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For 45 years The Saul Zaentz Company was a fount of great American independent cinema, creating motion pictures of the highest artistic merit. 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 ...
Jan 4, 2014 · Mark Memmott. "Saul Zaentz, who parlayed a successful career in the music business into a Oscar-winning second act as an independent movie producer, died Friday at his home in the San Francisco ...
Jan 9, 2014 · Goya’s Ghosts was the final example of Saul Zaentz’s way of producing: banking on an idea that had seized his passion, and believing that an intelligent movie could find a wide audience. In cashing in on that lofty dream, Mr. Greed was Mr. Succeed. Producers used to be the alpha dogs of movies — Hollywood rajahs, figures of legendary ...
Jan 6, 2014 · Berkeleyside. Saul Zaentz, who produced three Academy Award-winning films and whose Fantasy Records building on Tenth Street in Berkeley became an international center for music and filmmaking, died in San Francisco on Friday at the age of 92. His death marks the end of an era that started in 1971, when Zaentz moved his Fantasy Records into ...
Jan 3, 2014 · Zaentz, born of immigrant Jewish parents in Passaic, New Jersey, defined the creative producer. He painstakingly developed material for years, was willing to mortgage his Zaentz Film Center for ...
Saul Zaentz was a media entrepreneur in the music and film industry. He built the largest independent Jazz record label in the world, Fantasy Records and, through the Saul Zaentz Company, became a prominent independent film producer. His creative activities in film resulted in 34 Academy Award nominations, the award of 22 Hollywood Oscars for ...
Saul Zaentz. Saul Zaentz ( / ˈzænts / (February 28, 1921 – January 3, 2014) [1] was an American movie producer. He also owned a record company. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture three times. In 1996, he was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award . Zaentz died in San Francisco, California.
