HARRISON FORD returns to the role of Indiana Jones in his latest adventure after having embodied the iconic archaeologist adventurer in the legendary series that began with the blockbuster “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and continued through “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” and “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.”

In the Indiana Jones series and as cocky rebel starship pilot Han Solo in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, Ford came to embody the quintessential American hero for moviegoers around the world. His body of work encompasses over 40 feature films – 11 of which have exceeded $100 million at the box office – including such films as “The Fugitive,” “Air Force One” and “Patriot Games.”

An Oscar® and Golden Globe nominee for Best Actor for his performance in the acclaimed suspense thriller “Witness” (1985), Ford also earned Golden Globe nominations for his starring roles in “Sabrina” (1995), “The Fugitive” (1993), and “The Mosquito Coast” (1986). He was named Star of the Century by The National Association of Theatre Owners in 1994 and “Sexiest Man Alive” by People Magazine in 1998. He has won three People’s Choice Awards and, in 2000, garnered the prestigious Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute. In 2002, the Golden Globes honored him with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Born in Chicago, Ford attended Ripon College in Wisconsin before moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. He began as a contract player with Columbia Pictures, making his film debut in the crime drama “Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round” (1966). After a small role in “Getting Straight” (1970), he resolved not to let his career choices be dictated by financial concerns, so he turned to carpentry while he waited for the right role.

In 1973, after a three-year hiatus from the screen, Ford was cast by George Lucas as drag racer Bob Falfa in the coming-of-age classic “American Graffiti.” The next year, he landed a prominent supporting part in Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Conversation,” which was followed by an important role in Stanley Kramer’s television production of “Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley.”

Ford returned to features in 1977 when Lucas cast him again, this time as Han Solo, a renegade starship pilot who becomes a hero by default, in “Star Wars” – and the rest is history. As the film shattered box office records around the world, Ford’s performance came to define a new brand of scrappy hero for generations to come. He went on to star in the World War II era love story “Hanover Street” (1978) and “The Frisco Kid” (1979), and had cameo roles in “Apocalypse Now” (1979) and “More American Graffiti” (1979) before Steven Spielberg cast him as intrepid adventurer Indiana Jones in “Raiders of the Lost Ark” (1981). The movie became another of the highest-grossing films of all time.

Between the “Star Wars” sequels “The Empire Strikes Back” (1980) and “Return of the Jedi” (1983), and the Raiders sequels, Ford starred in a number of other memorable films. In “Blade Runner” (1982), he delivered a gritty performance as a cop in the nihilistic future of L.A. He earned critical acclaim and an Oscar® nomination for his role as a cop on the lam, hiding out in Amish country, in “Witness” (1985). Ford followed that with a daring portrayal of an eccentric idealistic inventor in “The Mosquito Coast” (1986). He went on to play a Hitchcockian protagonist in “Frantic” (1988) before showing his flair for romantic comedy in “Working Girl” (1988).

He played a lawyer accused of murder in “Presumed Innocent” (1990); an arrogant yuppie transformed by a mugger’s bullet in ”Regarding Henry” (1991); the heroic ex-CIA agent Jack Ryan in “Patriot Games” (1992) and “Clear and Present Danger” (1994); a doctor wrongly convicted of murdering his wife in “The Fugitive” (1993); a deeply committed New York City cop in “The Devil’s Own” (1997); and President James Marshall in “Air Force One” (1997). He also starred in the remake of “Sabrina” (1995) in the role originated by Humphrey Bogart.

Ford’s more recent credits include the high tech thriller “Firewall” (2006), the romantic action comedy “Six Days Seven Nights” (1998), the romantic drama “Random Hearts” (1999) and the thriller “What Lies Beneath” (2000). In 2002, he portrayed a Russian submarine captain opposite Liam Neeson in “K-19: The Widowmaker,” a drama directed by Kathryn Bigelow. June of 2003 saw the release of “Hollywood Homicide,” which was directed by Ron Shelton and starred Ford along with Josh Hartnett. He will next be seen starring in Wayne Kramer’s “Crossing Over,” with Sean Penn.

Strongly committed to environmental concerns, Ford is actively involved in a number of conservation groups. He serves on the Board of Directors of Conservation International. In Jackson, Wyoming he has donated 389 acres of his property for a conservation easement to the Jackson Hole Land Trust.

His most recent awards are: Heart of the City Award from City Harvest for fighting hunger; NRDC – Forces for Nature; the Lindbergh Foundation for balance between technology and the environment; the Distinguished Humanitarian Award from B’nai B’rith, also for his environmental work; the World Stunt Awards; the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Laguna Playhouse; and on May 30, 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

CATE BLANCHETT, who plays Irina Spalko, was nominated for two Oscars® this year, as Best Actress for “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” and as Best Supporting Actress for “I’m Not There,” making her only the fifth performer in the Academy’s 80-year history to be nominated in both acting categories in the same year. Additionally, for “The Golden Age” she received SAG and BAFTA nominations. For “I’m Not There” she also received SAG and BAFTA nominations and won an acting award at the Venice Film Festival, the Golden Globe as supporting actress and an Independent Spirit Award for her work.

Blanchett previously won an Academy Award® as Best Supporting Actress for her critically acclaimed portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese’s “The Aviator.”  She was also honored with BAFTA and SAG Awards and a Golden Globe nomination for the role.  In 1999, Blanchett earned her first Oscar® nomination and first BAFTA and Golden Globe Awards for her portrayal of another famous figure, Queen Elizabeth I, in Shekhar Kapur’s “Elizabeth.”  She subsequently received Academy Award®, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations for her performance in “Notes on a Scandal,” opposite Dame Judi Dench.

Blanchett most recently starred in the films “The Good German,” directed by Steven Soderbergh, opposite George Clooney and Tobey Maguire; and “Babel,” opposite Brad Pitt.  She will next be seen in David Fincher’s drama “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” again opposite Pitt.  

Blanchett has also earned Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress for the title role in Joel Schumacher’s “Veronica Guerin” and her work in Barry Levinson’s “Bandits.”  Among her other film credits are “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy; Wes Anderson’s “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou”; Jim Jarmusch’s “Coffee and Cigarettes,” for which she earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination; Ron Howard’s “The Missing,” opposite Tommy Lee Jones; “Charlotte Gray,” directed by Gillian Armstrong; Lasse Hallstrom’s “The Shipping News” with Kevin Spacey; Rowan Woods’ “Little Fish” with Sam Neill and Hugo Weaving; Mike Newell’s “Pushing Tin” with John Cusack; Oliver Parker’s “An Ideal Husband”; Anthony Minghella’s “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” for which she received a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress; Sam Raimi’s “The Gift”; and Sally Potter’s “The Man Who Cried,” for which she was named Best Supporting Actress by the National Board of Review.

A graduate of Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), Blanchett includes among her earlier film credits Bruce Beresford’s “Paradise Road”; “Thank God He Met Lizzie,” for which she won both the Australian Film Institute (AFI) and the Sydney Film Critics Awards for Best Supporting Actress; and Gillian Armstrong’s “Oscar and Lucinda” opposite Ralph Fiennes, for which she also earned an AFI nomination for Best Actress.

Blanchett’s extensive theater work includes productions with Company B, an ensemble including Geoffrey Rush, Gillian Jones and Richard Roxburgh, based at Belvoir St., under the direction of Neil Armfield.  Her roles included Miranda in “The Tempest,” Ophelia in “Hamlet,” for which she earned a Green Room Award nomination, Nina in “The Seagull” and Rose in “The Blind Giant is Dancing.”  For the Sydney Theatre Company, she appeared in Caryl Churchill’s “Top Girls,” David Mamet’s “Oleanna” (winning the Sydney Theater Critics Award for Best Actress), Michael Gow’s “Sweet Phoebe” and Timothy Daly’s “Kafka Dances,” for which she received the Critics Circle Award for Best Newcomer.  For the Almeida Theatre in 1999, Blanchett played Susan Traheren in David Hare’s “Plenty” in London’s West End. 

In 2004, Blanchett returned to the Sydney Theatre Company for the title role in Andrew Upton’s adaptation of “Hedda Gabler.”  The play was a critical success, earning her the prestigious Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Play. The production moved on to a sold-out run at Brooklyn’s Academy of Music in 2006, Blanchett’s New York stage debut.

Blanchett made her directorial debut with the play “A Kind of Alaska” at the Sydney Theatre Company, which she followed with a production of “The Year of Magical Thinking.”

She and her husband, Andrew Upton, were recently named co-directors of the Sydney Theatre Company. Their debut season begins in 2009.

KAREN ALLEN returns to the role of fiery adventurer Marion Ravenwood, which she originated in Steven Spielberg and George Lucas’s phenomenal box office record-breaker “Raiders of the Lost Ark.”

Allen started her acting career when she joined the Washington Theatre Laboratory Company in Washington, D.C. in 1974.  Two years later, she made her film debut in the award-winning short film “The Whidjitmaker.” The following year, Allen moved back to New York to study at the Lee Strasberg Institute and, over the years, has appeared on and off-Broadway in such productions as “Extremities,” “The Country Girl,” “The Miracle Worker,” “Speaking in Tongues” and “Miss Julie.”

Her studies paid off in 1978 when she made her major film debut as Katy in “National Lampoon's Animal House,” which became one of the biggest hits of that year. She followed this with roles in Philip Kaufman’s “The Wanderers” (1979), “Cruising” (1980) and Woody Allen’s “Manhattan” (1979) before her performance in Rob Cohen’s 1980 drama “A Small Circle of Friends” caught the attention of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, who cast her as feisty bar owner Marion Ravenwood in “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” She followed that with her 1982 Broadway debut in “The Monday After the Miracle,” for which she won the Theatre World Award for Best New Actress. In 1984, Allen starred in “Until September” and John Carpenter's “Starman,” opposite Jeff Bridges. 

Allen won the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films’ Saturn Award for Best Actress in 1982 for “Raiders” and was nominated again in 1985 for “Starman.” In 1988, she was nominated for Best Supporting Female at the Independent Spirit Awards and for Best Foreign Actress at Spain’s Sant Jordi Awards in Barcelona for her performance in Paul Newman’s screen adaptation of “The Glass Menagerie.”

Allen’s more recent credits include “The Basket” (1999) and Wolfgang Petersen’s “The Perfect Storm” (2000), in which she co-starred with George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg and Diane Lane. She also appeared in “Shaka Zulu: The Citadel” (2001) for television and in Todd Field's acclaimed drama “In the Bedroom.”

Her most recent film, “Poster Boy,” was featured at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival. 

Allen, who has a son, Nick — born in 1990, teaches and directs theater at Simon’s Rock College of Bard. She also founded Berkshire Mountain Yoga, started a knitwear design studio in 2003 called Karen Allen – Fiber Arts Studio and, in 2005, opened a knitwear design shop in Great Barrington, MA, Karen Allen Fiber Arts.

RAY WINSTONE, who plays “Mac” George Michale, was born in Hackney in the East End of London. He started boxing at the age of 12, was three times London Schoolboy champion and fought twice for England. He studied acting at the Corona School before being cast by director Alan Clarke as Carlin (“the Daddy”) in “Scum.” This BBC Play production made Winstone’s name and since then he has appeared in numerous TV series and movies. After playing a starring role in Franc Roddam’s “Quadrophenia” and being cast by Ken Loach in “Ladybird, Ladybird,” he was cast by Gary Oldman in the lead role in the gritty biographical drama “Nil by Mouth,” for which he won a British Independent Film Award for Best Actor and earned a BAFTA Award nomination. His mesmerizing performance led to a succession of challenging roles, including Dave in the gangster movie “Face” and Dad in Tim Roth’s disturbing drama “The War Zone.” He also played in the comedy drama “The Mammy” and “Fanny & Elvis” before delivering one of the finest performances of his career opposite Ben Kingsley in “Sexy Beast.”

  Winstone’s television credits include “Our Boy” (for which he was awarded an RST award for Best Actor) and “Births, Marriages and Deaths” – both by writer Tony Grounds. His credits for Granada/ITV are “Tough Love,” its sequel “Lenny Blue” and the title role in “Henry VIII” (which went on to win Best Miniseries/TV Movie at the International Emmy Awards. In 2006, Winstone won an International Emmy Award for Best Actor for his eponymous role in “Vincent” (Granada/ITV).

His film credits include “There’s Only One Jimmy Grimble,” “Last Orders,” “Ripley’s Game,” “Cold Mountain,” “King Arthur,” “The Proposition,” the Oscar®-winning “The Departed,” directed by Martin Scorcese, Anthony Minghella’s “Breaking and Entering,” the title role in Robert Zemeckis’s “Beowulf” and Warner Bros.’ “Fool’s Gold.”

In December 2007, Winstone received the Richard Harris Award for outstanding contribution at the British Independent Film Awards.

Winstone recently completed filming on “The Changeling,” a co-production with ITV and the third film for television from his company, Size 9 Productions.

Playing Professor Oxley is JOHN HURT, who was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire and lived until the age of 12 in the industrial countryside of the Midlands, in a small village named Woodville. The son of a Church of England clergyman, he first went to Grimsby Art School and St. Martin’s School of Art in London before winning a scholarship to RADA.

Hurt made both his professional stage debut (as Knocker White in “Infanticide in the House of Fred Ginger” and his film debut (“The Wild and The Willing”) in 1962, going on to take the Critics’ Award for Most Promising Actor in Harold Pinter’s “The Dwarfs” the following year. It was his work in a 1966 London production of “Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs” that secured his role as Richard Rich in the Academy Award®-winning film version of Robert Bolt’s “A Man for All Seasons” the same year.

Hurt’s stage appearances include Pinter’s” The Caretaker,” Sean O’Casey’s “Shadow of a Gunman,” Tom Stoppard’s “Travesties” (for the RSC in which he originated the role of Tristan Tzara) and Turgenev’s “A Month in The Country.” The year 2000 saw his greatly acclaimed performance in Samuel Beckett’s “Krapp’s Last Tape” in London’s West End. Later that year, Atom Egoyan made a film adaptation of this "definitive" stage performance, and he reprised the role as part of the 2006 Becket Festival at The Barbican.

His impressive body of television work commenced in 1961 and has included such notable roles as Caligula in “I, Claudius,” Raskolnikov in “Crime and Punishment,” the title role in Jim Henson's “The Storyteller” and, most memorably, Quentin Crisp in the autobiographical “The Naked Civil Servant,” for which he received a Best Actor Emmy and a BAFTA Best Television Actor Award.

It was his defining film roles as Max in “Midnight Express” (1978) and as John Merrick in “The Elephant Man” (1980) that thrust Hurt into the international spotlight with BAFTA awards and Oscar® nominations for Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor respectively. His other film work includes a trio of roles in 1984 for which he received the Evening Standard Award for Best Actor for that year – “1984,” “The Hit” and “Champions.” His many other films include “10 Rillington Place,” “Alien,” Sam Peckinpah’s last film, “The Ostermann Weekend,” “Scandal,” “The Field,” “Rob Roy,” John Boorman’s “Two Nudes Bathing,” for which he received a Cable Ace Award in 1995, and an acclaimed performance in Richard Kwietniowski’s “Love and Death on Long Island.” He was also seen as Dr. Iannis in “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin” directed by John Madden, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” directed by Chris Columbus and “Owning Mahowny” directed by Richard Kwietniowski.

Hurt has always been well-known for his very individual voice which has been used to great effect in documentaries, animated films (such as Ralph Bakshi’s “Lord of The Rings,” “The Tigger Movie,” “Watership Down” and “Valiant”), radio (including Tom Stoppard's “Albert's Bridge,” which won The Italia Prize, “The French Lieutenant's Woman” and “Madame Bovary”), and in the hugely acclaimed public awareness campaign for AIDS. In 2002, he recorded the narration for Lars von Trier’s “Dogville” and, in 2004, his “Manderlay.” In 2006, he was the narrator for the long-awaited screen version of “Perfume” directed by Ton Tykwer.

In 2003, Hurt won the Variety Club Award for Outstanding Performance in a Stage Play, along with his co-star Penelope Wilton for Brian Friel’s “Afterplay.” This was followed by the film “Hellboy” directed by Guillermo del Toro for Revolution Studios, and “The Alan Clark Diaries” for the BBC. The same year, he was awarded the inaugural Richard Harris Award at the British Independent Film Awards.

The year 2004 saw Hurt film “The Skeleton Key” for Universal, “Shooting Dogs,” directed by Michael Caton-Jones for BBC Films, and “The Proposition” directed by John Hillcoat. He was also awarded a C.B.E.

In 2005, he filmed “V for Vendetta” for Warner Bros., appeared in Tom Stoppard’s adaptation of “Heroes” by Gerald Sibleyras, at Wyndham’s Theatre. The play was directed by Thea Sharrock and won the 2006 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. That year, he filmed “Boxes,” written and directed by Jane Birkin, and “Outlander.”

In 2007, Hurt filmed “Oxford Murders” directed by Alex de la Iglesia, “Lecture 21” directed by Alessandro Baricco, “Recount” directed by Jay Roach, in which he played Secretary of State, Warren Christopher, and “Hellboy II — The Golden Army” for Guillermo del Toro.

Hurt recently completed a new project with director Jim Jarmusch and is currently in preparation for “44 Inch Chest” written by Louis Mellis and David Scinto (“Sexy Best”), to be directed by Malcolm Venville.

Oscar® winner JIM BROADBENT joins the “Indiana Jones” cast as Dean Charles Stanforth.

A quintessential British character actor, Broadbent starred in a trio of films in 2001 that launched him onto the global stage. First, he starred as Bridget Jones’s father in “Bridget Jones’s Diary.” He also won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Harold Zidler in the Oscar®-nominated musical sensation “Moulin Rouge.” The third film was the biographical drama “Iris,” about the British novelist Iris Murdoch (played by Dame Judi Dench) who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease. Broadbent won an Oscar® and a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his part as Murdoch’s devoted husband John Bayley.

Broadbent’s most recent films include Edgar Wright’s action comedy “Hot Fuzz” (2007), opposite Simon Pegg and Bill Nighy. He has also starred as W.S. Gilbert in Mike Leigh’s “Topsy-Turvy” (1999). Before that, he lit up the screen with performances in Richard Loncraine’s “Richard III” (1995), Woody Allen’s “Bullets Over Broadway” (1994), Mike Newell’s “Enchanted April” (1992), and Neil Jordan’s “The Crying Game” (1992).

