Biography
Saul Zaentz was an American film producer. Born in Passaic, New Jersey, he began his career in the record industry before moving into film production in the 1970s.
He produced adaptations of literary works including One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Amadeus (1984) and The English Patient (1996), each of which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. He received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1997. Other credits include The Lord of the Rings (1978), The Mosquito Coast (1986), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991) and Goya's Ghosts (2006).
