Steven Ernest Bernard Zaillian (born January 30, 1953) is an American screenwriter, producer, and director of Armenian descent best known for working in the realm of Thrillers, Biopics and the Epic Movie.
He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Schindler's List and has received a further three nominations in that category, plus a nomination for Best Original Screenplay for Gangs of New York.
Works with pages on TV Tropes:
- Awakenings (1990)
- Schindler's List (1993)
- Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) (also director)
- Clear and Present Danger (1994) (co-wrote with John Milius and Donald E. Stewart)
- Mission: Impossible (1996) ('story by' with David Koepp)
- A Civil Action (1998) (also director and executive producer)
- Hannibal (2001) (co-wrote with David Mamet)
- Gangs of New York (2002) (co-wrote with Jay Cocks and Kenneth Lonergan)
- The Interpreter (2005)
- All the King's Men (2006) (also director and producer)
- American Gangster (2007) (also executive producer)
- Moneyball (2011) (co-wrote with Aaron Sorkin)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) (also executive producer)
- Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) (co-wrote with Adam Cooper, Bill Collage, and Jeffrey Caine)
- The Night Of (2016) (co-wrote with Richard Price; also director and executive producer)
- The Current War (2017) (executive producer only)
- Red Sparrow (2018) (producer only)
- My Dinner with Hervé (2018) (executive producer only)
- The Irishman (2019)
- Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021) (producer only)
- Ripley (2024) (also director and executive producer)
Tropes that apply to his works:
- Uncredited Role: He has served as a script doctor for, among other films, Crimson Tide, Twister, Amistad, Black Hawk Down, and Salt.
