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Hossein Amini (born 1966) is an Iranian screenwriter.

Amini's first professional credit was the 1992 teleplay The Dying of the Light, based on UNICEF aid worker Sean Devereux, who was assassinated in Somalia. He and director Peter Kosminsky were nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Single Drama for their work on the project.

Amini's first feature film was Jude, an adaptation of Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy, for which he was nominated for the Satellite Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He followed this with The Wings of the Dove, based on the Henry James novel. His screenplay earned him Oscar, BAFTA, USC Scripter Award, Writers Guild of America Award, and Satellite Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Amini's additional credits include The Four Feathers (2002), as well as Shanghai and Killshot, both scheduled for release in 2008. He already has scripted the screenplay for The Subtle Knife, based on the 1997 novel by Philip Pullman, although the film's future presently is in limbo due to a downsized New Line Cinema being folded into Warner Bros. in February 2008. ^[1]

References

External links

• Hossein Amini at the Internet Movie Database