Broadbent began studying art before pursuing his career as an actor and applying to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He performed on stage with the Royal National Theatre and The Royal Shakespeare Company. He worked steadily on stage and in television and made his film debut in 1978 in Jerzy Skolimowski’s “The Shout.”

Broadbent will next be seen opposite Colin Firth in “And When Did You Last See Your Father?” He will also make his debut in the Harry Potter series as Horace Slughorn in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” and appear in Iain Softley’s fantasy adventure “Inkheart.”

SHIA LaBEOUF stars for the first time in an “Indiana Jones” film as Mutt Williams.

LaBeouf recently took international audiences by storm when he starred in D.J. Caruso’s popular thriller “Disturbia” and again as Sam Witwicky in Michael Bay’s blockbuster “TRANSFORMERS” executive-produced by Steven Spielberg. He also lent his voice to the character of a young penguin, Cody Maverick, in the Oscar® nominated animated film “Surf’s Up” alongside Jeff Bridges, James Woods and Zooey Deschanel.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, LaBeouf began acting as a way to entertain his mother and father at the tender age of three. He later attended the Magnet School of Performing Arts at USC before beginning his career as an actor by hiring an agent at the age of 11.

LaBeouf made his debut in the TV film “Breakfast with Einstein” (1998) before being cast in the award-winning Disney series “Even Stevens.” Over the next four years, LaBeouf’s performance in the popular series earned him a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Performer in a Daytime TV Series (2003) and a nomination for the Young Artist Awards Leading Young Actor in a Comedy TV Series three years running (2000-2002).

In 2003, LaBeouf made his feature film debut opposite Sigourney Weaver and Jon Voight in the comedy “Holes,” based on the best-selling book by Louis Sacher. For this performance, LaBeouf was nominated for the Young Artists Award in 2004 for Leading Young Actor in a Feature Film and the Breakthrough Male Performance at the MTV Movie Awards. That same year, he was cast as Bosley’s protégé in “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle” and starred in HBO’s “Project Greenlight” feature “The Battle of Shaker Heights” produced by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

Since his early work as a young actor, he has begun to take on more challenging roles, like that of the young Robert Downey Jr., in “A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints” (2006), which won Best Ensemble Cast at the Sundance Film Festival, and as part of the ensemble in Emilio Estevez’s acclaimed drama “Bobby” (2006).

In 2005, LaBeouf played amateur golfer Francis Ouimet in “The Greatest Game Ever Played” (2005) directed by Bill Paxton and based on Mark Frost’s best-selling book. He starred alongside Will Smith in “I, Robot” in 2004, followed by a supporting role the same year in “Constantine,” the sci-fi thriller based on the comic book Hellblazer, opposite Keanu Reeves.

On the heels of his performances in “Disturbia” and “TRANSFORMERS,” LaBeouf was given the 2007 ShoWest Award for Male Star of Tomorrow and nominated for four Teen Choice Awards for “TRANSFORMERS,” winning the Breakout Male Award. He also won the Teen Choice Award for Movie Actor in a Horror/Thriller for his performance in “Disturbia,” and also won a Scream Award.

LaBeouf will again team up with his “Disturbia” director D.J. Caruso for his next role in the DreamWorks action thriller “Eagle Eye.”

STEVEN SPIELBERG (Director) is a three-time Academy Award® winner, having earned two Oscars® for Best Director and Best Picture for “Schindler’s List” and a third Oscar® for Best Director for “Saving Private Ryan.” He has also received Best Director Oscar® nominations for “Munich,” “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”

In 1994, Spielberg’s internationally lauded “Schindler’s List” emerged as the year’s most honored film, receiving a total of seven Oscars®, including the aforementioned nods for Best Picture and Best Director. The film also collected Best Picture awards from many of the major critics’ organizations, in addition to seven BAFTA Awards, including two for Spielberg. He also won the Golden Globe Award and received a Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award.

Spielberg’s critically acclaimed World War II drama “Saving Private Ryan” starring Tom Hanks, was the highest-grossing release (domestically) of 1998. The film also won five Oscars®, including the one for Spielberg as Best Director, two Golden Globe Awards for Best Picture (Drama) and Best Director, and numerous critics’ groups awards for Best Picture and Best Director. In addition, Spielberg won a DGA Award and a Producers Guild of America (PGA) Award. That year, the PGA also presented Spielberg with the prestigious Milestone Award for his historic contribution to the motion picture industry.

Spielberg won his first DGA Award for “The Color Purple” and also earned DGA Award nominations for “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Empire of the Sun,” “Jaws,” “Amistad” and “Munich.” With 10 in all, Spielberg has received more DGA Award nominations than any director in history and, in 2000, he received the DGA’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He is also the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute, the prestigious Irving G. Thalberg Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and the Kennedy Center Honor.

For television, on the heels of “Saving Private Ryan,” Spielberg and Tom Hanks executive-produced the miniseries “Band of Brothers” for HBO and DreamWorks Television. Based on the book of the same name by the late Stephen Ambrose, the fact-based World War II project won both Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Miniseries. Spielberg and Hanks are currently in development on “The Pacific,” a World War II miniseries focusing on the battles in the Pacific theatre.

Spielberg won another Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries for “Steven Spielberg Presents Taken,” a SciFi Channel drama about alien abduction, which he executive produced. He is currently developing another miniseries to air on the SciFi Channel called “Nine Lives.” Also for television, Spielberg executive-produced “Into the West,” an original limited series Western which aired on the TNT cable network. Amblin Entertainment produced, with Warner Bros. Television, the award-winning, groundbreaking series “E.R.,” which begins its 15th season on NBC this fall.

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Spielberg was raised in the suburbs of Haddonfield, New Jersey and Scottsdale, Arizona. He started making amateur films while still in his teens, later studying film at California State University, Long Beach. In 1969, his 22-minute short “Amblin’” was shown at the Atlanta Film Festival, which led to a deal with Universal, making him the youngest director ever to be signed to a long-term deal with a major Hollywood studio.

Four years later, he directed the suspenseful telefilm “Duel,” which garnered both critical and audience attention. He made his feature film directorial debut on “The Sugarland Express” from a screenplay he co-wrote. In addition to the aforementioned films, his earlier film credits as a director include “Always” and “Hook.”

