PRODUCTION INFORMATION

Release date: 26 December 2010Rating: M

Running Time: 103 min

Johnny Depp stars as an American tourist whose playful dalliance with a stranger leads to a web of intrigue, romance and danger in The Tourist. During an impromptu trip to Europe to mend a broken heart, Frank (Depp) unexpectedly finds himself in a flirtatious encounter with Elise (Angelina Jolie), an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path. Against the breathtaking backdrop of Paris and Venice, their whirlwind romance quickly evolves as they find themselves unwittingly thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse.

GK Films and Columbia Pictures present, in association with Spyglass Entertainment, a GK Films and Birnbaum/Barber production, in association with StudioCanal, a Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck film, The Tourist. The film stars Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp, Paul Bettany, Timothy Dalton, Steven Berkoff, Rufus Sewell, and Christian De Sica. Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. Screenplay by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck and Christopher McQuarrie and Julian Fellowes. Produced by Graham King, Tim Headington, Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber, and Jonathan Glickman. Executive producers are Lloyd Phillips, Bahman Naraghi, Olivier Courson, and Ron Halpern. Director of Photography is John Seale ASC ACS. Production Designer is Jon Hutman. Editors are Joe Hutshing ACE and Patricia Rommel. Costume Designer is Colleen Atwood. Music by James Newton Howard.

The film will begin releasing internationally December 2010.

ABOUT THE FILMWhen Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck presented his vision of The Tourist to producer

Graham King, it took King all of 30 minutes to decide that he wanted to finance and produce the film. “I wanted to make a film that would be one of those experiences where you just sit back and enjoy life for a couple of hours,” says Henckel von Donnersmarck.

“When Florian sent me the script, there was a combination of factors that made me want to sign on,” says King. “In the past several years, he had seen a lot of scripts and passed on a lot of scripts - he had his choice of projects - so I was intrigued that he had taken to this one. Having Angelina Jolie attached didn’t hurt, either.”

The Tourist, directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, written by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck and Christopher McQuarrie and Julian Fellowes, is a GK Films and Columbia Pictures presentation in association with Spyglass Entertainment. Spyglass developed the property before GK Films stepped in to finance and produce.

Jolie had been attracted to the project by the potential of the strong female character and by the chance to work with director Henckel von Donnersmarck, and to have him co-write the script. After a very early meeting, it was clear that the director and star were on the same page about the kind of movie they wanted to make. “The Lives of Others is a beautiful, intelligent film, but also heavy,” says Jolie. “When we met, he was very clear that he wanted to make a movie that was luxurious and fun, something that would be exciting for people to watch but didn’t take itself too seriously. It was a perfect match.”

Now the most important step for director and producer was to find the right male lead. Says Henckel von Donnersmarck: “We really needed someone who wouldn’t be eclipsed by Angelina. When we brainstormed over what actor could be a true partner for her in terms of attractiveness, intelligence and acting skill, the only name that kept coming to our minds was Johnny Depp.”

Johnny Depp and Oscar-winning producer Graham King have been friends for years, and, recently, have teamed up on several projects. After wrapping one such collaboration and with an eye toward working together again, King mentioned to him that Donnersmarck and he were looking for a leading man to star in a fun, exciting, sexy thriller opposite Angelina Jolie, and both felt that he would be perfect for the part.

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So Donnersmarck and Depp had a meeting and talked about The Tourist: “I presented the kind of character I envisioned for him, and he liked it,” says Henckel von Donnersmarck. “Our meeting lasted three hours instead of one, and we laughed so much that I realized I needed to introduce a lot of humour into the script to do justice to Johnny’s charm.”

Obviously, Jolie and Depp are two of the most engaging, charismatic, and talented actors working in film, but as the film requires its characters to share an immediate attraction to each other, all felt it was a good idea to meet and talk before signing on. And believe it or not, that is how Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp met for the first time. Despite being two of the biggest movie stars, they had not entered each other's orbit until they sat down to discuss The Tourist with the director and producer. King sat quietly and watched them interact, watching to see how the actors would get along. Perhaps it was no surprise that they clicked from the first moment. “There was complete instant chemistry between them both,” says King.

“Graham called me right after that meeting and was so excited,” adds producer Tim Headington of GK Films. “Later, when we started filming and seeing dailies, it was just like magic on tape.”

For Henckel von Donnersmarck, they were the perfect leads for this film. “They’re great movie stars, but more than that, they are great actors, and I wanted to give them roles in which they could really show what they can do. Elise is charming and delicate and feminine and strong, all at the same time; Frank is winning and charming and funny, just like Johnny is in real life.”

“Having either Angelina Jolie or Johnny Depp in this film would have been extraordinary, but the pair together is that perfect combination you dream about but rarely, if ever, happens,” says co-screenwriter Julian Fellowes.

In The Tourist, Jolie plays Elise Ward, the paramour of the criminal Alexander Pearce, who has disappeared. “There are a lot of people looking for him,” says Jolie. “He’s stolen a lot of money from a gangster. The gangster wants revenge - and his money back - and the British want him for the taxes on the money he stole. Everyone’s looking for him, including Elise, who hasn’t seen him for a long time and isn’t quite sure when he’ll turn up again.”

Playing off rumours that he has drastically altered his appearance, Pearce gets word to Elise: get on a certain train for Venice, choose a stranger of approximately Pearce’s height and build, and make everyone else believe that man is Pearce. She chooses the American math teacher Frank Tupelo (Johnny Depp), who’s headed to Venice to try to mend a broken heart. “She throws him into an adventure he’s not prepared for,” Jolie adds.

Of course, not everything goes according to Elise’s plan. “Imagine a woman who is elegant, sophisticated, and educated, who falls for a guy who is not any of those things,” says Henckel von Donnersmarck. “She has this grand master plan, and falling for him was not meant to happen.”

“I wanted this to be a thriller that was simply a fun time at the movies,” says King. “Two extraordinary actors, with amazing chemistry, set in an exotic, bigger-than-life location. Who wouldn’t want to go on an adventure in Paris and Venice with Angelina and Johnny?”

Depp says that he likes working with Graham King because “Graham is a renegade. He understands the rules of the game, but he doesn’t necessarily adhere to them. He thrives on the risk factor, and that makes him unique. He likes a challenge, he’s got great taste, and he doesn’t care what other people are doing. He cares about what he believes in.”

The screenwriters set the film in Venice, which, Henckel von Donnersmarck says, lent the film its entirely unique atmosphere of beauty and danger. “Somebody once said that Kodak owed most of its revenue to Venice,” says Henckel von Donnersmarck. “In terms of art and beauty, it’s the richest place in the world - there’s nothing else like it. In reality, the city is sinking and falling to bits, but we wanted to show the glory of the place. We asked ourselves,

how can we show the city from its best side? There are elements of the plot that are dangerous - but, thanks to Venice, not so dangerous that you might feel miserable about it.”

Production Designer Jon Hutman adds, “There is something about being there. The water, the architecture, and the history combined create something very special. What we have tried to do is take these existing visual gems and fit them into the story.”

Not only was it the right creative choice to shoot the movie in Venice, but surprisingly enough, the choice made practical sense as well. “It seems like a crazy thing for a studio or producer to allow, but we had a very limited window in which to make the movie. We didn’t have time to build the Venice interiors on a soundstage. For entirely practical reasons, we had to do the unheard-of thing.”

The setting called for the film’s action sequences to be striking and written especially for the city. Stunt choreographer Simon Crane - a stunt legend after working on films ranging from Cliff-hanger to Saving Private Ryan to Hancock - was charged with planning character-driven action sequences unique to Venice.

“Anyone can dream up an action sequence,” says Crane. “But if it doesn’t fit the tone of the film, it’s totally worthless. It’s all about believability.”

A good example is the scene in which Frank, attempting to escape would-be murderers who are convinced he is Alexander Pearce, leaps across Venice rooftops - just as Casanova did as he attempted to escape jealous husbands. “It came to me when reading about Casanova. Of course, Frank is the anti-Casanova,” says Henckel von Donnersmarck. “I thought, wouldn’t that be a fun way to present him - not as a great, confident lover trying to escape the cuckolded husband, but running for his life from gangsters. It reinforces the character and also presents all the beauty of Venice - it was a lot of fun.”

Another action sequence that made full use of everything Venice had to offer was the canal boat chase. Henckel von Donnersmarck captured the action with multiple cameras over seven nights. Jolie even learned to drive several kinds of boats for the sequence. Crane has worked with Jolie on several films - including Salt and Mr and Mrs Smith - and says the actress, as always, was committed to getting the action right.

“Every day, we tried to add more detail and texture. One night, shortly before we shot the sequence, I came home from work in the early morning hours and saw this beautiful fog, all over Venice,” says the director. “I thought, ‘Oh, it would be really nice to have that in the film.’ So we went pretty heavy on the fog to try to recreate that beauty. It was really a good way to use the dark side of the city, the danger that comes with the romance.”

Creating such a stylized stunt sequence - and at night, no less - was a challenge, not least because the team was prevented from rehearsing in the actual location. However, it was a challenge perfectly suited to Crane. “We rehearsed everything on open water, with buoys and other markers,” he says. “It was a challenge, but you just have to do it.”

