Edward Zwick

Edward is an Academy and Emmy Award-winning producer, writer and director.

Along with his partner, Marshall Herskovitz, he created the critically acclaimed television series Thirtysomething, My So-Called Life, Relativity and Once and Again, as well as the Academy-Award winning films, Shakespeare in Love and Traffic.

Zwick began his feature film career directing About Last Night. He went on to direct the Academy Award-winning films Glory and Legends of the Fall, as well as Courage Under Fire, The Siege, The Last Samurai, Defence and Love & Other Drugs. His most recent film is Pawn Sacrifice.

He is currently serving his third term as a Governor of the Motion Picture Academy, as well as Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Film Institute.

He is most proud of his film Blood Diamond – based on the work of Global Witness – which has helped bring worldwide attention to the resource curse and its cost in human suffering.