In 2006, Spielberg produced, with Clint Eastwood and Rob Lorenz, “Flags of Our Fathers” and “Letters from Iwo Jima,” the latter of which earned four Oscar® nominations, including Best Picture. The dual films, directed by Eastwood, explored the battle of Iwo Jima from American and Japanese perspectives.

In 2005, Spielberg directed two films: “War of the Worlds” starring Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning, and “Munich” starring Eric Bana, Daniel Craig and Geoffrey Rush, which earned five Academy Award® nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director for Spielberg. Spielberg’s other recent films include “Catch Me If You Can” starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, the futuristic thriller “Minority Report” starring Cruise, and “The Terminal” starring Hanks. He also wrote, directed and produced “A.I.: Artificial Intelligence,” which was realized from the vision of the late Stanley Kubrick. In 2000, Spielberg won the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film, presented by BAFTA - Los Angeles.

In 1984, Spielberg formed his own production company, Amblin Entertainment. Under the Amblin banner, he has served as a producer or executive producer on more than a dozen films, including such successes as “Gremlins,” “The Goonies,” “Back to the Future” and its two sequels, “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” “An American Tail,” “The Land Before Time,” “The Flintstones,” “Casper,” “Twister,” “The Mask of Zorro,” “Men in Black” and “Men in Black II.”

In October 1994, Spielberg partnered with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen to form the new studio DreamWorks SKG, which was sold to Paramount Pictures in early 2006. Under their leadership, the studio has enjoyed critical and commercial success, and has been responsible for some of the most honored films in recent years, including three consecutive Best Picture Academy Award® winners: “American Beauty,” “Gladiator” and “A Beautiful Mind” (the latter two co-productions with Universal), and the recent blockbuster “TRANSFORMERS.”   Spielberg has also devoted his time and resources to many philanthropic causes. The impact of his experience making “Schindler’s List” led him to establish the Righteous Persons Foundation using all his profits from the film. He also founded Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation (now the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education), which has recorded more than 50,000 Holocaust survivor testimonies.

In addition, Spielberg executive produced “The Last Days,” the Shoah Foundation’s third documentary, which won the Academy Award® for Best Documentary Feature. He is also the Chairman Emeritus of the Starbright Foundation, which combines the efforts of pediatric health care, technology and entertainment to empower seriously ill children.

DAVID KOEPP (Screenplay by) has written and directed the films “Secret Window,” “Stir of Echoes,” “The Trigger Effect,” “Suspicious” and the upcoming DreamWorks comedy “Ghost Town.”  He wrote or co-wrote “War of the Worlds,” “Zathura,” “Spider-Man,” “Panic Room,” “Snake Eyes,” “The Lost World: Jurassic Park,” “Mission: Impossible,” “The Paper,” “Jurassic Park,” “Carlito’s Way,” “Death Becomes Her,” “Bad Influence” and “Apartment Zero.”

Koepp was born in Wisconsin and went to film school at UCLA.  He lives in New York City.

GEORGE LUCAS’s (Story by/Based on Characters by/Executive Producer) devotion to timeless storytelling and cutting-edge innovation has resulted in some of the most successful and beloved films of all time.

Lucas’s film career started in 1971. With San Francisco-based American Zoetrope and long-time friend Francis Ford Coppola as executive producer, Lucas transformed an award-winning student film into his first feature, “THX 1138.”

Lucas’s second feature film, the low-budget “American Graffiti” (1973), became the most successful film of its time and garnered the Golden Globe®, the New York Film Critics’ and National Society of Film Critics’ Awards. Pushing the boundaries of storytelling, “American Graffiti” was the first film of its kind to tell multiple stories through interweaving narratives backed by a soundtrack of contemporary music.

It was Lucas’s third film, 1977’s “Star Wars,” that changed everything — breaking box office records, setting new standards for sophistication in film visuals and sound and garnering eight Academy Awards®. The success of “Star Wars” allowed Lucas to remain independent and continue operating in Marin County, CA. Lucas has been the story writer and executive producer of a series of other box office blockbusters, beginning with the continuation of the “Star Wars” Saga: “The Empire Strikes Back” (1980) and “Return of the Jedi” (1983). In 1981, he created the classic adventurer Indiana Jones, and co-wrote and executive-produced the successful series consisting of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” (1981), “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” (1984) and “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” (1989), a trilogy that won eight Academy Awards®.

Lucas has also served as executive producer on such widely varied films as “Willow,” based on his original story and directed by Ron Howard; and “Tucker: The Man and His Dream” directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Each received three Academy Award® nominations. As executive producer, Lucas’s films also include Akira Kurosawa’s “Kagemusha” (1980); “Mishima” (1985); “Latino” (1985); “Howard the Duck” (1986); “Labyrinth” (1986); and “Radioland Murders” (1994).

In the early 1990s, his passion for both history and educating young people drove the creation of “The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones” and its rich combination of exciting episodes and companion documentaries. During its original television run in the 1990s, the series was critically acclaimed and won 12 Emmy Awards® and 26 Emmy nominations.

Lucas returned to directing in 1999 with the first of three new episodes of the “Star Wars” Saga: “Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace,” the year’s biggest box office hit, which was also the first major live-action film to be projected digitally. Three years later, “Episode II — Attack of the Clones” broke new ground as the first major movie shot using entirely digital media. In 2005, “Star Wars: Episode III —Revenge of the Sith,” the final movie in the epic saga, was the top-grossing film worldwide.

Lucas is currently supervising the creation of “Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” which premieres as an all-new feature film on August 15, followed by the television series debut in the fall. “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” takes audiences on incredible new “Star Wars” adventures, combining Lucasfilm’s traditions of storytelling and quality with a signature animation style.

Lucas has also taken a leadership role in applying his technical and storytelling expertise to the classroom, engaging students through interactive multimedia environments. He is chairman of the board of the George Lucas Educational Foundation and also serves on the board of the Film Foundation and is a member of the USC School of Cinematic Arts Advisory Board.

JEFF NATHANSON (Story by) has two previous collaborations with Steven Spielberg, ”The Terminal” and ”Catch Me If You Can,” for which he earned a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.  In 2007, his production company, Invisible Ink Entertainment, signed a first-look deal at DreamWorks SKG.

