Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) Board of Governors 2013–2014
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Cheryl Boone Isaacs was born in 1949 in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. She is a producer, known for Alien Trespass (2009), 2018 Women That Soar Awards (2018) and Tupac: Resurrection (2003). She is married to Stanley Isaacs. They have one child.President – Cheryl Boone Isaacs, Public Relations Branch
Ms. Isaacs is a public relations executive and the former head of publicity at Paramount Pictures. She also served as president of theatrical marketing for New Line Cinema.- Producer
- Writer
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Although born in Hollywood, John and his twin sister Johanna were raised in Whittier near Los Angeles. His parents were Jewell Mae (Risley), an art teacher, and Paul Eual Lasseter, a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership. His mother's profession contributed to his interest in animation and particularly the Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck cartoons which he would watch on television. It was when he was in High School that he realized that he could have a career in animation and he wrote to the Walt Disney Studios but nothing happened then In 1975 the Disney company started an animation course at Calarts - The California Institute of the Arts- and John, with encouragement from his mother, was one of the first to sign up. He and his class mates, who included the future animators and directors Brad Bird, and Tim Burton were taught by some of Disney's veteran animators such as Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas. During his time there John produced two animated shorts - Lady and the Lamp (1979) and Nitemare (1980) - which both won the Student Academy Award for Animation. On graduating in 1979 John was taken on as an animator at the Disney Studios. In 1983, while working on Mickey's Christmas Carol some friends invited him to see some footage of Tron that they were working on using CGI and he immediately saw the potential of it to enhance animated films. John and a colleague made a short test film and satisfied with the result and full of enthusiasm started work on a feature without consulting their superiors who when they found out about it canceled it and sacked John. Having made contacts in the computer industry he was quickly taken on by Lucasfilm which was bought by Steve Jobs for $5 million with a further $5 million invested as working capital and the company renamed Pixar. John soon convinced Steve that the future lay in computer animation by bringing his desk lamp to life in the short 'Luxor Jr' which was shown at a computer graphics conference and got a standing ovation. The first computer animated feature soon followed in the form of 'Toy Story' winning John an Oscar for Special Achievement to go with one he got for Animated Short Film - Tin Toy. He's also had Oscar nominations for Animated Feature - Monster Inc and Cars, Original Screenplay -Toy Story, Animated Short Story - Luxor Jr while the short Knick Knack was selected by Terry Gilliam as one of the best 10 animated films of all time. In 2008, he was honored with the Winsor McCay Award, - the lifetime achievement award for animators. He oversees 3 animation studios - Pixar, Disney Animation and DisneyToon He spent 9 year (2005 - 2014) on the board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, only relinquishing his seat due to term limits. He was presented with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood in November 2011.First Vice President – John Lasseter, Short Films and Feature Animation Branch
Mr. Lasseter, a two-time Student Academy Award winner, is the recipient of both a competitive Oscar (“Tin Toy”) and a Special Achievement Award for “Toy Story.” He has also earned nominations for “Monsters, Inc.,” “Cars” and “Toy Story 3.” He is chief creative officer at Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Animation Studios.- Costume Designer
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
- Actor
Vice President – Jeffrey Kurland, Costume Designers Branch
Mr. Kurland is a costume designer, whose most recent project was “Inception.” He earned an Oscar nomination for “Bullets over Broadway.”- Make-Up Department
- Art Department
Leonard Engelman is known for The Princess Diaries (2001), Ghostbusters (1984) and Beverly Hills Cop (1984).Vice President – Leonard Engelman, Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Branch
Mr. Engelman’s credits include “Burlesque,” “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” “The Accidental Tourist” and “Moonstruck.”- Producer
Dick Cook was born on 20 August 1950 in Kern County, California, USA. He is a producer, known for 42 (2013), The Alchemyst and Ranger's Apprentice. He has been married to Bonnie S. Drury since 6 July 1974. They have two children.Treasurer – Dick Cook, Executives Branch
Mr. Cook is the former chairman of the Walt Disney Studios. During his tenure, the studio launched the “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “National Treasure” franchises, as well as numerous Pixar animated feature films.- Writer
- Director
- Producer
Phil Alden Robinson was born on 1 March 1950 in Long Beach, Long Island, New York, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Field of Dreams (1989), Sneakers (1992) and The Sum of All Fears (2002). He has been married to Paulette Bartlett since 26 September 2009.Secretary – Phil Robinson, Writers Branch
Mr. Robinson earned an Oscar nomination for his screenplay for “Field of Dreams,” which he also directed.- Actress
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- Executive
Dawn Hudson has been the Chief Executive Officer of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 2011.
Dawn Hudson was the Executive Director of Film Independent (formerly IFP/Los Angeles) since 1991. Under her leadership, Film Independent has grown seven-fold, from a 900-member organization to its current membership of 5,000. Revenues have also increased an average of 25% per year. Film Independent is dedicated to cultivating the careers of independent filmmakers, increasing the audience for independent films, and increasing diversity within the film industry.
In 2001, Film Independent acquired the Los Angeles Film Festival, now the largest film festival in Southern California, with attendance of more than 80,000. The Los Angeles Film Festival and the 25-year-old Spirit Awards remain Film Independent's two signature events. The organization also produces 250 educational and screening events annually.
Prior to Film Independent, Hudson was Editor-in-chief of St Louis magazine and a freelance magazine writer. She received her B.A. from Harvard University, and did graduate work in political science at the Institut des Etudes Politiques in Grenoble, France, and at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Hudson serves on the Advisory Board of the Latino Entertainment Media Institute.CEO – Dawn Hudson
Prior to becoming the Academy's CEO in 2011, Ms. Hudson spent 20 years at the helm of Film Independent, which grew from a small non-profit into a nationally recognized arts institution under her leadership.- Publicist
- Additional Crew
COO – Ric Robertson
Robertson came to the Academy in 1981 from the Los Angeles International Film Exposition (FILMEX), and became the organization’s second-in-command in 1989, when he was appointed Executive Administrator. In 2011 he was appointed to COO and oversees Membership and Awards; Preservation, Education and Programming; Science and Technology Council; Administration and Legal; and Information Technology.- Director
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Michael Apted was born on 10 February 1941 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. He was a director and producer, known for Amazing Grace (2006), Rome (2005) and Gorillas in the Mist (1988). He was married to Paige Simpson, Dana Stevens and Jo Apted. He died on 7 January 2021 in Los Angeles, California, USA.Michael Apted – Documentary Branch
Mr. Apted directs both fiction and non-fiction films. His documentary work includes the ongoing “7 Up” series. He recently directed “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.”- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Director
John Bailey was born on 10 August 1942 in Moberly, Missouri, USA. He was a cinematographer and director, known for In the Line of Fire (1993), American Gigolo (1980) and The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1991). He was married to Carol Littleton. He died on 10 November 2023 in Los Angeles, California, USA.John Bailey – Cinematographers Branch
Mr. Bailey’s recent cinematography credits include “The Way, Way Back,” “Country Strong” and “He’s Just Not That into You.”- Visual Effects
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- Executive
Craig Barron is an Academy-Award winning visual effects supervisor, entrepreneur, lecturer and film historian. For more than two decades, Barron has been innovating techniques to create cinematic illusions, contributing to the visual effects on more than one hundred films. Barron has served nine years as a member of the Academy Board of Governors, representing the visual effects branch and is a founding member of the Visual Effects Society. As of 2014, he is co-chair of the AMPAS Science & Technology Council.
Barron's career began with the "Star Wars" visual-effects revolution when he joined Industrial Light + Magic in 1979 at age 18 (then the youngest person at ILM), and plunged into matte-effects photography for "The Empire Strikes Back." He worked on such landmark productions as "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "ET: The Extra-Terrestrial." He was supervisor of photography of ILM's matte department from 1984 to 1988. In honor of his cinematographic work, he was named associate member of the American Society of Cinematographers in 2002.
In 1988, Barron co-founded Matte World with matte painter Michael Pangrazio and producer Krystyna Demkowicz. The company won an Emmy in 1990 for outstanding visual effects for HBO's "By Dawn's Early Light." Matte World provided matte painting effects, beginning with classic matte-painting and modeling techniques, and later became Matte World Digital to reflect newly available digital tools.
Matte World Digital's work appeared in feature films, television, commercials, electronic games, and IMAX large-format productions. Clients included Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron, and David Fincher. Feature-film work ranged from the Oscar-nominated effects for "Batman Returns," to "Zodiac," "Hugo," and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," for which Barron won Oscar and BAFTA awards for best visual effects in 2009. After 24 years of service, Matte world Digital closed shop in 2012.
Barron independently directed and co-produced the science-fiction short, "The Utilizer" (based on a short story by Robert Sheckley), and a companion "making of" documentary. Both were broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel in 1996. The show won a number of film-festival awards, including best visual effects at the Chicago International Film Festival.
Recognizing the importance of archiving classic visual effects work, Barron co-wrote with Mark Cotta Vaz the first comprehensive book on the history of matte painting, "The Invisible Art: The Legends of Movie Matte Painting" (Chronicle Books, 2002). The book won the outstanding book-on-film award from the Theatre Library Association of New York, and the Golden Pen award from the U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology.
Barron lectures at AMPAS classic-film presentations, often co-hosting with sound designer, Ben Burtt. Digging up lost artifacts, film outtakes, soundtracks and production photos, the pair present their findings and explain VFX and sound techniques created for such films as "Modern Times," "The Adventures of Robin Hood," and "Forbidden Planet." In 2014, Barron and Burtt co-hosted "Hollywood Takes to the Air," presenting rare footage compiled by Dick Grace, a silent-film stunt flier and daredevil. A rare screening of "Lilac Time" (1928) was shown, featuring Grace's stunt work. Barron and Burtt have presented AMPAS programs on the Turner Classic Movies Network.
Barron worked as a visual effects supervisor at Tippett Studio in 2013, overseeing the creation and development of CGI environments for film, television, and electronic games. As of 2014, he is the creative director of Magnopus, a visual research and development company based in downtown Los Angeles. Magnopus crafts visual storytelling techniques in new ways for retail, educational, industrial and entertainment spaces. The company's name is a consolidation of "Magnum Opus" (Latin for "Great Work").Craig Barron – Visual Effects Branch
Mr. Barron has contributed visual effects to more than fifty motion pictures and received an Oscar for his work in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.”- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Ed Begley Jr. was born on 16 September 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for A Mighty Wind (2003), Pineapple Express (2008) and Whatever Works (2009). He has been married to Rachelle Carson-Begley since 23 August 2000. They have one child. He was previously married to Ingrid Taylor.Ed Begley Jr. – Actors Branch
Mr. Begley’s film acting credits include “A Mighty Wind” and “Pineapple Express.”- Sound Department
Curt Behlmer was born on 5 August 1960 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. He is known for The Jacksons: Can You Feel It (1981), Trinity (1998) and Made in Hollywood: Teen Edition (2006). He has been married to Anna Gabellieri since 22 July 1984.Curt Behlmer – Sound Branch
Mr. Behlmer, executive vice president of theatrical services and COO of digital cinema at Technicolor, was awarded the Academy’s John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation for his outstanding service to the organization.- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Annette Bening was born on May 29, 1958 in Topeka, Kansas, the youngest of four children. Her family moved to California when she was young, and she grew up there. She graduated from San Francisco State University and began her acting career with the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, eventually moving to New York where she acted on the stage (including a Tony-award nomination in 1987 for her work in the Broadway play "Coastal Disturbances") and got her first film roles, in a few TV movies.
As is so often the case, her first big-screen role was in a forgettable movie, this one The Great Outdoors (1988), in which she had little screen time. However, her next work onscreen was in Milos Forman's Valmont (1989), a film adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' "Les Liaisons Dangereuses". Unfortunately, de Laclos' story had also just served as the source of a more Hollywoodized and successful movie version, Dangerous Liaisons (1988), which had been released the previous year, and Foreman's treatment went little noticed. Bening's career turned an important corner the following year when she co-starred with Anjelica Huston and John Cusack in Stephen Frears's powerful, entertaining screen adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel The Grifters (1990), and her artful turn as a con artist gained her the first of several Academy award nominations. On the strength of this performance Warren Beatty cast Bening as Virginia Hill, Bugsy Siegel's fiery actress moll, in his Bugsy (1991), the story of Siegel's founding of Las Vegas. Although the movie itself did not fare well, it resulted in a relationship with Beatty which led to Bening's pregnancy and then her marriage to Beatty in 1992 - it was the second marriage for Bening, who had been separated from her first husband since 1986 but did not finalize her divorce until 1991. The couple then collaborated on the extravagant flop Love Affair (1994), though the next year her career rebounded with her turn as Queen Elizabeth in the highly-regarded 1995 production of Richard III (1995). Notable performances have since included an obsessive, pushy real estate agent in American Beauty (1999), and as the eponymous character in István Szabó's screen adaptation of the W. Somerset Maugham novel Being Julia (2004) - both were duly noted by the Academy, with Oscar nominations.
Bening has great poise and screen presence and, at her best, can turn in a very strong performance. Although her resume often features long stretches of mediocre productions before the next good part turns up, when it does, it proves worth the wait. Bening has four children with Beatty.Annette Bening – Actors Branch
Ms. Bening earned an Oscar nomination for her supporting role in “The Grifters” and additional nominations for her lead performances in “American Beauty,” “Being Julia” and “The Kids Are Alright.”- Director
- Producer
- Actress
A very talented painter, Kathryn spent two years at the San Francisco Art Institute. At 20, she won a scholarship to the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program. She was given a studio in a former Offtrack Betting building, literally in an old bank vault, where she made art and waited to be critiqued by people like Richard Serra, Robert Rauschenberg and Susan Sontag. Later she earned a scholarship to study film at Columbia University School of Arts, graduating in 1979. She was also a member of the British avant garde cultural group, Art and Language. Kathryn is the only child of the manager of a paint factory and a librarian.Kathryn Bigelow – Directors Branch
Ms. Bigelow won Oscars for directing and producing “The Hurt Locker.” Her other directing credits include “Zero Dark Thirty,” “K-19: The Widowmaker” and “Point Break.”- Additional Crew
- Production Designer
- Art Director
Jim Bissell is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BFA in Theater. After working in New York and L.A. on commercials and low budget features, he won an Emmy Award in 1980 for his work on Palmerstown, U.S.A. followed by a BAFTA nomination for production design on Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. He was the original chair for the Art Directors Guild Awards as well as a former Vice President of the Guild. He has taught at AFI, USC, UCLA extension and the NC School of the Arts and is a member of the DGA, ADG, and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.Jim Bissell – Designers Branch
Mr. Bissell is a production designer who earned an Oscar nomination for his work on “Good Night and Good Luck.” His credits also include “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol,” “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” and “The Spiderwick Chronicles.”- Make-Up Department
- Production Manager
Kathryn Blondell was born on 9 December 1940 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is a production manager, known for Cast Away (2000), The Aviator (2004) and Inception (2010).Kathryn Blondell – Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Branch
Ms. Blondell has served as hairstylist on such films as “Django Unchained,” “J. Edgar,” “Revolutionary Road,” “Blood Diamond,” “Shampoo” and “Harold and Maude.”- Editor
- Producer
- Director
Jon Bloom is an Oscar and Emmy nominated filmmaker with broad experience as a director, producer, writer, cinematographer and editor. With almost five decades in the motion picture industry, Bloom is a renowned specialist in entertainment marketing.
