SAM RAIMI (Director/Screen Story/Screenplay)
IVAN RAIMI (Screen Story/Screenplay)
STAN LEE (Based on the Marvel Comic Book/Executive Producer)
STEVE DITKO (Based on the Marvel Comic by)
LAURA ZISKIN (Producer)
AVI ARAD (Producer)
GRANT CURTIS (Producer)
KEVIN FEIGE (Executive Producer)
JOSEPH M. CARACCIOLO (Executive Producer)
BILL POPE, ASC (Director of Photography)
NEIL SPISAK (Production Designer)
J. MICHAEL RIVA (Production Designer)
BOB MURAWSKI (Film Editor)
SCOTT STOKDYK (Visual Effects Supervisor)
JAMES ACHESON (Costume Designer)
DANNY ELFMAN (Original Music Themes by)
CHRISTOPHER YOUNG (Score)
KEVIN O’CONNELL (Supervising Sound Mixer)
GREG P. RUSSELL (Supervising Sound Mixer)
PAUL N. J. OTTOSSON, M.P.S.E. (Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer)
SONY PICTURES IMAGEWORKS INC.

FILMMAKERS BIOS

SAM RAIMI (Director/Screen Story/Screenplay) returns to helm a third adventure with one of the world’s most popular comic book superheroes in Spider-Man™ 3 after directing the first two blockbuster adventures, Spider-Man™ and Spider-Man™ 2. Raimi previously directed the supernatural thriller The Gift starring Cate Blanchett, Hilary Swank, Keanu Reeves, Greg Kinnear, and Giovanni Ribisi. Raimi also directed the acclaimed suspense thriller A Simple Plan, which starred Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, and Bridget Fonda, and earned Thornton an Academy Award® nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Additional directorial credits include the baseball homage For Love of the Game starring Kevin Costner and Kelly Preston.

Director Sam Raimi on the set of Columbia Pictures Spider-Man 3

With his longtime producing partner Rob Tapert, Raimi returned to his horror roots in 2002, forming Ghost House Pictures. Ghost House is dedicated to the financing, development, and distribution of high concept genre films. Their next release is David Slade’s 30 Days of Night, based on the comic book by Steve Niles.

Known for his imaginative filmmaking style, richly drawn characters and offbeat humor, Raimi wrote and directed the cult classic The Evil Dead, which became an immediate favorite when it debuted at the Cannes Film Festival and spawned the equally impressive Evil Dead II.

Raimi then proved his mastery of the fantasy thriller genre, writing and directing Darkman starring Liam Neeson and Frances McDormand, which he followed up with Army of Darkness, a comic sword-and-sorcery fantasy starring Bruce Campbell. Raimi also served as executive producer for John Woo’s Hard Target, and co-wrote (with Joel and Ethan Coen) The Hudsucker Proxy starring Tim Robbins, Paul Newman, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Raimi also directed the western The Quick and the Dead starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sharon Stone, Russell Crowe, and Gene Hackman.

Raimi’s extensive television work includes the hit syndicated series “Xena: Warrior Princess,” which he executive produced with Tapert. The highly successful series starring Lucy Lawless ran for six seasons. Raimi and Tapert also executive produced the enormously popular “Hercules: Legendary Journeys” and served as executive producers for the CBS series “American Gothic.”

Raimi’s interest in filmmaking began as a youngster in Michigan, where he directed his own Super 8 films. Later, he left Michigan State University to form Renaissance Pictures with Tapert and longtime friend and actor Bruce Campbell.

IVAN RAIMI (Screen Story/Screenplay) is a screenwriter and physician. In addition to Spider-Man™ 3, Raimi has collaborated with his brother, director Sam Raimi, on many writing projects, including the classic comic sword-and-sorcery fantasy Army of Darkness, starring Bruce Campbell. Ivan co-wrote the screenplay for Army of Darkness with Sam, who directed the film. He also co-wrote the comic-book adaptation of Army of Darkness for Dark Horse comics. Raimi’s credits also include the screenplay for the horror thriller Darkman, starring Liam Neeson and Frances McDormand and directed by Sam Raimi. He also co-wrote the motorcycle comedy, Easy Wheels. Raimi was one of the creators on the 1997 ABC series “Spy Game,” which starred Patrick Macnee.

