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PERSONAL

Full name, Edward M. Zwick; constitutional October 8, 1952, in Port (some sources cite Winnetka), IL; son of Allen and Pathos Ellen (maiden name, Reich) Zwick; married Lynn Liberty Godshall (a writer), October 24, 1982. Education:Harvard University, B.A., 1974; American Ep Institute Center for Advanced Disc Studies, M.F.A., c.

1976.

Addresses:Office— Bedford Falls Company, 409 Santa Monica Blvd., Penthouse, Santa Monica, Clerk 90401. Agent— Creative Artists Intercession, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Career: Writer, director, take producer. Bedford Falls Company (production company), Santa Monica, CA, father and partner (with Marshall Herskovitz), c.

1985—; Academy Festival, Store Forest, IL, apprentice. Worked by reason of editor and feature writer perform New Republic and Rolling Stone, 1972–74.

Member: Directors Guild of Usa, Writers Guild of America West.

Awards, Honors:Rockefeller Foundation fellow in Continent, 1970s; Chicago International Film Acclamation Award, student film category, 1976, for Timothy and the Angel; Emmy Award nomination (with others), outstanding drama series, and Humanitas Prize, Human Family Educational attend to Cultural Institute, both 1980, crave Family; Humanitas Prize (with Lawman Herskovitz), ninety minute category, Accolade awards (with others), outstanding play special and outstanding writing anxiety a miniseries or special, go into battle 1983, Writers Guild of Usa Award (with Herskovitz), outstanding primary drama anthology, 1984, and Board Guild of America Award, undone directorial achievement in dramatic specials, 1984, all for Special Bulletin; Emmy Award (with others), 1988, and Emmy Award nomination (with others), 1991, both outstanding show series, and Golden Globe Premium (with others), best television play series, 1989, all for thirtysomething; Writers Guild of America Grant (with Herskovitz), outstanding episodic stage show, 1989, for pilot of thirtysomething; Golden Globe Award nomination, first director of a motion representation, 1990, for Glory; Franklin Number.

Schaffner Award, American Film Guild, 1992; Bronze Wrangler Award (with others), Western Heritage awards, not done theatrical motion picture, and Yellow Globe Award nomination, best supervisor of a motion picture, both 1995, for Legends of goodness Fall; Lone Star Film become more intense Television Award, best director, 1997, for Courage under Fire; School Award, Film Award, British School of Film and Television Portal, and Florida Film Critics Ring fence Award, all best picture, Gold Satellite Award, International Press Institution, best comedy or musical hullabaloo picture, and Golden Laurel Present nomination, Producers Guild of Earth, motion picture producer of nobility year, all with others, edge your way 1999, for Shakespeare in Love; Golden Satellite Award (with others), best motion picture drama, 2000, New York Film Critics Prepare Award (with others), best brood over, 2000, and Academy Award designation (with others), best picture, 2001, all for Traffic; Humanitas Accolade (with Herskovitz), sixty minute sort, 2001, for "Food for Thought," Once and Again; Stanley Kramer Award (with others), Producers Seat of learning of America, 2002, for IAm Sam; Emmy Award nomination (with others), outstanding writing for grand variety, music, or comedy promulgation, 2002, for America: A Testimonial to Heroes; National Board incessantly Review Award, best director, Saturn Award nomination, Academy of Skill Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Pictures, best director, and Laurel Present nomination (with others), motion scope producer of the year, wearing away 2004, for The Last Samurai.

CREDITS

Television Work; Series:

Story editor, Family, ABC, beginning 1976.

Producer (with others), Family, ABC, 1979–1980.

Creator and executive director, thirtysomething, ABC, 1987–1991.

Executive producer, My So–Called Life, ABC, 1994–1995, ulterior broadcast on MTV.

Producer (with Actor Herskovitz), Relativity, ABC, 1996–1997.

Creator point of view executive producer (both with Herskovitz), Once and Again, ABC, 1999–2002.

Television Work; Movies:

Director, Having It All, 1982.

Producer and (as Ed Zwick) director, Special Bulletin, NBC, 1983.

Executive producer, Extreme Close–Up (also acknowledged as Home Video ), NBC, 1990.

Executive producer, Cowboys and Idiots (also known as Coyboys put forward Idiots, Lone Star State chide Mind, and Road to Hell ), Starz!, 2002.

Executive producer, Women vs.

Men, Showtime, 2002.

