Writer/Director CHRIS WEITZ
PHILIP PULLMAN (Novel)
DEBORAH A. FORTE (Producer)
BILL CARRARO (Producer)
BOB SHAYE (Executive Producer)
MICHAEL LYNNE (Executive Producer)
TOBY EMMERICH (Executive Producer)
MARK ORDESKY (Executive Producer)
ILEEN MAISEL (Executive Producer)
ANDREW MIANO (Executive Producer)
PAUL WEITZ (Executive Producer)
Director of Photography HENRY BRAHAM
DENNIS GASSNER (Production Designer)
ANNE V. COATES, O.B.E., A.C.E. (Editor)
RUTH MYERS (Costume Designer)
MICHAEL FINK (Visual Effects Supervisor)
ALEXANDRE DESPLAT (Composer)
BARRY GIBBS (Property Master)
PETER KING (Make-up and Hair Designer)
Stunt coordinator PAUL JENNINGS

ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

Writer/Director CHRIS WEITZ most recently produced the critically acclaimed film, In Good Company, along with his brother and collaborator, Paul Weitz. He previously co-directed, with his brother, the award-winning hit film About a Boy, adapting the screenplay from the Nick Hornby novel. The screenplay received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as similar nominations from BAFTA, Writers Guild, Chicago Film Critics and Humanitas; the film was named one of AFI's Movies of the Year and was nominated for the Golden Globe award for Best Comedy, winning Best Studio Comedy Feature at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival.

In 1999, Weitz and his brother formed Depth of Field, their Los Angeles-based production company. Their diverse slate of upcoming projects include A Stolen Life, a remake of the Bette Davis classic to be directed by Miguel Arteta (The Good Girl); the feature adaptation of Michael Moorcock's fantasy epic The Elric Saga; the comedies Army Geek and The Last Bachelor Party; and the WWI drama Silent Night.

Weitz's first directorial collaboration with Paul was on American Pie, the phenomenally successful first installment of the Pie franchise, which was followed by American Pie 2 and the final installment, American Wedding, both of which he also executive produced.

Prior to their screenwriting work on About a Boy, the brothers collaborated on several screenplays, including Antz and Madeline (adapting the popular children's book). Weitz also made his acting debut in the Sundance Film Festival hit Chuck & Buck.

Born in Norwich in 1946, PHILIP PULLMAN (Novel) is a graduate of Exeter College Oxford where he read English. He became a teacher at various Oxford Middle Schools before moving to Westminster College in 1986, where he spent eight years teaching.

Pullman’s first children’s book was Count Karlstein in 1982, followed by The Ruby in the Smoke in 1986, first in a quartet of books about a Victorian adventurer, Sally Lockhart. A successful television production of this starring Billie Piper and Julie Walters was transmitted at Christmas 2006.

Pullman’s celebrated trilogy, His Dark Materials, made its debut in 1995 with The Golden Compass (Northern Lights in the UK), followed by The Subtle Knife in 1997 and The Amber Spyglass in 2000. These books won many awards – including the Whitbread Book of the Year for The Amber Spyglass, the first time the award has gone to a children’s book. To date the trilogy has sold 14 million copies around the world.

He is currently writing a sequel to His Dark Materials, entitled The Book of Dust.

DEBORAH A. FORTE (Producer) is President of Scholastic Entertainment , and Executive Vice President of Scholastic Inc. and an award-winning producer of children’s media, including movies, television programming, CD-ROMs and Internet sites and a leading marketer of children’s brands. In addition, Forte oversees interactive media, which includes software, software clubs and Weston Woods Studios. She is leading Scholastic’s efforts in the broadband arena and is Chairperson of the corporation’s branding initiative. Forte is responsible for managing Scholastic Entertainment and serves as SE’s lead creative and business executive.

Forte formed Scholastic Entertainment in 1997, creating the only full-scale, production, branding and merchandising division in the children’s publishing industry that successfully develops, produces and markets children’s brands for the global media marketplace. She has executive produced more than 300 television productions and additional producing credits include the feature films Clifford’s Really Big Movie for Warner Bros. Pictures, The Babysitters Club, The Mighty and Tuck Everlasting.

