Steven Zaillian

Steven Zaillian born January 30 1953 is an ArmenianAmerican screenwriter film director film editor producer and founder of Film Rites a film production company He won an Academy Award for his screenplay for Schindlers 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 article Steven Zaillian licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia