Awakenings, Gangs of New York, Moneyball and The Irishman. He was presented with the Distinguished Screenwriter Award at the 2009 Austin Film Festival and the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement from the Writers Guild of America in 2011. Zaillian is the founder of Film Rites, a film production company. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Steven Zaillian is the 668th most popular film director (up from 912th in 2019), the 4,932nd most popular biography from United States (up from 5,834th in 2019) and the 176th most popular American Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Steven Zaillian ranks 668 out of 2,041. Before him are Anthony Asquith, Ulrich Seidl, John Madden, Stephen Hopkins, Sally Potter, and Claude Miller. After him are James Whale, Henri Colpi, Alejandro Amenábar, Erik Balling, Jim Sheridan, and Georges Franju.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Steven Zaillian ranks 204. Before him are Billy Sheehan, René Vandereycken, Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah, Jane Badler, Zoran Janković, and Carole André. After him are Meng Hongwei, Dieter Hoeneß, Howard Schultz, Graeme Souness, Marlene Dumas, and Artūras Paulauskas.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Steven Zaillian ranks 4,932 out of 20,380. Before him are Norma Talmadge (1894), Odetta (1930), Joe Lando (1961), Lisa Niemi (1956), Susan Howard (1944), and Giovanni Ribisi (1974). After him are Charlie Haden (1937), Majel Barrett (1932), Al Oerter (1936), Lana Wood (1946), Willie Dixon (1915), and T-Bone Walker (1910).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Steven Zaillian ranks 176. Before him are Andrew Blake (1947), Kenneth Anger (1927), Paul Scheuring (1968), Richard Linklater (1960), Robert Z. Leonard (1889), and Nancy Meyers (1949). After him are Cary Joji Fukunaga (1977), David Silverman (1957), Fred Niblo (1874), Larry Clark (1943), Bob Rafelson (1933), and Rob Marshall (1960).

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