Saul Zaentz

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Saul Zaentz
Zaentz at the 48th Academy Awards in 1976
Born	(1921-02-28)February 28, 1921 Passaic, New Jersey, United States
Died	January 3, 2014(2014-01-03) (aged 92) San Francisco, California, United States
Nationality	American
Education	Rutgers University
Occupations	Film producer record company executive

Saul Zaentz (/ˈzænts/; February 28, 1921 – January 3, 2014) was an American film producer and record company executive. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture three times and, in 1996, was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.

Zaentz's film production career, primarily financed by the profits from Creedence Clearwater Revival, was marked by a dedication to the adaptation of novels. A prolific reader, Zaentz typically did not produce original screenplays. His final production, Goya's Ghosts, was an exception, being an original story by Jean-Claude Carrière and Miloš Forman.^[1]