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Zaentz's film production career, primarily financed by the profits from Creedence Clearwater Revival, was marked by a dedication to the adaptation of novels. A prolific reader, Zaentz typically did not produce original screenplays.
The Saul Zaentz Company is an award-winning independent film production company based in Berkeley, California.
Saul Zaentz produced ten films, three of which won the Academy Award® for Best Picture: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus and The English Patient. In all, the Company produced some ten beautifully crafted vintage films.
Described by the New York Times as ‘perhaps the last of the great independent producers,’ Saul Zaentz specialized in literary film adaptations that the big studios believed too complex or uncommercial to put on film.
Saul Zaentz. Producer: The English Patient. Saul Zaentz learned gambling as a youth in Passaic, New Jersey, playing a card game called briscola. Later, in his twenties, he earned a full-time living as a gambler.
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Jan 3, 2014 · 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.
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Jan 5, 2014 · Saul Zaentz, an acclaimed independent film producer who adapted literary works for the screen and won best-picture Academy Awards for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” “Amadeus” and...
