Hossein Amini

Hossein Amini is a film writer who was nominated for an Oscar for his adaptation of Henry James' classic novel Wings of a Dove, which starred Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roach and Alison Elliott.

He has also written Jude, starring Kate Winslet and Christopher Ecclestone, which won the Edinburgh Film festival prize for Best British Film, and has worked on Gangs of New York, starring Daniel Day Lewis and Leonardo di Caprio, as well as The Four Feathers with Heath Ledger.

In 2011 he wrote the screenplay for Drive starring Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan, which was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and has been nominated for Best Film at the BAFTAs 2012.

As well as working on 47 Ronin for Universal, he has also co-written Snow White and the Huntsman, due for release in 2012 and in the same year Hossein will make his directorial debut with his own adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's thriller, The Two Faces of January.