A multi award-winning filmmaker, Jon Bloom counts among his kudos six Emmy nominations, a Clio Award plus six Clio nominations, numerous Hollywood Reporter Key Art Trailer Awards and many film festival honors including an Academy Award nomination as producer/director of the live-action short "Overnight Sensation," based upon the Somerset Maugham short story "The Colonel's Lady" and starring Robert Loggia, Louise Fletcher and Shari Belafonte. In addition to the Oscar nomination, the film won first place awards at the Houston, Aspen and American Film Festivals and is available at the Apple iTunes music store on the net.
A Six-term Governor at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Bloom also is Chair of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch. Earlier, Bloom was elected by the AMPAS Board to serve as an Academy Officer. Additionally, he has created and produced for the Academy its annual theatrical trailer promoting the Oscar telecast several times and created many special montages and tributes for the Academy Awards ceremony, as well as for the Emmys, SAG Awards and other event telecasts.
His production company BloomFilm, founded in 1987, provides the entertainment industry with audio/visual marketing materials for promotion and advertising. It specializes in creative development and production of theatrical trailers and teaser trailers for movie theaters, television and radio spots for broadcast, special concept shooting, main title sequences, special graphics, documentaries, music videos, montages and product reels for special sales purposes. Please visit BloomFilm.com
BloomFilm continues to build upon Bloom's long term reputation as a top trailer-maker, compiling an impressive list of feature campaigns, including the hits Dances With Wolves, Sleeping With The Enemy, Far And Away, The Fast and The Furious, Chocolat, Flirting With Disaster, and Sling Blade, as well as Music Of The Heart, Mansfield Park, Runaway Bride, Prince Of Egypt, Diabolique, Wild America, Uncle Buck, The River Wild, Mountains Of The Moon, The Abyss, Say Anything, Working Girl, Bright Lights, Big City, Moon Over Parador, Murder In The First, Final Analysis, Toys, The Santa Clause, Sneakers and Chicago.
With his impressive credentials as a director, Bloom enjoys a solid reputation for his expertise in special shooting; from live-action shoots with major stars to table-top cinematography, special effects, computer graphics and trick photography. Jon has directed many top performers including Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda, Bruce Willis, Kim Basinger, Darryl Hannah, Dudley Moore, Joseph Bologna, Danny Glover, James Garner, Mary Tyler Moore, and Tom Hanks.
Jon Bloom's early work experience includes stints as an assistant director to Robert Wise and Robert Altman, and an assistant editor to Francis Ford Coppola on Godfather II. His early years in motion picture advertising encompass his time as a principal and founder of both Seiniger/Bloom Productions and Intralink, and as a producer of trailers and director of behind-the-scenes documentaries for Kaleidoscope Films. During this period, his work included campaigns for such hit films as Return Of The Jedi, About Last Night, E.T., An American Tail, Throw Momma From The Train, Broadcast News, The Last Emperor, Little Shop Of Horrors, The Verdict, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Missing, The Morning After, Bladerunner, Shogun, 10 and Victor/Victoria.Jon Bloom – Short Films and Feature Animation Branch
Mr. Bloom’s short film “Overnight Sensation” earned an Oscar nomination. His production company, Bloomfilm, was founded in 1987.- Production Designer
- Art Director
- Art Department
Rick Carter was born in 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a production designer and art director, known for Avatar (2009), Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) and Jurassic Park (1993).Rick Carter – Designers Branch
Mr. Carter has won Academy Awards for his work as production designer on “Avatar” and “Lincoln.” He has also worked on such films as “War Horse,” “Munich,” “War of the Worlds” and “Jurassic Park.”- Director
- Producer
- Writer
Lisa Cholodenko earned an MFA at Columbia University Film School where she made an award-winning short film Dinner Party (1997) Her feature High Art (1998) won the National Society of Film Critics award for Ally Sheedy's performance and The Waldo Salt Screenwriting award at Sundance. Both "High Art" and Laurel Canyon (2002) premiered at Cannes Director's Fortnight.Lisa Cholodenko – Directors Branch
Ms. Cholodenko is a writer-director who earned an Oscar nomination for the original screenplay for “The Kids Are All Right.” Her other credits include “High Art” and “Laurel Canyon.”- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Bill Condon was born on 22 October 1955 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Dreamgirls (2006), Gods and Monsters (1998) and Kinsey (2004).Bill Condon – Writers Branch
Mr. Condon won an Academy Award in the Adapted Screenplay category for “Gods and Monsters,” and earned a second nomination in that category for “Chicago.”- Producer
Dick Cook was born on 20 August 1950 in Kern County, California, USA. He is a producer, known for 42 (2013), The Alchemyst and Ranger's Apprentice. He has been married to Bonnie S. Drury since 6 July 1974. They have two children.Dick Cook – Executives Branch
Mr. Cook is the former chairman of the Walt Disney Studios. During his tenure, the studio launched the “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “National Treasure” franchises, as well as numerous Pixar animated feature films.- Make-Up Department
- Special Effects
- Additional Crew
Bill Corso is known for Deadpool (2016), Foxcatcher (2014) and A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004). He has been married to Odile Corso since 3 October 1999.Bill Corso - Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Branch
Mr. Corso won an Academy Award for “Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events” and has won three Emmys, most recently for HBO’s “Grey Gardens.” His credits include “Savages,” “Enchanted,” Tim Burton’s “Planet of the Apes,” “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas” and “Galaxy Quest.”- Cinematographer
- Director
- Producer
Richard Crudo, ASC is a cinematographer and director with a long-standing and celebrated career in the film industry.
His most recent work includes: directing "Ed Murphy: American Hero", a documentary chronicling the life of a decorated World War II veteran who was one of the first members of the Naval Combat Demolition Unit (forerunner of today's SEAL teams); and shooting the Los Angeles segments of the upcoming CBS series "Tommy".
Since his debut as a cinematographer in the 1990s, he has lensed more than thirty features including the timeless classic, "American Pie" and other notable films such as "American Buffalo", "Outside Providence", "Down to Earth", "Federal Hill", "Out Cold", "Grind" and "Brooklyn Rules".
Crudo also photographs commercials and episodic television series for various entities including, FX Network's, "Justified"; CW's "Jane the Virgin"; MTV's "Awkward"; Amazon's "Good Girls Revolt"; and CBS's "NCIS" and "SWAT".
In 2011 Crudo became the first cinematographer to be chosen by Canon to test its new motion picture camera, the EOS C300, for which he wrote, directed and photographed the contemporary crime feature, "Dirty People". In turn, Canon asked him to join their elite Explorer of Light family of Canon professionals. His additional directing credits include Sony's post-apocalyptic horror thriller, "Against The Dark".
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and currently based in Los Angeles, Crudo has served six terms as president of the American Society of Cinematographers and three years as a Governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He is a frequent lecturer at universities across the United States and is a regular contributor to American Cinematographer magazine and other industry publications. He is also a leading proponent of the drive to establish standards for digital imaging workflow.
Other professional affiliations include membership in the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Canadian Society of Cinematographers, the National Film Preservation Board for the Library of Congress, the International Cinematographers Guild and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. Crudo is also a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society.Richard P. Crudo – Cinematographers Branch
Mr. Crudo’s cinematography credits include “Down to Earth,” “Outside Providence,” and “American Pie.”- Visual Effects
- Producer
- Special Effects
Richard Edlund was born on 6 December 1940 in Fargo, North Dakota, USA. He is a producer, known for Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) and Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980).Richard Edlund – Visual Effects Branch
Mr. Edlund has won four Oscars and earned an additional six nominations. He has also received three Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards and was awarded the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation. His credits include “Poltergeist,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “Star Wars.”- Make-Up Department
- Art Department
Leonard Engelman is known for The Princess Diaries (2001), Ghostbusters (1984) and Beverly Hills Cop (1984).Leonard Engelman – Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Branch
Mr. Engelman’s credits include “Burlesque,” “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” “The Accidental Tourist” and “Moonstruck.”- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Rob Epstein was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA as Robert P. Epstein. He is a producer and director, known for The Celluloid Closet (1995), Paragraph 175 (2000) and The Times of Harvey Milk (1984).
Rob has produced films that have screened worldwide, in cinemas, on television, home video and digital platforms, at museums, and at leading film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Venice, Telluride, Toronto and New York. Rob has received two Academy Awards®, five Emmy Awards, three Peabodys and both a Guggenheim and Rockefeller Fellowship.
Rob moved by bus from New York City to San Francisco at age 19. His first job in the city was as an usher at the Castro Theater back when there was still a smoking section. While taking a filmmaking class at San Francisco State University, he became a production assistant on a documentary in early development where he met his mentor, Peter Adair. He quickly rose to co-director, with the other members of the Mariposa Film Group. The film became the landmark documentary Word Is Out, released in theaters in 1978, airing nationally on prime-time public television, and recently restored and re-released by Milestone.
Rob's next project was the Oscar-winning feature documentary The Times of Harvey Milk, which he conceived, directed, co-produced and co-edited. The film touched audiences immediately, becoming an international festival sensation starting at Berlinale, and winning the Academy Award® for Best Feature Documentary as well as the New York Film Critics Award for Best Non-Fiction Film of 1985. In 2013, the Library of Congress selected it for the National Film Registry, and the film is now part of the prestigious Criterion Collection. Harvey Milk was recently named one of "25 most influential documentaries of all time" by the Cinema Eye honors and in 2017 received the Legacy Award.
Since 1987, Rob and his producing partner Jeffrey Friedman have worked under the Telling Pictures banner, traversing the worlds of non-fiction and scripted narrative. Rob won his second Oscar for the documentary Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, made with Jeffrey Friedman. Rob's other films with Jeffrey include the box office hit The Celluloid Closet (Emmy Award for directing), the HBO documentary Paragraph 175 (Sundance Film Festival Jury Award for Directing), Where Are We?, And the Oscar Goes to for Turner Classic Movies and most recently Killing the Colorado, a feature documentary about the drought in the Western U.S. premiering on Discovery Channel in August 2016.
In moving from documentary to dramatic narrative, Rob and Jeffrey collaborated on the narrative feature HOWL, starring James Franco, followed by Lovelace, starring Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard and Sharon Stone, and released by The Weinstein Company's Radius-TWC. Both films premiered at the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals. HOWL was developed at the Sundance Institute Writer's Lab, where Rob and Jeffrey were Sundance Screenwriting Fellows in 2009, and was released theatrically by Oscilloscope Laboratories. It received the Freedom of Expression Award from the National Board of Review.
In addition to his Oscars for The Times of Harvey Milk and Common Threads, Rob has received several Peabody and Emmy Awards, as well as Guggenheim and Rockefeller Fellowships. In 2008, Rob was recognized with the Pioneer Award from the International Documentary Association (IDA) for distinguished lifetime achievement. He has also received achievement awards from Frameline (1990), Outfest (2000) and the Provincetown International Film Festival. In 2016, Epstein was awarded the Kenneth Rainin Foundation Screenwriting Grant by the San Francisco Film Society for his original screenplay Dogpatch (working title).
Career retrospectives honoring Rob's work have been presented at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London (ICA), the Taipei International Film Festival in Taiwan, the Cinémathéque Québécoise in Montreal, and the Pink Apple Film Festival in Zurich.
In addition to his filmmaking career, Rob is a professor at California College of the Arts, where he serves as Co-chair of the Film program. He has been a visiting professor at the Graduate Film Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He serves on the Sundance Institute's Board of Trustees and is a member of the Directors Guild of America as well as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Documentary Branch where he served as an elected member of the Board of Governors for three terms.Rob Epstein – Documentary Branch
Mr. Epstein received Oscars for the Feature Documentaries “The Times of Harvey Milk” and “Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt.” He co-wrote, produced and co-directed the feature film “Howl."- Music Department
- Composer
- Actor
Born in the Bronx, 1940. Graduated High School of Music & Art in New York, then studied composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris.
Before moving to Hollywood, wrote and played Latin music for Salsa legends including Tito Puente, Ray Baretto and Joe Quijano.
In addition to composing over 100 movie scores (including Barbarella and 9-5) and TV themes (Happy Days & Love Boat), Fox wrote the music for many popular songs including "Killing Me Softly With His Song" (Grammy/Roberta Flack-Fugees), "I Got A Name" (Jim Croce), Richard's Window (Olivia Newton John/Oscar Nomination) & "Ready To Take A Chance Again" (Oscar Nomination/Barry Manilow).
Classical compositions include 3 full length ballets: "Song For Dead Warriors" (San Franciso Ballet Company, 1979) , "Zorro" (Smuin Ballet, 2003) and "Salsa Til Dawn" (Smuin ballet 2024). Other larger classical works include: "Lament & Prayer" (Warsaw Opera House/2008), "Fantasie-Homage To Chopin" (Gdansk, Poland/Chopin Festival 2010) and "Clarinet Quintet" (Santa Fe Opera House / 2015).
In addition to winning 2 Emmys, a Grammy & 2 Oscar Nominations, he was given BMI's Richard Kirk Career Achievement Award in 1992 and inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame in 2004. Fox served as a Board of Governor for the Academy's music branch from 2008-2016, and was re-elected in 2022. Charles will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame April 2024.
Charles' memoirs "Killing Me Softly: My Life In Music", chronicling his composing career and centering on his 3 years studying with Nadia Boulanger, was released by Scarecrow Press in the Fall of 2010.
In 2019, for HBO's documentary "The Bronx, USA", Fox & Paul Williams wrote the title song called "Da' Bronx" which is sung live on the Bronx streets by Robert Klein and Hamilton star Donald Webber Jr. They were nominated for a Hollywood Music Media Award.
Fox has recently returned to his early roots of Latin music-- with a series of concerts in Havana, all original Cuban music, which are featured in a new documentary called Killing Me Softly with His Songs (2022), directed by Danny Gold.
