- Robert Altman
Robert Bernard Altman was an American film director known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his work with an Academy Honorary Award. His films "MASH" and "Nashville" have been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. - Margaret Herrick
Margaret Herrick, (September 27, 1902-June 21, 1976) was the librarian and director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Herrick is generally credited with naming the Academy Award an "Oscar", declaring the statuettes "looked just like my Uncle Oscar." However, others, including Academy President Bette Davis, have claimed they invented the name. She was born in Spokane, Washington, United States. Her maiden name was Margaret Buck. - Sid Ganis
Sidney Ganis (born January 8, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American motion picture executive and producer who has produced such films as "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo", "Big Daddy", "Mr. Deeds", "The Master of Disguise" and "Akeelah and the Bee". On August 23, 2005 he was elected President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Ganis began his film career in marketing and publicity at several studios, … - David Brown
David Brown (born July 28, 1916) is an American movie producer. Born in New York City, he is best known as the producing partner of Richard D. Zanuck. They were jointly awarded The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1990 for their achievements in producing. Among their films were two of Steven Spielberg's early films, "The Sugarland Express" (1974) and "Jaws" (1975), … - Kate Winslet
Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born October 5, 1975) is a five-time Academy Award-nominated, Emmy Award-nominated, BAFTA, Grammy and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning British actress. She is noted for having played a wide range of diverse characters over her career, but is probably best-known for her critically acclaimed performances as Juliet Hulme in "Heavenly Creatures" (1994), Rose DeWitt Bukater in the highest-grossing film of all time, "Titanic" (1997), … - Bette Davis
Bette Davis (April 5, 1908 - October 6, 1989), born Ruth Elizabeth Davis, was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, though her greatest successes were romantic dramas. - Sidney Poitier
Sir Sidney Poitier KBE, (born February 20 1927), is an Academy Award-winning Bahamian American actor, film director, and activist. He broke through as a star in acclaimed performances in American films and plays, which, by consciously defying racial stereotyping, gave a new dramatic credibility for black actors to mainstream film audiences in the Western world. - Jackie Earle Haley
Jackie Earle Haley (born July 14, 1961, in Northridge, California, USA) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor who is best known for his portrayal of Kelly Leak, the motorcycle-riding, cigarette-smoking little leaguer in "The Bad News Bears" and its sequels. Haley has appeared in numerous films, including "Damnation Alley", "The Day of the Locust", and "Losin' It", as well as guest roles on TV. - Michael Arndt
Michael Arndt is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter best known for writing the 2006 film "Little Miss Sunshine". He has been hired by Pixar Animation Studios and is currently writing "Toy Story 3". Michael Arndt has won awards for Best Original Screenplay from Kansas City Film Critics, The Writers Guild of America and The Academy Awards.<BR> In order to write full-time and complete his screenplay for "Little Miss Sunshine", … - Frank Lloyd
Frank Lloyd (born 2 February 1886 in Glasgow, UK, died 10 August 1960 in Santa Monica, California, United States) was a film director, scriptwriter and producer. Lloyd was among the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and its president between 1934 and 1935. - Walter Mirisch
Walter Mortimer Mirisch is an American film producer in Hollywood, California. In his long and successful motion picture career, Walter Mirisch has produced some of the industry’s finest and most memorable films. As President and Executive Head of Production of The Mirisch Corporation, an independent filmmaking organization, which he formed in 1957 with his two brothers, the late Marvin and Harold, Walter continues to turnout fresh and highly entertaining films. - Mark Johnson
Mark Johnson (born December 27, 1945 in Washington, D. C.) is a film producer who lives and works in the United States. He first became involved in show business in 1974 working as a production assistant in television commercials. Johnson collaborated on several films with Barry Levinson (whom he met on the set of High Anxiety in 1977) including Diner, The Natural, Good Morning, Vietnam, Rain Man, and Toys. - Arthur Hiller
Arthur Hiller (born November 22, 1923 in Edmonton, Alberta) is an Oscar-nominated Canadian film director. Arthur Hiller graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1947, a Master of Arts degree in psychology in 1950 and received an honorary Doctor of Laws in 1995. Hiller began his show business career in television in the 1950's and was a successful television director before moving into films. - Carmine Caridi
Carmine Caridi (born January 23, 1934 in New York City) is an American television and film actor. He has appeared in a wide variety of roles over the past 30 years, most notably playing Albert Volpe in "The Godfather Part III" and Carmine Rosato in "The Godfather Part II". He is the only actor to play two different roles in the Godfather films. He also played Detective Vince Gotelli in the television series "NYPD Blue" between 1993-1999. - Charles Brackett
Charles Brackett (November 26, 1892-March 9, 1969) was an accomplished writer, movie screenwriter and movie producer. Born in Saratoga Springs, New York, Charles William Brackett was the son of New York State Senator (Edgar Truman Brackett). Brackett's roots trace back to his "Mayflower" ancestor, "Stephen Hopkins". Brackett was a graduate of Williams College, and received his law degree from Harvard University. - Fay Kanin
Fay Mitchell Kanin (born May 9 1917) is an American screenwriter who was President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1979 to 1983. Born in New York City and raised in Elmira, New York, she graduated from University of Southern California with a bachelor's degree. Her first job was as a script reader at RKO. She married Michael Kanin in 1940 and collaborated with him on many projects, notably "The Outrage". - Walter Wanger
Walter Wanger was an important American film producer. Wanger was born Walter Feuchtwanger in San Francisco, California. He served with the United States Army during World War I. He produced his first motion picture in 1929 titled "The Cocoanuts" directed by Joseph Santley and starring the Marx brothers. His many significant productions include "The Sheik" (1921), "Gabriel Over the White House" (1933), "Queen Christina" (1933), … - Ed Begley Jr.
