Schindler’s List (1993)
Spielberg's 1993 Holocaust drama. Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, Fiennes as Goeth.
Steven Zaillian won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Schindler’s List and has specialised in turning dense non-fiction into workable drama: Awakenings, American Gangster, Moneyball and The Irishman.
His method is to resist the tidy version. Moneyball keeps the statistical argument technical, American Gangster refuses to make either lead sympathetic, and Schindler’s List declines to explain why Schindler changed.
He created The Night Of for television, which applies the same patience to a legal procedure over eight hours, and directed A Civil Action and All the King’s Men.
Steven ZaillianSpielberg's 1993 Holocaust drama. Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, Fiennes as Goeth.
Steven ZaillianPenny Marshall's 1990 Oliver Sacks biopic. Robin Williams as the doctor, De Niro as encephalitic patient.
Aaron SorkinBennett Miller's 2011 baseball analytics drama. Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, Jonah Hill as Peter Brand.
Steven ZaillianRidley Scott's 2007 Frank Lucas biopic. Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe in parallel protagonist tracks.
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