Hossein Amini

Director, Writer

Born: Iran

BIOGRAPHY

Hossein Amini (حسین امینی; born January 18, 1966) is an Iranian-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 Critics Association for his screenplay adaptation of Nicolas Winding Refns Drive (2011), based on the novel by James Sallis. For his directorial debut, he both wrote and directed The Two Faces of January, an adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel.

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