Edward James Begley, Jr. (born September 16, 1949 in Los Angeles, California) is an actor (son of veteran character actor Ed Begley) and environmentalist who is perhaps best known for his work on the television series "St. Elsewhere" as Dr. Victor Ehrlich, for which he received six consecutive Emmy Award nominations. Other numerous works in television and film include recurring roles on "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman", "7th Heaven", … - Henry King
Henry King (b. 24th January 1886 in Christiansburg, Virginia; d. 29th June 1982 in Toluca Lake, California) was an American film director. Before coming to film, King worked as an actor in various repertoire theatres, and first started to take small film roles in 1912. He directed for the first time in 1915, and grew to become one of the most commercially successful Hollywood directors of the 1920s and 1930s. He was nominated for the best director Oscar twice, … - Raoul Walsh
Raoul Walsh (born March 11, 1887 in New York City, died December 31, 1980 in Simi Valley) was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ("AMPAS") and the brother of silent screen actor George Walsh. Walsh began his entertainment career as a stage actor in New York City, quickly progressing into film acting. - Jesse L. Lasky
Jesse Louis Lasky (September 13, 1880 - January 13, 1958) was a pioneer Hollywood film producer, and also a key person to invent Paramount pictures with Adolph Zukor. Born in San Francisco, California, he worked at a variety of jobs but began his entertainment career as a vaudeville performer that eventually led to the motion picture business. - Richard D. Zanuck
Richard Darryl Zanuck (born December 13, 1934) is an American film producer. Born in Los Angeles, California, he was the son of Darryl Zanuck, the famed head of Twentieth-Century Fox studios. While studying at Stanford University, Richard began his career in the film industry working for the Twentieth-Century Fox story department. In 1959, Zanuck got his first shot at producing when his father installed him as the producer of the film Compulsion. - Dede Allen
Dede Allen (born Dorothea Carothers Allen, 3 December, 1923, in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated American film editor, well-known "film editing doctor" to the major American movie studios and one of cinema's all-time celebrated "auteur" film editors. Allen is most known for having edited classic films such as "Dog Day Afternoon", "The Hustler", … - Allison Anders
Allison Anders is an American film and television director. Anders has directed several independent films, on which she frequently collaborates with fellow UCLA film school graduate Kurt Voss. According to an article in "Creative Screenwriter Magazine": "Raised in rural Kentucky, Anders spent her teens hitchhiking across the country, … - Arthur Dong
Arthur Dong (born October 30, 1953 in San Francisco, California) is an American documentary filmmaker. He is Chinese American and his work combines the art of the visual medium with an investigation of social issues, examing topics such as Asian American history and identity, and Gay oppression. - Howard W. Koch
Howard Winchel Koch (April 11, 1916 - February 16, 2001) was an American director and producer of motion pictures and television. Born in New York City, he attended Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey. He began his film career as an employee at Universal Studios office in New York then made his Hollywood filmmaking debut in 1947 as an assistant director. He worked as a producer for the first time in 1953 and a year later made his directing debut. - Sid Grauman
Sidney Patrick Grauman (March 17, 1879 - March 5, 1950) was an American showman who created one of Southern California's most recognizable and visited landmarks, Grauman's Chinese Theater. A failed prospector in the Klondike gold rush, he had owned movie theaters in Alaska and Northern California before building three noteworthy Los Angeles movie palaces: the Million Dollar Theater, the Egyptian Theater, and finally the Chinese, … - Mike Rich
Mike Rich (born 1959) is an American screenwriter best known for his writing on sports-related films. A graduate of Oregon State University, Rich began his media career as a news reporter for a Portland radio station. In 1998 he was awarded a Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his first film script "Finding Forrester". Most recently, he wrote "The Nativity Story", about the birth of Jesus. - Hawk Koch
