Hossein Amini
- Writer
- Producer
- Director
Hossein Amini was born in Iran, and when he was 11 years old, he and
his family moved to England. Amini's first screenplay was for the 1994
TV movie The Dying of the Light, which was directed by Peter Kosminsky.
The TV movie covered the murder of Sean Devereux, an aid worker who was
murdered in Somalia in 1993 for criticizing arms sales. It was
nominated "Best Single Drama" at the British Academy Television Awards.
Amini also wrote an adapted screenplay of the 1895 novel Jude the
Obscure by Thomas Hardy. Producer Andrew Eaton commissioned the
screenplay in 1995, and it was filmed by Michael Winterbottom as Jude,
released in 1996. Amini also wrote a screenplay for another TV movie,
Deep Secrets, which aired in 1996. Amini wrote the adapted screenplay
for The Wings of the Dove, which was based on the 1902 eponymous novel
by Henry James. The film, directed by Iain Softley, was released in
1997 and received critical claim. Amini was nominated for an Academy
Award for Best Writing - Adapted Screenplay. In September 2013, Amini
delivered a screenwriting lecture as part of the BAFTA and BFI
Screenwriters' Lecture Series.
