- Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg KBE (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director and producer. Spielberg is a three-time Academy Award winner and is the highest grossing filmmaker of all time, with an estimated net worth of $3 billion. As of 2006, "Premiere" listed him as the most powerful and influential figure in the motion picture industry. "TIME" named him in the '100 Greatest People of the Century'.
- Martin Scorsese
Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, writer and producer and founder of the World Cinema Foundation. He is also a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won an Academy Award as well as awards from the Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America. Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Italian American identity, …
- Akiva Goldsman
Screenwriter Akiva Goldsman was born in Brooklyn, NY, where his mother and father were both child psychologists. Goldsman graduated from Wesleyan University in 1983, where one of his classmates was Paul Schiff ; they lived together in a student house where the misadventures of the residents helped to inspire the campus comedy P.C.U., which Schiff produced. After graduating from Wesleyan, Goldsman studied creative writing at New York University, and later took up screenwriting.
- John Schlesinger
John Richard Schlesinger CBE (February 16, 1926 - July 25, 2003) was an English film director. Born in London to a Jewish family, he went on to work in television as an actor after graduating from Balliol College, Oxford. One of his first movies, the documentary "Terminus" (1960), earned him a Venice Film Festival Gold Lion and a British Academy Award. He was also openly gay with his life partner of 30 years.
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (February 11, 1909-February 5, 1993) was an American screenwriter, director and producer.
- William Friedkin
William Friedkin (born August 29 1935 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American movie and television director, producer and screenwriter best known for directing "The Exorcist" and "The French Connection" in the early 1970s.
- Alexander Korda
Sir Alexander Korda was a Hungarian/British film director and producer. He was a leading figure in the British film industry and the founder of London Films. The elder brother of future filmmakers Zoltán Korda and Vincent Korda, Korda was born Sándor László Kellner of Jewish heritage in Pusztatúrpásztó in Austria-Hungary (now Hungary), where he worked as a journalist (supporting the Hungarian Soviet Republic) before going into films as a producer.
- William A. Wellman
William Augustus Wellman was an American movie director. Wellman's father was a New England Brahmin of English-Welsh-Scottish and Irish descent. His mother, much beloved by the great director, was an Irish immigrant named Cecilia McCarthy. Before his career in films, Wellman served in World War I in the French Foreign Legion as an ambulance driver. He later served in the Lafayette Escadrille. Wellman was hired in 1927 to direct "Wings", …
- Hal B. Wallis
Hal B. Wallis (September 14, 1898 - October 5, 1986) was an American motion picture producer. Born Harold Brent Wallis in Chicago, Illinois, his family moved in 1922 to Los Angeles, California, where he found work as part of the publicity department at Warner Bros. in 1923. Within a few years, Wallis became involved in the production end of the business and would eventually become head of production at Warners.
- Richard Arlen
Richard Arlen was an American actor. Born Cornelius Richard Van Mattimore in Charlottesville, Virginia, he served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War I. At war's end, he went to Los Angeles where he found work as an unskilled laborer. By a stroke of pure luck, he was given an opportunity to act, appearing at first in silent films before making the transition to talkies.
- Tony Bill
Tony Bill (born 23 August 1940, San Diego, California) is an American actor, producer, and director. He is known for, among other things, producing the 1973 movie "The Sting", for which he shared the Academy Award for Best Picture with Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips. He majored in English and art at the University of Notre Dame, where he graduated in 1962.
- Hugh Hudson
Hugh Hudson (born 25 August 1936) is an English Academy Award-nominated film director.
- Lucien Hubbard
Lucien Hubbard (December 22, 1888 - December 31, 1971) was a film producer and screenwriter. He is best known for producing "Wings", for which he received the first Academy Award for Best Picture.
- Julia Phillips
Julia Phillips was an Academy Award-winning film producer and author. Born Julia Miller in New York City, she received her B.A. in Political Science from Mount Holyoke College in 1965. In 1973, "The Sting" won the Academy Award for Best Picture and made Phillips the first woman to win an Oscar as a producer (an award shared by Tony Bill and Phillips' then-husband Michael Phillips.) In 1977, …
- Marc Forster
Marc Forster (born 1969 in Ulm, Germany) is a Swiss film director and screenwriter.