Raimi currently lives in the Midwest, where he practices Emergency Medicine and also works as a private investigator.

ALVIN SARGENT (Screenplay) is a two-time Academy Award® winner for his screenplays for Julia and Ordinary People and an Academy Award® nominee for Paper Moon. He has won three Writers Guild Awards (for Julia, Ordinary People, and Paper Moon), a BAFTA award for Julia and, in 1991, received the Writers Guild Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement. Sargent most recently wrote the screenplay for the blockbuster hit Spider-Man™ 2 directed by Sam Raimi.

Sargent wrote the script for Unfaithful starring Diane Lane. His other films include Anywhere But Here, Other People’s Money, White Palace, Dominick and Eugene, Nuts, Straight Time, Bobby Deerfield, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing, I Walk the Line, The Sterile Cuckoo, The Stalking Moon, and Gambit.

STAN LEE (Based on the Marvel Comic Book/Executive Producer), the chairman emeritus of Marvel Comics, is known to millions as the man whose Super Heroes propelled Marvel to its preeminent position in the comic-book industry. Hundreds of legendary characters, including Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, The X-Men, The Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Daredevil, The Avengers, The Silver Surfer, Thor and Dr. Strange, all grew out of his fertile imagination.

Lee served as executive producer for Columbia’s worldwide blockbusters Spider-Man™ and Spider-Man™ 2, directed by Sam Raimi and starring Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst.

Lee most recently executive produced the global hit Ghost Rider, which has, to date, taken in over $200 million worldwide. Lee also executive produced X-Men: The Last Stand, after executive producing the first two smash X-Men films. He also served as executive producer of Fantastic Four, Hulk, Elektra, Daredevil, and the Blade trilogy. Next, Lee will executive produce Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.

It was in the early 1960s that Lee ushered in what has come to be known as “The Marvel Age of Comics,” creating major new Super Heroes while breathing life and style into such old favorites as Captain America, The Human Torch and The Sub Mariner.

During his first 25 years at Marvel, as editor, art director and head writer, Lee scripted no fewer than two and as many as five complete comic books per week. His prodigious output may comprise the largest body of published work by any single writer.

Additionally, he wrote newspaper features, radio and television scripts and screenplays.

By the time he was named publisher of Marvel Comics in 1972, Lee’s comics were the nation’s biggest sellers. In 1977, he brought the Spider-Man character to newspapers in the form of a syndicated strip. This seven-days-a-week feature, which he has written and edited since its inception, is the most successful of all syndicated adventure strips, appearing in more than 500 newspapers worldwide.

In 1981, Marvel launched an animation studio on the West Coast and Lee moved to Los Angeles to become creative head of Marvel’s cinematic adventures. He began to transform his Spider-Man and Hulk creations into Saturday morning television and paved the way for Marvel’s entry into live-action feature films.

Under the umbrella of his new company POW! (Purveyors of Wonder!) Entertainment, Inc., Lee is creating and executive producing an animated “Stan Lee Presents” DVD series, with the first three slated for release this year: “Mosaic” (January ‘07), “The Condor” (March ‘07) and “Ringo” (with Ringo Starr). Lee’s television credits with POW! include serving as executive producer and star on NBC SCI FI’s hit reality series “Who Wants To Be a Superhero?,” and as co-producer and creator of “Stripperella” on the Spike cable channel, in addition to previously executive producing “Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., “The Incredible Hulk,” “Spider-Man” and “X-Men.”

Lee has written more than a dozen best-selling books, including Stan Lee’s Superhero Christmas, The Origins of Marvel Comics, The Best of the Worst, The Silver Surfer, How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way, The Alien Factor, Bring on the Bad Guys, Riftworld, The Superhero Women and his recent autobiography Excelsior! The Amazing Life of Stan Lee.

STEVE DITKO (Based on the Marvel Comic by) was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on November 2, 1927. He studied at the famous Cartoonists and Illustrators School in New York City, landing his first professional break in comic books in 1953. Amongst his influences were Mort Meskin, Jerry Robinson, Burne Hogarth, and Jack Kirby.

In a career lasting more than 45 years, Ditko has worked on titles such as The Amazing Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, Doctor Strange, Tales of the Mysterious Traveler, Captain Atom, The Question, Mr. A, The Creeper, The Hawk and the Dove, Shade the Changing Man, Static and numerous others.

Ditko lives in New York City, and continues to be prolific in his craft.

LAURA ZISKIN (Producer) has established herself as one of Hollywood’s leading independent producers and studio executives with a passion for discovering new talent. Ziskin returns to produce a third adventure with one of the world’s most popular comic book superheroes in Spider-Man™ 3, after producing the first two blockbuster adventures.

Producer Laura Ziskin (left) and Producer Grant Curtis (right) on the set of Columbia Pictures Spider-Man 3

Earlier this year, Ziskin produced the 79th Annual Academy Awards®, her second time producing the show. In March 2002, Ziskin produced the 74th Annual Academy Awards® (the first woman to produce the awards solo). The show was nominated for eight Emmy Awards including Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special.

Ziskin also executive produced the Norman Jewison-directed HBO Film “Dinner With Friends,” written by Donald Margulies from his Pulitzer Prize-winning play and starring Dennis Quaid, Andie MacDowell, Greg Kinnear, and Toni Collette. The film was nominated for two Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Made for Television Movie.

In 1984, Ziskin partnered with Sally Field in Fogwood Films and produced Murphy’s Romance, which yielded an Academy Award® nomination for James Garner as Best Actor. She also produced No Way Out starring then-newcomer Kevin Costner and Gene Hackman. In 1990, she was executive producer of Pretty Woman, which remains one of the highest grossing films in Disney’s history.

In 1991, Ziskin produced two films -- the comedy hit What About Bob?, from a story by Ziskin and Alvin Sargent, starring Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss; and the critically acclaimed The Doctor, starring William Hurt and Christine Lahti under the direction of Randa Haines. In 1992, Ziskin produced Hero, which was also from a story by Ziskin and Sargent, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Dustin Hoffman, Andy Garcia, and Geena Davis. In 1994, she produced To Die For starring Nicole Kidman (who won a Golden Globe as Best Actress – Musical or Comedy) and directed by Gus Van Sant.

She also developed and served as executive producer of Columbia Pictures’ As Good as It Gets, which garnered Academy Awards® for stars Helen Hunt and Jack Nicholson.

In 1994, Ziskin was named president of Fox 2000 Pictures, a newly formed feature film division of 20th Century Fox. Under her stewardship, Fox 2000 released such films as Courage Under Fire, One Fine Day, Inventing the Abbotts, Volcano, Soul Food, Never Been Kissed, Fight Club, Anywhere but Here, Anna and the King, and The Thin Red Line, which garnered seven Academy Award® nominations including Best Picture.

Ziskin has been actively involved in issues that concern both the environment and families, having served on the board of Americans for a Safe Future, the National Council of Jewish Women, and Education First. In addition, she was honored by Senator Barbara Boxer as a “Woman Making History IV,” by the City of Hope as Woman of the Year, and she received Premiere Magazine’s Women in Hollywood award, the Big Sisters of Los Angeles Sterling Award, Women’s Image Network Award, Women in Film’s Crystal Award, the Israel Film Festival’s Visionary Award and, most recently, The Producers Guild of America’s David O. Selznick Award.

Until recently, AVI ARAD (Producer) was the chairman and chief executive officer of Marvel Studios, the film and television division of Marvel Entertainment, and chief creative officer of Marvel Entertainment. In June of 2006, Arad branched off to form his 41 own production company, which has produced films based on some of Marvel’s most renowned properties, such as Iron Man, the Hulk and Spider-Man. Arad has been the driving force behind Marvel’s Hollywood renaissance, with a track record that has been nothing short of spectacular, including a string of eight consecutive No. 1 box office openings. As an executive producer and producer, his credits include Spider-Man™ and its sequel, Spider-Man™ 2 (Columbia Pictures), which set an industry record for opening-day box office receipts; X-Men, X2: X-Men United, and X-Men: The Last Stand (Twentieth Century Fox); The Hulk (Universal Pictures); Daredevil (New Regency); The Punisher (Lionsgate Entertainment); Blade, Blade II, and Blade: Trinity (New Line Cinema); Elektra (Twentieth Century Fox); The Fantastic Four (Twentieth Century Fox); and, most recently, Ghost Rider (Columbia Pictures). Arad’s current live-action feature film slate includes Spider-Man™ 3 (Columbia Pictures), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (Twentieth Century Fox), and Bratz: The Movie (Lionsgate) – all slated for 2007 – with Iron Man (Paramount Pictures) and The Incredible Hulk (Universal) slated for 2008.

Producer Laura Ziskin (left) and Producer Avi Arad (right) on the set of Columbia Pictures Spider-Man 3

Born in Cyprus and raised in Israel, Arad came to the United States during his college years and enrolled at Hofstra University to study industrial management. He earned a bachelor of business administration in 1972. A long-established expert in youth entertainment, Arad is one of the world’s top toy designers. He has been involved in the creation and development of over 200 successful products, including action figures, play sets, dolls, toy vehicles, electronic products, educational software, and video games. In fact, virtually every major toy and youth-entertainment manufacturer, including Toy Biz, Hasbro, Mattel, Nintendo, Tiger, Ideal, Galoob, Tyco and Sega, has been selling his products for more than 20 years.

GRANT CURTIS (Producer) most recently served as co-producer on the first two blockbuster adventures, Spider-Man™ and Spider-Man™ 2. He is also the author of The Spider-Man Chronicles: The Art and Making of Spider-Man 3, which will be published May 4 by Chronicle Books.

Curtis previously served as associate producer on Sam Raimi’s supernatural thriller The Gift starring Cate Blanchett, Hilary Swank, Keanu Reeves, and Giovanni Ribisi. Curtis’ association with Raimi began in 1997, serving as Raimi’s assistant on the critically acclaimed A Simple Plan, which earned Billy Bob Thornton an Academy Award® nomination. He later worked with Raimi on the baseball drama For Love of the Game starring Kevin Costner and Kelly Preston.

Curtis graduated from the University of Missouri with a bachelor’s degree in marketing. He received a master’s degree in mass communication from Central Missouri State University, after which he relocated to Los Angeles.

KEVIN FEIGE (Executive Producer), as President of Production at Marvel Studios, has creative oversight over the company’s film projects, its animation work for television and DVD, and its theme park activities.

Feige joined Marvel in 2000 and has been involved in key capacities in all of Marvel’s theatrical productions, including the X-Men trilogy, Spider-Man™ and Spider-Man™ 2, and Fantastic Four and its upcoming sequel, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. He is currently producing Iron Man, which is now before the cameras starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow; and The Incredible Hulk, which begins production in June.

In addition to his work on the X-Men and Spider-Man™ franchises, Feige was executive producer on The Hulk, Elektra and The Punisher, and he co-produced the 2003 hit Daredevil.

In 2003, Feige was included in The Hollywood Reporter’s Next Gen Class of 2003 as one of the top 35 executives poised to become industry leaders.

After graduating from the USC’s School of Cinema-Television, Feige worked for Lauren Shuler Donner and Richard Donner at their Warner Bros.-based The Donners’ Company. While there, he worked on the action-adventure Volcano and the hit romantic comedy You’ve Got Mail. He then transitioned into a development position that led to an associate producer role on X-Men, the film that revamped the comic book genre.

JOSEPH M. CARACCIOLO (Executive Producer) recently served as executive producer on the Columbia Pictures film Guess Who starring Bernie Mac and Ashton Kutcher. He also served as executive producer for Columbia Pictures’ Spider-Man™ 2. Spider-Man™ 3 marks Caracciolo’s fourth film with producer Laura Ziskin, having served as the executive producer on To Die For, directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Nicole Kidman, who earned a Golden Globe Award for her performance. Caracciolo also served in the same capacity on the Ziskin-produced Hero, which starred Dustin Hoffman, Andy Garcia, and Geena Davis, and was directed by Stephen Frears.

Caracciolo was also the executive producer for the blockbuster Charlie’s Angels starring Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and Lucy Liu; and for two of Adam Sandler’s films, the hit comedies Big Daddy and Mr. Deeds.

Caracciolo’s numerous other film credits as executive producer include 8MM, Courage Under Fire, The Sunchaser, My Girl, My Girl 2, Lost in Yonkers, True Colors, The Dream Team, Parenthood, and Biloxi Blues.

BILL POPE, ASC (Director of Photography) continues – in his words – “his apprenticeship under the tutelage of the master, Sam Raimi,” which began with their collaboration on Raimi’s Darkman starring Liam Neeson and Frances McDormand, continued with the comic sword-and-sorcery fantasy Army of Darkness, and most recently contributed to the worldwide box-office phenomenon Spider-Man™ 2.

In addition, Pope lensed the The Matrix trilogy directed by the Wachowski brothers. His other credits as cinematographer include Clueless, directed by Amy Heckerling; and Team America: World Police with Matt Stone and Trey Parker.

NEIL SPISAK (Production Designer) designed the blockbuster adventures Spider- Man™ and Spider-Man™ 2. He also designed Raimi’s The Gift starring Cate Blanchett, Hilary Swank, Keanu Reeves, Greg Kinnear, and Giovanni Ribisi; and For Love of the Game starring Kevin Costner and Kelly Preston. More recently, Spisak served as production designer for Nora Ephron’s Bewitched starring Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell.

Spisak also designed John Woo’s Face/Off starring Nicolas Cage and John Travolta as well as Heat, directed by Michael Mann and starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Val Kilmer. His other film credits include Disclosure, My Life, Benny & Joon, Pacific Heights, and The Trip to Bountiful.

J. MICHAEL RIVA (Production Designer) is an Academy Award® nominee for his designs on The Color Purple. He most recently designed The Pursuit of Happyness, starring Will Smith. Riva designed Zathura: A Space Adventure, Stealth, Charlie’s Angels, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, as well as Ivan Reitman’s Dave. Riva has doubled as the production designer and second unit director on A Few Good Men, Radio Flyer, Scrooged, and The Goonies. Other memorable production design credits include Six Days Seven Nights, Evolution, Congo, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, Lethal Weapon, Lethal Weapon 2, Lethal Weapon 4, Ordinary People, Bad Boys, and Brubaker.

Among his television credits is the Emmy Award-winning telefilm “Tuesdays with Morrie” and “The 74th Academy Awards®,” for which he received an Emmy nomination.

BOB MURAWSKI (Film Editor) most recently co-edited Sam Raimi’s blockbuster hit Spider-Man™ and edited Spider-Man™ 2. He also previously co-edited Raimi’s The Gift. He began his career as an assistant editor on Darkman, and then served as editor on Raimi’s Army of Darkness starring Bruce Campbell. Murawski also edited Hard Target for acclaimed director John Woo. His other credits as film editor include From Dusk ‘Til Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money and Night of the Scarecrow. He did additional editing on the dramatic television series “American Gothic.”

Murawski has cut music videos for such groups as The Ramones, Motorhead, and Sublime. In addition to editing, Murawski runs Grindhouse Releasing, a Hollywoodbased distribution company dedicated to the restoration, preservation, and theatrical distribution of classic exploitation films.

SCOTT STOKDYK (Visual Effects Supervisor) won the Academy Award® for his work on Spider-Man™ 2. He was also nominated for an Oscar® for his work on Spider- Man™, while collaborating with visual effects designer John Dykstra and director Sam Raimi.

For Spider-Man™, Stokdyk’s team created the digital characters of Spider-Man and the Green Goblin, as well as an innovative, synthetic Manhattan, which allowed the filmmakers the ability to move Spider-Man through a virtual cityscape with complete freedom. For Spider-Man™ 2, huge advancements were made in the digital environment and a unique process was built to recreate the actors in CG.

Stokdyk joined Imageworks in 1997 working as a digital artist on Contact and Starship Troopers. He was CG supervisor on both Godzilla and Stuart Little. Stokdyk received his first Oscar® nomination as Digital Effects Supervisor for the creation of the incredible disappearing man and gorilla in Hollow Man (Best Visual Effects, 2000).

