Hossein Amini (Persian: حسین امینی; born 18 January 1966) is an Iranian-born British screenwriter and film director who has worked as a screenwriter since the early 1990s. He was nominated for numerous awards for the 1997 film The Wings of the Dove, including an Academy Award for Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay. He also won a "Best Adapted Screenplay" award from the Austin Film Critics Association for his screenplay adaptation of Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive (2011), based on the novel by James Sallis. For his directorial debut, he wrote and directed The Two Faces of January, an adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel.
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Recent movies
| # | Name | Character | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clayface (2026) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 2 | The Snowman (2017) | Director / Writer | 5.7 | |
| 3 | Our Kind of Traitor (2016) | Director / Writer | 6.9 | |
| 4 | The Two Faces of January (2014) | Director / Writer | 5.9 | |
| 5 | 47 Ronin (2013) | Director / Writer | 6.3 | |
| 6 | Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) Oscars 2013 | Director / Writer | 6 | |
| 7 | Drive (2011) Oscars 2012 | Director / Writer | 7.6 | |
| 8 | Shanghai (2010) | Director / Writer | 6.6 | |
| 9 | Killshot (2008) | Director / Writer | 5.5 | |
| 10 | The Four Feathers (2002) | Director / Writer | 6.4 | |
| 11 | The Wings of the Dove (1997) Oscars 1998 | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 12 | Jude (1996) | Director / Writer | 7.3 |

