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For 45 years The Saul Zaentz Company was a fount of great American independent cinema, creating motion pictures of the highest artistic merit. Saul Zaentz produced ten films, three of which won the Academy Award® for Best Picture: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus and The English Patient.
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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.
The Saul Zaentz Company is an award-winning independent film production company based in Berkeley, California.
Middle-earth Enterprises, a division of The Saul Zaentz Company, owns exclusive worldwide rights to motion picture, merchandising, stage and other rights in The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Saul Zaentz was born in 1921 in Passaic, New Jersey of Russian-Polish immigrants. At the outbreak of World War II he enlisted in the US Army, serving on troop transports in the Atlantic, Pacific and Mediterranean, rising to the rank of sergeant major.
The Saul Zaentz Company was formed by Saul Zaentz and was the parent company of Middle-earth Enterprises until MEE was bought by Embracer Group in 2022, responsible for selling Peter Jackson the rights to produce The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
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Saul Zaentz was a media entrepreneur in the music and film industry. He built the largest independent Jazz record label in the world, Fantasy Records and, through the Saul Zaentz Company, became a prominent independent film producer.
