Saul Zaentz
Birthday: 1921-02-28
Place of Birth: Passaic, New Jersey, USA
Biography: 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.
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TVTV Looks at the Oscars
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Emotional History: The Making of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon f...
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The Making of 'Amadeus'
This riveting film takes a look behind the scenes at one of the 20th century's cinema classics and a...
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Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
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Fog City Mavericks
Fog City Mavericks: The Filmmakers of San Francisco is a compelling exploration of the legendary fil...
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Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Documentary on the film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"...
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