Hossein Amini

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1966-01-18 (58 years old)

Place of Birth Iran

Hossein Amini

Biography

Hossein Amini (Persian: حسین امینی; born 18 January 1966) is an Iranian-born 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 Refn's 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.

Known For

Writer

Break

as Writer

2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi

as Teleplay

2022
2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi

as Writer

2018
The Alienist

as Teleplay

2018
McMafia

as Writer

2017
The Snowman

as Screenplay

2016
2014
2013
47 Ronin

as Screenplay

2012
2011
Drive

as Screenplay

2010
Shanghai

as Writer

2008
Killshot

as Screenplay

2002
The Four Feathers

as Screenplay

1997
The Wings of the Dove

as Screenplay

1996
Jude

as Writer

1996
Deep Secrets

as Screenplay

Producer

2023
The Pigeon Tunnel

as Executive Producer

2018
The Alienist

as Executive Producer

Director

2014

Crew

2011
Drive

as Thanks

Creator

2018
McMafia

as Creator