- Frank Marshall
Frank Marshall (born September 13, 1946) is an American movie producer and director, often working in collaboration with his wife, Kathleen Kennedy. With Kennedy and Steven Spielberg, he was one of the founders of Amblin Entertainment. He is a partner with Kennedy in The Kennedy/Marshall Company, a film production company formed in 1991, which presently has a contract with Universal Pictures. Marshall has worked on many of Hollywood's biggest films since 1973.
- Bruce Cohen
Bruce Cohen is an American film producer. Cohen and his partner, Dan Jinks, run Jinks/Cohen Productions. Cohen and Jinks produced "American Beauty", winner of the 1999 Academy Award for Best Picture. Among other films that Cohen has produced are "The Forgotten", "Big Fish", and "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar". Since May 2005 he has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post.
- Paddy Chayefsky
Sidney Aaron Chayefsky (January 29, 1923 - August 1, 1981) known as Paddy Chayefsky was an acclaimed dramatist who transitioned from the golden age of American live television in the 1950s to have a successful career as a playwright and screenwriter for Hollywood.
- William Goetz
William Goetz was an American Hollywood film producer and studio executive. Born to a Jewish working class family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Goetz was the youngest of eight children. His mother died when he was ten years old and shortly thereafter his father abandoned the family. Raised by older brothers, at the age of twenty-one he followed some of his brothers to Hollywood where he found work as a crew hand at one of the large studios.
- John M. Stahl
John Malcolm Stahl was an American film director and producer. Born in New York City, New York, he began working in the city's growing motion picture industry at a young age and directed his first silent film short in 1914. In the early 1920s Stahl signed on with Louis B. Mayer Pictures in Hollywood and in 1924 was part of the Mayer team that became MGM Studios.
- Adrian Scott
Robert Adrian Scott (February 6, 1912 - December 25, 1973) was an American screenwriter and film producer known as one of the Hollywood Ten who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the era of McCarthyism. Born in Arlington, New Jersey, Adrian Scott was the producer of the film noirs "Murder, My Sweet", "Cornered" and "Crossfire", all of which were directed by Edward Dmytryk.
- Wendy Finerman
Wendy Finerman (born 1961) is an Oscar-winning producer of nearly a dozen feature films. She was one of the three producers who won the Academy Award for Best Picture for Forrest Gump in 1994, and a Bafta for Fairy Tale in 1998. She has also produced such popular films as "The Fan", "Stepmom", "Drumline" and "The Devil Wears Prada". Finerman was formerly married to producer Mark Canton, and now is married to David Peterson.
- Jerome Hellman
Jerome Hellman is an American film producer who was born on 4 September 1928 in New York City. He is perhaps best known for being the producer of the 42nd recipient of the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1969, Midnight Cowboy. His 1978 film, Coming Home was nominated for the same award.
- Barrie M. Osborne
Barrie M. Osborne is a movie producer, executive producer, production manager and director. He is an alumnus of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota and currently lives in Wellington, New Zealand. Osborne's most notable work is "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" for which he won the Academy Award for Best Picture, which he shares with Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh.
- Barry Spikings
Barry Spikings (born 23 November 1939) is a British film producer who worked in Hollywood. Spikings is best known as the producer of the 1978 film, "The Deer Hunter", which won several Academy Awards. Spikings was born in Boston, Lincolnshire. After leaving Boston Grammar School he joined the local newspaper, the "Boston Standard", as a trainee reporter.
- Lawrence Tierney
Lawrence Tierney (March 15, 1919 - February 26, 2002) was an American actor. Known as a gangster actor, Lawrence's most memorable parts may have been the title role in "Dillinger", and the role of Joe Cabot in Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs" (1992) almost fifty years later.
- Sol C. Siegel
Sol C. Siegel (1903 - 1982) was an American reporter and producer. In 1934 he began his Hollywood career by assisting with the merger of four production studios into Republic Pictures. He stayed on at Republic as an executive producer, working with Gene Autry and John Wayne. He later worked with Paramount and 20th Century Fox, where two of the films he produced, …
- Jeremy Thomas
Jeremy Thomas (born 26 July, 1949 in London, England) is a British film producer, founder of the Recorded Picture Company. He was the producer of Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Last Emperor", which won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Picture. In 2006 he received European Film Award for Outstanding European Achievement in World Cinema.
- Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock Kbe
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (August 13 1899 – April 29 1980) was a highly influential British-born film director and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres. He directed more than fifty feature films in a career spanning six decades, from the silent film era, through the invention of talkies, to the colour era. Hitchcock was among the most consistently successful and publicly recognizable directors in the world during his lifetime, …
- Louis Jourdan
Louis Jourdan (* June 19, 1919 in Marseilles; bourgeois name Louis Gendre ) is a French actor. Jourdan grew up in France, Turkey and England and was at the Ecole Dramatique in Paris for the actor trained. His first appearance as a movie actor, he had 1939. During the Second World War he turned to movies, until he was asked to propaganda films of the Nazis cooperate, he dismissed the call back and joined the Resistance to.
- Stephen Woolley
Stephen Woolley born 3 September 1956 in London) is an English film producer and director. He is best known for his work with director Neil Jordan that has resulted in a number of critically acclaimed films including the Oscar winning "The Crying Game". After programming the cinema Screen on the Green in Islington, north London, and managing The Scala Cinema, …
- Mike Todd
Michael Todd (June 22, 1907 or 1909 -March 22, 1958) was an American theatre and film producer, best known for his 1956 production of "Around the World in Eighty Days", which won an Academy Award for Best Picture.
- Tom Rosenberg
Tom B. Rosenberg is an American film producer as well as founder and chairman of Lakeshore Entertainment. He is a recipient of the 2004 Academy Award for Best Picture for the film "Million Dollar Baby".
- Alain Sarde
Alain Sarde is a French film producer and actor who was born on the 28 March 1952 in Boulogne-Billancourt. One of his films, Mulholland Dr. received the Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Picture. The Pianist was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and the BAFTA Award for Best Film.
- Richard Cromwell
Richard Cromwell (January 8, 1910 - October 11, 1960) was an American actor, born LeRoy Melvin Radabaugh. His family and friends called him Roy, though he was also professionally known and signed autographs as Dick Cromwell. Cromwell was best known for his work in "Jezebel" (1938) with Bette Davis and Henry Fonda and in "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer" (1935) where he shared top billing with Gary Cooper and Franchot Tone.
- Judith Guest
Judith Guest (born March 29, 1936) is an American novelist and screenwriter. The great-niece of Edgar A. Guest (1881-1959), who had been a Poet Laureate of Michigan, Judith Guest was born in Detroit, Michigan. She graduated from Dondero High School in Royal Oak in 1954, then studied English and psychology at the University of Michigan, graduating with a BA in education.
- Michael Peña
Michael Anthony Peña is an American actor. Peña, a Mexican American, was born in Chicago, Illinois, where his father worked at a button factory and his mother was an assistant to a social worker, although both of Peña's parents were originally farmers. Peña attended Marist High School in Chicago. Though Peña has been a regular in independent productions since 1994, his breakthrough performances came in 2004 in two Best Picture Oscar-winning Paul Haggis penned films, …
- Tamara Asseyev
Tamara Asseyev is an American film producer and writer. She began her career in the film industry as a production assistant for Roger Corman, working on such films as "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre" (1967) and "The Trip" (1967). She directed a five-minute prologue for Corman's "The Pit and the Pendulum" (1961) when that film was sold to ABC-TV in 1968, …
- Paul Bern
Paul Bern was a German-American film director, screenwriter and producer for MGM. Bern was born to a Jewish family in Hamburg, Germany, as Paul Levy and came to the United States when he was a child. The all-star film "Grand Hotel" won the Best Picture Academy Award for 1931–32. Bern and Irving Thalberg produced the film, although neither was credited (in the early 1930s MGM did not list their films' producers in their credits).
- Daphne Du du Maurier
Daphne, Lady Browning DBE (13 May, 1907-19 April, 1989), commonly known as Dame Daphne du Maurier, was a famous British novelist best known for her short story "The Birds" and her classic novel "Rebecca", published in 1938. Both were adapted into films by Alfred Hitchcock, "Rebecca" winning the Oscar for Best Picture.