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), …

Emma Thompson (born April 15, 1959) is an Emmy-, BAFTA- and Academy Award-winning English actress, comedian, and screenwriter. She is also a patron of the Refugee Council.

Leonard Gary Oldman is an Emmy Award-nominated, Saturn and BAFTA Award-winning English actor, writer and director. He initially came to prominance in the 1986 film "Sid & Nancy", in which he played the ill-fated rocker Sid Vicious. He later starred in films such as "Dracula", "Léon", "The Fifth Element" and "Hannibal". Generally regarded as one of the world's most versatile actors, …

Paul Greengrass (b. August 13, 1955 in Cheam, Surrey) is an Academy Award-nominated, BAFTA Award-winning English writer and film director. He specialises in dramatisations of real-life events and is known for his signature use of hand-held cameras. He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge University. He first worked as a director in the 1980s, for the ITV current affairs programme "World in Action".

Thandiwe Adjewa "Thandie" Newton (born 6 November 1972) is a BAFTA Award-winning English actress.

Julian Edward Peter Jarrold (born 15 May 1960) is a BAFTA Award-nominated English film and television director. He was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and lives at Stoke Holy Cross, in South Norfolk. He has two children.

Dawn Roma French (born 11 October 1957) is a BAFTA Award-nominated British comedian and actress best known for starring in her comedy sketch show "French & Saunders" along with her comedy partner Jennifer Saunders, and for playing the lead role in "The Vicar of Dibley" as Geraldine Granger.

John August (born August 4, 1970 in Boulder, Colorado) is an American screenwriter and film director. Born and raised in Boulder, Colorado, August earned a degree in journalism from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa and an MFA in film from the The Peter Stark Producing Program at the University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles. August's debut film was 1999's critically-acclaimed "Go", which he also co-produced and was second unit director in.

Jim Abrahams (born 10 May 1944) is an American movie director and writer. Abrahams was born in Shorewood, Wisconsin. He is known for the spoof movies he co-wrote and produced with brothers Jerry Zucker and David Zucker, such as "Airplane!" for which he was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay and "The Naked Gun" series. The team of Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker (also referred to as "ZAZ") really began when the three men grew up together in Milwaukee, …

Anne Reid (born 28 May 1935) is BAFTA Award-nominated English film and television actress from Newcastle upon Tyne, best known for her roles as Valerie Tatlock in "Coronation Street" and Jean in "dinnerladies".

Francis George Roddam (born April 29, 1946, Norton, Stockton-on-Tees) is an English film director and documentary maker. He is best known for the film "Quadrophenia" and the early reality television series "The Family". In the mid 1960s, Roddam worked in advertising as a copy writer; the hero of "Quadrophenia" also works for an advertising firm. He attended the London Film School, making his first short film "The Birthday" in 1969.

David Sproxton CBE is one of the co-founders (together with Peter Lord) of the Aardman Animations studio. Starting as an animator, producing segments for the "Vision On" TV program, Sproxton and Lord created the character of Morph for "Take Hart" (which featured Tony Hart, the artist from "Vision On"). He is credited as the cinematographer for the BAFTA Award nominated "War Story", and the Oscar nominated "Adam", …

Estelle Parsons (born November 20, 1927 in Marblehead, Massachusetts) is an American theater, film and television actress. Parsons originally studied law, and then worked as a singer with a band before settling on an acting career in the early 1950's. Moving to New York, she worked as a writer, producer and commentator for The Today Show .

Robert Ryan (November 11, 1909 - July 11, 1973) was an Irish-American Oscar and Bafta award-nominated actor born in Chicago, Illinois. He most often played hardened cops and ruthless villains throughout his career.

Mitzi Solomon Cunliffe was an American sculptor. She was most famous for designing the golden trophy in the shape of a theatrical mask that would go on to represent the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and be presented as the BAFTA award. She also produced textiles, ceramics, and jewelery.

Laurence Harvey was an Academy Award-nominated Lithuanian-born actor who achieved fame in British and American films. Laurence Harvey maintained throughout his life that his birth name was Laruschka Mischa Skikne, but his real name was Zvi Mosheh (Hirsh) Skikne and he was called Hirshkeh by his family. He was the youngest of three boys born to Ber "Boris" and Ella Skikne, a Jewish family in the town of Joniškis, Lithuania.

Virginia McKenna OBE, (born June 7, 1931 in London) is an English stage and screen actress, author and wildlife campaigner. McKenna trained as an actress at the Central School of Speech and Drama then worked on stage in London's West End theatres before making her motion picture debut in 1952. She continued to appear in both films and on stage and in 1954/1955 was a member of the Old Vic theatre company.

Andrew Birkin is an English BAFTA Award-winning screenwriter, actor and director. He was born 9 December 1945 in London.

Andrew Kevin Walker (born August 14, 1964 in Altoona, Pennsylvania) is an American BAFTA-nominated screenwriter. He is best known for having written the Academy Award-nominated film "Se7en", for which he earned a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, as well as several other films, including "8mm", "Sleepy Hollow" and many uncredited script rewrites.

Anna Biedrzycka Sheppard is a Polish costume designer. She graduated architecture from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Now she lives in London. She made many films with directing masters like Steven Spielberg or Roman Polański. She was nominated twice to an Academy Award for Best Costume Design ("Schindler's List" in 1993 and "The Pianist" in 2003). She was also nominated to BAFTA Award for Schindler's List and Cesar Award for The Pianist.

Carmine Coppola (June 11, 1910 - April 26, 1991) was an Oscar-winning, Golden Globe-winning and Bafta Award-nominated American composer, editor, musical director, and songwriter. Coppola was a composer and conductor who contributed to many of the musical scores in "The Godfather, Part II" and "Apocalypse Now".

