- Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie (born June 4, 1975) is an American film actress, a former fashion model, and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She is often cited by popular media as the world's sexiest person and her off-screen life is widely reported. She has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award. After appearing as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film "Lookin' to Get Out", … - Tom Hanks
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9 1956) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American film actor, Emmy-winning director, voice-over artist and movie producer. Hanks worked in television and family-friendly comedies before achieving notable success as a dramatic actor in "Philadelphia" and "Forrest Gump". Hanks is the second highest-grossing film star of all time. He is also only one of two actors to have seven consecutive US$100 million blockbusters, … - Denzel Washington
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is a American actor and director. He has garnered much critical acclaim for his portrayals of several real-life figures, such as Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, and Herman Boone. - Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Kate Hudson (born September 12, 1981) is an Academy Award-winning American actress and singer. She first gained notice as one of the finalists on the third season of the FOX television series "American Idol". She went on to star as Effie White in the 2006 musical film "Dreamgirls", for which she won an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, and a SAG Award, as well as two BET Awards. - Michael Moore
Michael Francis Moore (born April 23 1954) is an Academy Award-winning American director and producer of "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Bowling for Columbine", two of the highest-grossing documentaries of all time. He is a vocal critic of globalization, large corporations, gun violence, the Iraq War, U.S. President George W. Bush and the American health care system. In 2005 Time magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people. - Michael Douglas
Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer, primarily on movies and television, who arose to fame as Karl Malden's young partner, Insp. Steve Keller in the popular 1970s crime drama, "The Streets of San Francisco". - Ingmar Bergman
Ernst Ingmar Bergman (born July 14, 1918) is a Swedish stage and film director who is one of the key film auteurs of the 20th century. - William Goldman
William Goldman (born August 12, 1931) is an American novelist, playwright and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. - François Truffaut
François began to assiduously go to the movies at 7. He was also a great reader but not a good pupil. He left school at 14 and started working. In 1947, aged 15, he founded a film club and met André Bazin, a French critic, who becomes his protector. Bazin helped the delinquent Truffaut and also when he was put in jail because he deserted the army. In 1953, he published his first movie critiques in "Les Cahiers du Cinema." In this magazine, Truffaut and some of his friends as... - John Irving
John Winslow Irving (born March 2, 1942 as John Wallace Blunt, Jr.) is a bestselling American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of "The World According to Garp" in 1978. All of Irving's novels, such as "The Cider House Rules" and "A Prayer for Owen Meany," have been bestsellers and many have been made into movies. - Eminem
Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17 1972), commonly known as Eminem or Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer and actor from the Detroit, Michigan area. Having sold seventy million albums worldwide, Eminem is one of the best-selling musicians of the early 2000s, and one of the best-selling rappers of all time. Eminem was discovered by pioneer gangsta rapper and producer Dr. Dre, … - Robert Elswit
Robert Elswit is an American cinematographer. Some of the notable films he has worked on include: *Syriana (2005) *Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) *Punch-Drunk Love (2002) *Magnolia (1999) *Boogie Nights (1997) *Hard Eight (1996) - John Dykstra
John Charles Dykstra (born June 3 1947 in Long Beach, California, United States) is a two-time Academy Award-winning special effects supervisor and pioneer in the development of the use of computers in film making. After studying industrial design, Dykstra landed a job working with Douglas Trumbull on "Silent Running" filming model effects. When George Lucas was recruiting people for the special effects work on "Star Wars", … - Al Gore