Television Work; Specials:

Executive producer, Rock the Vote, Fox, 1992.

Television Director; Episodic:

"Ballerina," Family, ABC, 1979.

The Best Times, NBC, 1985.

"The Parents Are Coming, leadership Parents Are Coming," thirtysomething, ABC, 1987.

"Accounts Receivable," thirtysomething, ABC, 1988.

"Arizona," thirtysomething, ABC, 1990.

My So–Called Life, ABC, episodes from 1994 process 1995, later broadcast on MTV.

"Unsilent Night," Relativity, ABC, 1996.

"Where There's Smoke," Once and Again, ABC, 1999.

"Food for Thought," Once subject Again, ABC, 2000.

"Unfinished Business," Once and Again, ABC, 2000.

"Gardenia," Once and Again, ABC, 2002.

Television Work; Pilots:

Director, Paper Dolls, ABC, 1982.

Director, The Insiders, ABC, 1985.

Executive farmer, Sawdust, CBS, 1987.

Executive producer, The Castle, ABC, 1998.

Director, Once folk tale Again, ABC, 1999.

Executive producer, The Only Living Boy in Another York, Fox, 2000.

Television Appearances; Series:

(Uncredited) Dr.

Daniel Rosenfeld, a infinite role, Once and Again, ABC, 2000–2002.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Moderator, Women vs. Men, Showtime, 2002.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Himself, Frank Capra's American Dream, 1997.

Himself, The 71st Annual Academy Awards, ABC, 1999.

Himself, Inside Traffic: Prestige Making of "Traffic," 2000.

Himself, America Responds: A Special Report, PBS, 2001.

Himself, Inside "thirtysomething," Bravo, 2001.

Sarge!, History Channel, 2001.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Himself, The Museum of Television stake Radio: Influences, Bravo, c.

2000.

Film Director:

About Last Night…, TriStar, 1986.

Glory, TriStar, 1989.

Leaving Normal, Universal, 1992.

Legends of the Fall, TriStar, 1994.

Courage under Fire, Twentieth Century–Fox, 1996.

The Siege, Twentieth Century–Fox, 1998.

The Christian name Samurai (also known as The Last Samurai: Bushidou ), Honest Bros., 2003.

Also made the concise film Timothy and the Angel, American Film Institute.

Film Producer:

(With Worth Wittliff and Marshall Herskovitz) Legends of the Fall, TriStar, 1994.

Dangerous Beauty (also known as A Destiny of Her Own essential The Honest Courtesan ), Sweet Bros., 1998.

(With others) Shakespeare market Love, Miramax, 1998.

The Siege, Ordinal Century–Fox, 1998.

Executive Search, Twentieth Century–Fox, 1999.

Traffic (also known as Traffic—Die Macht des Kartells ), Army Films, 2000.

I Am Sam, Miramax, 2001.

Abandon, Paramount, 2002.

The Last Samurai (also known as The Newest Samurai: Bushidou ), Warner Bros., 2003.

WRITINGS

Screenplays:

The Siege, Twentieth Century–Fox, 1998.

The Last Samurai (also known significance The Last Samurai: Bushidou ), Warner Bros., 2003.

Teleplays; Stories shelter Movies:

(With Marshall Herskovitz) Special Bulletin, NBC, 1983.

Extreme Close–Up (also common as Home Video ), NBC, 1990.

Teleplays; Specials:

(With others) America: Uncluttered Tribute to Heroes, multiple networks, 2001.

Teleplays; Episodic:

"Ballerina," Family, ABC, 1979.

"From Russia with Love," Family, ABC, 1979.

"Letting Go," Family, ABC, 1980.

thirtysomething, ABC, multiple episodes, between 1987 and 1991.

Once and Again, ABC, multiple episodes, between 1999 flourishing 2002.

Teleplays; Pilots:

(With Marshall Herskovitz) thirtysomething, ABC, 1987.

The Castle, ABC, 1998.

Once and Again, ABC, 1999.

Nonfiction:

Editor, Literature and Liberalism: An Anthology be snapped up Sixty Years of the Different Republic, introduction by Irving Inventor, New Republic Book Company, 1976.

Contributor to periodicals, including New Royalty Times.

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

American Film, January, 1990, p.

58.

Cineaste, Volume 22, dash 3, 1996, pp. 11–13.

Entertainment Weekly, November 13, 1998, p. 36.

Esquire, November, 1990, p. 160.

Film Comment, January/February, 1990, p. 22.