ABOUT THE CHARACTERSAngelina Jolie plays Elise Clifton Ward, a beautiful (of course!) and mysterious woman

involved in a romantic relationship with the wanted thief Alexander Pearce - but keeps her true motivations close to the vest. “She’s instructed by Alexander to take a train from Paris to Venice, and while on the train find a man - someone of Alexander’s height and build,” says Jolie. “She finds Frank and throws him into this adventure.”

“My character in this film is different than any other film,” says Jolie. “Florian gave me very specific direction. My natural modern rhythm is quicker and harder. At the beginning of the shoot, Florian’s note to me was to slow down, as Elise lives in a world of quiet luxury and elegance.”

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“Angelina wakes up in the morning and is glamorous and feminine, and I wanted to capture that about her on film in the character of Elise,” says Henckel von Donnersmarck.

“Florian is probably one of the most intelligent human beings I have ever met in my life,” Jolie continues. “Come on: he speaks six languages. When we shot in Paris he spoke French; when we shot in Italy, he spoke Italian. And a couple of our stunt guys were Russian and he would speak to them in Russian.”

Opposite the extraordinary Elise Clifton Ward is Frank Tupelo, an American math teacher. “My main interest was to play the ultimate ordinary man,” says Depp. “The people who are perceived as ‘normal’ are the ones I find the strangest, really: they have tics and flaws and weird mannerisms. This is a guy who hasn’t really lived much of a life, so that was the great challenge - to play him as hyper-normal.”

Depp also enjoyed the opportunity to work with Henckel von Donnersmarck. “Not only is he sweet, humble, giving, caring, loving, clever, and super smart, he was beyond collaborative,” says the actor. “He was very much into the fact that things have to happen organically. He trusted that when Angelina and I got into the ring together, things would take shape.”

The filmmakers surrounded Depp and Jolie with a cast of actors and famous faces.Paul Bettany plays Acheson, the policeman trying to track down the gangster Alexander

Pearce. “He’s become obsessed with catching Pearce,” says Bettany of his character. “He’s been trying so long and has been foiled at every turn. But the thing about this movie is that nobody can be taken at face value - not even my character. His investigation is complex and twisted - his motivation is complicated for personal reasons.”

“Florian is exacting, demanding, and specific,” says Bettany. “There is an enormous amount of detail in his direction. He does it in an entirely charming way, but he will not move on until he has exactly what he wants.”

Timothy Dalton, best known, of course, for his portrayal of James Bond, takes on a very different kind of British government agent in The Tourist: as the policeman Chief Inspector Jones, he is ultimately in charge of the men leading the investigation into Alexander Pearce. “In The Tourist, I play the role of Chief Inspector Jones, a number-crunching, budget conscious policeman who is in overall command of the operation to capture Alexander Pearce. His concerns are not in the morality of either the crime or the criminal but in simply getting hold of the enormous amount of money Pearce has stolen. Alexander Pearce has 744 million in illegal assets that, given he is a British subject, we might seize! And interestingly, he goes about it using his own particular sense of what is right and what is wrong, his own decent and worldly morality.”

Steven Berkoff plays the villain Shaw, a gangster who wants to find Alexander Pearce even more than Acheson does, if that’s possible. “My character is a curious mix of devil, charm, and sophistication,” says Berkoff.

Berkoff continues, “I have scenes with Angelina Jolie that are very intense and feature knives and guns. She made it so easy and kept her cool. She is fearless and very, very trusting. She doesn’t bat an eyelid in an intense situation - she is so focused.”

SHOOTING IN VENICE“Shooting in Venice gave this film a very special, joyful, and very beautiful flavour,”

says director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. “Of course, it also presented us with considerable design challenges, since Venice and Paris have been photographed so much, and we wanted to show it in a new way. Jon Hutman was the first person I called after I read the script. I had admired his work on Redford’s film Quiz Show, on Nancy Meyers’ What Women Want and

Something’s Gotta Give and on Sydney Pollack’s The Interpreter and knew that he would be able to get me what I needed.”

In early conversations between the director and the production designer, Jon Hutman, they agreed the film’s design had to reflect the beauty of the city of Venice, while making sure the city still felt fresh and contemporary. Explains Hutman: “Where else but the city of Venice can you have canal boat chases and roof top chases, but also have your characters doing a walk-and-talk strolling through some of the most stunning streets in the world? Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp, and Venice... It doesn’t get much better than that!”

It was co-screenwriter Julian Fellowes who hatched the idea of setting the film in Venice. “Venice combines beguiling beauty with a sinister under-taste of a decay of civilization. The city can have a darkness to it,” he says.

Venice, the “city of canals,” stretches across a shallow and marshy lagoon along the Adriatic Sea in Northeast Italy. Venice was built on an archipelago of 118 islands formed by about 150 canals, with roughly 400 bridges connecting the islands. Transportation is either by boat or on foot: no cars or even bicycles are allowed.

Still, even with the logistical challenge it presented, it was easy to sell the filmmakers on the location. As executive producer Lloyd Phillips explains, “You really never know what Venice is about. It has so many faces. The architecture is so unique. The light is like nowhere else in the world. It bounces off the canals onto windows in such a magical way. This film is filled with twists and turns, and that intrigue, along with the combination of the character of the city, is a perfect marriage.”

Venice is primarily a tourist destination, and the Mayor’s Office and the Chief of Police in Venice were very helpful during filming in assisting the production blend in with some of the 20 million visitors the city receives every year with a minimum of headaches. From Piazza San Marco to the Peggy Guggenheim to the Natural History Museum to the Rialto Market to the Arsenale, tourists visiting the city caught a glimpse of Jolie and Depp in action.

Among the more than 50 locations in the film, Production Designer Jon Hutman’s team was tasked with huge builds on three sets: the Doge Suite in the Danieli Hotel; the Gala, a black-tie affair; and Pearce’s apartment, where the climax of the film takes place.

The Doge Suite in the film is located inside the Danieli Hotel, and the crew did actually shoot in the Danieli lobby, though a suite was constructed off the hotel premises. The actual location of the Doge Suite set was at the Palazzo Pisani Moretta right on the Grand Canal so it had the perfect balcony where an intimate scene between Elise and Frank could be shot.

Venice is a city built in brick, and the Doge Suite’s interior earthy terracotta hues meshed with ornate accents like crystal chandeliers enhance the location space of Palazzo Pisani Moretta. Hutman re-proportioned the rooms and with double doors and floor to ceiling windows the space transformed into timeless combination of modern and old Venetian décor.

“When we were shooting inside the Doge Suite set, I spent the three days of shooting there thinking, ‘What an amazing hotel room.’ Then someone showed me that none of the walls were real, and that’s not real marble, it’s painted,” says Angelina Jolie. “It was crafted so meticulously I couldn’t tell what was added on and what was adjusted.”

For the Gala set, Hutman and his team took ten weeks to design a concept for an empty space the size of a football field. Hutman and Henckel von Donnersmarck, along with location manager Fabrizio Cerato, found the Scuola Grande della Misericordia in the Canneregio district in Venice and fell in love with it from the moment they saw it. This vast interior of this 18 th

century building has exposed brick walls typical in Venetian architecture along with columns for building support.

Hutman and his supervising art director, Marco Trentini, and a team of twenty expert builders and painters, took four weeks after the designs were completed to bring the set to life.

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Because the building is historically preserved, The City of Venice approved every aspect of Hutman’s design - down to the nail.

An entire mezzanine and balcony were built from scratch; sculpted and sanded to match the pre-existing columns and floors. Complete with railed staircases. A dance floor was built from wood, and the wood was hand-painted to look like marble. A raised platform was constructed for the twenty-piece orchestra featured in the scene. The columns were wrapped with mirrors and squared wooden frames that were painted to blend in with the real white marble. Electrical outlets were installed for the crystal sconce accessories that radiated in the space.

“As Elise and Frank dance, you have this glittering, sparkling background. Glamour. A formal but kind of raw elegance,” says Hutman.

Hutman took on the challenge of designing Pearce’s Apartment, where the stand-off at the end of the film takes place, in Giudecca, one of the islands in Venice just across the lagoon. On the island, just next to the Hotel Palladio, is Villa Effe, where Hutman had a completely gutted space to create Pearce’s beautiful apartment with stunning views on the Giudecca Canal. “It was like starting with a blank canvas,” says Hutman.

It took five weeks of constant, round-the-clock work by Hutman and his team to renovate, furnish, and decorate the set. False walls and columns were constructed to add more detail to the vast floor plan. Contemporary designs mixed with classical. Velvet curtains and linen shades hang down to the terrazzo floor. Digital reproductions of real 15th-century Florentine frescos grace the 16-foot-high ceilings. Art from real museum pieces to sculptures to replicas of famous Modigliani paintings grace the space. Bookcases filled with art and reference books gives the final touch for a lived in feel. A large Italian fireplace and an eleven-foot long custom made couch rounds out the details to perfection.

With the apartment’s signature arched floor-to-ceiling windows, the filmmakers knew there would have to be an impressive view. So Director of Photography John Seale and his gaffer, Mo Flam, came up with a plan: they lit up the historical architectural delights on the other side of the Grand Canal. For two weeks straight, Venetians were surprised to see lights illuminating monuments across the Giudecca canal like Madonna de la Salute and the famous Piazza San Marco Basilica.

ABOUT THE COSTUMESTwo-time Academy Award-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood lent her talents to

create the unforgettable wardrobe for The Tourist. Atwood was assisted by her international wardrobe department team of ten people strong, from the UK, US, and Italy.

Director Donnersmarck was thrilled to get his first choice Colleen Atwood: “Colleen Atwood is everybody’s first choice for costume designer. She certainly was mine ever since I saw Chicago. She has proven that sexiness and elegance can be one and the same. She can make monkey aliens look sexy - and has. Colleen is the definition of good taste in clothing. Her costumes elevate every film, every scene.”

Keeping in concert with the other departments’ goals, Atwood’s costumes would be designed with a glamorous feel to it. Each piece would be individually chosen and made to bring out the elegance and simplicity of each character.

Atwood turned to her own extensive fashion photography collection, using the works of Richard Avedon and Louis Dahl-Wolfe for inspiration for her designs.

“My designs are a blend of old world and new world together,” says Atwood. “I did a more classic take on fashion as opposed to the latest greatest trends and brightest colours. I really wanted a nod to the architecture of this beautiful city, and the environment is quite busy. So I kept the look for the cast simple.”

Atwood has created many different looks for Johnny Depp throughout her career, from Edward Scissorhands to Alice in Wonderland to the upcoming GK Films release The Rum Diary. She and Depp have a rhythm and communication all their own.

“Colleen understands character, and she can connect to that with colours and fabric and textures,” says Depp. “She provides you with the physical skin for the character, and you combine that with what you’re bringing from the inside, and it’s a beautiful meeting of the two sides. She changes the way you walk, the way you stand, the way you sit, the way you relate to people. She’s quite something.”

“Johnny and I have worked together so many times, but we have never done a contemporary picture. We both wanted to keep his character of Frank Tupelo as real as possible. He is an ordinary guy, so we kept it simple: a classic grey suit, white shirt, dark tie.”

Even for the gala scene, Atwood created a sophisticated streamlined white dinner jacket and trousers for Depp, finished by tailors in London on the famous Saville Row. “A classic palette all the way around,” says Atwood.

Atwood also collaborated closely with Angelina Jolie to present Elise as very much the lady. Says Atwood, “We wanted Elise to be extremely feminine and powerful at the same time.”

Jolie says, “She’s a magician with clothing. She has really exquisite taste. I am usually very specific about what I wear and I had a few opinions, but pretty much I let her do her thing. From the first time you see Elise, when she is in a tight skirt and heels, you know who she is.”

The complex dress that Jolie wears in the Gala scene was a gown made of layers of black silk tulle, net, and satin with a pleated layered edge. Atwood and her team took weeks to make two of these Gala dresses all by hand. The gown hung delicately off her shoulders framing her face along with the extravagant antique diamond choker. “We wanted a dress that was really feminine, that harked maybe to another time and elegance, but didn’t take away from the necklace. It framed her face and body beautifully.”

The same black gown that the character of Elise dances with Frank at the Gala also carries over to the action sequence that is the climax of the film. One of the gowns was used for close-up shots, and the exact replica of the same gown used for more stunts and action packed moments.

Besides dressing Jolie and Depp for the Gala scene, Atwood and her wardrobe department had their work cut out for them when designing costumes for the Gala scene. This black-tie affair would feature more than three hundred extras, along with a very beautifully outfitted Elise and Frank. Fittings for the extras began a month before the Gala scene was shot.

Atwood dressed the women background Gala extras using a very controlled palette of floor length evening gowns, many of them designed by Alberta Ferretti. Each gown was hand- tailored to each background extra weeks before the scene was shot. Special attention was paid to the gowns for the dancers who had to be able to move to the music with ease. Lycra panels were added when necessary and hems were slightly raised. But Atwood did not design every costume in the scene: Paul Bettany wears his own Ozwald Boateng-designed tuxedo for the sequence.

All of Jolie’s clothes in the film were designed for her and made by hand - with one exception: a vintage 1950s Charles James grey dress. Atwood couldn’t resist using it in the film. Atwood says, “She literally walked into this dress. It was meant for her.”

ABOUT THE SCOREOscar-nominated composer James Newton Howard provides the score for The Tourist.

“James Newton Howard has been one of my favourite composers ever since he made me cry during My Girl, made my heart race during The Fugitive and made it almost stop during The

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Devil’s Advocate. The creative exchange with him felt like the reward for all the hard work we put into making the movie,” says Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.

“When I met Florian, we talked about the setting of the film and the kinds of rich, romantic overtones that we could apply to Venice, but also the city’s dark romance, the idea of a past glory. There’s a tension there that gives a real sense of urgency to the score.”

“The challenge for any score is to find a tone that is unique and individual to that particular film,” says Howard. “I also try to give the music a validity in its own right, give it a life, beyond the film - really, to give it integrity, as music.”

It is the work of the score, of course, to add depth to the characters. “Elise is really in control - she’s very confident,” says Howard. “That’s one of the things I wanted to express with the music - the audience might not always be 100% certain what she’s up to - and she does have some moments of vulnerability that come through in the music - but essentially her character was about control. Frank, in the beginning, is about warmth and solidarity - he is a constant presence in a tumultuous, chaotic cast of characters.”

For the film’s central gala sequence, composer Gabriel Yared, who won an Oscar for his score for The English Patient and has been nominated by the Academy two other times, provided the music. In London a month prior to the sequence being filmed, he recorded an orchestra of twelve cellos, four mandolins, one stand-up bass, and a harpist. “I was so happy to work with Gabriel again after The Lives of Others. The beauty of that piece helped me convince Johnny Depp to actually dance on camera - not a small feat!”

The Italian choreographer Luca Tommassini, who has toured with Madonna internationally, worked with thirty professional dancers to create the synchronized dance for the scene. The choreography reflects a mix of styles, ranging from waltz to tango. Tommassini also rehearsed and worked closely with Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp, neither of whom had much dancing experience. By the time the cameras were rolling, they fit right in amongst the professionals.

ABOUT THE CASTAcademy Award and three-time Golden Globe winner ANGELINA JOLIE (Elise

Ward) continues to be one of Hollywood’s most talented leading actresses. Most recently, Jolie starred in the hit action thriller Salt. Prior to that, Jolie starred in Clint Eastwood’s acclaimed film Changeling, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, as well as nominations from the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Broadcast Film Critics, London Film Critics and Chicago Film Critics.

Jolie also starred in the 2008 box-office hits Wanted, the fantasy-thriller directed by Timur Bekmambetov, and DreamWorks’ animated film Kung Fu Panda, opposite Jack Black. In 2007, she starred in Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf and Michael Winterbottom’s critically acclaimed A Mighty Heart, the dramatic true story of Mariane and Daniel Pearl. Jolie’s performance in A Mighty Heart earned her nominations from the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild, Broadcast Film Critics and Film Independent’s Spirit Awards.

Jolie’s previous films include The Good Shepherd, directed by Robert De Niro and co-starring Matt Damon; Mr & Mrs Smith, co-starring Brad Pitt; and Alexander, directed by Oliver Stone and co-starring Colin Farrell and Anthony Hopkins. In 2003, she played the lead role in the action-adventure Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, the sequel to director Simon West’s 2001 box-office smash Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, and portrayed a relief worker for the United Nations in the provocative drama Beyond Borders.

Jolie’s portrayal of a mental patient in Girl, Interrupted garnered her an Academy Award, her third Golden Globe Award, a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award, ShoWest’s

Supporting Actress of the Year Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role. The HBO film Gia earned Jolie critical praise as well as a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Emmy nomination for her portrayal of supermodel Gia Carangi, who died of AIDS.

Jolie has also received wide recognition for her humanitarian work. She was the first recipient of the Citizen of the World Award from the United Nations Correspondents Association, as well as the Global Humanitarian Action Award in 2005. In February 2007, Jolie was accepted by the bipartisan think tank Council on Foreign Relations for a special five-year term designed to nurture the next generation of foreign-policy makers.

Jolie is also a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She helped push through the Unaccompanied Alien Child Protection Act and founded the National Centre for Refugee and Immigrant Children, an organization that provides free legal aid to asylum-seeking children.

JOHNNY DEPP (Frank Tupelo) most recently headlined an all-star cast as the Mad Hatter in the worldwide box office hit Alice in Wonderland. Prior to that, he starred as real-life criminal John Dillinger opposite Christian Bale and Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard in Michael Mann’s Public Enemies, and received his third Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, winning a Golden Globe Award for the role.

Depp is currently in production on Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, reprising his role as Captain Jack Sparrow. Depp played the pirate captain a third time in Gore Verbinski’s Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, after Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest earned more than $1 billion, making it the third largest-grossing movie of all time. He received his first Academy Award nomination, as well as a Golden Globe Award nomination, a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award nomination and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his portrayal of Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

In 2005, Depp collaborated with Burton on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical, and Burton’s “Corpse Bride,” which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Film in 2006.

Depp received his second Academy Award nomination, as well as a Golden Globe Award nomination, Screen Actors Guild Award nomination and BAFTA nomination for his role as JM Barrie in Marc Forster’s Finding Neverland, in which he starred opposite Kate Winslet and Freddie Highmore.

In 2004, Depp starred in The Libertine as 17th-century womanizing poet John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester. Other screen credits include David Koepp’s Secret Window, Robert Rodriguez’s Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Albert and Allen Hughes’ From Hell, Ted Demme’s Blow, Lasse Hallström’s Chocolat, Julian Schnabel’s Before Night Falls, Sally Potter’s The Man Who Cried, Burton’s Sleepy Hollow, Roman Polanski’s The Ninth Gate, Terry Gilliam’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Mike Newell’s Donnie Brasco with Al Pacino, Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man, and Jeremy Leven’s Don Juan DeMarco, in which he starred opposite actors Marlon Brando and Faye Dunaway.

It was Depp’s compelling performance in the title role of Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands that established him as one of Hollywood’s most sought-after talents, and earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor. He was honoured with another Golden Globe Award nomination for his work in the offbeat love story Benny & Joon, directed by Jeremiah S Chechik.

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Depp reunited with Burton for the critically acclaimed Ed Wood and his performance garnered him yet another Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor. Other films include Lasse Hallström’s What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Emir Kusturica’s Arizona Dream and John Badham’s Nick of Time.

Depp began his career as a musician with the rock group named Kids, which took him to Los Angeles. When the band broke up, Depp turned to acting and earned his first major acting job in A Nightmare on Elm Street. He followed that with roles in several films including Oliver Stone’s Academy Award-winning Platoon before landing the role that would prove to be his breakthrough, as undercover detective Tom Hanson on the popular TV show “21 Jump Street.” He starred on the series for four seasons before starring as the title character in John Waters’ Cry-Baby.

Depp starred and made his feature directorial debut opposite Marlon Brando in The Brave, a film based on the novel by Gregory McDonald. He co-wrote the screenplay with his brother, DP. Depp.

Depp recently starred in Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and will next be seen in The Rum Diary, based on Hunter S Thompson’s novel, for director Bruce Robinson and producer Graham King. He also lends his voice to Gore Verbinski’s “Rango.”

While the British-born PAUL BETTANY (Inspector John Acheson) is a recognized star overseas with well-received performances in film, on the London stage and on British television, American audiences first discovered him in A Knight’s Tale, in which he played the comical role of Chaucer opposite Heath Ledger. For this performance he won the London Film Critics’ Award for Best Supporting Actor, and he was named one of Daily Variety’s “Ten to Watch” for 2001.

Classically trained at the Drama Centre in London, Bettany made his stage debut in a West End production of “An Inspector Calls” under the direction of Stephen Daldry (The Hours, Billy Elliot). He then spent a season with the Royal Shakespeare Company, performing in productions of “Richard III,” “Romeo and Juliet,” and “Julius Caesar” before landing his first feature film role in Bent.

Bettany returned to the stage to appear in “Love and Understanding” at London’s Bush Theatre. He later reprised that role at the Longwharf Theatre in Connecticut. The play led to more British television work, including Lynda La Plante’s “Killer Net” and “Coming Home,” in which he starred with Peter O’Toole.

Bettany’s appearance in the Royal Court Theatre productions of “One More Wasted Year” and “Stranger’s House” preceded his second feature film role in David Leland’s Land Girls with Catherine McCormack and Rachel Weisz. He next appeared in the film After the Rain.

He then portrayed “Steerforth” in the TNT production of “David Copperfield,” directed by Peter Medak, opposite Sally Field and Michael Richards. More feature film roles followed, including Suicide Club with Jonathan Pryce and David Morrissey.

Bettany was nominated for a British Independent Film award and a London Film Critics’ Award for Best Newcomer in IFC’s Gangster No. 1, directed by Paul McGuigan, and starring Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis, and Saffron Burrows. He then reteamed with Paul McGuigan for the Paramount Classics’ mystery-thriller, The Reckoning, opposite Willem Dafoe.

Bettany next starred as the imaginary roommate opposite Russell Crowe, Ed Harris and Jennifer Connelly in the Academy Award-winning A Beautiful Mind for director Ron Howard. His performance in the film won him the London Film Critics Award for Best British Actor.

Bettany then starred in Thadeus O’Sullivan’s intense, independent feature, The Heart of Me, opposite Olivia Williams and Helena Bonham-Carter. Keen to test himself further he went on to star in Dogville, director Lars Von Trier’s dramatic thriller opposite Nicole Kidman and

Stellan Skarsgård. Followed by the Working Title/Universal feature Wimbledon, in which he starred opposite Kirsten Dunst for director Richard Loncraine (The Gathering Storm, Richard III).

He then starred opposite Crowe again in Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World for director Peter Weir. In this adaptation of Patrick O’Brien’s novel, Bettany plays the ship’s surgeon, Stephen Maturin, the first naturalist and best friend of Captain Jack Aubrey (Crowe). His performance won him the Evening Standard Award for Best British Actor, the London Film Critic’s Award for Best Supporting Actor for both M&C, as well as, The Heart of Me and the Elle Style Award for Best Actor in M& C and Dogville. His nominations include a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor and a Broadcast Film Critics Association nomination for Best Supporting Actor in M&C.

He went on to star as Silas in the most highly anticipated film of 2006, The Da Vinci Code based on Dan Brown's novel and directed by Ron Howard, earlier helmsman of A Beautiful Mind. The film went on to huge box office success driven by its star powered cast, which included Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen and Alfred Molina.

Bettany then starred in the Fox Searchlight feature The Secret Life of Bees, opposite Queen Latifah, Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson and Dakota Fanning, based on the best selling book.

In January 2009, Bettany was seen in the film Inkheart, a fantasy adventure for New Line Cinema/Warner Bros, based on the best-selling children’s books. He starred opposite Brendan Fraser and Helen Mirren, as Dustfinger, a fire-eating performer, for director Iain Softley.

Bettany then starred in Graham King, Tim Headington, Sarah Ferguson and Martin Scorsese’s The Young Victoria opposite Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend and Jim Broadbent. In this adaptation, Paul plays Lord Melbourne the charming prime minister who becomes Queen Victoria’s inseparable sole advisor.

Bettany’s film Creation, in which he stars with wife Jennifer Connelly, opened the Toronto Film Festival on September 10, 2009. Directed by Jon Amiel, the film was released in the US in December 2009.

He most recently starred in Screen Gems’ hit Legion, and will next star in Priest, a horror western directed by Scott Stewart, also for Screen Gems.

TIMOTHY DALTON (Chief Inspector Jones) trained at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He was a member of Britain’s National Youth Theatre and has worked extensively in both classical and modern theatre throughout Britain, including seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Prospect Theatre Company and the National Theatre. His many roles have included Romeo, Prince Hal, Hotspur, Henry V, Petruchio and Mark Antony. He played Cornelius Melody in the highly acclaimed London West End production of Eugene O’Neill’s “A Touch of The Poet” and most recently played Lord Asriel in the National Theatre’s “His Dark Materials.”

On television his work has encompassed material ranging from the BBC’s classic production of “Jane Eyre” to the award-winning documentary on wolves “In the Wild,” which took him to within a few hundred miles of the North Pole. He has played in major British and US network TV miniseries and dramas. His work for Showtime and HBO includes the movies “The Informant,” “Possessed” and “Made Men.”

Dalton began his film career playing alongside Peter O’Toole and Katherine Hepburn in the Oscar-winning film The Lion in Winter. He has subsequently starred in films including Mary, Queen of Scots, Cromwell, Wuthering Heights, Agatha, Flash Gordon, Hawks, The King’s Whore, The Rocketeer, The Beautician and the Beast, Timeshare, American Outlaws, Looney Tunes, and Hot Fuzz. From 1987 to 1989, Dalton was the screen’s James Bond, playing the

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world’s best-known secret agent in “The Living Daylights” and “License to Kill.” He most recently voiced a role in the worldwide hit animated film Toy Story 3.

STEVEN BERKOFF (Reginald Shaw) is an internationally acclaimed British actor of stage and screen who continues to delight cinemagoers worldwide. Berkoff's many film credits range from A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, and Octopussy to Beverly Hills Cop as well as over forty other features. He is currently working on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for David Fincher.

Berkoff has mounted numerous theatre productions around the world from Los Angeles to New York City to Europe to Australia. Berkoff’s standout performances have garnered him many accolades including LA Drama Circle and LA Weekly Drama Awards, as well as recognition at the Edinburgh Film Festival. Most recently Berkoff was nominated for a TMA Theatre Award for his directorial work in On the Waterfront, which ran at the prestigious Haymarket Theatre in London’s West End and in which he also played the leading role of Johnny Friendly.

Berkoff has also starred in numerous television series and television films, including the yet-to-be-released The Borgias for Showtime.

RUFUS SEWELL (The Englishman) most recently starred in “Zen” for Left Bank Pictures and The BBC, “Pillars of the Earth” for Starz and Channel 4, Jerry Bruckheimer’s television series “Eleventh Hour” (in which Sewell played the lead), and “John Adams” for HBO. In 2006 Sewell starred onstage as Jan in Tom Stoppard’s “Rock n’ Roll” at The Royal Court Theatre and London’s West End, for which he won Best Actor at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2006, London Critic’s Circle Best Actor Award 2007 and Best Actor at the 2007 Olivier Awards. He reprised this role on Broadway and received a Tony Award Nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play, and a Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Play.

Sewell first gained attention with his television debut in 1994 as Will Ladislaw in the BBC adaptation of “Middlemarch.” He gained further acclaim in Christopher Hampton's feature film Carrington, opposite Emma Thompson and Jonathan Pryce, as well as John Schlesinger's Cold Comfort Farm.

In 2005, Sewell starred as Petruchio in the critically acclaimed BBC production of “The Taming of The Shrew,” for which he was nominated as Best Actor for a BAFTA Television Award. Other recent films include: Fabrice du Weltz’s Vinyan, Johan Renck’s Downloading Nancy, Neil Burger’s The Illusionist and Wes Craven’s Paris Je t’aime .

