FILM DIRECTOR

Steven Zaillian

1953 - Today

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Steven Ernest Bernard Zaillian (born January 30, 1953) is an Armenian-American screenwriter, film director and producer. He won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award for his screenplay Schindler's List (1993) and has earned Oscar nominations for the films Awakenings, Gangs of New York, Moneyball and The Irishman. He was presented with the Distinguished Screenwriter Award at the 2009 Austin Film Festival and the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement from the Writers Guild of America in 2011. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Steven Zaillian has received more than 1,405,808 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Steven Zaillian is the 912th most popular film director (down from 739th in 2019), the 5,835th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,752nd in 2019) and the 215th most popular American Film Director.

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  • 3.79

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Steven Zaillian ranks 912 out of 2,041. Before him are Wolfgang Staudte, Kad Merad, Lev Atamanov, Michel Brault, Walter Lang, and Masato Harada. After him are Kim Jee-woon, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Karel Kachyňa, Jørgen Leth, Chad Stahelski, and Tay Garnett.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Steven Zaillian ranks 263. Before him are José Bové, Abdelmajid Dolmy, Mitsuo Kato, Vasundhara Raje, Lawrence Gonzi, and James Read. After him are Oscar Alberto Ortiz, Lamberto Leoni, Grete Waitz, Zoran Filipović, Darlanne Fluegel, and Colleen Camp.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Steven Zaillian ranks 5,835 out of 20,380. Before him are William Gaddis (1922), Barbara Harris (1935), Walter Lang (1896), Ruby Dee (1922), Joe Henderson (1937), and Andy Griffith (1926). After him are Debra Messing (1968), Peter H. Gilmore (1958), John Abercrombie (1944), Taylor Hawkins (1972), William Wharton (1925), and Jonathan Pollard (1954).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Steven Zaillian ranks 215. Before him are Mitchell Leisen (1898), Bob Gale (1951), Catherine Hardwicke (1955), Jack Bender (1949), Godfrey Reggio (1940), and Walter Lang (1896). After him are Chad Stahelski (1968), Tay Garnett (1894), Stephen Gyllenhaal (1949), John Lee Hancock (1956), Ralph Nelson (1916), and Paul Morrissey (1938).

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Filmography

Schindler's List
Director
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Dec 15o 19938.567 / 10
Mission: Impossible
Director
When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the prime suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.
May 22o 19967 / 10
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Director
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.
Dec 14o 20117.4 / 10