Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood games inspiring and disruptive

inspiring and disruptive

biopics or superhero blockbusters

readers will recognize the themes that motivate Spielberg

Best Director

a new edition of the seminal oral history tracing Scorsese’s journey from young filmmaker to legend

Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood games inspiring and disruptiveIll be dropping a few names, Ed Zwick confesses in the introduction to his book. Over the years I have worked with self proclaimed masters of the universe, unheralded geniuses, hacks, sociopaths, savants, and saints. He has encountered these Hollywood types during four decades of directing, producing, and writing projects that have collectively received eighteen Academy Award nominations (seven wins) and sixty seven Emmy nominations (twenty two wins).