Saul Zaentz
Saul Zaentz (/ˈzænts/; February 28, 1921 – January 3, 2014) was an American film producer and former record company executive. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture three times and in 1996 was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. Zaentz's film production career was marked by a dedication to the adaptation of the novel. A prolific reader, Zaentz typically did not produce original screenplays. His final production, Goya's Ghosts, was an exception, being an original story by Jean-Claude Carrièreand Miloš Forman. Description above from the Wikipedia article Saul Zaentz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
- Known for
- Production
- Born
- 1921-02-28 · Passaic, New Jersey, USA
- Died
- 2014-01-03
Known for
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) — Captain on Shore (uncredited)
- Amadeus (1984) — Producer
- The English Patient (1996) — Producer
- The Lord of the Rings (1978) — Producer
- The Mosquito Coast (1986) — Executive Producer
- Goya's Ghosts (2006) — Producer
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) — Producer
- The Oscars (1953) — Self
- At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991) — Producer
- Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… (2009) — Self
- The Making of 'Amadeus' (2002) — Self - Producer
- The South Bank Show (1978)
- Completely Cuckoo (1997) — Self
- Three Warriors (1977) — Producer
- TVTV Looks at the Oscars (1976) — Self
- Heart of the Festival (2002) — Self (archive footage)