Other films include Nancy Meyer’s The Holiday, Martin Campbell’s The Legend Of Zorro and Kevin Reynold’s Tristan & Isolde, Brian Helgeland’s A Knight’s Tale, Alex Proyas' futuristic thriller Dark City, Dangerous Beauty with Catherine McCormack, Illuminata directed by and co-starring John Turturro, Susan Sarandon and Christopher Walken, Miramax's The Very Thought of You with Joseph Fiennes and Paramount Pictures' Bless The Child co-starring Kim Basinger and Jimmy Smits, Victory with Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill, Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet, Channel Four Film's The Woodlanders, and BBC Film's A Man of No Importance.

On stage, Sewell made his West End theatrical debut in 1993 as Thomas Kratsky, the Czechoslovakian hustler, in “Making It Better,” which won him the London Critics Circles' Best Newcomer Award. Other notable roles include Septimus Hodge in the original production of Tom Stoppard's “Arcadia” at the National Theatre, Darcy in “Pride And Prejudice” at the Royal Exchange in Manchester, as well as “As You Like It,” “The Seagull,” and “The Government Inspector,” all at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. Sewell made his Broadway debut in 1995, opening to rave reviews in the revival of Brian Friel's “Translations” opposite Brian Dennehy

and Dana Delany. Other theatre credits include “Rat In the Skull,” a Royal Court Production directed by Stephen Daldry., Macbeth on London's West End, and John Osborne's “Luther” at the Royal National Theatre.

Sewell studied at London's Central School of Drama before making his film debut in Don Boyd's Twenty One.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKERSWriter/Director FLORIAN HENCKEL VON DONNERSMARCK was born in

Cologne, Germany in 1973. He spent his childhood and youth in New York, Berlin, Frankfurt, and Brussels.

In 1991, he went to Leningrad to study Russian Language and Literature. He graduated two years later in Saint Petersburg as a state-certified teacher of Russian as a foreign language.

From 1993 to 1996, he completed a degree in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at Oxford University. After an internship with director Lord Richard Attenborough, he decided to study fiction-directing and enrolled at the University of Television and Film in Munich. His four-minute student film Doberman, which he shot in 1998 from his own script, was screened at over forty festivals throughout the world and won him many awards, among them the Max-Ophuls Prize and the “Shocking Shorts Award” from Universal Studios.

His first full-length film, The Lives of Others, which he again wrote and directed, brought Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck over forty international awards, and the film won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

He is a member of the French Order of Arts and Letters, the Bavarian and Northrhine-Westfalian Orders of Merit, and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.

He now resides in Los Angeles with his wife and three children.

CHRISTOPHER MCQUARRIE (screenplay) was born and raised in Princeton Junction, New Jersey, where he attended West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South with director Bryan Singer and actor Ethan Hawke. In lieu of college he took a job working as an assistant teacher at a boarding school in Perth, Western Australia, and later hitchhiked around the western half of the continent. Returning to the United States a year later, he went to work for a detective agency in New Jersey for the next four years. In 1992, he applied to the New York City Police Department and was on his way to the academy when former schoolmate Singer offered him the opportunity to write their first feature film, Public Access, winner of the 1993 Sundance Film Festival’s grand jury prize.

Singer and McQuarrie collaborated again on the 1995 film The Usual Suspects, for which McQuarrie received best screenplay awards from Premiere magazine, The Texas Board of Review, and the Chicago Critics as well as the Edgar Award, The Independent Spirit Award, and the British and American Academy Awards. The film was later included on the New York Times list of the 1000 greatest films ever made, and the character Verbal Kint was included on AFI’s list of the 100 greatest Heroes and Villains of all time. In 2006, the Writers Guild of America voted The Usual Suspects #35 on their list of 101 Greatest Screenplays.

McQuarrie spent the next several years dividing his time between rewriting studio movies (such as Singer’s X-Men) and developing a screenplay on the life of Alexander the Great, written with Peter Buchman, for Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio. (Scorsese and DiCaprio chose to do The Aviator first, making way for Oliver Stone to produce his version of Alexander.)

McQuarrie also wrote and directed The Way of the Gun, and more recently McQuarrie has developed a script with co-writer Dylan Kussman about the life of John Wilkes Booth, and

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The Last Mission with co-writer Nathan Alexander detailing the harrowing last hours of WWII in the Pacific.

He co-wrote (with Nathan Alexander) and produced Valkyrie, directed by Bryan Singer.Current projects include Champions, Wolverine II and The Monster of Florence.

JULIAN FELLOWES (Screenplay by) was catapulted into Hollywood’s A-list of writers when he received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2002 for Gosford Park, which was his first produced film. His work was also honoured by the Writer’s Guild of America, The New York Film Critics’ Circle and the National Society of Film Critics for Best Screenplay, and Fellowes was named ShoWest 2002’s Screenwriter of the Year. Directed by Robert Altman, the film starred Emily Watson, Maggie Smith, Helen Mirren, Kristin Scott Thomas and Ryan Phillippe, and received a total of 7 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture.

His current projects include Romeo and Juliet, directed by Carlo Carlei and produced by Ileen Maisel, and to be shot in Italy next year. He is developing two new film projects. First is The Girl on the Landing, based on the novel by Paul Torday, a thriller about a young couple whose mundane life is reshaped once the husband starts being visited by strange hallucinations. Production is set to begin in Spring 2011. Fellowes is also set to write the script for a four-hour mini-series about the Titanic for ITV Studios.

Fellowes recently created, wrote and executive produced the smash hit ITV series “Downtown Abbey,” which launched in the UK on September 24th and has been the season’s most acclaimed new show. Set in a country house, between 1912 and 1914, this period drama focuses on the lives of the wealthy Crawleys and their servants and stars Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern and Penelope Wilton. It will air on PBS’s “Masterpiece Theatre” in the US starting January 9th.

In 2005, Fellowes made his directorial debut with the critically acclaimed Separate Lies (Fox Searchlight), starring Tom Wilkinson, Emily Watson and Rupert Everett, for which he received the Best Directorial Debut award from the National Board of Review. His second feature as both writer and director was From Time to Time, a haunting ghost story spanning two worlds and two centuries starring Maggie Smith, Timothy Spall and Dominic West. Fellowes adapted the screenplay from Lucy M Boston's book “The Chimneys of Green Knowe” for Ealing Studios, and it was released early this year.

Other credits include the original screenplay for the biographical drama The Young Victoria, starring Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend and Paul Bettany. Produced by Graham King and Martin Scorsese’s Initial Entertainment, the film received 3 Oscar nominations and won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design. He also wrote screenplay for Vanity Fair (2004), starring Reese Witherspoon and Jonathan Rhys Meyers directed by Mira Nair.

Expanding his talents to the world of publishing, Fellowes has authored 2 novels: the international bestseller, Snobs, (2005) a witty satire of the English class system and the clever mystery Past Imperfect, (2008/2009), like Snobs a Sunday Times Best Seller, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the UK and by St Martin’s Press in the US. His critically acclaimed children’s book The Curious Adventures of the Abandoned Toys was published by Henry Holt Books in 2007.

Not limiting his talents to film and publishing, Fellowes has also written the book for the Tony nominated stage production of “Mary Poppins.” A co-production between Disney and Cameron Mackintosh, “Mary Poppins” continues its run as a record-breaking hit on the New York stage and on its national and international tour.

Educated at Ampleforth College in Yorkshire and Magdalene College, Cambridge, Fellowes studied at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. He completed his training in

repertory theatre at Northampton and Harrogate before making his West End début in “A Touch of Spring” by Sam Taylor at the Comedy Theatre.

Prior to his writing and directing career, Fellowes was an actor best known for his portrayal of the incorrigible Lord Kilwillie in the BBC’s popular Sunday night series, “Monarch of the Glen.” He was also featured in “Aristocrats” (1999) as the 2nd Duke of Richmond for the BBC and in “For the Greater Good” (1991), also for the BBC, which was directed by Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) and was his big acting break. In the cinema, he was seen in Shadowlands with Anthony Hopkins, Damage with Jeremy Irons, Place Vendome with Catherine Deneuve and Tomorrow Never Dies with Pierce Brosnan.

Fellowes’ screenwriting career began in the 1990’s in England with his successful, Emmy award winning adaptation of “Little Lord Fauntleroy,” as well as the BAFTA nominated “The Prince and the Pauper,” both for the BBC.

Fellowes lives with his wife, Emma, and their son, Peregrine, in London and Dorset, England.

GRAHAM KING (Producer) is a formidable producer of both major motion pictures and independent features. King won a Best Picture Oscar as a producer on the 2006 ensemble crime drama The Departed, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson and Mark Wahlberg. The film won a total of four Academy Awards, also including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Also that year, King was a producer on the drama Blood Diamond, also starring DiCaprio.

The Departed marked King’s third collaboration with director Scorsese. In 2004, he produced Scorsese’s widely praised Howard Hughes biopic, The Aviator, starring DiCaprio, for which King earned an Academy Award nomination and won a BAFTA Award for Best Picture. He was also honoured by the Producers Guild of America with a Golden Laurel Award for Producer of the Year. King was co-executive producer on Scorsese’s Academy Award-nominated epic drama Gangs of New York, starring DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis and Cameron Diaz.

