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Munich Other Crew Members
Eric Roth (Screenplay by) won the Academy Award and Writers Guild Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Forrest Gump, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks. Roth also received an Oscar nomination, a Writers Guild nomination and the Humanitas Award for his screenplay for The Insider, starring Al Pacino and Russell Crowe and directed by Michael Mann.
Eric Roth attended the University of California at Santa Barbara, Columbia University and UCLA. He won the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award while attending UCLA. His first produced screenplay was The Nickel Ride, in 1975, directed by Robert Mulligan, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
Among the films Roth has written or co-written are Suspect, with Cher and Dennis Quaid; Mr. Jones, starring Richard Gere and directed by Mike Figgis; The Horse Whisperer, directed by Robert Redford; and Ali, for Michael Mann, and starring Will Smith in the title role.
Upcoming for Roth are the films The Good Shepherd, directed by Robert De Niro and starring Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie and Robert De Niro; and Lucky You, directed by Curtis Hanson and starring Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore and Robert Duvall. He is currently working on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, for producer Kathleen Kennedy; The Hatfields and the McCoys, for Brad Pitt's Plan B Productions; and an adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, for producer Scott Rudin.
Kathleen Kennedy's (Producer) record of achievement has made her one of the most successful executives in the film industry today. Among her credits are three of the highest grossing films in motion picture history: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Jurassic Park and The Sixth Sense, which she produced with Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen and Frank Marshall, respectively.
She currently heads The Kennedy/Marshall Company, which she founded alongside director/producer Frank Marshall in 1992. In 1999 and 2000, three films produced by The Kennedy/Marshall Company were released. The first, Universal's Snow Falling on Cedars, was directed by Scott Hicks, award-winning director of Shine. It was followed by The Sixth Sense, which starred Bruce Willis and received six Academy Award® nominations, including Best Picture. Next release was A Map of the World, starring Sigourney Weaver and Julianne Moore. The Kennedy/Marshall Company also recently produced the IMAX film Olympic Glory, which was released in May, 2000.
In the summer of 1995, The Kennedy/Marshall Company released the Marshall-directed Congo, which Kennedy produced with Sam Mercer, and The Indian in the Cupboard, directed by Frank Oz and produced by Kennedy, Marshall and Jane Startz.
That same year, Kennedy produced the Amblin Entertainment/Malpaso Production The Bridges of Madison County, directed by Clint Eastwood. It was followed by Amblin Entertainment's Jan deBont-directed action thriller Twister, which Kennedy produced with Ian Bryce in 1996. Kennedy also served as executive producer on the Spielberg-directed Jurassic Park sequel The Lost World.
Kennedy began a successful association with Steven Spielberg when she served as his production assistant on 1941. She went on to become his associate on Raiders of the Lost Ark, associate producer of Poltergeist and producer of E.T. While E.T. was becoming an international phenomenon, Spielberg, Kennedy and Marshall were already in production on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, which she and Marshall produced with George Lucas.
In 1982, Kennedy co-founded Amblin Entertainment with Spielberg and Marshall, for which she produced or executive-produced such films as The Flintstones, Hook, Always, Gremlins, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, An American Tail, The Land Before Time, Young Sherlock Holmes, The Goonies, Innerspace, The Money Pit, *batteries not included, Dad, Joe Versus the Volcano, Noises Off, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, Cape Fear and We're Back.
Kennedy also teamed with Spielberg, Marshall and Quincy Jones to produce The Color Purple, which earned eleven Academy Award nominations in 1985, including Best Picture. Later that same year, Kennedy, Spielberg and Marshall produced 1985's highest grossing film, Back to the Future, and later produced its two highly successful sequels-Back to the Future, Part II and Back to the Future, Part III
In 1998, Kennedy again earned the distinction of top grossing film of the year for Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, which she produced with Marshall and Robert Watts. She then went on to produce Empire of the Sun with Spielberg and Marshall, which the National Board of Review named Best Picture of the Year.
Kennedy also served as executive producer on the critically acclaimed Spielberg-directed Holocaust drama Schindler's List, which garnered seven Academy Awards® in 1993, including Best Director and Best Picture.
Kennedy also produced Marshall's 1990 directorial debut Arachnophobia with Richard Vane and re-teamed with Robert Watts to produce Marshall's second film, Alive, in 1993.
In 2001, Kennedy produced the Spielberg-directed A.I. Artificial Intelligence with Bonnie Curtis. That same year, she produced Jurassic Park III with Spielberg and Gerald Molen. At the end of 2001, she served as executive producer on M. Night Shyamalan's Signs, staring Mel Gibson, released August, 2002. In 2003, Kennedy produced (along with Marshall, Gary Ross and Jane Sindell) the critical and popular hit Seabiscuit, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards® and proved to be the biggest-selling drama on DVD for the year.
Kennedy's latest project, War of the Worlds-directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise-opened this past summer. The contemporary re-telling of H.G. Wells' seminal science fiction classic centers on the extraordinary battle for the future of humankind as seen through the eyes of one American family fighting to survive it. Kennedy produced the film, along with Colin Wilson.
Kennedy also currently serves as the president of the Producers Guild of America, as well as the Chair of the Producers Council Board of Governors.
Raised in the small Northern California towns of Weaverville and Redding, Kennedy graduated from San Diego State University with a degree in telecommunications and film. While still a student, she began working at a local San Diego television station. Following jobs as a camera operator, video editor, floor director and news production coordinator, Kennedy produced the station's talk show, You're On. She then relocated to Los Angeles and worked with director John Milius prior to beginning her association with Spielberg.
Barry Mendel (Producer) produced Rushmore, The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and Joss Whedon's debut film, Serenity.
Colin Wilson (Producer) frequently collaborates with Steven Spielberg, with whom he began as an editor. He associate produced Jurassic Park, co-produced The Flintstones, and produced Casper, Amistad, Small Soldiers, The Lost World, The Haunting, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Troy and most recently, War of the Worlds.
George Jonas (Based on the Book Vengeance by) was born and educated in Budapest, Hungary, and has made his home in Canada since 1956. He has published 13 books of fiction, non-fiction, essays, and poetry, including such national and international bestsellers as Vengeance (Lester & Orpen Dennys /Collins/Simon & Schuster, 1984, 23 editions) and By Persons Unknown (Macmillan/Grove Press, 1977, with Barbara Amiel, 6 editions). His novel Final Decree (Macmillan, 1981) has had five editions to date.
Jonas frequently writes about topics related to the Middle East, counter-terrorism, law, and aviation safety. In addition to many publications in Canada, he has contributed feature articles, reviews and opinion pieces to such U.S. and British newspapers, magazines, and wire services as the National Review, Saturday Review, Chicago Sun-Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Wall Street Journal, United Press International and The National Interest. His two books of selected journalism are Crocodiles in the Bathtub (Collins, 1987) and Politically Incorrect (Lester Publishing, 1991).
Currently Jonas writes a bi-weekly column for Canada's national newspaper, the National Post. His weekly column is in syndication for Southam News Service across Canada.
For 23 years, between 1962 and 1985, Jonas was a staff radio and TV producer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He has written, produced and directed over 200 dramas and docudramas, including the award-winning series The Scales of Justice.
Jonas' media awards include the Edgar Allan Poe Award for the Best Crime Non-Fiction Book (New York, 1978), two Nelly Awards for the Best Radio Program (Toronto, 1983 and 1986), the Gabriel Award for the Best Radio Entertainment Program in North America (San Antonio, Texas, 1985), a Gold Medal at the New York International Radio Festival (New York, 1986), three Periodical Distributors of Canada Author's Awards (Toronto, 1978 and 1985, and Ottawa, 1987), a National Magazine Award (Toronto, 1991), and two Gemini Awards for the Best TV Movie and for the Best Short Dramatic Program (Toronto, 1993). He has won the Max Award twice (Toronto 1980 and 1990) for his moto-journalism. His additional nominations include the National Magazine Award (three times), the CBC Prix Anik (four times), the Cannes TV Festival Jury Prize, and the Best TV Documentary Drama at the Banff International TV Festival.
Jonas lives with his wife in Toronto. His hobbies are aviation and motorcycle racing.
Janusz Kaminski, ASC (Director of Photography), a two-time Academy Award® winner, took home his first Oscar for his black-and-white cinematography on Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List. For his work on that film, Kaminski was also honored with a BAFTA Award and numerous critics awards, including the Los Angeles and New York Film Critics Awards for Best Cinematography. He won his second Academy Award for his cinematography on Spielberg's World War II drama Saving Private Ryan. In addition, Kaminski received a third Best Cinematography Oscar nomination for Spielberg's Amistad.
Kaminski more recently collaborated with Spielberg on the '60s-era dramatic comedy Catch Me If You Can, the futuristic thriller Minority Report and The Terminal. He also served as the director of photography on the Spielberg-directed films A.I. Artificial Intelligence and The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Kaminski's other film credits include Cameron Crowe's hit Jerry Maguire, How to Make an American Quilt, Trouble Bound, Tall Tale and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
A native of Poland, Kaminski came to the United States in 1981. He studied cinematography at Columbia College in Chicago, receiving his B.A. in 1987. After graduating, he relocated to Los Angeles to become a cinematography fellow at the prestigious American Film Institute and began his professional career on the feature Fallen Angel. He also lensed two television projects: the Amblin production Class of '61, and the acclaimed cable movie Wildflower, directed by Diane Keaton.
In 2000, Kaminski made his feature film directorial debut with the thriller Lost Souls, starring Winona Ryder, Ben Chaplin and John Hurt. He has also directed a number of commercials.
Rick Carter (Production Designer) has been designing sets for the worlds of film and television for over 25 years. Among his recent credits are Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence, for which Carter was nominated for both the AFI Production Designer of the Year and the Art Directors Guild Award; and the acclaimed Robert Zemeckis film Cast Away.
Carter previously teamed with Spielberg on Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Amistad (which earned another Art Directors Guild Award nomination), and the Spielberg-produced anthology series Amazing Stories. Carter has also collaborated with Zemeckis several times, including the films What Lies Beneath, Death Becomes Her, Back to the Future Part II and Part III and Forrest Gump, for which he earned an Academy Award nomination.
Michael Kahn, ACE (Editor) has won three Academy Awards for Best Editing for his work on films directed by Steven Spielberg. He won his first Oscar in 1982 for the blockbuster Raiders of the Lost Ark, and was also honored by his peers with an Eddie Award from the American Cinema Editors. In 1994, he received his second Oscar® for the editing of Schindler's List, for which he also won a BAFTA Award. His most recent Oscar® came for his work on Spielberg's World War II drama Saving Private Ryan, which brought him another Eddie Award. In addition, Kahn has garnered Oscar nominations for his work on Spielberg's Empire of the Sun and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, as well as Adrian Lyne's Fatal Attraction, winning another BAFTA Award for the last.
Kahn has edited nearly all of Steven Spielberg's films, most recently working with the director on Catch Me if You Can, Minority Report, and The Terminal. His other Spielberg collaborations include A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Amistad, Jurassic Park and the sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Hook, Always, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, 1941 and The Color Purple.
Kahn has also edited a wide range of films for other directors, including The Haunting, Twister, Casper, Alive, Arachnophobia, The Goonies, Poltergeist and Eyes of Laura Mars. His most recent credit is Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, for director Brad Silberling.
Joanna Johnston's (Costume Designer) feature film credits as a costume designer began with the 1987 horror fantasy Hellraiser; directly following that, she created Jessica Rabbit's trademark form-fitting evening gown for Who Framed Roger Rabbit? for director Robert Zemeckis and producer Steven Spielberg. She has gone on to collaborate many times with Spielberg (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Saving Private Ryan) and Zemeckis (The Polar Express, Cast Away, Contact, Forrest Gump, Death Becomes Her, and Back to the Future Parts II and III.)
Other credits include Ron Howard's romantic epic Far and Away; Lawrence Kasdan's French Kiss; M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable; About a Boy; and Love Actually. She earned a Costume Designers Guild Award nomination for her work on About a Boy. Earlier in her career, she worked on a number of high-profile films including The Color Purple, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Pirates of Penzance, Tess, and Death on the Nile.
John Williams (Composer) is one of the most esteemed and prolific film composers of all time, and the recipient of numerous honors, including five Academy Awards®, three Golden Globe Awards, a British Academy Award, four Emmy Awards and eighteen Grammy Awards. Williams won three of his five Oscars for his work on the Steven Spielberg films Jaws, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial and Schindler's List. His other Academy Awards came for the unforgettable Star Wars score and the scoring of the screen version of Fiddler on the Roof.
Williams has also earned a remarkable 43 Oscar nominations-more than any other living person-most recently for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. In 2003, he was nominated for his work for Spielberg's Catch Me if You Can, and in 2002 he received dual nominations for his scores for Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence and the blockbuster Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. A master of every genre, he has created many of the most familiar themes in movie history, including the Oscar-nominated scores for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman and all three of Spielberg's Indiana Jones movies: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Williams' other Academy Award nominations have included Best Original Score nods for The Patriot, Saving Private Ryan, Amistad, Nixon, Sabrina, JFK, Home Alone, Born on the Fourth of July, Empire of the Sun, The River, The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure, to name only a few.
Williams' long association with Spielberg began with the director's first feature, The Sugarland Express, and has encompassed almost all of Spielberg's films, more recently including Minority Report, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, and The Terminal. Williams' latest film franchise credits include Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; and Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith.
In addition to his feature film work, Williams created official themes for several Olympic games and also wrote an orchestral work to accompany Spielberg's film tribute to the new millennium, American Journey. He has also composed numerous concert pieces, including two symphonies, and a cello concerto premiered by Yo-Yo Ma and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1994, as well as concertos for flute, tuba, violin, clarinet, bassoon and trumpet. Williams was also Music Director of the Boston Pops Orchestra for 14 highly successful seasons from 1980 to 1993. He still holds the title of Laureate Conductor of that famed ensemble, as well as that of Artist in Residence at Tanglewood. As a guest conductor, he appears regularly with many of the world's most renowned orchestras.
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