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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% 68% The Pigeon Tunnel Watchlist 93% 79% Drive Watchlist
86% 78% The Wings of the Dove
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80% 48% The Two Faces of January
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80% 73% Jude
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72% 50% Our Kind of Traitor Watchlist
48% 52% Snow White and the Huntsman
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42% 65% The Four Feathers
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39% 70% The Great Raid
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38% 28% Killshot
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
96% 68% The Pigeon Tunnel Executive Producer - 2023
7% 19% The Snowman Screenwriter $6.7M 2017
72% 50% Our Kind of Traitor Screenwriter $3.2M 2016
80% 48% The Two Faces of January Director,
Screenwriter
$506.1K 2014
16% 48% 47 Ronin Screenwriter $38.3M 2013
48% 52% Snow White and the Huntsman Screenwriter $155.1M 2012
93% 79% Drive Screenwriter $35.1M 2011
4% 37% Shanghai Screenwriter $44.7K 2010
38% 28% Killshot Writer $17.0K 2009
39% 70% The Great Raid Screenwriter $10.2M 2005
42% 65% The Four Feathers Screenwriter $18.3M 2002
86% 78% The Wings of the Dove Writer $13.7M 1997
80% 73% Jude Writer $419.3K 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Dying of the Light Writer - 1992

TV

Credit
77% 80% The Alienist Executive Producer 2018
71% 88% McMafia Executive Producer,
Writer
2018