Hossein Amini is an Iranian screenwriter who has been working since the 1990s. He was nominated numerous awards for the 1997 film The Wings of the Dove, including an Academy Award for Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay.

Amini's first screenplay was for the 1994 TV movie The Dying of the Light, which was directed by Peter Kosminsky

Peter Kosminsky

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. The TV movie covered the murder of Sean Devereux

Sean Devereux

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, an aid worker who was murdered in Somalia

Somalia

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 in 1993 for criticizing arms sales. It was nominated "Best Single Drama" at the British Academy Television Awards

British Academy Television Awards

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. Amini also wrote an adapted screenplay of the 1895 novel Jude the Obscure

Jude the Obscure

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by Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy

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. Producer Andrew Eaton

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 commissioned the screenplay in 1995, and it was filmed by Michael Winterbottom

Michael Winterbottom

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 as Jude

Jude (film)

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, released in 1996. Amini also wrote a screenplay for another TV movie, Deep Secrets, which aired in 1996.

Amini wrote the adapted screenplay for The Wings of the Dove, which was based on the 1902 eponymous novel

The Wings of the Dove

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 by Henry James

Henry James

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. The film, directed by Iain Softley

Iain Softley

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, was released in 1997 and received critical claim. Amini was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay.

Screenwriting credits

• The Dying of the Light (1994)
• Deep Secrets (1996)
• Jude
  Jude (film)
  Jude is a 1996 English film, based on the novel Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy and directed by Michael Winterbottom. The screenplay is written by Hossein Amini...
  
  (1996)
• The Wings of the Dove (1997)
• The Four Feathers
  The Four Feathers (2002 film)
  The Four Feathers is a 2002 action drama film directed by Shekhar Kapur, starring Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Djimon Hounsou and Kate Hudson...
  
  (2002)
• Killshot
  Killshot (film)
  Killshot is a 2009 thriller film based on the 1989 novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard. The film is directed by John Madden and stars Diane Lane and Thomas Jane as a couple who, despite being in a witness protection program, are confronted by the criminal they outed, portrayed by Mickey...
  
  (2009)
• Shanghai (2010)
• Drive
  Drive (2011 film)
  Drive is a 2011 American crime neo-noir drama film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, starring Ryan Gosling as the principal character, with Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, and Albert Brooks...
  
  (2011)
• 47 Ronin (2012)
• Snow White and the Huntsman
  Snow White and the Huntsman
  Snow White & the Huntsman is an upcoming fantasy adventure film directed by Rupert Sanders and written by Evan Daugherty. The film is currently in production and is slated for release on June 1, 2012 in the United States.-Cast:...
  
  (2012)

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