Steven Zaillian has been one of Hollywood’s most accomplished and respected filmmakers for decades. After his first Oscar nomination for Awakenings in 1991, Zaillian won an Academy Award for his screenplay for Schindler’s List in 1993. The same year, he wrote and directed the Oscar-nominated Searching for Bobby Fischer. Ever since, Zaillian has proven himself a master of adaptation, writing screenplays for Moneyball, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, American Gangster and The Irishman. Mr. Zaillian has been recognized with Oscar nominations for writing five times.

Now Zaillian has turned his focus to Highsmith’s singular anti-hero, Tom Ripley (played by Andrew Scott), in a new adaptation of Highsmith’s best-known novels. To celebrate the occasion of Ripley (a new limited series premiering on Netflix on April 4), the Bay Theater is proud to present THE STORYTELLER: A Steven Zaillian Retrospective, five classics from one of the screen’s most gifted film artists.