Hossein Amini is an Iranian-born British screenwriter and film director.
15 Facts About Hossein Amini
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Hossein Amini won a "Best Adapted Screenplay" award from the Austin Film Critics Association for his screenplay adaptation of Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive, based on the novel by James Sallis.
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Hossein Amini was born in Tehran, Imperial State of Iran.
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Hossein Amini attended Bryanston School, a public school in Dorset, and won a scholarship to Wadham College, Oxford, where he read history and modern languages.
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Hossein Amini wrote an adapted screenplay of the 1895 novel Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy.
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Hossein Amini wrote a screenplay for another TV movie, Deep Secrets, which aired in 1996.
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Hossein Amini wrote the adapted screenplay for The Wings of the Dove, which was based on the 1902 novel of the same name by Henry James.
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In 2010, Hossein Amini wrote an original screenplay for a film entitled Shanghai directed by Mikael Hafstrom and starring Chow Yun Fat, Gong Li, Ken Watanabe and John Cusack.
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Hossein Amini wrote the screenplay for the neo-noir film Drive, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn.
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Hossein Amini's screenplay for the film is a loose adaptation of the novel of the same name by James Sallis.
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Hossein Amini was one of the screenwriters, along with Evan Daughtery and John Lee Hancock, who wrote the screenplay for Snow White and the Huntsman, directed by Rupert Sanders and starring Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron.
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Additionally, Hossein Amini is one of the screenwriters, along with Chris Morgan and Walter Hamada, who wrote the screenplay for the film 47 Ronin, directed by Carl Rinsch and starring Keanu Reeves, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tadanobu Asano, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa and Rinko Kikuchi.
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Hossein Amini adapted John le Carre's novel Our Kind of Traitor into a feature film, directed by Susanna White.
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In 2018, Hossein Amini began writing for television, with the crime series McMafia and The Alienist.
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On 27 September 2019, it was announced that Hossein Amini will be writing the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi Star Wars series for Disney+.