The documentary chronicles Fox's 60 year journey writing music and will be released on Apple and other streaming devices April 2024.Charles Fox – Music Branch
Mr. Fox has received Oscar nominations for writing the music for the songs “Richard’s Window” from “The Other Side of the Mountain” and “Ready to Take a Chance Again” from “Foul Play.”- Additional Crew
- Producer
Rob Friedman – Public Relations Branch
Mr. Friedman is now the co-chairman Lionsgate Motion Picture Group. Previously he held top-level positions at Summit Entertainment, Warner Bros. and Paramount.- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Alex Gibney was born on 23 October 1953 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005), Taxi to the Dark Side (2007) and Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief (2015). He has been married to Anne Gibney since 14 August 1982. They have three children.Alex Gibney – Documentary Branch
Mr. Gibney is the writer, director and producer of the 2007 Academy Award-winning documentary “Taxi to the Dark Side,” as well as “Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson” and “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.” He is the recipient of many awards including the Emmy and Grammy.- Editor
- Editorial Department
- Director
Mark Goldblatt is known for Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) and True Lies (1994).Mark Goldblatt – Film Editors Branch
Mr. Goldblatt was nominated in the Film Editing category for “Terminator 2: Judgment Day.” He served as editor on “Rise of the Planet of the Apes.”- Sound Department
- Additional Crew
- Music Department
Don Hall is known for Firestarter (1984), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964) and The Towering Inferno (1974).Don Hall – Sound Branch
Mr. Hall’s fifty years of credits include “A Walk in the Clouds,” “Divine Madness” and “ The Towering Inferno.”- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Songwriter ("Cry Me a River"), composer, author and publisher, the son of Jack Stern. His songs were recorded by such popular singers as Peggy King and Julie London. Besides his film and television work, he wrote the stage score for "What a Day", and what today is considered to be the first live television musical, for KTTV in 1949. He wrote for a music-publishing company for two years, and became a music publisher himself in 1958. Joining ASCAP in 1955, his other popular-song compositions include "Poor Ev'rybody Else", "Zero Hour", "He Needs Me", "Sing a Rainbow", "Just Go", "Them There Days", "The Trouble With Me is Men", "That Means I Love You", "Our Ship Is Coming In", "Bayamo", "Wherever I Am, I'm Home", "Any Questions?", "Lady Blue", "Bouquet of Blues", "Wherever You Are It's Spring", "Littleboy Heart", and "Sudden Love".Arthur Hamilton – Music Branch
Mr. Hamilton is a songwriter whose credits include the ballad “Cry Me a River” and the Oscar-nominated original song “Till Love Touches Your Life” from “Madron.”- Producer
- Actor
- Writer
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord, California, to Janet Marylyn (Frager), a hospital worker, and Amos Mefford Hanks, an itinerant cook. His mother's family, originally surnamed "Fraga", was entirely Portuguese, while his father was of mostly English ancestry. Tom grew up in what he has called a "fractured" family. He moved around a great deal after his parents' divorce, living with a succession of step-families. No problems, no alcoholism - just a confused childhood. He has no acting experience in college and credits the fact that he could not get cast in a college play with actually starting his career. He went downtown, and auditioned for a community theater play, was invited by the director of that play to go to Cleveland, and there his acting career started.
Ron Howard was working on Splash (1983), a fantasy-comedy about a mermaid who falls in love with a business executive. Howard considered Hanks for the role of the main character's wisecracking brother, which eventually went to John Candy. Instead, Hanks landed the lead role and the film went on to become a surprise box office success, grossing more than $69 million. After several flops and a moderate success with the comedy Dragnet (1987), Hanks' stature in the film industry rose. The broad success with the fantasy-comedy Big (1988) established him as a major Hollywood talent, both as a box office draw and within the film industry as an actor. For his performance in the film, Hanks earned his first Academy Award nomination as Best Actor.
Hanks climbed back to the top again with his portrayal of a washed-up baseball legend turned manager in A League of Their Own (1992). Hanks has stated that his acting in earlier roles was not great, but that he subsequently improved. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Hanks noted his "modern era of movie making ... because enough self-discovery has gone on ... My work has become less pretentiously fake and over the top". This "modern era" began for Hanks, first with Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and then with Philadelphia (1993). The former was a blockbuster success about a widower who finds true love over the radio airwaves. Richard Schickel of Time magazine called his performance "charming", and most critics agreed that Hanks' portrayal ensured him a place among the premier romantic-comedy stars of his generation.
In Philadelphia, he played a gay lawyer with AIDS who sues his firm for discrimination. Hanks lost 35 pounds and thinned his hair in order to appear sickly for the role. In a review for People, Leah Rozen stated, "Above all, credit for Philadelphia's success belongs to Hanks, who makes sure that he plays a character, not a saint. He is flat-out terrific, giving a deeply felt, carefully nuanced performance that deserves an Oscar." Hanks won the 1993 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Philadelphia. During his acceptance speech, he revealed that his high school drama teacher Rawley Farnsworth and former classmate John Gilkerson, two people with whom he was close, were gay.
Hanks followed Philadelphia with the blockbuster Forrest Gump (1994) which grossed a worldwide total of over $600 million at the box office. Hanks remarked: "When I read the script for Gump, I saw it as one of those kind of grand, hopeful movies that the audience can go to and feel ... some hope for their lot and their position in life ... I got that from the movies a hundred million times when I was a kid. I still do." Hanks won his second Best Actor Academy Award for his role in Forrest Gump, becoming only the second actor to have accomplished the feat of winning consecutive Best Actor Oscars.
Hanks' next role - astronaut and commander Jim Lovell, in the docudrama Apollo 13 (1995) - reunited him with Ron Howard. Critics generally applauded the film and the performances of the entire cast, which included actors Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, and Kathleen Quinlan. The movie also earned nine Academy Award nominations, winning two. Later that year, Hanks starred in Disney/Pixar's computer-animated film Toy Story (1995), as the voice of Sheriff Woody. A year later, he made his directing debut with the musical comedy That Thing You Do! (1996) about the rise and fall of a 1960s pop group, also playing the role of a music producer.
As of 2022, Hanks is 66-years-old. He has never retired from acting, and has remained active in the film industry for more than four decades.Tom Hanks – Actors Branch
Mr. Hanks is a five-time Academy Award nominee who won back-to-back Oscars for his lead performances in “Philadelphia” and “Forrest Gump.” His other credits include “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” and “Larry Crowne.”- Producer
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Gale Anne Hurd was born on October 25, 1955 in Los Angeles, California. After graduating from Stanford University, she joined New World Pictures as executive assistant to Roger Corman, the company president. She worked her way up through various administrative positions and eventually became involved in production. She formed her own production company, Pacific Western Productions, in 1982 and went on to produce a number of box-office hits including The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986) and The Abyss (1989). All were directed by James Cameron, whom she later married and divorced. She also later married and divorced Brian De Palma. She is currently the recording secretary for the Producers Guild of America.Gale Anne Hurd – Producers Branch
Ms. Hurd’s producing credits include “The Incredible Hulk,” “The Abyss” and the first three “Terminator” movies. She is currently serving as the chair of the Academy Nicholl Fellowships Committee.- Additional Crew
- Producer
Cheryl Boone Isaacs was born in 1949 in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. She is a producer, known for Alien Trespass (2009), 2018 Women That Soar Awards (2018) and Tupac: Resurrection (2003). She is married to Stanley Isaacs. They have one child.Cheryl Boone Isaacs – Public Relations Branch
Ms. Isaacs is a public relations executive and the former head of publicity at Paramount Pictures. She also served as president of theatrical marketing for New Line Cinema.- Producer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Actor
Mark Johnson was born on 27 December 1945 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He is a producer and assistant director, known for Rain Man (1988), The Holdovers (2023) and El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019). He has been married to Lezlie Brooks Johnson since 26 September 1982. They have two children.Mark Johnson - Producers Branch
Mr. Johnson, recipient of two Best Picture Oscar nominations and a statuette for “Rain Man,” has also produced “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader” and “My Sister’s Keeper.”- Producer
- Additional Crew
- Executive
Eight-time Academy Award®-nominated, Kathleen Kennedy is one of the most successful and respected producers and executives in the film industry today. As President of Lucasfilm, she oversees the company's three divisions: Lucasfilm, Industrial Light & Magic and Skywalker Sound. In 1992, she co-founded the production company The Kennedy/Marshall Company with director/producer Frank Marshall, and in 1982 she co-founded Amblin Entertainment with Marshall and Steven Spielberg. Altogether, Kennedy has further produced or executive produced more than 70 feature films, which have collectively garnered 120 Academy Award nominations and 25 wins.