In 2007, King launched his independent production company, GK Films, with business partner Tim Headington and completed shooting Edge of Darkness starring Mel Gibson under this new banner. The film enjoyed its wide US theatrical release through Warner Bros Pictures in January 2010. Also produced by King for GK Films is the historical epic The Young Victoria, starring Emily Blunt and Rupert Friend. Nominated for three Academy Awards, and winning for Best Costume Design, the film was produced by King alongside Scorsese, Headington and Sarah Ferguson. Most recently, the company’s critically-acclaimed feature The Town, written and directed by Ben Affleck was released by Warner Bros.

King is also serving as a producer on a wide range of features in various stages of production or development. Upcoming projects include Gore Verbinski’s Rango, being produced in association with Verbinski’s Blind Wink Productions and featuring the voice of Johnny Depp and set for a March 2011 release; London Boulevard, starring Colin Farrell and Keira Knightley; The Rum Diary, starring Depp and produced with Depp’s production company, Infinitum Nihil. King is currently in production on the 3D family film Hugo Cabret, directed by Martin Scorsese.

GK Films recently announced several new projects including the untitled Freddie Mercury story starring Sacha Baron Cohen being written by Peter Morgan, which will team the company with Tribeca Productions and Queen Films. GK Films has also announced a film adaptation of the hit musical Jersey Boys and is producing a featured adaptation of the British miniseries Unforgiven, to be written by Christopher McQuarrie, as well as an untitled love story written and directed by Angelina Jolie.

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GK Films launched a new division, GK-tv. Run by President Craig Cegielski, GK-tv is dedicated to the development, production and worldwide distribution of television programming. GK-tv’s 10-episode series “Camelot” starring Joseph Fiennes and Eva Green will premiere in early 2011 on Starz in the US.

King was previously the President and CEO of Initial Entertainment Group, which he founded in 1995. During King’s reign as President and CEO of Initial Entertainment Group, he served as an executive producer on such films as Steven Soderbergh’s Oscar-winning ensemble drama Traffic, Michael Mann’s biographical drama Ali starring Will Smith in the title role, and The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, produced by and starring Jodie Foster. King went on to executive produce the television miniseries “Traffic,” for which he received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Miniseries.

A native of the United Kingdom, King moved to the United States in 1982 and was awarded an OBE in 2009.

TIM HEADINGTON (producer), together with long-time friend and colleague Graham King, formed the Los Angeles-based production company GK Films in 2007. Under the GK banner, he and King produced the thriller Edge of Darkness starring Mel Gibson and the three-time Academy Award-nominated romantic drama The Young Victoria, alongside producers Martin Scorsese and Sarah Ferguson, The Duchess of York.

Headington is an executive producer on Gore Verbinski’s animated adventure Rango, featuring the voice of Johnny Depp and currently in post-production for a 2011 release. His upcoming producing projects include The Rum Diary, also starring Depp; and the crime drama London Boulevard, for writer/director William Monahan.

GK Films recently announced several new projects that Headington will produce including the untitled Freddie Mercury story starring Sacha Baron Cohen being written by Peter Morgan, which will team the company with Tribeca Productions and Queen Films. GK Films has also announced a film adaptation of the hit musical Jersey Boys and is producing a featured adaptation of the British miniseries Unforgiven, to be written by Christopher McQuarrie, as well as an untitled love story written and directed by Angelina Jolie.

Headington first met King in 2004 when he invested in King’s former production company, Initial Entertainment Group, as it was financing and producing the award-winning biopic The Aviator, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. He went on to executive produce the thriller First Born, starring Elisabeth Shue, and DiCaprio’s producing debut, Gardener of Eden, directed by Kevin Connolly and starring Lukas Haas, Giovanni Ribisi and Erika Christensen.

Headington is also a partner in the music management company Wright Entertainment Group (WEG), looking after such notable stars as Justin Timberlake, the Jonas Brothers, Ciara and Janet Jackson.

ROGER BIRNBAUM (producer) founded the production, finance and distribution company Spyglass Entertainment with his partner, Gary Barber, sharing the title of Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

Spyglass Entertainment’s slate of films has grossed over $5 billion in worldwide box office to date. Spyglass enjoyed instant success with the blockbuster, The Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis, which grossed over $661 million and garnered six Academy Award nominations. Other successes include Bruce Almighty, starring Jim Carrey, which grossed over $485 million in worldwide box office and Oscar favourites Seabiscuit, and Memoirs of a Geisha, based on the best-selling books. In total, Spyglass films have amassed over 34 Oscar nominations, including 3 wins.

Other company hits, which demonstrate the commercial diversity of the films Spyglass produces or finances include: The Count of Monte Cristo, Shanghai Noon, Shanghai Knights, The Recruit, Eight Below, and The Pacifier.

More recently, Mr Birnbaum produced and Spyglass co-financed the hugely popular romantic comedy, 27 Dresses, starring Katherine Heigl, followed by Wanted, an adrenaline-pumping action thrilled based upon Mark Miller’s explosive graphic novel series, starring Oscar winners Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman, and the holiday comedy hit Four Christmases, with comedian Vince Vaughn and Academy Award winner Reese Witherspoon.

In 2009, Spyglass co-financed Paramount’s summer blockbuster Star Trek, directed by JJ Abrams. The latest instalment of the Star Trek franchise was the first film in 2009 to cross the $200 million mark in the US box office. Following Star Trek, Spyglass co-financed and Mr Birnbaum served as Executive Producer on Paramount’s GI Joe: The Rise of the Cobra.

The past year, Mr Birnbaum served as Executive Producer on Oscar-winning director Clint Eastwood’s latest project Invictus, based on the inspiring true story of Nelson Mandela. The film stars Oscar winners Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. Mr Birnbaum also served as Producer on the Irish production of Leap Year, a romantic comedy starring Amy Adams.

In 2010, Spyglass co-financed Universal’s comedy Get Him to the Greek, starring Jonah Hill and Russell Brand. Spyglass also co-financed and co-produced the Paramount/DreamWorks/Spyglass comedy Dinner for Schmucks, starring Steve Carrell and Paul Rudd.

Upcoming releases include The Dilemma, directed by Ron Howard, starring Vince Vaughn and Kevin James, and No Strings Attached, a comedy directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman.

Mr Birnbaum is currently serving as producer on The Vow, directed by Emmy Award winner Michael Sucsy, starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum and Executive Producer on Footloose, a remake of the 1984 hit.

Prior to founding Spyglass Entertainment, Mr Birnbaum co-founded Caravan Pictures, where he was responsible for such box office hits as Rush Hour, Six Days/Seven Nights, Inspector Gadget, Grosse Pointe Blank, The Three Musketeers, Angels in the Outfield, and While You Were Sleeping.

Before joining Caravan, Mr Birnbaum held the title of President of Worldwide Production and Executive Vice President of Twentieth Century Fox, where he oversaw such films as Home Alone, Sleeping with the Enemy, Edward Scissorhands, Hot Shots!, My Cousin Vinny, The Last of the Mohicans, Die Hard 2, and Mrs Doubtfire, among others. Prior to that, Mr Birnbaum was President of Production for United Artists, where he developed the Oscar-winning film Rain Man.

Earlier in his career, he produced The Sure Thing, directed by Rob Reiner, and Young Sherlock Holmes, presented in association with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment. For television, he executive produced the telefilms “Scandal Sheet,” “Happily Ever After,” “When Your Lover Leaves” and the Emmy-winning “All the Kids Do It.”

Mr Birnbaum started his career as Vice President of A&M Records and Arista Records before entering the film industry. He is an AFI Trustee and Artistic Director of the Institute as well as a mentor to the USC Peter Stark Producing Program.

GARY BARBER (producer) founded the production, finance and distribution company Spyglass Entertainment with his partner Roger Birnbaum, sharing the title of Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

Spyglass Entertainment’s savvy production choices have grossed approximately $5 billion in worldwide box office to date. Spyglass was launched with the phenomenal box office

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success The Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis, which grossed over $661 million and garnered six Academy Award nominations. Other successes include Bruce Almighty, starring Jim Carrey, which grossed over $485 million in worldwide box office and is considered one of the blockbuster comedies of all time, and Memoirs of a Geisha, based on the best-selling novel, which earned Spyglass three Oscar wins out of six nominations, bringing the company a total, to date, of 34 nominations.

In 2008, Mr Barber produced and Spyglass co-financed the hugely popular romantic comedy 27 Dresses, starring Katherine Heigl, followed by Wanted, an adrenaline-pumping action thriller based upon Mark Miller’s explosive graphic novel series, starring Oscar winners Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman, with James McAvoy. Spyglass wrapped up 2008 with the holiday comedy hit Four Christmases, with comedian Vince Vaughn and Academy Award winner Reese Witherspoon.

In 2009, Spyglass co-financed Paramount’s summer blockbuster Star Trek, directed by JJ Abrams. Following Star Trek, Spyglass co-financed and Mr Barber served as Executive Producer on Paramount’s GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra. The summer tent-pole action adventure about an elite military unit starring Channing Tatum, Sienna Miller and Dennis Quaid.

Following GI Joe, Mr Barber served as Executive Producer on Oscar-winning director Clint Eastwood’s latest project Invictus, based on the inspiring true story of Nelson Mandela. The film stars Oscar winners Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. Mr Barber also served as Producer on the Irish production of Leap Year, a romantic comedy starring Amy Adams.

