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name: "Nicholas Kazan"
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roles: ["Producer"]
born: "15 September 1945"
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average_as: "producer"
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updated: "2026-09-17T21:46:00.449076+00:00"
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# Nicholas Kazan

## Identity

Nicholas Kazan

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/nicholas-kazan
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** nicholas-kazan
- **IMDb ID:** nm0443582
- **TMDB ID:** 20213
- **Wikidata ID:** Q187720
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Kazan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q187720, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0443582/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20213

Producer. Born 15 September 1945 in New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 15 September 1945, New York, USA
- **Also known as:** Nick Kazan
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Kazan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q187720, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0443582/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20213

## Biography

Nicholas Kazan is an American screenwriter, producer and director. He was born on 15 September 1945 in New York City and is the son of director Elia Kazan and playwright Molly Kazan. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1969 and married screenwriter Robin Swicord in 1984; their daughters are actresses Zoe Kazan and Maya Kazan.

Kazan wrote the screenplay for the 1990 film *Reversal of Fortune*, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. His other screenwriting credits include *At Close Range* (1986), *Patty Hearst* (1988), *Mobsters* (1991), *Dream Lover* (1994, which he also directed), *Matilda* (1996), *Fallen* (1998), *Bicentennial Man* (1999), *Enough* (2002) and *The Whole Truth* (2016). He has also worked as a producer on several of these films.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Reversal of Fortune* (1990), Fi1m 75, Screenplay, Co-Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/reversal-of-fortune.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *A Lover Scorned* (2019), Writer
- *The Whole Truth* (2016), Writer, Executive Producer
- *Enough* (2002), Writer
- *Bicentennial Man* (1999), Screenplay
- *Homegrown* (1998), Screenplay
- *Fallen* (1998), Screenplay, Executive Producer
- *Matilda* (1996), Screenplay, Co-Producer
- *Dream Lover* (1994), Director, Writer
- *Mobsters* (1991), Screenplay
- *Reversal of Fortune* (1990), Screenplay, Co-Producer — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/reversal-of-fortune.md)
- *The Edge* (1989), Director, Writer
- *Patty Hearst* (1988), Writer
- *At Close Range* (1986), Screenplay, Story
- *Impulse* (1984), Writer
- *Frances* (1982), Writer
- *1988: The Remake* (1977), Writer
- *Cortés: Part One*, Writer
- *Cortés: Part Two*, Writer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1991: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Reversal of Fortune*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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