Additionally, she has executive produced the top-rated Clifford The Big Red Dog™ and the highly successful spin-off series Clifford’s Puppy Days™ on PBS KIDS“; Dear America; the Emmy Award-winning I SPY on HBO Family; Scholastic’s Emmy Award-winning series The Magic School Bus on The Learning Channel and Discovery Kids; Animorphs and Goosebumps. Most recently, Ms. Forte executive produced the animated series Maya & Miguel™, which debuted to rave reviews in October 2004 on PBS KIDS GO!. Based on an original concept by Ms. Forte, Maya & Miguel is at the core of a multi-media initiative designed to entertain all children, while promoting cultural diversity and encouraging English language acquisition with a special emphasis on the growing Latino population.

Ms. Forte’s productions have won more than 100 awards, and the CD-ROMs and Web sites currently managed under her direction have won dozens of awards including the Parent’s Choice and the Webby for best kid’s site.

As Producer on The Golden Compass, BILL CARRARO (Producer) has invested the better part of the last 3 years working with New Line Cinema, its creative team and writer/director Chris Weitz in a determined effort to bring this production to the big screen.

An independent producer, Carraro is a native New Yorker, Brooklyn-born, and a graduate of Ithaca College with a degree in Film and Photography. Carraro began his career in the commercial film industry, working on dozens of commercials before moving on to feature film production.

Carraro’s feature credits as producer or executive producer include: The Sentinel, starring Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Eva Longoria and Kim Basinger; My Super Ex-Girlfriend, starring Uma Thurman and Luke Wilson; Stay, starring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling; The Best Man, starring Taye Diggs, Nia Long and Morris Chestnut; Frequency, starring Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel; Undercover Brother, starring Eddie Griffin, Chris Kattan and Denise Richards; American History X, starring Edward Norton, in a powerful, Oscar-nominated performance, and Edward Furlong.

In addition to working with The Golden Compass director Chris Weitz, Carraro has worked on films helmed by such directors as Ivan Reitman, Woody Allen, Brian DePalma, Malcolm Lee, Gregory Hoblit, Joan Micklin Silver, Marc Forster, and James Foley.

In addition to producing, Carraro also served as president of production for Aaron Russo Films, supervising independent and co-financed projects which included a first-look deal at Orion Pictures.

Carraro produced the Emmy-winnng and Golden Globe-nominated HBO Film, The Tuskegee Airmen, based on the true story of the first African American fighter pilots, which starred Laurence Fishburne and Cuba Gooding, Jr. This highly acclaimed project garnered Carraro the Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Achievement. He was also the recipient of the NAACP Image Award for producing The Best Man. In addition, he received a Saturn Award for producing Frequency.

Carraro is a member of both the Producers Guild and the Directors Guild of America and has worked extensively as a 2nd Unit Director.

Having lived in Los Angeles for seven years, Carraro and his family currently reside in New York.

Since founding New Line Cinema in 1967, BOB SHAYE (Executive Producer) has guided the company’s growth from a privately-held art film distributor to one of the entertainment industry’s leading independent studios and a veritable box office force.

Recently, Shaye has returned to his origin as a filmmaker directing New Line’s sci-fi adventure The Last Mimzy. The film tells the story of two young children who discover a box of highly sophisticated toys which empower them with a series of remarkable abilities. Shaye’s previous work as a feature director came with the 1990 romantic comedy Book of Love.

After beginning his filmmaking career at the age of 15 with a training film for employees of his father’s supermarket, Shaye found early success as a young filmmaker. He took First Prize at the prestigious Society of Cinematologists' Rosenthal Competition, where he and Martin Scorsese shared the Best Motion Picture by an American Director Under the Age of 25 honor.

While working at the Museum of Modern Art, Shaye began to explore the world of distribution and formed New Line Cinema, in his Greenwich Village apartment. Building on re-releases of cult films like Reefer Madness and first-run domestic distribution of foreign films, New Line broke out commercially with the release of such popular franchises as the Street Fighter series, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and A Nightmare on Elm Street. Those successful series set the stage for later New Line hits like Rush Hour, Austin Powers, Dumb & Dumber, The Wedding Singer, Seven, Boogie Nights, The Mask and Blade.

With Shaye as Co-Chairman, New Line has developed a reputation for working miracles in “niche” markets and became a trailblazer in the industry thanks to its innovative business strategies, many of which have since become industry norms.

The studio’s maverick style was never more evident than in 1998, when writer/director Peter Jackson brought his 25-minute pitch reel for a big screen epic of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic The Lord of the Rings to New Line, hoping to turn the three volumes into two films. Shaye suggested Jackson make three films and mandated the subsequent green-light for an unprecedented simultaneous production for all three installments.

The results of the gamble are staggering. Combined, The Lord of the Rings trilogy was nominated for 30 Oscars, winning 17, including a clean sweep of 11 awards for The Return of the King, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. At the box office, all three films combined to earn nearly $3 billion worldwide.

This established New Line as the most successful independent film company ever. But New Line’s recent success is not limited to the Rings phenomenon. Other breakout films include the top-grossing comedy of 2005, Wedding Crashers, as well as such hits as Monster-in-Law, The Notebook, Elf, Freddy vs. Jason, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and the Oscar-nominated A History of Violence.

As New Line celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2007, the studio has an exciting slate of upcoming films scheduled for release including The Golden Compass, based on author Phillip Pullman's bestselling His Dark Materials trilogy; Rush Hour 3; and a big-screen adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical comedy Hairspray, starring John Travolta and Queen Latifah.

A University of Michigan graduate with a degree in business administration and a J.D. degree from Columbia University Law School, Shaye is also a Fulbright Scholar, member of the New York State Bar, and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Motion Picture Pioneers and the American Film Institute.

MICHAEL LYNNE(Executive Producer) is Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of New Line Cinema Corporation. During his twenty-plus year association with the company, he has been a driving force in its becoming the most successful, fully integrated independent film company in the world, with divisions devoted to the production, marketing and distribution of theatrical motion pictures as well as home entertainment, television, music, theater, licensing and merchandising.

Mr. Lynne is also Executive Producer of New Line’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, of which the final installment, The Return of the King, was the winner of the 2003 Golden Globe Award for Best Picture-Drama and of the Academy Award for Best Picture. New Line is a pioneer in franchise filmmaking and its Lord of the Rings trilogy is the most successful film franchise in history, with The Return of the King recently becoming only the second film in history to attain a worldwide box office gross in excess of $1 billion.

Together with his Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer Bob Shaye, Mr. Lynne has helped shape the direction of the film industry as a whole with the development of new and unconventional strategies relating to production, marketing and distribution, including the pre-sale of international distribution rights, creating and exploiting “niche” franchises, harnessing off-peak movie going periods and the unprecedented simultaneous production of the three films in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, to name a few.

In addition to The Lord of the Rings, during Mr. Lynne’s tenure at New Line, the studio has produced and distributed a diverse mix of both financially successful and creatively acclaimed motion pictures, including Elf, About Schmidt, I Am Sam, the Austin Powers trilogy, Blade, Rush Hour, Magnolia, Shine, Seven, Dumb and Dumber, The Mask, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Hairspray (which the studio later co-produced on Broadway, winning the Best Musical Tony Award) and the Nightmare on Elm Street series.

Over the years Mr. Lynne has helped oversee and direct New Line’s successful transition from a closely-held small business to its listing as a publicly traded company on the American Stock Exchange (1986); the formation of its subsidiary, Fine Line Features (1990); its purchase by Ted Turner’s Turner Broadcasting System (1993); Time Warner’s purchase of Turner (1996); and AOL’s merger with Time Warner (2001).

Prior to his appointment as Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer in 2001, Lynne had previously served as President of New Line Cinema since 1990, and as Chief Legal Counsel for the company for a decade before that. He has been a member of the Board of Directors (now Executive Committee) since 1983. His alliance with Bob Shaye dates back to 1961, when they both attended Columbia Law School.

Prior to his position with New Line, Mr. Lynne was a partner for twenty years with Blumenthal & Lynne, specializing in entertainment law. He also worked with Barovick & Konecky, an entertainment law firm, and as resident counsel for Embassy Pictures.

Mr. Lynne is a member of the Boards of the Museum of Modern Art, Citymeals-on-Wheels, the American Museum of the Moving Image, the Drawing Center and chairs the Museum Committee of Guild Hall of East Hampton. He also is a member of the Board of Visitors of Columbia Law School and the Dean’s Council of Columbia University School of the Arts. Mr. Lynne is a member of the New York Bar and received his J.D. degree from Columbia Law School in 1964. He graduated from Brooklyn College in 1961 as an English Literature Major.

He and his wife Ninah have two children and reside in New York City.

TOBY EMMERICH(Executive Producer) is president of production for New Line Cinema. Since being named to the post in January 2001, Emmerich has overseen production in the most successful period in company history.

Since Emmerich took the production helm, New Line has released such hits as the Academy Award-winning blockbuster The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2005’s highest-grossing comedy Wedding Crashers, Monster-in-Law, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Elf, The Notebook, and About Schmidt, which starred Jack Nicholson in a Golden Globe-winning performance.

A long-time studio veteran, Emmerich previously served not only as President of New Line Music, but also as an accomplished screenwriter and producer who wrote and produced New Line’s sleeper hit Frequency, starring Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel.

Emmerich joined the company in 1992 as a dual development and music executive. In his position as President of Music, he oversaw the development of Platinum or Gold-selling soundtracks such as Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Elf, Freddy vs. Jason, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Next Friday, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Love Jones, Who’s the Man, Menace II Society, Above the Rim, The Mask, Don Juan DeMarco, My Family, Friday, Dumb and Dumber, Now and Then, Mortal Kombat and Seven, among others.

Prior to his posts at New Line, Emmerich was an A&R representative at Atlantic Records from 1987 to 1992. Emmerich attended the Calhoun School and Wesleyan University, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1985, with honors in English, and concentrations in Classics and Film.
Emmerich lives in Los Angeles with his wife Julie and their daughter.

A lifelong fan of J.R.R. Tolkien's novels, MARK ORDESKY (Executive Producer) was an early champion of the Oscar-winning The Lord of the Rings trilogy at New Line Cinema and, as an executive producer of all three films, played a key role in their production.

In addition to The Golden Compass, Ordesky is simultaneously supervising Inkheart, based on the best-selling Cornelia Funke novel. Inkheart is being directed by Iain Softley (Wings Of The Dove), and stars Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, Andy Serkis and newcomer Eliza Bennett.

In 1997, following the acquisition of the Oscar-winning Shine, Ordesky began a five-year tenure as the head of Fine Line Features, where he helped foster a unique film culture that included the likes of Bernardo Bertolucci, Lars Von Trier, and David Mamet, and provided a haven for emerging talent such as Sundance winners Gavin O'Connor (Tumbleweeds) and Bob Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman (American Splendor). Ordesky has also acquired such acclaimed films as Cannes-winner Dancer In The Dark, Saving Grace, the Oscar-nominated Before Night Falls, Tumbleweeds, The Sweet Hereafter and American Splendor.

His career at New Line Cinema began 18 years ago when he developed a taste for material as a script reader. Working his way up the ladder at the company, Ordesky did everything from managing the company's relationship with John Waters to successfully introducing Jackie Chan to U.S. audiences with the breakout hit Rumble in the Bronx.

Throughout her long career, ILEEN MAISEL (Executive Producer) has been responsible for diverse movies ranging from Dirty Dancing to Dangerous Liaisons.  She produced Patricia Highsmith's critically acclaimed Ripley's Game, starring John Malkovich, and executive produced Jonathan Glazer's Birth, with Nicole Kidman.

During her 10 years as a Senior Vice President at New Line, Maisel has been responsible for an intensive program of European productions. She has overseen two of 2007’s most anticipated movie releases:  The Golden Compass and Inkheart, an adaptation of the best-selling children's novel by Cornelia Funke, starring Brendan Fraser, Dame Helen Mirren and Paul Bettany. Maisel brings to her work the unique combination of experience and understanding of the inner workings of Hollywood, with a strong and successful feel for European talent.  

ANDREW MIANO (Executive Producer) most recently executive produced Paul Weitz's critically acclaimed film In Good Company. He partnered with Paul and Chris Weitz in 1999, overseeing all phases of production at Depth of Field, their Los Angeles-based production company. Their diverse slate of upcoming projects include the feature adaptation of Michael Moorcock's fantasy epic The Elric Saga for Universal Studios and the comedies Army Geek and The Last Bachelor Party. Also in development is Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist for Focus Features; as well as The Game, which Miano will produce, from best-selling author Neil Strauss.

Miano also served as a producer on the WB television series Off Centre and is currently overseeing Depth of Field's recently finalized television deal with NBC Universal Television.

Prior to joining the Weitz brothers, Miano worked for three years at the William Morris Agency, where he started in their agent trainee program. Miano is a graduate of SUNY Oswego, where he earned a Bachelors of Arts degree in theatre and creative writing.

PAUL WEITZ (Executive Producer) most recently wrote, directed and-along with his brother and frequent collaborator, Chris Weitz, produced the critically acclaimed films American Dreamz and In Good Company. He also co-directed the award-winning hit About a Boy with his brother, also adapting the screenplay from Nick Hornby's novel. The screenplay received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as similar nominations from BAFTA, Writers Guild, Chicago Film Critics and Humanitas; the film was named one of AFI's Movies of the Year and was nominated for Golden Globe and Golden Satellite awards for Best Comedy, winning Best Studio Comedy Feature at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival.

In 1999, Paul and Chris Weitz formed Depth of Field, their Los Angeles-based production company. Their diverse slate of upcoming projects includes A Stolen Life, a remake of the Bette Davis classic to be directed by Miguel Arteta (The Good Girl); the feature adaptation of Michael Moorcock's fantasy epic The Elric Saga; the comedies Army Geek and The Last Bachelor Party; and the WWI drama Silent Night.

Weitz made his feature directorial debut teaming with his brother on American Pie, the phenomenally successful first installment of the Pie franchise. Prior to their screenwriting work on About a Boy, the brothers collaborated on several screenplays, including Antz. Weitz also made his acting debut in the Sundance Film Festival hit Chuck&Buck.

Weitz was born in New York, the grandson of fabled agent Paul Kohner (who represented filmmakers such as John Huston, Billy Wilder and Ingmar Bergman). His parents are fashion designer/writer John Weitz and Oscar-nominated actress Susan Kohner. Weitz graduated from Wesleyan University with a degree in film. His last year there, his play “Mango Tea” was produced off-Broadway with Marisa Tomei and Rob Morrow by New York's Ensemble Studio Theatre (EST). EST also produced his next works, “Captive” and “All for One”; and, most recently, the ensemble comedy “Roulette,” starring Larry Bryggman, Anna Paquin, Ana Gasteyer and Shawn Hatosy (which The New York Times cited as an "original jewel"). Privilege was recently produced by the Second Stage Theatre.

Director of Photography HENRY BRAHAM recently shot his second collaboration with director Kirk Jones after Walking Ned, the family comedy Nanny McPhee,

Braham’s other film credits include Tony Bill’s Flyboys, Stephen Fry’s Bright Young Things, Charles Sturridge’s Shackleton, for which Braham won an Emmy Award for Best Cinematography and received a BAFTA nomination for Best Cinematography; John McKay’s Crush; Adam Brook’s The Invisible Circus; David Leland’s The Land Girls; Stefan Schwartz’s Shooting Fish, Paul Weiland’s Roseanna’s Grave; Gary Sinyor’s Solitaire for 2; and Soft Top Hard Shoulder, also for Stefan Schwartz.

His television credits include most notably Peter Richardson’s Four Men and a Car and Paul Weiland’s Oliver II - Let’s Twist Again.

In commercials, Braham has worked for clients including Coca Cola, Mcdonald’s, Playstation 2, Ford, British Airways, Polaroid, Walkers Crisps, and Budweiser.

DENNIS GASSNER (Production Designer) won an Academy Award® for his work on Barry Levinson’s Bugsy, starring Warren Beatty and Annette Bening. He was also nominated for an Oscar that same year for his work on the Coen brothers’s Barton Fink. Gassner was recently nominated for a BAFTA Award for Tim Burton’s Big Fish and won BAFTA Awards for Peter Weir’s The Truman Show and Sam Mendes’s Road to Perdition. He earned a BAFTA nomination for his work on the Coen’s O Brother Where Art Thou?

Gassner’s other production design credits include Waterworld, Hero, The Grifters, Field of Dreams, Earth Girls are Easy, Like Father, Like Son, Wisdom and The Hitcher. He most recently designed The Ladykillers and Ask the Dust.

ANNE V. COATES, O.B.E., A.C.E. (Editor) came to motion pictures after harrowing experiences as a nurse at Sir Archibald McIndoe's pioneering plastic surgery hospital in East Grinstead. She fulfilled her long-held ambition to be a film director with a company called Religious Films. The work consisted of patching up prints of devotional shorts before sending them out to Britain's churches. This led to a job in the cutting room at Pinewood, where she worked on The Red Shoes, among other films, before achieving her first screen credit with The Pickwick Papers.

Coates received an Oscar for her work on Lawrence of Arabia and was nominated for both Academy Awards® and A.C.E. Awards for her work on Becket, The Elephant Man, In The Line of Fire, and Out of Sight. Her other credits include Catch and Release, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, Unfaithful, Erin Brockovich, Out To Sea, Striptease, Congo, Chaplin, and What About Bob?
Coates has been honored by Women In Film on two separate occasions for her achievements in the industry.

An Academy Award nominee for Emma and The Addams Family, RUTH MYERS (Costume Designer) has contributed her style to such diverse films as Beyond the Sea, Connie & Carla, L.A. Confidential (for which she received a BAFTA nomination), The Cradle Will Rock, Center Stage, Proof of Life, Four Feathers, Iris, Nicholas Nickleby, the fantasy fairy tale Ella Enchanted and The Painted Veil..

Born and raised in Manchester, England, Myers graduated from St. Martin's College of Art in London before training under scholarship with the English Stage Company of the Royal Court Theatre. At the completion of her scholarship, she stayed with the company, first as an assistant then as a designer. She went on to design many plays in London.

Myers switched to film with The Loves of Isadora and went on to design the costumes for A Touch of Class, The Ruling Class, The Twelve Chairs and Smashing Time before being persuaded by Gene Wilder to come to America. With Wilder she collaborated on The World's Greatest Lover, The Woman in Red and Haunted Honeymoon.

Myers designed the costumes for Sydney Pollack's The Firm; two films for Fred Schepisi, Plenty and The Russia House; Norman Jewison's And Justice For All; Ken Russell's Altered States; Jack Clayton's Something Wicked This Way Comes, Electric Dreams directed by Steve Barron, and Arthur Hiller's Teachers.

Among her additional credits are the films One Thousand Acres, Bogus, How to Make An American Quilt, I.Q., Mr. Saturday Night, The Marrying Man, The Accidental Tourist and The Main Event.

Most recently, Myers designed the costumes for the films Infamous, Monster House and Half Light. For television, she received an Emmy Award and the Costume Designers Guild Award for the HBO pilot, Carnivale.

As a small boy, MICHAEL FINK (Visual Effects Supervisor) created his first miniature shot – a still of a rocket to the moon – in the hallway of the family home. He continued experimenting with photography and effects until his ability was outstripped by the explosive power of his concoctions, at which point he wisely left further research to others.

A graduate in business from California State University, Mike Fink was drafted into the army. Afterwards, he worked as a portfolio manager in San Francisco before taking leave of absence to attend the Art Institute of San Francisco, later completing an MA at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles.

Fink served his movie apprenticeship on The China Syndrome in 1977, Star Trek the Motion Picture and Blade Runner, and received his first effects supervisor credit on War Games.

Oscar nominated for Batman Returns in 1992, Fink helped set up Warner Digital Studios which employed 150 people and did stellar work on films including Eraser, Mars Attacks!, Contact and Batman & Robin.

More recently Fink’s credits include X-Men, Vanilla Sky, The Mothman Prophecies, Road to Perdition, X-Men 2 and Constantine.

After composing the music for over fifty European films and being nominated for two Cesar Awards, ALEXANDRE DESPLAT (Composer) burst onto the Hollywood scene with his evocative score to Girl With the Pearl Earring, which earned him nominations from the Golden Globes, BAFTA and European Film Awards. His reputation was solidified by his critically acclaimed score to Jonathan Glazer’s film Birth (starring Nicole Kidman). Following in close succession, Desplat composed the scores to The Upside of Anger (starring Joan Allen and Kevin Costner), Hostage (starring Bruce Willis and directed by Florent Siri) and Lasse Holström’s Casanova (starring Heath Ledger and Jeremy Irons). More recently, Alexandre lent his talents to Stephen Gaghan’s film Syriana (produced by Steven Soderbergh; starring Matt Damon and George Clooney), which earned him another Golden Globe nomination, and Firewall (starring Harrison Ford and directed by Richard Loncraine).

He next completed the score to The Queen (directed by Stephen Frears), which earned him an Oscar nomination, with the film’s star Helen Mirren winning Best Actress. After The Painted Veil (directed by John Curran and starring Naomi Watts and Edward Norton), his next score will be for Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium (starring Dustin Hoffman and Natalie Portman, 2007).

Balancing his busy Hollywood schedule, Desplat still makes time to lend his talents to a select number of European films, his most recent score for De Battre Mon Coeur S’Est Arrete (The Beat that My Heart Skipped), earned him a Silver Bear Award for Best Score at the Berlin Film Festival in 2005 and a Cesar award at the Cesar Awards in 2006. Desplat’s Greek mother and French father met while attending College at Berkeley in the United States. The multilingual Desplat was classically trained, but fed a constant diet of American Jazz and Hollywood movie scores. These influences have been fused in his music to create a fresh and unique, new voice in film music.

Among BARRY GIBBS’s (Property Master) credits are In the Name of the Father, Wings of a Dove, Mansfield Park, Onegin, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, About a Boy, Love, Actually, Timeline, Around the World in 80 Days, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Oliver Twist and Hannibal Rising.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy brought PETER KING (Make-up and Hair Designer)a mantle of awards – the Academy Award for The Return of the King, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films Awards in 2003 for The Two Towers and again, the following year for The Return of the King, the BAFTA award in 2002 for The Fellowship of the Ring, followed by nominations in both following years for the subsequent parts of the trilogy, the Hollywood Make-up Artist & Hair Stylist Guild Awards in both 2003 for The Two Towers (both character hair styling and character make-up) and in 2004 for The Return of the King (character make-up award, and hair styling nomination). King has also received BAFTA nominations for Quills, An Ideal Husband and Velvet Goldmine.

King has spent much of the new millennium in New Zealand, firstly for The Lord of the Rings, and later for director Peter Jackson’s subsequent epic, King Kong.

King started in the film industry as a wig maker – Peter Greenaway’s The Draughtsman’s Contract was a stylish early credit. Films since then include Little Voice, Miss Julie, The Importance of Being Earnest, Bright Young Things, Thunderbirds, Beyond the Sea and Nanny McPhee.

Stunt coordinator PAUL JENNINGS learned his craft at the sharp end of action movies like Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, Patriot Games, Braveheart, Goldeneye, Mission Impossible, Michael Collins, The Saint, Shakespeare in Love, The Mummy and The World is not Enough.

Since graduating to the top job in the stuntman’s repertoire – organizing others to do the falls and rides – his credits include Johnny English, Thunderbirds and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.

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