For much of the past 20 years, Kennedy served as a governor and officer of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and serves on the board of the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. She also sits on the boards of numerous educational, arts, and philanthropic organizations.Kathleen Kennedy – Producers Branch
Ms. Kennedy is the seven-time Oscar-nominated producer of “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,” “The Color Purple,” “The Sixth Sense,” “Seabiscuit,” “Munich,” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and “War Horse.”- Editor
- Editorial Department
Lynzee Klingman was born on 31 December 1943 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is an editor, known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Man on the Moon (1999) and Ali (2001). She has been married to Richard Pearce since 5 January 1980. They have two children.Lynzee Klingman - Film Editors Branch
Ms. Klingman was nominated for an Academy Award for her work on “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” Her other credits include “The Beaver,” “Ali,” “Man on the Moon” and “A River Runs through It.”- Visual Effects
- Additional Crew
- Actor
In 1986, John Knoll joined Industrial Light & Magic as a Technical Assistant and was soon promoted to Motion Control Camera Operator for Captain EO. After three years of operating, John was called upon to work on the ground breaking digital effects for The Abyss, a film that saw the first use of Photoshop, which he had co-developed with his brother, Thomas. Since that time, John has been promoted to Visual Effects Supervisor helming the visual effects on more than twenty feature films and commercials and most recently Chief Creative Officer of the studio. His film background coupled with an advanced understanding of digital technologies has made John a much sought-after supervisor having been honored with an Oscar and a BAFTA Award for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and six additional visual effects Academy Award nominations as well as five additional BAFTA nominations.
John's supervisory credits also include the Star Wars Prequels, Episodes I, II,and III, Mission to Mars, Deep Blue Sea, Star Trek: First Contact, Mission: Impossible, Ghost Protocol and the Academy Award(TM)-winning Rango among others. Prior to his promotion to Chief Creative Officer in May of 2013 he served as the Visual Effects Supervisor on Guillermo del Toro's science fiction epic, Pacific Rim for which he received a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Achievement in Special Visual Effects. In 2017, John was nominated for an Academy Award, a BAFTA, and a Visual Effects Society Award for Visual Effects for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the first film in the Star Wars stand-alone series and one for which John served as both an Executive Producer and Visual Effects Supervisor. The film is based on a concept John created.
John's interest in filmmaking began at an early age. Having a keen interest in visual effects, he was mesmerized by the original Star Wars film. During a visit to ILM in 1978 he was able to observe first-hand the world of visual effects. Inspired to learn more, John attended the USC School of Cinema and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Cinema Production, while freelancing as a modelmaker at a variety of Los Angeles-based production facilities.
During his last year at USC, John took an advanced animation class where he built a motion control system from an Oxberry animation stand, an Apple II computer, a CNC milling machine controller, and a bunch of industrial surplus stepper motors. Impressed by the student film that was generated from this class project, ILM hired John as a Technical Assistant for motion control photography.
Greatly impressed by visits to ILM's newly founded computer graphics department, John took up computer graphics as a hobby. Teaming up with his brother who was working on his Doctoral Thesis in computer vision at the University of Michigan, the Knoll brothers created Photoshop in 1987.
John is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and currently serves on the Board of Governors representing the Visual Effects Branch.John Knoll – Visual Effects Branch
Mr. Knoll has earned five Visual Effects Oscar nominations, for “Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace,” “Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones” and three films in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise. He won an Oscar for “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.”- Art Department
- Animation Department
- Visual Effects
Bill Kroyer was nominated for an Academy Award for his short film Technological Threat, the first film to combine 2D and CG animated characters. He directed Ferngully, The Last Rainforest, as well as dozens of commercials and animated feature film credit sequences. As Señior Animation Director at Rhythm & Hues studios he directed CG characters in films the grossed over $1 billion worldwide. In 2017 he and his wife Susan were the first couple to receive The International Animation Society's prestigious June Foray award.Bill Kroyer – Short Films and Feature Animation Branch
Mr. Kroyer directed and produced the Oscar nominated animated short film “Technological Threat.” He also directed the animated feature “FernGully: The Last Rainforest.” He is currently serving co-chair of the Science and Technology Council.- Costume Designer
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
- Actor
Jeffrey Kurland – Costume Designers Branch
Mr. Kurland is a costume designer, whose most recent project was “Inception.” He earned an Oscar nomination for “Bullets over Broadway.”- Costume Designer
- Actress
Deborah Nadoolman grew up in New York city standing in the back of the house at Broadway shows after her high school day was finished. She was awarded the first grant for Costume Design from the National Endowment for the Arts in the United States. After graduating from UCLA with an M.A. in Costume Design in 1975, she had a baptism in wardrobe working at NBC television. Her versatility was an asset for director John Landis for his The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), in which a dozen distinct short segments were molded into a coherent whole. Nadoolman met Landis while a freshman at college, through a group of friends who had been to high school with him. Landis is a high school drop-out. In addition to two children, the relationship established a long-term film collaboration between the costume designer and the director, including the comedy classics National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) and The Blues Brothers (1980). The elaborate period of the 1940s was depicted in Steven Spielberg's 1941 (1979).
Her work with Spielberg continued with the iconic costume for Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Louis Malle on Crackers (1984), and 'Costa Gavras' on Mad City (1997). Further designing for John Landis included Trading Places (1983), An American Werewolf in London (1981), Three Amigos! (1986), Coming to America (1988), and the costumes for the groundbreaking music video Michael Jackson's Michael Jackson: Thriller (1983), winner of MTV's first music video award.
She is a two-term past president of The Costume Designer's Guild, Local 892, the union representing working Hollywood costume designers. In addition to writing the chapter "Designing Hollywood: Women Costume and Production Designers" in Women Designers in the USA 1900 - 2000, Pat Kirkham, Editor (Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2000), and compiling and editing the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences catalogue 50 Costumes/50 Designers: Concept to Character (University of California Press, 2004) she is the author of Screencraft: Costume Design (Focal Press, London, 2003), Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design (Harper Collins, New York, 2007), and FilmCraft: Costume Design (Focal Press, 2012). Nadoolman wrote the first doctoral dissertation in the field of film costume design, Scene And Not Heard: The Role of Costume in the Cinematic Storytelling Process, and graduated with a PhD in the History of Design from the Royal College of Art in 2003. She is the David C. Copley Chair in Costume Design at UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television, and Director of the David C. Copley Center for the Study of Costume Design at UCLA. She is the senior curator for the exhibition Hollywood Costume, opening October 20, 2012 at the V&A Museum in London, England.