Former Vice President Al Gore is Vice Chairman of Metropolitan West Financial, LLC, and a member of the firm's executive leadership team. He serves as a Senior Advisor to Google, Inc. In March 2003, he was elected to the Board of Directors of Apple Computers, Inc. Mr. Gore is a Visiting Professor at two universities in Tennessee, Middle Tennessee State University and Fisk University, and at UCLA. - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Florian Maria Georg Christian Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck (b. May 2 1973, Cologne) is an Academy Award-winning Austrian-German director and screenwriter. - Jessica Yu
Jessica Lingman Yu (born 1966) is an American film director, writer, producer, and editor. A Yale University graduate, she has worked in both documentaries and dramatic films. She won an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject for "Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien" (1996). She, her husband Mark Salzman, and their daughter Ava live in Los Angeles. - Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray was an Indian filmmaker regarded as one of the greatest film directors of the twentieth century. Born in the city of Kolkata (then Calcutta) into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and letters, Ray studied at Presidency College and at the Visva-Bharati University, at the poet Rabindranath Tagore's Santiniketan. - Douglas Wick
Douglas Wick is an American movie producer whose work includes producing the 5 Academy Award-winning 2000 film "Gladiator", "Stuart Little", and the 3 Academy Award-winning "Memoirs of a Geisha". - Richard Edlund
Richard Edlund (born December 6 1940, Fargo, North Dakota) is a multi-Academy Award-winning US special effects photographer. After first joining the Navy, he developed an interest in experimental film and enrolled in film school in California in the late 60s. - Dean Jagger
Dean Jagger (7 November 1903 - 5 February 1991) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. Born Ira Dean Jagger in Columbus Grove, Ohio, Jagger made his film debut in "The Woman from Hell" (1929) with Mary Astor. He became a successful character actor, without becoming a major star, and appeared in almost 100 films in a career that lasted until shortly before his death. - Steven Okazaki
Steven Okazaki (born 1952 in Venice, California) is an American filmmaker. He is Sansei Japanese American (3rd generation) and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has received a Peabody Award and been nominated for three Academy Awards, winning an Oscar for the documentary short subject, "Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo" (1990). - Saul Bass
Saul Bass (May 8, 1920 - April 25, 1996) was a graphic designer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker, but he is best known for his design on animated motion picture title sequences, which is thought of as the best such work ever seen. During his 40-year career he worked for some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers, including most notably Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. - Kieth Merrill
Kieth Merrill is an American filmaker who has worked as a writer, director, and producer in the film industry since 1967. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Director's Guild of America, and received an Academy Award for "The Great American Cowboy" (1973) and a nomination for "Amazon" (1997). He is a founding partner of Odyssey, which pioneered IMAX film technology. - Freida Lee Mock
Freida Lee Mock is an Academy and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, credited with producing films about a wide variety of historical and contemporary subjects. She is a co-founder of the American Film Foundation with Terry Sanders. Mock's diverse production credits include "Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision", "Sing!" (about a Los Angeles community children's choir), "Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember", "To Live or Let Die", and "Return with Honor", presented by Tom Hanks. - Marc Norman
Marc Norman (born Los Angeles, California, 1941) is an American screenwriter. He won, with Tom Stoppard the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, in the 71st Academy Awards of 1998, for his script of "Shakespeare in Love". - Fred Wolf
Fred Wolf is an American animator. His works include the 1967 short subject "The Box", for which he won an Academy Award; television specials such as "Free to Be… You and Me" and "The Little Rascals Christmas Special", and television series such as "James Bond Jr.", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", and Sarah Ferguson's "Budgie the Little Helicopter". He set up a studio in Dublin, Ireland with Jimmy Murakami ("The Snowman"). - Doug Chiang
Doug Chiang is an American movie designer and artist. He was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1962 and grew up in the United States. Chiang studied film at UCLA and industrial design at the College for Creative Studies. During the late 1980's he worked at various production studios including Rhythm and Hues. Chiang eventually joined Industrial Light and Magic as a creative director where he worked on films such as "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and "Forrest Gump". - Walter Lantz
