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Hossein Amini

Highest Rated: 96% The Pigeon Tunnel (2023)

Lowest Rated: 4% Shanghai (2010)

Birthday: Jan 18, 1966

Birthplace: Tehran, Iran

Iranian-born screenwriter and director Hossein Amini earned critical praise and numerous award nominations for his highly literate and complex scripts, including "The Wings of a Dove" (1998), which brought him an Oscar nomination, as well as "Drive" (2011) and "The Two Faces of January" (2014). Amini transitioned smoothly between drawing room dramas like "Dove" and major epics like "The Four Feathers" (2002), but showed a definite talent for suspense pictures with Hitchcockian flair. With director Nicolas Winding Refn, he fashioned "Drive" into a lean neo-noir, while "Two Faces of January" - adapted from a novel by Patricia Highsmith, author of the source material for Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train" (1951) - took its cues from classic thrillers. Amini's ability to move between genre, profile and style, as well as his assured feature directorial debut, marked him as a major screen talent in multiple mediums.

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Highest-Rated Movies

96% 69% The Pigeon Tunnel Watchlist 93% 79% Drive Watchlist 85% 78% The Wings of the Dove Watchlist 80% 73% Jude Watchlist 80% 48% The Two Faces of January Watchlist 72% 50% Our Kind of Traitor Watchlist 48% 52% Snow White and the Huntsman Watchlist 41% 65% The Four Feathers Watchlist 39% 70% The Great Raid Watchlist 38% 28% Killshot Watchlist
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Hossein Amini

Hossein Amini Hossein Amini Hossein Amini at arrivals for Premiere of THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY at the Los Angeles Film Festival (LAFF), Regal Cinemas LA Live, Los Angeles, CA June 17, 2014. Photo By: Michael Germana/Everett Collection View more photos

Filmography

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Clayface 2026 Screenwriter The Pigeon Tunnel 96% 69% 2023 Executive Producer The Snowman 7% 19% 2017 Screenwriter Our Kind of Traitor 72% 50% 2016 Screenwriter The Two Faces of January 80% 48% 2014 Director, Screenwriter 47 Ronin 16% 48% 2013 Screenwriter Snow White and the Huntsman 48% 52% 2012 Screenwriter Drive 93% 79% 2011 Screenwriter Shanghai 4% 37% 2010 Screenwriter Killshot 38% 28% 2009 Writer The Great Raid 39% 70% 2005 Screenwriter The Four Feathers 41% 65% 2002 Screenwriter The Wings of the Dove 85% 78% 1997 Writer Jude 80% 73% 1996 Writer The Dying of the Light 1992 Writer
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