Her award-winning theatrical credits include work for the Virginia Opera ("Turandot," 1993), American Conservatory Theatre ("Dinner at Eight," 1992 and "Gaslight," 1995) as well as the Mark Taper Forum ("The Waiting Room," 1994 and "Closer," 2000).Deborah Nadoolman Landis – Costume Designers Branch
Ms. Nadoolman Landis’ credits include “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” “The Blues Brothers,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Three Amigos” and “Coming to America,” for which she received an Academy Award nomination.- Producer
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Although born in Hollywood, John and his twin sister Johanna were raised in Whittier near Los Angeles. His parents were Jewell Mae (Risley), an art teacher, and Paul Eual Lasseter, a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership. His mother's profession contributed to his interest in animation and particularly the Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck cartoons which he would watch on television. It was when he was in High School that he realized that he could have a career in animation and he wrote to the Walt Disney Studios but nothing happened then In 1975 the Disney company started an animation course at Calarts - The California Institute of the Arts- and John, with encouragement from his mother, was one of the first to sign up. He and his class mates, who included the future animators and directors Brad Bird, and Tim Burton were taught by some of Disney's veteran animators such as Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas. During his time there John produced two animated shorts - Lady and the Lamp (1979) and Nitemare (1980) - which both won the Student Academy Award for Animation. On graduating in 1979 John was taken on as an animator at the Disney Studios. In 1983, while working on Mickey's Christmas Carol some friends invited him to see some footage of Tron that they were working on using CGI and he immediately saw the potential of it to enhance animated films. John and a colleague made a short test film and satisfied with the result and full of enthusiasm started work on a feature without consulting their superiors who when they found out about it canceled it and sacked John. Having made contacts in the computer industry he was quickly taken on by Lucasfilm which was bought by Steve Jobs for $5 million with a further $5 million invested as working capital and the company renamed Pixar. John soon convinced Steve that the future lay in computer animation by bringing his desk lamp to life in the short 'Luxor Jr' which was shown at a computer graphics conference and got a standing ovation. The first computer animated feature soon followed in the form of 'Toy Story' winning John an Oscar for Special Achievement to go with one he got for Animated Short Film - Tin Toy. He's also had Oscar nominations for Animated Feature - Monster Inc and Cars, Original Screenplay -Toy Story, Animated Short Story - Luxor Jr while the short Knick Knack was selected by Terry Gilliam as one of the best 10 animated films of all time. In 2008, he was honored with the Winsor McCay Award, - the lifetime achievement award for animators. He oversees 3 animation studios - Pixar, Disney Animation and DisneyToon He spent 9 year (2005 - 2014) on the board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, only relinquishing his seat due to term limits. He was presented with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood in November 2011.John Lasseter – Short Films and Feature Animation Branch
Mr. Lasseter, a two-time Student Academy Award winner, is the recipient of both a competitive Oscar (“Tin Toy”) and a Special Achievement Award for “Toy Story.” He has also earned nominations for “Monsters, Inc.,” “Cars” and “Toy Story 3.” He is chief creative officer at Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Animation Studios.- Costume Designer
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
Judianna was born on August 24, 1955. As a child she joined the Metropolitan Opera ballet and children's chorus but was always more interested in what went on backstage to produce a show. After graduating from the Art Institute of Chicago and Yale Drama School she worked as an assistant to Jane Greenwood, the English designer who had been one of her teachers at Yale and who introduced her to Milena Canonero. She became Milena's assistant designer on 'The Cotton Club' and 'Dick Tracy' and worked as an associate and co-designer before becoming a credited costume designer in her own right on the films 'Gardens of Stone' and 'Big'. She has been associated with two of the most profitable and enjoyed franchises of the early 21st century with the Harry Potter films and the Hunger Games adaptations the latter, reuniting her with 'Big's writer Gary Ross.Judianna Makovsky – Costume Designers Branch
Ms. Makovsky has created costumes for an array of periods and genres of feature films. Her designs for “Seabiscuit,” “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” and “Pleasantville” received Academy Award nominations.- Producer
- Writer
- Director
As a director, screenwriter, and producer, four-time Academy Award nominee Michael Mann has established himself as one of the most innovative and influential filmmakers in American cinema. After writing and directing the Primetime Emmy Award-winning television movie The Jericho Mile (1979), Mann made his feature-film directorial debut with Thief (1981), followed by executive producing the television series Miami Vice (1984). He went on to direct Manhunter (1986), The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Heat (1995), and The Insider (1999), Ali (2001), Collateral (2004), a film adaptation of Miami Vice (2006), Public Enemies (2009), and Blackhat (2015).
As a producer, Mann's work includes Martin Scorsese's The Aviator (2004), Hancock (2008), Texas Killing Fields (2011), and the HBO series Luck (2011) and Witness (2012). He has been a member of the Directors Guild of America since 1977 and has served on the DGA's National Board.Michael Mann – Directors Branch
Mr. Mann is a four-time Oscar nominee, with Writing, Directing and Best Picture nominations for “The Insider” and another Best Picture nomination for “The Aviator.” Other credits include “Ali,” “Heat” and “The Last of the Mohicans.”- Sound Department
- Director
- Manager
Scott Millan Scott is a four-time Oscar® winning Re-recording mixer and has served as the Sound Director for Technicolor at Paramount. In this capacity he has overseen creative development of the company's recent venture into theatrical sound services and earned his ninth Academy Award nomination for the twenty-third film in the James Bond franchise, Skyfall. Millan's career in feature film began at Todd-AO Studios where he mixed on Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, Mel Gibson's Braveheart and Ron Howard's Apollo13, taking home his first Oscar for the latter in 1995. Soon after Scott became a lead dialogue and music mixer working on critically acclaimed films Gladiator and American Beauty beginning a long-time collaboration with director Sam Mendes. In 2000, Millan joined Sony Pictures where he mixed several highly celebrated films including Road to Perdition, Vertical Limit, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and Taylor Hackford's 2004 Ray Charles biopic- Ray, where he won his third Oscar. Millan returned to Todd AO Studio's in 2004 as a Senior Vice President and mixer collaborating on World Trade Center, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Jarhead and Revolutionary Road and his fourth Oscar mixing Paul Greengrass's 2007 The Bourne Ultimatum. Among his myriad of honors, Scott's peers and industry colleagues acknowledged him with the Cinema Audio Society's highest accolade in 2013, the CAS Career Achievement Award. Millan is also the recipient of three BAFTA Awards. In addition to his many professional achievements, Millan was elected to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Governors, on which he has served since 2012.Scott Millan – Sound Branch
Mr. Millan has won four Academy Awards as a re-recording mixer, for “Apollo 13,” “Gladiator,” “Ray” and “The Bourne Ultimatum.” He received additional nominations for “Schindler’s List,” “Braveheart,” “Road to Perdition” and “Salt.”- Music Department
- Composer
- Actor
In his 25 year career, David Newman has scored over 100 films, ranging from War of the Roses, Matilda, Bowfinger and Heathers, to the more recent The Spirit, Serenity, and Alvin and the Chipmonks: The Squeakuel. Newman's music has brought to life the critically acclaimed dramas Brokedown Palace and Hoffa; top-grossing comedies Norbit, Scooby-Doo, Galaxy Quest, The Nutty Professor, The Flinstones, Throw Mama From the Train; and award-winning animated films Ice Age, The Brave Little Toaster and Anastasia. The recipient of top honors from the music and motion picture industries, he holds an Academy Award nomination for his score to the animated feature, Anastasia, and was the first composer to have his piece, 1001 Nights, performed in the Los Angeles Philharmonic's FILMHARMONIC Series, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.