His other recent film credits include ”Rush Hour 3,” ”The Last Shot,” which he also directed, and “Rush Hour 2.” He is currently writing the biopic “Milli Vanilli” for producer Kathleen Kennedy.

Nathanson graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles before entering the American Film Institute's screenwriting program in 1989.  He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three children.

“Raiders of the Lost Ark” marked the beginning of FRANK MARSHALL’s (Producer) epochal collaboration with Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Kathleen Kennedy, a partnership that encompasses “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” and, now, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.”

With over 50 films to his credit, as a visionary producer who has helped shape American film, Marshall is also an acclaimed director and active participant in public service and sports. Marshall’s credits as a producer include some of the most successful and enduring films of all time, including “Poltergeist,” “Gremlins,” “The Goonies,” “The Color Purple,” “An American Tail,” “Empire of the Sun,” “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” “The Land Before Time,” the “Back to the Future” trilogy, “The Sixth Sense,” “Seabiscuit” and the recent “Bourne” trilogy.

His films have been nominated for a multitude of Academy Awards®, including Best Picture nominees “Raiders of the Lost Ark” in 1982; “The Color Purple” in 1985 (which he produced with Spielberg, Quincy Jones and his wife Kathleen Kennedy); M. Night Shyamalan’s 1999 box office smash “The Sixth Sense”; and the critically acclaimed “Seabiscuit.”

As a director, Marshall recently helmed the critically acclaimed box office smash “Eight Below,” as well as the thriller “Arachnophobia,” the compelling true-life drama “Alive,” the 1995 hit adventure “Congo” and an episode of the Emmy Award-winning HBO miniseries “From the Earth to the Moon.”

Marshall began his motion picture career as assistant to Peter Bogdanovich on the director’s cult classic “Targets.” He was then asked by Bogdanovich to serve as location manager for “The Last Picture Show” and “What’s Up, Doc?” before graduating to associate producer on the filmmaker’s next five movies, which included “Paper Moon” and “Nickelodeon.”

Marshall was line producer on Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Waltz,” the heralded musical documentary on The Band. He then began a two-film association with director Walter Hill, first as associate producer on “The Driver,” then as executive producer on “The Warriors,” both of which have also attained cult status among cineastes. Marshall was also line producer of Orson Welles’ legendary unfinished film “The Other Side of the Wind,” to which he periodically returned from 1971 through 1976.

His lengthy and fruitful collaboration with Spielberg and Kennedy began in 1981 with “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” Following the productions of “E.T.: the Extra-Terrestrial” (for which he was production supervisor) and “Poltergeist” in 1981, the trio formed industry powerhouse Amblin Entertainment. During his tenure at Amblin, Marshall produced such films as Kevin Reynolds’ “Fandango,” Barry Levinson’s “Young Sherlock Holmes,” Joe Dante’s “Gremlins,” Robert Zemeckis’s “Back to the Future” trilogy and “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” and Spielberg’s “Always,” “Hook” and “Empire of the Sun,” as well as his own directorial debut, “Arachnophobia.”

Marshall left Amblin in the fall of 1991 to pursue his directing career, and formed the Kennedy/Marshall Company with Kathleen Kennedy. The company’s productions include such diverse films as “The Indian in the Cupboard,” directed by Frank Oz; “The Spiderwick Chronicles,” based on the popular series of children’s book about the unseen world of magical creatures that exist all around us; “Snow Falling on Cedars,” directed by Scott Hicks; “A Map of the World” starring Sigourney Weaver and Julianne Moore; “The Sixth Sense” starring Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment; “Olympic Glory,” the first official large format film of the Olympic Games; Shyamalan’s “Signs”; “Seabiscuit,” the dramatic true story based on Laura Hillenbrand’s best-selling book, directed by Gary Ross; and the three blockbuster films in the “Bourne” franchise starring Matt Damon in the title role — “The Bourne Identity” directed by Doug Liman, “The Bourne Supremacy” and last year’s “The Bourne Ultimatum,” both directed by Paul Greengrass; “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” an adaptation of Jean-Dominique Bauby’s moving memoir, directed by critically-acclaimed artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel and written by Oscar®-winner Ronald Harwood, for which Schnabel was awarded the prize for best director at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and an Oscar® nomination for best director, which was among four nominations the film received; the English-language version of the French animated film “Persepolis,” which is based on Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novel about a young girl growing up during the Iranian Revolution, which tied for this year’s Jury Prize at Cannes and picked up an Oscar® nomination for Best Animated Feature Film; and “Crossing Over,” directed by Wayne Kramer. Another recent release is “Roving Mars,” the IMAX documentary about the exploration of the red planet, which he produced with director George Butler.

Upcoming releases from the Kennedy/Marshall Company include “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” an epic romance directed by David Fincher, written by Oscar® winner Eric Roth and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. An L.A. native and son of composer Jack Marshall, Marshall ran cross-country and track while a student at UCLA, and was a three-year Varsity letterman in soccer. Combining his passion for music and sports, he, along with America’s premiere miler Steve Scott, founded the Rock ‘N’ Roll Marathon, which debuted in 1998 in San Diego as the largest first-time marathon in history.

For over a decade, Marshall was a board member of the United States Olympic Committee and is the 2005 recipient of the prestigious Olympic Shield, awarded in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the USOC organization. Currently, he is on the board of the Los Angeles Sports Council, Athletes for Hope and The Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness, as well as Co-Chairman of Mentor LA and a member of the UCLA Foundation Board of Governors. He is a recipient of the acclaimed American Academy of Achievement Award, the UCLA Alumni Professional Achievement Award and the California Mentor Initiative’s Leadership Award. He and Kennedy are the recipients of the 2008 Producers Guild of America’s David O. Selznick Award for Career Achievement.

One of the most successful executives in the film industry today, who includes among her credits three of the highest-grossing films in motion picture history (“E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial,” “Jurassic Park” and “The Sixth Sense”), KATHLEEN KENNEDY (Executive Producer) counts “Raiders of the Lost Ark” as one of her early credits, when she worked as an associate producer with director Steven Spielberg and producer George Lucas. Her relationship with the legendary series continued through “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” which she produced with Frank Marshall and George Lucas and, most recently, as executive producer, with Lucas, of “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” produced by Frank Marshall.

Kennedy currently heads The Kennedy/Marshall Company, which she founded in 1992 alongside director/producer Frank Marshall.  Under their banner, she has produced such films as “Congo,” “The Indian in the Cupboard,” “Snow Falling on Cedars,” “A Map of the World,” “The Sixth Sense” and “Seabiscuit.”

Kennedy began a successful association with Spielberg when she served as his production assistant on “1941.” In addition to “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” she went on to become his associate producer on “Poltergeist” and producer on “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.”

In 1982, Kennedy co-founded Amblin Entertainment with Spielberg and Marshall, for which she produced or executive-produced such films as “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,” “The Flintstones,” “Joe Versus the Volcano,” “Noises Off,” “An American Tail:  Fievel Goes West,” “Cape Fear,” “Poltergeist III” and “Arachnophobia,” Frank Marshall’s directorial debut in 1990.

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 1988, Kennedy again earned the distinction of having produced the 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 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. That same year she also re-teamed with Robert Watts to produce Marshall’s second film, “Alive.”

In 1995, 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.”

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. The next release was “A Map of the World” starring Sigourney Weaver and Julianne Moore.  The Kennedy/Marshall Company also produced the IMAX film “Olympic Glory,” which was released in May 2000.

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.  In 2002, she served as executive producer on M. Night Shyamalan’s “Signs,” starring Mel Gibson.  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.  

In 2005, Kennedy and Colin Wilson produced “War of the Worlds,” which was directed by Spielberg and starred Tom Cruise. Later that year, Kennedy re-teamed with Wilson, Barry Mendel and Spielberg to produce the Spielberg-helmed “Munich,” which received five Academy Award® nominations, including Best Picture. In 2007, she produced “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” an adaptation of Jean-Dominique Bauby’s moving memoir directed by critically acclaimed artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel and written by Oscar®-winner Ronald Harwood, for which Schnabel was awarded the prize for best director at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and received an Oscar® nomination for Best Director, along with another for Harwood’s screenplay, one for editing and a fourth for cinematography; and the English-language version of the French animated film “Persepolis,” which is based on Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novel about a young girl growing up during the Iranian Revolution. The latter film tied for last year’s Jury Prize at Cannes and was nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Animated Feature Film.

Kennedy recently produced “The Spiderwick Chronicles,” based on the popular series of children’s book about the unseen world of fairies that exist all around us, and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” an epic romance directed by David Fincher, written by Oscar®-winner Eric Roth and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, due for release later this year. Upcoming, Kennedy will produce “Tintin,” a series of motion pictures directed by Spielberg and Peter Jackson. The two acclaimed filmmakers will use state-of-the-art performance capture technology to bring Tintin, the iconic character created by Georges Remi (better known to the world by his pen name “Herge”) to the screen.

Kennedy is chair of the Academy of Motion Pictures’ Producers Branch Executive Committee and is a member of the Academy’s Board of Governors. She recently completed her tenure as President of the Producers Guild of America, which bestowed upon her its highest honor, the Charles Fitzsimons Service Award, in 2006. She and Marshall are the recipients of the 2008 Producers Guild of America’s David O. Selznick Award for Career Achievement.

JANUSZ KAMINSKI (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 work on Spielberg's World War II drama “Saving Private Ryan.” In addition, Kaminski received his third Best Cinematography Oscar® nomination for Spielberg's “Amistad” and a fourth in 2007 for Julian Schnabel’s “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” for which he won the Best Cinematography Award at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.

Kaminski more recently collaborated with Spielberg on the '60s-era dramatic comedy “Catch Me If You Can,” the futuristic thriller “Minority Report,” “The Terminal” and the politically charged “Munich.” 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 as the director of photography include “The Adventures of Huck Finn,” “How To Make An American Quilt,” Cameron Crowe’s “Jerry Maguire” and Kathryn Bigelow’s “Mission Zero.” 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 since also directed the Polish drama “Hania.”

”Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” marks GUY HENDRIX DYAS’s (Production Designer) first film with director Steven Spielberg and first production design assignment for George Lucas, for whom Dyas worked while serving as an art director at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). 

Dyas began his career in Tokyo working as an industrial designer for Sony, and he moved to Japan after graduating from the Royal College of Art in London with a Masters Degree in Industrial Design.

In 1994, an invitation from ILM to join its creative team introduced Dyas to the film industry in California and he served as a visual effects art director on “Twister.” Dyas then worked as a concept artist on such films as “King Arthur,” Tim Burton's “Planet of the Apes,” “The Matrix Reloaded,” “Vanilla Sky” and “Pearl Harbor,” and he was an assistant art director on “Swordfish” and “The Cell.”

In 2003, Dyas was given the opportunity to execute the production design for Bryan Singer’s “X2: X-Men United” and, since then, Singer and Dyas have collaborated on various projects, most recently “Superman Returns,” for which he was nominated for an Art Directors Guild Award for Achievement in Production Design.  Dyas also worked with director Terry Gilliam, designing the sets for “The Brothers Grimm” and, in 2006, he did the production design for the Cate Blanchett-starrer “Elizabeth: The Golden Age,” which brought him a BAFTA nomination and a second nomination from the Art Directors Guild. Dyas is currently working with Oscar®-winning Spanish director Alejandro Amenabar, designing his upcoming film ”Agora,” a 4th Century Roman/Egyptian epic starring Rachel Weisz and Max Minghella.

MICHAEL KAHN, A.C.E. (Editor) also edited the three previous films in the “Indiana Jones” series: “Raiders of The Lost Ark,” “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.”

Kahn 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 “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 an additional 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,” which also garnered the editor a BAFTA Award.

Kahn has edited nearly all of Steven Spielberg's films, most recently working with the director on “Munich,” “War of the Worlds,” “Catch Me If You Can,” “Minority Report” and “The Terminal.” His other Spielberg collaborations include “A.I.: Artificial Intelligence,” “Amistad” and “Jurassic Park” and its sequel “The Lost World: Jurassic Park,” as well as “Hook,” “Always,” “1941” and “The Color Purple.”

He has also edited a wide range of films for other directors, including “The Haunting,” “Twister,” “Casper,” “Alive,” “Arachnophobia,” “The Goonies,” “Poltergeist,” “The Eyes of Laura Mars” and “Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events.”

