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'.

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.

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.

Saul Zaentz is an American film producer and former record company executive. He has won the Academy Award for Best Picture three times and in 1996 won the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. Zaentz’s film production career is marked by a dedication to the adaptation of the novel. A prolific reader, Zaentz typically does not produce original screenplays. His most recent production, "Goya's Ghosts", is an exception, …

Anthony Alvin Anderson (born August 15, 1970) is an American comedian and actor. Anderson was born in Los Angeles, California, but grew up in Compton, California, to Doris, a telephone operator and actress; his step-father, Sterling Bowman, owns a chain of clothing stores. Anderson is an alumnus of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. Anderson first achieved recognition in the NBC television show "Hang Time" (1995–2000).

Irwin Winkler (born May 25, 1931) is an American film producer and director. He is the producer or director of 50 major motion pictures, dating back to 1967's "Double Trouble", starring Elvis Presley. The fourth film he produced, "They Shoot Horses Don't They" (1969), starring Jane Fonda, was nominated for eleven Academy Awards. In 1976, he won an Oscar for Best Picture for "Rocky".

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.

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.

Hugh Hudson (born 25 August 1936) is an English Academy Award-nominated film director.

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.

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", …

Jonathan Adam Saunders Baruchel (born April 9 1982), better known as Jay Baruchel, is a Canadian film and television actor.

Jerry Zucker (born March 11, 1950) is an American movie director known for his role in directing comedy spoof films. Zucker was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Charlotte, an actress, and Burton Zucker, a real estate developer. He graduated from Shorewood High School. Zucker's early career work included co-directing the movies "Airplane!" in 1980, "Top Secret!" in 1984, and "Ruthless People" in 1986.

James Gleason (May 23, 1882 - April 12, 1959) was an American actor born in New York City. He was also a playwright and screenwriter. Balding and slender with a craggy voice, Gleason portrayed tough but warm-hearted characters, usually with a New York background. He appeared in several movies with his wife Lucille. Gleason co-wrote "The Broadway Melody", the second film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, and had a small uncredited role in it.

Mischa Auer (17 November 1905 in St. Petersburg - 5 March 1967 in Rome) was a Russian actor, born Mischa Ounskowsky. Young Ounskowsky renamed himself Auer after his grandfather, violinist Leopold Auer. He began stage work in the 1920s, then moved to Hollywood, where he first appeared in 1928 in "Something Always Happens". He appeared in several small and mostly uncredited roles into the 1930s, …

Robert Lorenz is an Academy Award-nominated producer, best known for his collaborations with Clint Eastwood. He has produced "Mystic River" (for which he earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture), "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters from Iwo Jima" (for which he earned another Oscar nomination for Best Picture) with Eastwood.

Wesley Ruggles (June 11, 1889 - January 8, 1972) was an American film director. He was born in Los Angeles, a younger brother of actor Charles Ruggles. He began his career in 1915 as an actor, appearing in a dozen or so silent films, on occasion with Charles Chaplin. In 1917, he turned his attention to directing, …

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, …

Felix Chong Man Keung (born January 1, 1968 in Hong Kong, China) is a Chinese scriptwriter. He is one of the most celebrated scriptwriters in Hong Kong and has won several prestigious awards at the Hong Kong Film Awards. Chong's best known film is Infernal Affairs, which he co-wrote alongside Alan Mak. The 2006 American movie The Departed is adapted from his story and later won four Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director.

Harry Beaumont was an American director during the 1920s and 30s. He worked for a variety of production companies including Fox, Goldwyn, Metro, Warner Brothers and MGM. His greatest successes were during the silent film era, when he directed films including John Barrymore’s “Beau Brummel” (1924), the silent musical "Our Dancing Daughters" (1928), featuring Joan Crawford. Beaumont also directed MGM's first talkie musical, “The Broadway Melody” in 1929.

Gina Pareño is a mestiza (half-Filipino and half-American) actress in the Philippines. She has worked in television and film in the Philippines since the 1960s. Recently her work has won international recognition; at the Osian Cinefan Film Festival held in New Delhi in July 2006 she won Best Actress for her role in Kubrador (A Bet Collector). The same movie also won as Best Director and Best Picture. During the 32nd Metro Manila Film Festival Awards Night, …

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.

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.

Doris Dowling (b. May 15 1923, Detroit, Michigan - d. June 18 2004, Los Angeles) was an American film actress. After serving her time as a chorus-girl on Broadway, Detroit-born Doris Dowling followed her elder sister Constance to Hollywood. Her first credited film role was that of barfly and drinking companion Gloria to fellow alcoholic Ray Milland in the classic The Lost Weekend.

Nova Margery Pilbeam (b. November 15 1919 in Wimbledon) is a British actress with notable performances in both theatre and film. She was last known to be living in Highgate in north London. She reached great fame early in her life with high-profile roles as a child stage actress. This early success led to a great deal of work in her teen years, …

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).

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, …

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.

Emil Newman (January 20, 1911-August 30, 1984) was an American composer and conductor who worked on over 200 films and TV shows. He was nominated for an Oscar for musical direction on the classic "Sun Valley Serenade" (1941). A native of Connecticut, Emil Newman entered films in 1940 as the musical director on thirteen films. He received credit on twenty-five films in 1941 and twenty-eight films in 1942, one of which, "Whispering Ghosts", …

Anita W. Addison was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA in 1952. She died on January 24, 2004. The Best Picture winner at the 78th Academy Awards, "Crash" (2004), was dedicated to her. She was a film producer and director whose career was almost entirely in television, beginning with the series "Knots Landing" in 1979. One of her most successful works was the poignant television movie "Deep in My Heart" (1999).

Robert Sabbag is an American journalist and bestselling author of two books on drugs smuggling in the United States; "Snowblind: A Brief History in the Cocaine Trade" and the follow-up book "Smokescreen: A True Adventure". He is also a regular contributor to "Rolling Stone" magazine. He was one of the screenwriters for the 1999 TV motion picture "Witness Protection", based on his New York Times Magazine cover story "The Invisible Family", …

Barbra Streisand (pronounced STRY-sand, IPA : /EstraEsaend/ ; born April 24 , 1942 ) is an American singer , theatre and film actress , composer , liberal political activist, film producer and director . She has won Oscars for Best Actress and Best Original Song as well as multiple Emmy Awards , Grammy Awards , and Golden Globe Awards .

Irwin Winkler (born May 25, 1931) is an American film producer and director. He is the producer or director of 50 major motion pictures, dating back to 1967's "Double Trouble", starring Elvis Presley. The fourth film he produced, "They Shoot Horses Don't They" (1969), starring Jane Fonda, was nominated for eleven Academy Awards. In 1976, he won an Oscar for Best Picture for "Rocky".