Newman is also a highly sought-after conductor and appears with leading orchestras throughout the world, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Score Orchestra, National Orchestra of Belgium, New Japan Philharmonic, Utah Symphony, and the American Symphony. He has led subscription week with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall and regularly conducts the Hollywood Bowl.
Also an active composer for the concert hall, his works have been performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Indianapolis Symphony, Long Beach Symphony, and at the Ravinia Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, and Chicago's Grant Park Music Festival.
Newman has spent considerable time unearthing and restoring film music classics for the concert hall, and headed the Sundance Institute's music preservation program in the late 1980s. During his tenure at Sundance he wrote an original score and conducted the Utah Symphony for the classic silent motion picture, Sunrise, which opened the Sundance Film Festival in 1989. As a tribute to his work in film music preservation, he was elected President of the Film Music Society in 2007, a nonprofit organization formed by entertainment industry professionals to preserve and restore motion picture and television music. Passionate about nurturing the next generation of musicians, Newman services as President of the Board of the American Youth Symphony, a forty-three year-old pre-professional orchestra based in Los Angeles, where he launched the three-year "Jerry Goldsmith Project." In 2007 he wrote the children't melodrama Yoko and the Tooth Fairy for Crossroads School in Santa Monica, CA, and in 2010 he served on the faculty of the Aspen Music Festival in the Film Scoring Program. When his schedule permits, he visit Los Angeles area high schools to speak about film scoring and mentor young composers.
The son of nine-time Oscar-winning composer, Alfred Newman, David Newman was born in Los Angeles in 1954. He trained in violin and piano from an early age and earned degrees in orchestral conducting and violin from the University of Southern California.David Newman – Music Branch
Mr. Newman is a composer who received an Oscar nomination for the score for “Anastasia.” He served as composer on “The Spy Next Door” and “Ice Age.”- Producer
- Executive
Amy Pascal is an American film producer and executive for Sony Pictures. She produced several Spider-Man films and spin-offs including the Venom film series, the 2016 Ghostbusters remake, the Jumanji sequels, Little Women and The Post. She got acclaim for producing Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the first animated Spider-Man film by Sony. She is married to Bernard Weinraub since 1997 and has a child with him.Amy Pascal - Executives Branch
Ms. Pascal is co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment where she oversees all lines of business for the studio, including motion picture operations, worldwide television production and distribution, home entertainment, and digital production.- Set Decorator
- Art Department
- Art Director
Jan Pascale - Designers Branch
Ms. Pascale was nominated for an Academy Award for her work as set decorator on “Good Night, and Good Luck.” Among her other credits are “Argo,” “The Spiderwick Chronicles,” “Syriana” and “Training Day.”- Producer
- Executive
Robert Rehme, a film producer and executive in the entertainment industry, has had over 35 years experience in exhibition, distribution and production.
Working as a theater usher at the age of 16 in his hometown of Cincinnati and received his Bachelors Degree from University of Ohio, Cincinnati. His first major position in the film industry, was as General Sales Manager for Roger Corman's independent production/distribution company, New World Pictures, which he served from 1972 to 1978.
After his departure from New World, Rehme was appointed as President and CEO of Avco Embassy Pictures from 1978-1981, which he oversaw the distribution of such major genre films including "The Manitou", "Phantasm", "The Fog" and "The Howling".
After his resignation from Avco Embassy, he served as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Marketing and Distribution at Universal Pictures, before rejoining New World Pictures in 1983, when an investment group took over the company from Roger Corman. As Co-Chairman and CEO of New World Pictures, Rehme was instrumental in revitalizing and focusing on creativity of independent film production and distribution, and quickly turned New World into one of the fastest growing independent studios in Hollywood, releasing over 15 films per year from 1985 to 1989. In 1987, New World acquired Marvel Entertainment Group, and also Lions Gate Post Production Services, and television operations.
Challenging economic conditions within the film industry however, eventually forced New World to be shut down. New World was sold to mogul Ronald O. Perelman in 1989, and Rehme went out on his own, joining forces with producer Mace Neufeld to form Neufeld/Rehme Productions which eventually lead to a long and successful partnership between the two.
Forming a production contract with Paramount Pictures in 1990, Neufeld/Rehme Productions executive produced "Patriot Games", "Clear and Present Danger", "Beverly Hills Cop III" and "Lost in Space".
Rehme has also served two terms as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and is also a keen philanthropist. Rehme has shown his dedication and gratitude to filmmaking as a well respected producer/executive during his long and successful career in the industry.Robert Rehme – Executives Branch
A former president of Universal Pictures and CEO of New World, Mr. Rehme has served two separate terms as president of the Academy. His producing credits include “Clear and Present Danger” and “Patriot Games.”- Writer
- Director
- Producer
Phil Alden Robinson was born on 1 March 1950 in Long Beach, Long Island, New York, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Field of Dreams (1989), Sneakers (1992) and The Sum of All Fears (2002). He has been married to Paulette Bartlett since 26 September 2009.Phil Robinson – Writers Branch
Mr. Robinson earned an Oscar nomination for his screenplay for “Field of Dreams,” which he also directed.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Actor
Dante Spinotti was born in Tolmezzo, Udine, in the northeastern Italian Region of Friuli. He began his career at RAI (Italian TV), before that he spent lot of time in Kenia as cinematographer for his uncle. In 1985, producer Dino De Laurentiis offered him a chance to work in USA for the first time with Michael Mann for the feature Manhunter (1986). From that experience, Spinotti became one of the most appreciated cinematographer in Hollywood. His particular vision gives a movie a great sense of reality. Among his works are: The Last of the Mohicans (1992) (Academy Nomination), Heat (1995), L.A. Confidential (1997) (Academy Nomination), The Insider (1999) (Academy Nomination), and Wonder Boys (2000). He married his wife Marcella, and they live in Los Angeles, Rome, and Tolmezzo.Dante Spinotti – Cinematographers
Mr. Spinotti earned Oscar nominations as the director of photography on “L.A. Confidential” and “The Insider.” His other credits include “Heat,” “X-Men The Last Stand” and “Tower Heist.”- Writer
- Director
- Producer
Robin Swicord was born in 1952 in Columbia, South Carolina, USA. She is a writer and director, known for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) and Little Women (1994). She has been married to Nicholas Kazan since 1984. They have two children.Robin Swicord – Writers Branch
Ms. Swicord earned an Adapted Screenplay nomination for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (shared with Eric Roth). Her credits also include “Memoirs of a Geisha,” “Matilda,” “Little Women” and “The Jane Austen Book Club,” which she also directed.- Music Department
- Editor
- Editorial Department
Elected to a 3rd term on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences representing the Film Editors Branch. Elected a Vice President of the Board of Governors in 2017. Member of the Academy's Science and Technology Council. Co-chairman of the Sci-Tech's Public Programs Committee. Serves on the Advisory Board of the Ghetto Film School. Served on the Editors Guild Board of Directors from 2014 to 2017.Michael Tronick – Film Editors Branch
Mr. Tronick’s recent editing credits include “The Green Hornet,” “Bedtime Stories” and “Hairspray.”- Producer
- Additional Crew
- Executive
Nancy Utley is known for Rez Ball, The Portland Condition and Influential Women of Hollywood (2011).Nancy Utley - Public Relations Branch
Ms. Utley is co-president of Fox Searchlight Pictures where she manages all aspects of the company, including production, acquisitions, marketing and distribution.