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Edward Zwick (born October 8, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American filmmaker and film producer noted for his sprawling war films. He received an A.B from Harvard in 1974. He attended the AFI Conservatory and graduated with an M.F.A. degree in 1975. His movies include Glory (1989), Legends of the Fall (1994), The Siege (1998), The Last Samurai (2003) and Blood Diamond (2006).
He has been described as a "throwback to an earlier era, an extremely cerebral director whose movies consistently feature fully rounded characters, difficult moral issues, and plots that thrive on the ambiguity of authority."[1]
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Zwick has completed Defiance, a World War II film about the Bielski partisans with a screenplay by Clay Frohman based on a book by Nechama Tec. Defiance was released 31 December 2008 in New York City and Los Angeles, then released worldwide on 16 January 2009.
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Along with Marshall Herskovitz he runs a film production company called The Bedford Falls Company. This company has produced such notable films such as Traffic and Shakespeare in Love and the TV shows thirtysomething, Relativity, Once and Again, and My So-Called Life.
He was one of the recipients of the Academy Award for Best Picture for Shakespeare in Love; he was also nominated for it for Traffic.
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