Howard Winchel Koch, Jr. (born December 14, 1945 in Los Angeles, California) is an American motion picture producer, a member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and a former road manager for the musical groups The Supremes and The Dave Clark Five. Almost always known by the nickname "Hawk," he was raised in the film business, the son of producer Howard Winchel Koch, Sr. After his time in the music business, … - Doug Atchison
Doug Atchison is an American motion picture director and writer. He received the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Nicholl Fellowship for "Akeelah and the Bee" in 2000. After winning the Nicholl Fellowship, former ICM superagent Lou Pitt guided Doug's script into production in partnership with Lions Gate Films, 2929 Entertainment, and Starbucks Productions. "Akeelah and the Bee" went on to become a critical and modest commercial success, … - Paul Allen
Paul Gardner Allen (born January 21, 1953 in Seattle, Washington) is an American entrepreneur. With Bill Gates, he formed Microsoft. Allen regularly appears on lists of the richest people in the world; as of 2007 "Forbes" ranks him the fifth richest American, worth an estimated $18.0 billion. He is the founder and chairman of Vulcan Inc. (his private asset management company)and chairman of Charter Communications. - 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. - Benjamin Glazer
Benjamin Glazer (May 7, 1887 - March 18, 1956) is an Academy Award-winning writer, producer, foley artist, and director of American films from the 1920s through the 1950s. He is best known for his Oscar-winning work on 1927's "Seventh Heaven" and 1941's "Arise, My Love". He was also one of the founding members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He was born in Belfast, Ireland. - Mark Waters
Mark Waters (born June 30, 1964) in Cleveland, Ohio is an American film director. Waters is perhaps best known for directing "Just Like Heaven", "Freaky Friday", and "Mean Girls". He is the brother of screenwriter Daniel Waters and has been married to actress Dina Spybey since 2000. He is a graduate of the American Film Institute and as of September 2006 has a development deal with Paramount pictures. - Frank R. Pierson
Frank R. Pierson (born 12 May 1925) is an American screenwriter and film director. Born in Chappaqua, New York, Pierson attended Harvard. He got his break in Hollywood when he penned a script for the television series "Naked City" in 1958. He went on to write or co-write several notable films, including the "Cat Ballou". He helped write "Cool Hand Luke" and "Dog Day Afternoon", which were both nominated for Academy Awards, … - Garrett Brown
Garrett Brown (native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) an American cinematographer, best known as the inventor of the Steadicam. Brown's invention allows cameramen to film while walking without the normal shaking and jostles of a handheld camera. The Steadicam was first used in the Hal Ashby film, "Bound for Glory" (1976), receiving an Academy Award (Best Cinematography) and since on such films as "Rocky", filming Rocky's running and training sequences, … - Ross Katz
Ross Katz (born May 19 1971 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American film producer. Katz has had three films in competition at the Sundance Film Festival and was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (producers branch) in 2005. - Jeanie MacPherson
Jeanie MacPherson was educated at Madame de Facq's school in Paris, the Kenwood Institute in Chicago and took dancing from Theodore Kosloff. Her onstage experience started when she went to Chicago Musical College. In 1908, she made her screen debut in the D.W. Griffith directed dramatic short entitled "The Factual Hour" and would become a popular actress through the 1910s, appearing alongside such notable actors as Wallace Reid, Geraldine Farrar, … - Carol Littleton
Carol Littleton (born in 1948 in Oklahoma) is the Academy Award-nominated American feature film editor of the heartwarming blockbuster, the Steven Spielberg-directed film, "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" as well as editor of several other popular films (such as "The Big Chill" and "Body Heat"). Carol Littleton was also the recipient of an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing (for a TV Miniseries, … - John Platt
Dr John Platt is a senior researcher in the Knowledge Tools Group at Microsoft Corporation. Platt has worked for Microsoft since 1997. Prior to Microsoft, Platt had served as Director of Research at Synaptics. Platt was born in Elgin, Illinois and matriculated at California State University, Long Beach at the age of 14. After graduating from CSULB at the age of 18, Platt enrolled in a computer science PhD program at California Institute of Technology.
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