Prior to Imageworks, he worked as a digital artist on Titanic and Terminator 2:3-D, and as a sequence supervisor on The Fifth Element

JAMES ACHESON (Costume Designer) most recently designed the costumes for Sam Raimi’s blockbuster hits Spider-Man™ and Spider-Man™ 2. He also served as costume designer for Daredevil starring Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck.

Acheson is a three-time Academy Award® winner for his costume designs, earning his first award in 1988 for his work on Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor starring Peter O’Toole, John Lone, and Joan Chen. He followed up with a second win in 1989 for Stephen Frears’ Dangerous Liaisons starring Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Keanu Reeves, and Uma Thurman. Acheson was honored with his third Academy Award® in 1996 for his designs for the Michael Hoffman-directed Restoration starring Robert Downey, Jr., Meg Ryan, Ian McKellen, and Sam Neill.

Acheson’s numerous other film credits include The Man in the Iron Mask, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, The Sheltering Sky, Highlander, and Bernardo Bertolucci’s Little Buddha, on which he served as costume designer and production designer. Acheson has collaborated with several members from the Monty Python comedies, starting in 1979, when he designed the costumes for Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits starring John Cleese, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, and Michael Palin. He then designed costumes for Gilliam’s Brazil as well as Terry Jones’ Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life and The Wind in the Willows, for which he also did production design.

DANNY ELFMAN (Original Music Themes by) is one of the world’s most versatile and successful contemporary composers. Nominated for the Academy Award® for his original scores for Good Will Hunting, Men In Black, and Big Fish, he is perhaps best known for his collaboration with Tim Burton on thirteen films including Pee’s Wee’s Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman (for which he won a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental and a nomination for Best Score), Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, The Nightmare Before Christmas (another Grammy nomination for Best Score), Mars Attacks, Sleepy Hollow, Planet of the Apes, Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and The Corpse Bride.

Elfman most recently wrote the original scores for Meet the Robinsons and Charlotte’s Web. He also wrote the original score for the Oscar®-winning musical Chicago and scored the worldwide smashes Spider-Man™ and Spider-Man™ 2. His credits also include The Hulk, Red Dragon, Men In Black II, Proof of Life, Family Man, A Simple Plan, Dolores Claiborne, the Grammy-nominated Dick Tracy, Darkman, Sommersby, Dead Presidents, Black Beauty, To Die For, and Mission: Impossible. Elfman is currently scoring the thriller The Kingdom.

CHRISTOPHER YOUNG (Score) has evolved into one of the most skilled of a new generation of film composers who are able to move effortlessly between hardcore melodrama and off-the-wall satire and comedy. He combines the orchestral craftsmanship of the great film composers of the ‘50s, ‘60s, and ‘70s with an edgy sensibility as well as a keen and sharply tuned intelligence. His music can enhance dramas with subtlety and simplicity, propel suspense and action films with powerfully thrusting rhythms and electrifying textures, and provide comedies and unusual subject matter with hip, cutting-edge musical commentary. He achieved early recognition in 1987 with his bone-chilling score to the Clive Barker horror tale Hellraiser and in 1988 added two more thundering horror scores to his resume: Hellbound: Hellraiser II and The Fly II.

Young’s distinctive and imaginative approaches to several unique projects have made him a highly sought-after commodity on films with unusual subject matter. He wrote an ingenious score incorporating breathing effects for the offbeat film The Vagrant in 1992.

His score to the moody serial-killer film Jennifer Eight added immeasurably to the film’s unnerving atmosphere, while his darkly dramatic score to the Christian Slater/Kevin Bacon prison drama Murder in the First distinguished it from several competing courtroom thrillers.

