Hossein Amini
Co-screenwriter, The Four Feathers
One of Britain's hottest young screenwriters, Iranian-born Hossein Amini wrote the
teleplay for Peter Kosminsky's "Dying of the Light" (1995), a based-on-fact
drama about the outspoken UNICEF aid worker in Africa, Sean Devereux, who was assassinated
in Somalia. The program earned a BAFTA Award nomination as Best Single Drama. A screen
version of Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" became his first produced
feature, Michael Winterbottom's "Jude" (1996), winning both the Michael
Powell Award for Best British Film at the Edinburgh Film Festival and Best Film at
the Dinard Film Festival. Amini's adaptation of Henry James, Iain Softley's "The
Wings of the Dove" (1997), raised his star to new heights, putting him in league
with Ruth Prawer Jhabvala as a leading translator of Victorian and Edwardian fiction
into the language of film. He was one of the first Iranian nominated for an Oscar
for his 1997 screenpaly of "The Wings of the Dove".
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