Saul Zaentz ?zænts February 28 1921 January 3 2014 was an American film producer and former record company executive He won the Academy Award for Best Picture three times and in 1996 was awarded the Irving G Thalberg Memorial Award Zaentzs film production career was marked by a dedication to the adaptation of the novel A prolific reader Zaentz typically did not produce original screenplays His final production Goyas Ghosts was an exception being an original story by JeanClaude Carrièreand Miloš Forman Description above from the Wikipedia article Saul Zaentz licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia