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. Saul settled in San Francisco after WWII, at first working for a local record distributor and eventually joining the jazz record label Fantasy Records. Working as a salesman and ...
Joshua Zaentz, Athena Zaentz, Jonathan Zaentz, Dorian Zaentz
Awards
Academy Award for Best Picture, Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, BAFTA Award for Best Film, BAFTA Fellowship, Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture, PGA Vision Award for Theatrical Motion Pictures, PGA David O. Sel...
Nominations
European Film Award for Best Film, David di Donatello for Best Foreign Producer, Australian Film Institute Award for Best Foreign Film
Movies
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, The English Patient, Goya's Ghosts, At Play in the Fields of the Lord, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Three Warriors, The Lord of the Rings, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Chocolate War
Star Sign
Pisces
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Quote
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The question is why does Hollywood go on making crap they pass off as movies? The answer is money.
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You don't make movies to be art movies. You make movies that move you emotionally because if you're going to commit five years of your life to a movie, you need something to keep you going.
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[from his Oscar acceptance speech for Amadeus (1984)] The five pictures nominated this year all had a curious relationship, in the fact that the filmmakers who made them had to fight and overcame many obstacles to make their films and to film their visions. One has to be proud to be a peer of the people who made The Killing Fields (1984), A Passage to India (1984), A Soldier's Story (1984) and Places in the Heart (1984).
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Studios are like flies - they'll both eat honey or shit with equal enthusiasm.
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You have to believe.
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Fact
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Uncle of Paul Zaentz.
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Sold Fantasy Records to Concord Records.
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Producing the Musical version of "Lord of the Rings" to open in London in the Spring of 2005. This will be the most expensive and complex stage show ever staged anywhere in the world. [March 2004]
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In order to light all the opera house chandeliers in Amadeus (1984), Zaentz contacted the Vatican's candlemaker, who agreed to supply the production with the thousands of candles necessary for the scene.
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Former owner of Fantasy Records who used its profits to finance his films.
$30 Million