Tomasz Bagiński, Tomek Baginski (born January 10, 1976, Białystok) is a BAFTA Award-winning Polish artist and animator, best known for his Oscar-nominated short movie, "The Cathedral" (2002). For his newest short, "Fallen Art" (2004), he received a BAFTA Award for Best Short Animation and Grand Prix for Digital Shorts at Golden Horse Film Festival 2005 (shared with: Jarek Sawko and Piotr Sikora)

Ian Wilson (born April 23, 1939 in London, UK) is a British cinematographer. He studied graphic design and photography at the Nottingham School of Art and the London International Film School. In the 1960s he worked for the United Nations and made footage for documentaries in Greece. In 1966 he entered the film business and his first work as cinematographer was Private Right by Michael Papas. In the following time he made short films, commercials, or documentaries.

Daniel Robert Snow was born in London on December 3 1978. He is the son of Peter Snow, BBC television journalist and Ann MacMillan, a CBC London correspondent. Through his mother he is the nephew of Canadian historian Maragret McMillan, and a descendant of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George. He has Canadian and British citizenship. He attended St Paul's School in Barnes, where he was Captain of the School, …

David Alexander Anderson is a director of animated films. In 1983 he won a BAFTA Award for "Dreamland Express". "Deadsy and the Sexo-Chanjo" received a BAFTA nomination in 1991. "Door" also won several awards at major international film festivals .

Sheldon Kahn is a BAFTA Award winning film editor and producer. He was jointly awarded the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, with Lynzee Klingman and Richard Chew, for their work on "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".

Bob Godfrey (January 27 1921) is a distinguished British animator whose career spans more than fifty years. He is probably best known for the children's cartoon series "Roobarb" (1974), "Noah and Nelly in the SkylArk" (1977) and "Henry's Cat" (1983) and for the "Trio" chocolate biscuit advertisements shown in the UK during the early 1980's. However, he has also produced a BAFTA and Academy award -winning short film "Great" (1976), …

Khalid Abdalla (born 1980 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a British actor of Egyptian heritage. He came to international prominence after starring in the 2006 Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA Award-winning "United 93". Written and directed by Paul Greengrass, it chronicles events aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked during the September 11, 2001 attacks. Abdalla plays Ziad Jarrah, the leader of the four hijackers on board the flight.

Jimmy Hibbert is an English television writer and voice actor best known for his work for Cosgrove Hall. He was brought up and educated in Henley-on-Thames and later studied at the University of Manchester achieving a BA(Hons) in drama. After touring with a rock band, Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias, for 10 years, Hibbert began a successful voice-over career appearing in the BAFTA Award-winning series "Alias the Jester", …

Roger Williams (born in 1974 at Newport, Wales) is a Welsh playwright and screenwriter working in both English and Welsh. His work often examines aspects of modern Welsh life, such as the place of minority languages, the plight of declining industrial communities and the Cardiff gay scene. He was raised in Carmarthen, west Wales. He graduated in 1995 from the University of Warwick with a degree in English and American Literature.

Gerry Fisher is an English cinematographer who was born in London on 23 June 1926. Before working as a cinematographer he was a cameraman. His carrer spanned six decades and well over a hundred films. He was twice nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography, in 1972 for "The Go-Between", and in 1977 for "Aces High". In 1976 Fisher was nominated for the Best Cinematography Award by the British Society of Cinematographers, again for "Aces High".

Frank Harvey was an English screenwriter who jointly won a BAFTA Award with John Boulting and Alan Hackney for "I'm All Right Jack" in 1960. He was born 11 August 1912 in Manchester. During his career he was nominated for a second BAFTA for Private's Progress. He died 6 November 1981 in Ottery St. Mary, Devon.

Gwen Welles (March 4, 1947 - October 13, 1993) was an American actress of stage and screen. She was born in Chattanooga Tennessee as Gwen Goldberg (she was not, as is often reported, the daughter of actress Rebecca Welles [1944 - 2004]). Welles is best known for her portrayal of talentless singer Sueleen Gay in Robert Altman's classic 1975 film Nashville, for which she was nominated for BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Peter E. Berger is a BAFTA Award winning film editor. He won the 1989 BAFTA for Best Editing for "Fatal Attraction" with Michael Kahn. He also received Academy Award and American Cinema Editors nominations in the previous year for that work. His film editing credits include: "Coach Carter", "Star Trek: Insurrection", "Star Trek: Generations", "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier", "Less Than Zero", "Fatal Attraction", …

George Irving (b. 6 May, 1954 in South Shields) is a British actor who is probably most famous for playing Anton Meyer in "Holby City" from 1999 to 2002. He is also been in "The Sweeney", "The Professionals", "Juliet Bravo", "Bergerac", "Dempsey and Makepeace", "EastEnders" as Trevor Smith, "Coronation Street", "Inspector Morse", "Peak Practice", "The Bill", "Dangerfield", "Cadfael", …

Chris Parr (born 1944) is a UK theatre director and television executive. In the late 1960s and early 1970s Parr was Fellow in Theatre at the University of Bradford. In the mid 1970s he became Artistic Director of the Traverse Theatre. In 1994 he was appointed head of drama at BBC Birmingham. In the same year he produced the "Takin' Over the Asylum", which won a BAFTA award. By 2002 he had moved to Thames Television as head of drama.

Michael Dudok de Wit (born in 1953, Holland) is an animator, director and illustrator. In 1978, he graduated from the West Surrey College of Art with his first film "The Interview". After working for a year in Barcelona, he settled in London where he directs and animates award-winning commercials for television and cinema. In 1992, he created the short film "Tom Sweep", followed by "The Monk and the Fish" (1994), …