Saul Zaentz
Production1921Passaic, New Jersey, USA
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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21- 2010Forging Through the Darkness: The Ralph Bakshi Vision for 'The Lord of the Rings'MovieThanks
2009Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…Movieas Self
2009Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestMovieas Self
2007Fog City MavericksMovieas Self- 2006Goya's GhostsMovieProducer
2006Emotional History: The Making of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'Movieas Self
2002The Making of 'Amadeus'Movieas Self - Producer
2002Heart of the FestivalMovieas Self (archive footage)- 2002Hello, He Lied & Other Truths from the Hollywood TrenchesMovieas Self
1997Completely CuckooMovieas Self- 1996The English PatientMovieProducer
- 1991At Play in the Fields of the LordMovieProducer
- 1988The Unbearable Lightness of BeingMovieProducer
- 1986The Mosquito CoastMovieExecutive Producer
- 1984AmadeusMovieProducer
- 1978The Lord of the RingsMovieProducer
1978The South Bank ShowTV show1 episodes- 1977Three WarriorsMovieProducer
1976TVTV Looks at the OscarsMovieas Self- 1975One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestMovieas Captain on Shore (uncredited) · Producer