Walter Lantz (April 27 1899 - March 22 1994) was an American cartoonist and animator, best known for founding the Walter Lantz Studio and creating Woody Woodpecker. - Jan A. P. Kaczmarek
Jan Andrzej Paweł Kaczmarek is a Polish Academy Award-winning composer. He has written the scores for over thirty feature films and documentaries. Kaczmarek is a law-studies graduate of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. He worked with Jerzy Grotowski’s Theater Laboratory in the late 1970s and created the Orchestra of the Eighth Day in 1977. He recorded his first album, "Music for the End", in 1982 for Flying Fish Records (Chicago). - Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 - April 20, 1982) was an American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the modernist school of poetry. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize three times. - Marvin Hier
Rabbi Marvin Hier (b. 1939 in New York) is the dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, its Museum of Tolerance and of Moriah, the Center's film division. Hier's parents came from Poland; his father worked as a lamp polisher after arriving in New York in 1917. In 1977, following a visit to Holocaust sites in Europe, Rabbi Hier came to Los Angeles to create the Simon Wiesenthal Center. - James Wong Howe
James Wong Howe (August 28, 1899 - July 12, 1976) is considered one of the greatest cinematographers in movie history. He has over 130 films to his credit. A master at the use of shadow, he was one of the first to use deep-focus cinematography, photography in which both foreground and distant planes remain in focus. During the 1930s and 1940s he was considered one of the most sought after cinematographers in Hollywood. - Gerald R. Molen
Gerald Richard Molen (b. January 6, 1935 in Great Falls, Montana) is a high profile American film producer. He works very closely with Steven Spielberg, having produced five of his films, and won an Academy Award for producing "Schindler's List". Gerald "Jerry" Molen is now semi-retired and spends his time alternating between Montana and Las Vegas, Nevada. Gerald Molen grew up in North Hollywood, California, after moving from Montana, … - Chris Tashima
Chris Tashima (born in 1960, in Cambridge, MA) is an American actor and director. He is a Sansei (third-generation Japanese American). He is co-founder of the entertainment company Cedar Grove Productions and co-Artistic Director of its theatre company, Cedar Grove OnStage. He is the son of U.S. Circuit Judge A. Wallace Tashima. He currently resides in Los Angeles, CA. - Hughes Winborne
Hughes Winborne is a Hollywood Film editor. He has edited twenty films, including Crash, for which he won an Oscar for film editing in the 78th Academy Awards. He also worked on Sling Blade and the current movie Pursuit of Happyness - Peter Ellenshaw
William "Peter" Ellenshaw (May 24 1913 - February 12 2007) was an Anglo-American award-winning matte designer and special effects creator who worked on many Disney features. His first major project was the 1936 film "Things to Come". After World War II, he worked on films like "Quo Vadis" until he was recruited by Walt Disney Studios to work on their first live action film, "Treasure Island". - Laurence Rosenthal
Laurence Rosenthal (born November 4 1926) is an American composer, arranger, and conductor for theater, television, and films. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Rosenthal attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he studied piano and composition. He then studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. Rosenthal has been nominated for twelve Emmy Awards and won seven, for "Michelangelo: The Last Giant" (1966), "Peter the Great" (1986), … - Ernest Pintoff
Ernest Pintoff (b. December 15, 1931, Watertown, Connecticut - d. January 12, 2002, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles) was an Oscar-winning American film and television director, screenwriter and film producer. He won the Oscar for Best Animated Short for "The Critic (film)" (1963), a satire on modern art written and narrated by Mel Brooks. - Ralph Burns
Ralph Burns was a songwriter, bandleader, composer, conductor, arranger and bebop pianist. He was one of the few celebrities to ever win all three major awards that are considered for acting: Oscar, Emmy and a Tony. Ralph Burns began playing the piano as a child. In 1938, he attended the New England Conservatory of Music. He admitted that he learned the most about jazz by transcribing the works of Count Basie, Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington. - Cynthia Scott
Cynthia Scott, RCA, is a film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. She won an Academy Award for her short documentary "Flamenco at 5:15", produced by the National Film Board of Canada. Scott is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
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