In 1995, his music elevated a trio of thrillers: the sci-fi horror film Species received an unnerving score in the manner of Saint-Saëns, the cyber-reality adventure Virtuosity was energized by a supercharged action score, and the Sigourney Weaver/Holly Hunter serial-killer film Copycat received a brilliantly nuanced score that burrowed deeply into the psychologies of both Weaver and Hunter’s characters. He tuned in perfectly to the offbeat sensibility of the Bill Murray comedy The Man Who Knew Too Little and provided an appropriate urban blues groove to the John Dahl gambling melodrama Rounders. His other works include the scores for Head Above Water; Jon Amiel’s Entrapment; The Big Kahuna, starring Kevin Spacey and Danny DeVito; Norman Jewison’s Hurricane, starring Denzel Washington; Wonder Boys, starring Michael Douglas and Tobey Maguire; and Sam Raimi’s The Gift, as well as the scores to such hits as Runaway Jury and The Core.

Young’s most recent film credits include Ghost Rider™, starring Nicolas Cage; Something’s Gotta Give, starring Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton; Raimi’s Spider- Man™ 2, The Grudge, Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous, starring Sandra Bullock; Beauty Shop; and The Exorcism of Emily Rose. His work will next be heard in Lucky You.

Young also believes in giving back to the film music community. 2007 marks his tenth year teaching as part of USC’s film scoring program.

KEVIN O’CONNELL (Supervising Sound Mixer) has been a sound mixer for 25 years. He is currently working at Sony Studios in the state-of-the-art Cary Grant Theater. His credits include Terms of Endearment, Top Gun, A Few Good Men, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Spider-Man™, Spider-Man™ 2, Memoirs of a Geisha, and Apocalypto. He has been nominated for the Academy Award® for Best Sound Mixing a record 19 times.

GREG P. RUSSELL (Supervising Sound Mixer) started his career at T.T.G. Recording Studios in 1977 as an assistant recording engineer for television and film scoring. In 1981, he moved to Evergreen Studios, where he worked with such artists as Neil Diamond, Al Stewart, Heart, Ringo Starr, and many others. In 1983, he transitioned from recording engineer to re-recording mixer at B&B Sound Studios, where he mixed 55 feature films and numerous television shows, earning him an Emmy Award and two nominations.

Russell then moved to Warner Bros., and in 1989, he received his first of his eleven Academy Award® nominations, for his work on Ridley Scott’s Black Rain. In 1995, he moved to Sony Studios, where for the past twelve years he has been mixing in the Cary Grant Theater with partner Kevin O’Connell. Since then, he has been nominated for the Oscar® for Sound Mixing for The Rock, Con Air, Armageddon, The Mask of Zorro, The Patriot, Pearl Harbor, Spider-Man™, Spider-Man™ 2, Memoirs of a Geisha, and this year’s Apocalypto.

Spider-Man™ 3 marks his 160th feature film.

PAUL N. J. OTTOSSON, M.P.S.E. (Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer) is an industry veteran with over 100 movies to his credit. His recent films include Spider- Man™ 2, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Achievement in Sound Editing, as well as The Grudge, The Grudge 2, RV, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, and The Messengers.

Paul was born in Sweden and came to the United States in 1987 to try his luck as a musician. After finding success in a rock band, Ottosson realized his true interests lay elsewhere and he started recording and mixing albums and smaller movies.

Ottosson won an Emmy in 1998 for the National Geographic Explorer program "Rats" and produced one of the segments for the 2007 Academy Awards®.

SONY PICTURES IMAGEWORKS INC. is an Academy Award® winning, state-of-theart digital production studio dedicated to the art of visual effects production and character animation. Among the key members of the Imageworks’ Spider-Man™ 3 visual effect team are visual effects supervisor Scott Stokdyk (Oscar® winner for Spider-Man™ 2, Oscar® nominee for Spider-Man™ and Hollow Man); animation director Spencer Cook; digital visual effects supervisors Ken Hahn and Peter Nofz; computer graphics supervisors Grant Anderson, Dave Seager, Francisco DeJesus, Bob Winter and Albert Hastings; senior visual effects producer Terry Clotiaux and visual effects producer Josh R. Jaggars.

Sony Pictures Imageworks has been recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with Oscars® for its work on Spider-Man™ 2 and the CG animated short film The Chubbchubbs!, as well as nominations for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, Spider-Man™, Hollow Man, Stuart Little and Starship Troopers.

Imageworks continues to raise the level in the visual effects and character-animation industry, becoming a major force by providing leading edge technology to its world-class artists.

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