FILM DIRECTOR

Edward Zwick

1952 - Today

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Edward M. Zwick (born October 8, 1952) is an American filmmaker. He has worked primarily in the comedy drama and epic historical film genres and has received nominations for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. He made his film debut with the comedy About Last Night (1986), followed by Glory (1989), Legends of the Fall (1994), Courage Under Fire (1996), The Siege (1998), The Last Samurai (2003), Blood Diamond (2006), and Defiance (2008). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Zwick has received more than 1,776,810 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Edward Zwick is the 480th most popular film director (down from 336th in 2019), the 3,042nd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,190th in 2019) and the 124th most popular American Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Edward Zwick ranks 480 out of 2,041. Before him are Richard Lester, Moshé Mizrahi, Larisa Shepitko, Derek Jarman, André Hunebelle, and John Badham. After him are George P. Cosmatos, Juraj Jakubisko, Fernando Meirelles, Elio Petri, Renny Harlin, and Jörn Donner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Edward Zwick ranks 155. Before him are Nikolai Andrianov, Rafael Caro Quintero, Anote Tong, Jean-Dominique Bauby, Per Petterson, and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan. After him are Sergei Stepashin, Klaus Teuber, Samir Geagea, Ahmed Nazif, Geraldo Alckmin, and Mitch Pileggi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edward Zwick ranks 3,042 out of 20,380. Before him are Thomas P. Stafford (1930), Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898), Melvil Dewey (1851), Curtis Mayfield (1942), Dan Castellaneta (1957), and Louis Gossett Jr. (1936). After him are Russell Means (1939), Paul Romer (1955), George Ord (1781), Robert Conrad (1935), Mary Mapes Dodge (1831), and Robert Sean Leonard (1969).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Edward Zwick ranks 124. Before him are Delbert Mann (1920), John Lasseter (1957), Tom Holland (1943), John Hughes (1950), Robert Rossen (1908), and Richard Lester (1932). After him are Jim Abrahams (1944), John Waters (1946), Curtis Hanson (1945), Richard Thorpe (1896), Abel Ferrara (1951), and John Milius (1944).

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Filmography

Blood Diamond
Director
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.
Dec 8o 20067.544 / 10
The Last Samurai
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Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.
Dec 5o 20037.591 / 10
Love & Other Drugs
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Maggie is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone – or anything – tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie, whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serves him well with the ladies and the cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales. Maggie and Jamie's evolving relationship takes them both by surprise, as they find themselves under the influence of the ultimate drug: love.
Nov 4o 20107.049 / 10