A member of American Cinema Editors, Kahn’s editing career goes back to television films such as “Hogan’s Heroes” and “Eleanor and Franklin,” for which he won an Emmy.

Michael Kahn most recently edited Mark Waters’ “The Spiderwick Chronicles,” which was released earlier this year.

MARY ZOPHRES’ (Costume Designer) award-winning career includes Spielberg films “The Terminal” and “Catch Me If You Can,” for which she received a BAFTA award nomination for Best Costume Design. She has also designed costumes for several Coen brothers films, including “The Ladykillers” with Tom Hanks, “Intolerable Cruelty” with George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones, “The Man Who Wasn’t There” starring Billy Bob Thornton, “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” starring George Clooney, “The Big Lebowski” with Jeff Bridges, and the Academy Award®-winning hits “Fargo” and “No Country for Old Men.”

Zophres has also worked with the Farrelly brothers as costume designer on “There’s Something About Mary,” “Dumb & Dumber” and “Kingpin.” Her other film credits include “Bewitched,” “Moonlight Mile,” ”Ghost World,” “View from the Top,” “Any Given Sunday,” “Paulie,” “Digging to China” and “Playing God.” Her most recent designs have been seen in Joe Carnahan’s “Smokin’ Aces” and Robert Redford’s political drama “Lions for Lambs” with Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep. She recently completed work on the latest Coen brothers’ effort, “Burn After Reading” starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand and John Malkovich, which is due for release in the fall.

Thirty-year film veteran DENIS L. STEWART (Co-Producer) previously worked with Steven Spielberg as an assistant director on “Amistad” and as a unit production manager on “Munich.” “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” marks Stewart’s third film with producer Frank Marshall, after having served as production manager on “Eight Below,” which Marshall directed, “The Bourne Supremacy” and “The Bourne Ultimatum.”

Stewart has been first assistant director on over 20 feature films, including the Jim Carrey comedy “The Mask,” “Speed 2: Cruise Control” and Sydney Pollack’s “Random Hearts,” starring Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas.

Other credits include, as production manager, “Panic Room,” “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle,” “Bewitched” and both “Spider-Man” sequels.

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®, four Golden Globe Awards, seven British Academy Awards, four Emmys and 20 Grammy Awards. He 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 screen version of “Fiddler on the Roof.”

Williams returns to the world of Indiana Jones after having composed Oscar®-nominated scores for all three previous films: “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” and “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.” Williams has earned a remarkable 45 Oscar® nominations, the most recent coming in 2005 for “Memoirs of a Geisha” and Spielberg’s “Munich.” The year before, he was nominated for “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,” and the year prior to that for Spielberg’s “Catch Me If You Can.” In 2002, Williams 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” and “Superman.” 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 just 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, recently including “War of the Worlds” and “Minority Report.” Williams’ latest film franchise credits include three “Harry Potter” movies and George Lucas’s second “Star Wars” trilogy.

In addition to his feature film work, Williams has created themes and fanfares 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, horn 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.

In 2004, Williams was a recipient of the prestigious Kennedy Center Honor.

PABLO HELMAN (Visual Effects Supervisor) is a native of Buenos Aires who joined Industrial Light & Magic in 1996 as the Sabre Department Supervisor. Prior to joining the company, he was a compositing supervisor on “Independence Day” for Pacific Ocean Post, a digital compositor on “Apollo 13” and “Strange Days” for Digital Domain, and a Quantel Domino compositor on numerous projects for Digital Magic.

Helman received a Masters of Arts in Education from Cal Poly Pomona, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Composition from UCLA. He was nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Visual Effects for Star Wars: Episode II - “Attack of the Clones.” He was also nominated for “War of the Worlds” and won a Visual Effects Society Award for Best Single Visual Effects of the Year for the same film.

On the latest installment of the Indiana Jones franchise, Helman served not only as Visual Effects Supervisor but is also credited as Aerial Director, Brazil/Argentina Second Unit.

Additionally, he served as visual effects supervisor on “The Pledge,” “Star Wars: Episode One - The Phantom Menace,” “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,” “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World,” “The Chronicles of Riddick, “The Bourne Supremacy,” “Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil,” “Jarhead,” “Munich” and “The Spiderwick Chronicles.”

BEN BURTT (Sound Designer) was the sound designer and supervising sound editor of all six films in the “Star Wars” saga, including the Special Editions of "A New Hope," "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi."  An accomplished filmmaker, Burtt has written, directed and served as film editor on a vast array of projects in the three decades since “Star Wars” was originally released. Among his many credits are the upcoming Disney-Pixar film “Wall-E,” “Willow,”  “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,” “Alien,” “Munich,” “The Dark Crystal,” “Howard the Duck,” “More American Graffiti” and “Invasion of the Body Snatchers" — in addition to all three "Indiana Jones" movies.   He also was sound designer on such IMAX films as “Blue Planet,” “Alamo: The Price of Freedom,” “Niagara: Miracles, Myths and Magic” and “The Dream is Alive.”  Additionally, Burtt was editor on the three "Star Wars" prequel films.

Television work includes serving as second-unit director on several episodes of “The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles,” and as writer on “The Adventures of Mungo Baobab,” “The Great Heep,” and writer/director of “Young Indiana Jones and the Attack of the Hawkmen.”

Among his directorial credits are: "Blue Planet", "Destiny in Space," “The American Gangster,” “The True Story of Glory Continues” and “In the Footsteps of Fremont.”  He recently directed and provided the sound design for “Manassas: End of the Innocence” for the National Park Service.  He served as film editor on “Alamo, The Price of Freedom” and “The Living Seas" at the EPCOT theme park in Florida, and provided the sound design and special sound effects for “Wellington’s Victory.”

Burtt was nominated for an Oscar® and a BAFTA Award for Best Sound Effects Editing for “Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace," "Return of the Jedi" and for “Willow.” Burtt picked up another Oscar® nomination for Best Documentary Short Subject, for writing, directing and serving as picture editor on “Special Effects: Anything Can Happen.”  

He won an Oscar® for his Sound Effects Editing for "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” and both an Academy Award® and a Golden Reel Award for “Raiders of the Lost Ark.”  In addition, he won a BAFTA award for Best Sound for “The Empire Strikes Back” and a Special Achievement Oscar® for “Alien,” Creature and Robot Voice Creation.