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Steven Zaillian

Born 1953 · American film director

Steven Ernest Bernard Zaillian is an American screenwriter, film director and producer. He won an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a WGA Award, and a Golden Globe Award for his screenplay for the film 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. Zaillian is the founder of Film Rites, a film production company.

Steven Zaillian, in order

  1. 1985 The Falcon and the Snowman: wrote · directed by John Schlesinger
  2. 1990 Awakenings: wrote · directed by Alain Cuniot and Penny Marshall · critics 81%, audiences 89% · streaming on Tubi
  3. 1992 Patriot Games: wrote · directed by Phillip Noyce · critics 72%, audiences 72% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Paramount+
  4. 1993 Jack the Bear: wrote · directed by Marshall Herskovitz
  5. 1993 Schindler's List: wrote · directed by Steven Spielberg · critics 98%, audiences 97%
  6. 1993 Searching for Bobby Fischer: directed, wrote · critics 98%, audiences 85% · streaming on Hoopla, YouTube (free)
  7. 1994 Clear and Present Danger: wrote · directed by Phillip Noyce · critics 82%, audiences 74% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
  8. 1996 Mission: Impossible: wrote · directed by Brian De Palma · critics 65%, audiences 71% · streaming on Paramount+, Kanopy
  9. 1998 A Civil Action: directed, wrote, produced · critics 66%, audiences 56%
  10. 2001 Hannibal: wrote · directed by Ridley Scott · critics 38%, audiences 62% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
  11. 2002 Gangs of New York: wrote · directed by Martin Scorsese · critics 72%, audiences 81% · streaming on fuboTV, Paramount+, Kanopy
  12. 2005 The Interpreter: wrote · directed by Sydney Pollack · critics 57%, audiences 54% · streaming on Netflix
  13. 2006 All the King's Men: directed, wrote
  14. 2007 American Gangster: wrote · directed by Ridley Scott · critics 81%, audiences 90% · streaming on Philo, MGM+, Starz
  15. 2011 Moneyball: wrote · directed by Bennett Miller · critics 94%, audiences 86%
  16. 2011 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: wrote · directed by David Fincher · critics 86%, audiences 86% · streaming on Netflix, Apple TV
  17. 2014 Exodus: Gods and Kings: wrote · directed by Ridley Scott · critics 29%, audiences 35% · streaming on Prime Video
  18. 2014 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit: wrote · directed by Kenneth Branagh · critics 55%, audiences 52% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Paramount+
  19. 2016 The Night Of (TV series): directed, wrote, created
  20. 2018 Red Sparrow: produced · directed by Francis Lawrence · critics 45%, audiences 51% · streaming on HBO Max
  21. 2019 The Irishman: wrote · directed by Martin Scorsese · critics 95%, audiences 86% · streaming on Netflix
  22. 2020 Those Who Wish Me Dead: produced · directed by Taylor Sheridan
  23. 2024 Ripley (TV series): directed, wrote, created · critics 86%, audiences 82% · streaming on Netflix