In 2010, Spyglass co-financed Universal’s comedy Get Him to the Greek, starring Jonah Hill and Russell Brand. Spyglass also co-financed and co-produced the Paramount/DreamWorks/Spyglass comedy Dinner for Schmucks, starring Steve Carrell and Paul Rudd.

More recently, Spyglass is co-financing Universal’s comedy The Dilemma, directed by Ron Howard and starring Vince Vaughn and Kevin James, which will be released on January 14, 2011. Spyglass is also co-financing and co-producing the Paramount comedy No Strings Attached, directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher, which will be released on January 21, 2011.

Mr Barber is also currently serving as Producer on the romantic drama The Vow, directed by Emmy Award winner Michael Sucsy and starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum, and as Executive Producer on Footloose, a remake of the 1984 hit.

A seasoned veteran of the business, Mr Barber has produced or executive produced numerous feature films and he has run business entities in feature film production, foreign distribution, music and exhibition.

JONATHAN GLICKMAN (producer) serves as President of Spyglass Entertainment where he is responsible for the development and production of all Spyglass films. In 1993, Glickman joined Caravan Pictures as an intern and by 1997 he had worked his way up to President of the company. During this time he brought in such projects as While You Were Sleeping, serving as associate producer. Later, Glickman executive produced Grosse Pointe Blank and Walt Disney's Inspector Gadget.

In 1997, he also produced the international smash hit Rush Hour starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, as well as the franchise’s two sequels. In total, the three films earned over $850 million in international box office receipts.

In 1998, Mr Glickman was named President of Production for Spyglass Entertainment and in 2003 was promoted to President of the company. While at Spyglass, Mr Glickman has produced such international hits as Shanghai Noon, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Pacifier and The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.

In 2008, Mr Glickman produced the sleeper romantic comedy hit “27 Dresses,” which grossed over $160 million worldwide. Later that year he produced the hit comedy Four Christmases, starring Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon.

In 2009, Mr Glickman served as Producer on the Irish production of Leap Year, a romantic comedy starring Amy Adams.

Mr Glickman, who is married to television writer Christy Callahan, graduated with honours in English from the University of Michigan and attended University of Southern California’s Peter Stark program. He serves on the Southern California Board of Rock the Vote, as well as The University of Southern California Peter Stark Programs.

LLOYD PHILLIPS (executive producer) most recently executive produced the award-winning film Inglorious Basterds, which earned 8 Oscar nominations this past year and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Inglorious Basterds, directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger and Christoph Waltz, was shot primarily in Berlin at Studio Babelsberg where Lloyd’s previous movie, The International was based. The International, directed by Tom Tykwer and staring Clive Owen and Naomi Watts, took Lloyd to Istanbul, Milan and Berlin.

Over the years, Phillips’ career has taken him to many of the world’s spectacular locations where he has produced films in the most challenging of environments. Teaming with his good friend and Director, Martin Campbell, Phillips, Produced Vertical Limit, shot at high altitude in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. He also partnered with Campbell on Beyond Borders shot in Montreal, Canada, Namibia and The Golden Triangle of Northern Thailand. The film stared Angelina Jolie and Clive Owen. Phillips and Campbell partnered again on The Legend of Zorro, Produced by Phillips in the wild highlands of Central Mexico, staring Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Phillips also Produced Racing Stripes in KwaZulu, Natal in South Africa, starring Hayden Panettiere and Executive Produced Running Free in both South Africa and Namibia.

Phillips’ love for travel, adventure and the cinematic art of storytelling is evident in the films he chooses to work on and this has led Phillips to collaborate with some of the film industry’s most celebrated individuals. Phillips worked with Director Terry Gilliam on the Sci-Fi thriller Twelve Monkeys, which starred Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe and the Oscar Nominated Brad Pitt. He worked with Alec Baldwin and Sir Anthony Hopkins on The Edge, Directed by Lee Tamahori, which shot in Alberta, Canada and Savage Island (aka Nate and Hayes) was filmed in Fiji and New Zealand. Phillips Produced and co-wrote this film with John Hughes, staring Tommy Lee Jones.

His other credits include Warlords of the 21st Century, for Roger Corman and the telefilm The Magnificent One as well as the miniseries Heart In The High and Deception, Directed by Graeme Clifford, starring Liam Neeson and Andie MacDowell. Phillips was also Production Consultant on Species, Directed by Roger Donaldson.

Phillips was born in South Africa and grew up in New Zealand. His early work as a photojournalist earned him entry into the National Film School in the UK and his first film, The Dollar Bottom, won the Oscar for Best Dramatic Live Action Short and also made him the first New Zealander to win an Academy Award.

Not only does Phillips have an extensive filmmaking career, he is credited with having produced the Broadway musicals The Three Penny Opera starring Sting and James Clavell’s Shogun: The Musical. Still an avid photographer, Phillips publishes a personal photo journal of each film project he produces and last year an extensive exhibition of his photography from The International was held in Berlin during the 2009 Berlin Biennale.

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Phillips currently resides in Malibu, CA, with his wife, Producer, Beau St Clair. He is the President/Producer of the independent film company Kava Productions and is currently prepping Blind Curve, an exciting, sweeping love story set in the world of early Formula One motor-racing. He is partnered with Studio Babelsberg and the film will be Directed by Roger Donaldson in 2011. He’s also partnering with Chuck Roven to Produce the much loved book West With The Night in collaboration with Angelina Jolie.

BAHMAN NARAGHI (executive producer) is chief operating officer of GK Films. In that role, he spearheads the company’s financial and operational development and planning, oversees all company productions, sets up and oversees the distribution structure of the company, and maintains and strengthens current business relationships.

Naraghi previously ran Red Envelope Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netflix, spearheading Netflix’s foray into ownership and distribution of original content. In his capacity he supervised all acquisitions and production initiatives at REE, established the business plan and managed all key relationships, with producers, talent and their representatives, and distributors. Naraghi also coordinated and set up the financing and distribution arrangements for Terminator Salvation for The Halcyon Company, and served as an executive producer of the film.

Prior to that, he served as COO of Intermedia Film from June 2002 until October 2005, overseeing all of the company’s business operations and financial activities. He joined Intermedia from Miramax, where he held the post of executive vice president of finance and operations, and earlier spent five years at Universal Pictures, where he served as executive vice president and chief financial officer. He started his career in the entertainment business in 1990, supervising the rebuilding of MGM on behalf of French bank, Credit Lyonnaise where he headed up the media and entertainment group.

OLIVIER COURSON (Executive Producer) was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at StudioCanal in March 2007.

He transformed StudioCanal into a European Studio, becoming a leader in production, acquisition and distribution of motion pictures, and the only studio in Europe distributing all media at the source in the three largest markets: the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.

He developed the International Production and had the company fully financed The Last Exorcism. StudioCanal has also financed its first British films, including Rowan Joffe's Brighton Rock and Joe Cornish's Attack the Block which will both be released in 2011. The company is also fully financing the Working Title production of John Le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

He joined the CANAL+ Group as General Counsel in 2003 and in 2005 he was appointed Chairman of the Executive Board at StudioCanal.

Born in 1965, Olivier Courson joined the Conseil d'Etat after graduating from Sciences Po and l'Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA); He also holds a Master in Law. He advised the Minister of Industry on telecom deregulation in 1995-1996 and on the Centre National du Cinema (CNC) from 1997-1998.

He was appointed Technical Adviser to the Minister for Culture and Communications on cinema and European & International affairs in 1999.

In 2001, he joined the Prime Minister's cabinet as Advisor for Culture and Communications.

RON HALPERN (Executive Producer) oversees international production and acquisitions for StudioCanal.

Recent productions he oversaw include The Last Exorcism and Chloe. Currently in production is Working Title's production of John Le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy directed by Tomas Alfredson and starring Gary Oldman, Colin Firth and Tom Hardy.

Halpern also oversees StudioCanal's stage development and productions which have included Mel Brooks’ The Producers.

Before joining StudioCanal, Halpern worked for CBS Sports at three Winter Olympic Games. He has an BA and MBA from Columbia University.

JOHN SEALE ACS ASC (Director of Photography) won the Academy Award, American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Award, British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award and other honours for his work on the late Anthony Minghella’s The English Patient. Seale also received Oscar nominations for Witness, Rain Man and Cold Mountain. His additional BAFTA Award nominations were for Witness, Gorillas in the Mist, The Talented Mr Ripley and Cold Mountain, and received ASC Award nods for Rain Man, The Perfect Storm and Cold Mountain. Seale has also won numerous critics awards for his extraordinary body of work through the years. His work was most recently seen in Jerry Bruckheimer’s upcoming Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.

Seale began his career as a camera operator in his native Australia on such films as Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Last Wave and Gallipoli, becoming second unit cinematographer on the director’s The Year of Living Dangerously. Seale had already been director of photography on several moderately budgeted Australian features before more notable films such as Careful, He Might Hear You. In 1985, Seale’s many years of work with Peter Weir paid off when he was selected as director of photography on the celebrated Witness. Since that time, Seale’s luminous work has been seen in such films as Children of a Lesser God, Weir’s The Mosquito Coast and Dead Poets Society, Lorenzo’s Oil, The Firm, The Paper, The American President, Ghosts of Mississippi, City of Angels, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Spanglish, in addition to the aforementioned titles and many others.

