Hossein Amini

Hossein Amini Persian حسین امینی born 18 January 1966 is an Iranianborn 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