Production designer JON HUTMAN has collaborated four times with writer/director Nancy Meyers, on the films What Women Want, Something’s Gotta Give, The Holiday, and It’s Complicated. On television, he was honoured with both an Emmy Award and an Art Directors Guild Award for his design on the pilot episode of Aaron Sorkin’s “The West Wing.” Hutman also produced and directed the series Gideon’s Crossing.

He served as production designer and co-producer of Lawrence Kasdan’s films Dreamcatcher and Mumford; production designer on Kasdan’s French Kiss; and art director on Kasdan’s I Love You to Death.

Hutman served as production designer for Robert Redford on The Horse Whisperer, Quiz Show and A River Runs Through It, and on Sydney Pollack’s The Interpreter. Hutman’s other feature credits include Coyote Ugly; Adrian Lyne’s Lolita; Michael Apted’s Nell; Steve Kloves’ Flesh and Bone; Arthur Hiller’s Taking Care of Business; Walter Hill’s Trespass; Michael Lehmann’s Meet the Applegates; and Jodie Foster’s directorial debut, Little Man Tate. His earned his first credit as a feature production designer on Lehmann’s cult favourite Heathers.

Hutman earned a degree in architecture from Yale University where he also studied scenic design, painting and lighting at the university’s School of Drama. He returned to his native Los Angeles and entered the film industry as an assistant in the art department on The Hotel New Hampshire, and then as a set dresser on To Live and Die in LA. Hutman earned art director credits on Wanted: Dead or Alive, Surrender and Worth Winning, before moving up to design films on his own.

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JOE HUTSHING ACE (Editor) is a two-time Academy Award winner, honoured for his work on Oliver Stone’s Born on the Fourth of July and JFK. He also won a BAFTA for JFK.

Hutshing received additional Oscar nominations for his work on Cameron Crowe’s Jerry Maguire (1996) and Almost Famous (2000). He has also been honoured by the American Cinema Editors guild. He won the ACE Eddie Award twice, for JFK and Almost Famous, and received ACE Eddie Award nominations for Born on the Fourth of July and the critically acclaimed HBO film Live From Baghdad. Hutshing also won an Emmy Award for Live From Baghdad.

Hutshing most recently collaborated with director Nancy Meyers on It’s Complicated, having also worked on Something’s Gotta Give and The Holiday. He began his career as assistant editor on the Martha Coolidge comedy Valley Girl. His long association with Oliver Stone began with his work as associate editor on Wall Street and continued with Talk Radio, Born on the Fourth of July, The Doors, JFK, and, most recently, W Hutshing also edited Adrian Lyne’s Indecent Proposal, Lawrence Kasdan’s French Kiss, John Woo’s Broken Arrow, Martin Brest’s Meet Joe Black, Cameron Crowe’s Vanilla Sky, Curtis Hanson’s The River Wild and Iain Softley’s The Skeleton Key. He was also an additional editor on Spike Jonze’s Being John Malkovich.

Hutshing graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in fine arts.

PATRICIA ROMMEL (Editor) previously collaborated with Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck as editor of his Academy Award-winning film The Lives of Others. The film was also nominated for the German Movie Award and received the German Critic Award. She got her second nomination for the German Movie Award for her work on A Year Ago in Winter (2008) by Caroline Link.

Her breakthrough as an editor came on Link's Beyond Silence (1996). She further collaborated with Link on the movies Annaluise and Anton (1998) and Nowhere in Africa (2001). The latter won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2002.

Rommel began her career in the film industry in 1977, completing several advertising films and dubbing productions. She has worked as a freelance editor since the early 1980s and also teaches at several German film schools. She has edited over 40 films for cinema and television.

She has received numerous nominations and awards for her work. Wolfgang Becker’s Life Is All You Get (1997) saw her nominated for the German Camera Award (Deutscher Kamerapreis) and she subsequently won the coveted prize for her work on the film Off Beat (2005) by Hendrik Hölzemann. Other works include Nina Grosse’s Fire Rider (1997), Franziska Buch’s Emil and the Detectives (2001), Romuald Karmakar’s Nightsongs (2003) and Christian Ditter’s comedy French for Beginners (2006).

She has worked with well-known TV directors such as Dominik Graf (Dr Knock), Dieter Wedel (My old friend Fritz) and Maria von Heland (Suddenly Gina). She most recently edited The Last Station for director Michael Hoffman.

COLLEEN ATWOOD’S (costume designer) innovative wardrobe designs have left long lasting impressions on cinemagoers worldwide in such feature films as Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland, Nine, Public Enemies, Sweeny Todd; The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Mission Impossible III, Lemony Snicket’s; a Series of Unfortunate Events, Big Fish, Planet of the Apes, The Mexican, Sleepy Hollow, Mumford, Beloved, Fallen, Gattaca, That Thing You Do!, The Juror, Little Women, Ed Wood, Wyatt Earp, Philadelphia, Silence of the Lambs, Edward Scissorhands, Married to the Mob, and many more.

Atwood has been nominated for an Oscar nine times, triumphing with an Academy Award for both Chicago and Memoirs of a Geisha. She has also garnered numerous awards around the world including The Emmy Award, two BAFTAs, and has won the Costume Designers Guild Award five times.

Besides working in the world of cinema, Atwood has also had the opportunity to work with such great musicians as Tony Bennett, Sting, My Chemical Romance, and Christina Aguilera.

Atwood’s designs can soon be seen in the upcoming feature The Rum Diary starring Johnny Depp.

JAMES NEWTON HOWARD (Composer) is one of the most versatile and respected composers currently working in films.

To date, Howard has received eight Oscar nominations, including six for Best Original Score for his work on Defiance, Michael Clayton, The Village, The Fugitive, The Prince of Tides and My Best Friend’s Wedding. He was also nominated for Best Original Song for the films Junior and One Fine Day.

Howard, along with Hans Zimmer, won the 2009 Grammy Award for the score for The Dark Knight. He has also received Grammy Award nominations for music from Blood Diamond, Dinosaur, Signs and the song from One Fine Day. In addition, he won an Emmy Award for the theme to the series “Gideon’s Crossing,” and received two additional Emmy nominations for the themes to the long-running series “ER” and the series “Men.” Howard has been nominated four times for Golden Globe Awards - for his massive orchestral score for Peter Jackson’s blockbuster remake of King Kong; for the songs from Junior and One Fine Day; and for his provocative symphonic score for Defiance.

He received the 2008 World Soundtrack Award for Film Composer of the Year for his work on the films Charlie Wilson’s War, Michael Clayton and I Am Legend. Howard received the Soundtrack of the Year Award from the Classical BRIT Awards for The Dark Knight (2009) and Blood Diamond (2008). In 2009, he received the Special Fifth Anniversary GoldSpirit Award for Best Composer of the Last 5 Years (2004–2008) from the International Film Music Conference in Úbeda, Spain.

Howard, who has been honoured with ASCAP’s prestigious Henry Mancini Award for Lifetime Achievement, now has more than 100 films to his credit. Among them are all of M Night Shyamalan’s films (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, The Village, Lady in the Water, and The Happening), five films for director Lawrence Kasdan (Grand Canyon, Wyatt Earp, French Kiss, Mumford, and Dreamcatcher), four Julia Roberts comedies (Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride, My Best Friend’s Wedding, and America’s Sweethearts) and three animated films for Walt Disney Studios (Dinosaur, Treasure Planet, and Atlantis: The Lost Empire). His wide-ranging credits also include Duplicity, Confessions of a Shopaholic, The Great Debaters (with Peter Golub), Batman Begins, Collateral, Snow Falling on Cedars, Outbreak, Hidalgo, Peter Pan, Falling Down, Primal Fear, Glengarry Glen Ross, Waterworld, The Devil’s Advocate and Dave.

Howard’s success reflects the experiences of a rich musical past. Inspired by his grandmother, a classical violinist who played in the Pittsburgh Symphony in the ’30s and ’40s, he began his studies on the piano at age four. After studying as a piano major at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara and at the USC Thornton School of Music, he completed his formal education with orchestration study under legendary arranger Marty Paich.

Though his training was classical, Howard maintained an interest in rock and pop music, and it was his early work in the pop arena that allowed him to hone his talents as a musician, arranger, songwriter and producer. He racked up a string of collaborations in the studio with

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some of pop’s biggest names, including Barbra Streisand, Earth, Wind and Fire, Bob Seger, Rod Stewart, Toto, Glenn Frey, Diana Ross, Carly Simon, Olivia Newton-John, Randy Newman, Rickie Lee Jones, Cher, and Chaka Khan. In 1975, Howard joined pop superstar Elton John’s band on the road and in the studio.

Howard left the band in 1976 to do more record production. He rejoined the band in 1980 for another tour and again in 1986 to conduct the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for John’s Live in Australia tour, which later became a platinum-selling album.

When Howard was offered his first film in 1985, he never looked back. As a change of pace, Howard reunited with Elton John for a multi-city tour in the summer of 2004, which included sold-out concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in London and Radio City Music Hall in New York.

His recent releases include Edward Zwick’s Love & Other Drugs, M Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender, and Phillip Noyce’s Salt. One of his upcoming films is Kelly Asbury’s Gnomeo and Juliet. In February 2009, Howard had his first concert piece, titled “I Would Plant a Tree,” performed by the Pacific Symphony as part of their American Composers Festival.