EDWARD ZWICK (Director / Producer / Screenplay ) began directing and acting in high school and trained as an apprentice at the Academy Festival in Lake Forest, Illinois. While studying literature at Harvard, he continued writing and directing for the theatre. Upon graduation, he was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship to study in Europe with some of the major innovative theatre companies.

Zwick was accepted as a Directing Fellow at the American Film Institute in 1975. Timothy and the Angel, Zwick's AFI short film, won first place in the student film competition at the 1976 Chicago Film Festival and caught the attention of the producers of the television series, Family. He served as story editor on Family and subsequently became a director and producer.

For his work on the television movie Special Bulletin (as director, producer and co-writer), Zwick received two Emmy Awards. This also marked the beginning of his collaboration with Marshall Herskovitz, with whom he then created the Emmy Award-winning television series thirtysomething. Together Herskovitz and Zwick created The Bedford Falls Company as their home for film and television projects, including the critically acclaimed television series My So-Called Life, Relativity and the Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning series Once and Again.

Zwick began his feature film career directing About Last Night. He went on to direct the Academy Award winning-films Glory and Legends of the Fall, as well as Leaving Normal and Courage Under Fire. Zwick's most recent film was The Siege, starring Denzel Washington and Annette Bening. Zwick and Herskovitz produced Traffic, winner of two Golden Globes and four Academy Awards, directed by Steven Soderbergh. Under the Bedford Falls banner, they also produced I Am Sam.

Zwick has been honoured with three Emmy Awards, the Humanitas Prize, the Writer's Guild of America Award, two Peabody Awards, a Director's Guild of America Award, and the Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Award from the American Film Institute. He received his first Academy Award as a producer for 1999's Best Picture Shakespeare in Love.

MARSHALL HERSKOVITZ (Producer / Screenplay) became interested in filmmaking while studying at Brandeis University, where he wrote a screenplay of Beowulf as his senior thesis in 1973. After graduation he wrote, produced, and directed a short film entitled In Footsteps, which gained him acceptance to the American Film Institute in 1975, at which he earned an MFA in 1978.

Herskovitz then spent several years writing and directing for episodic television, including such shows as Family and The White Shadow, before teaming with Edward Zwick to create the multi-award winning television movie Special Bulletin. Herskovitz won two Emmys, for best dramatic film and best writing for a dramatic film, a Writers Guild Award, and the Humanitas Award for his work.

In 1985, Herskovitz and Zwick created The Bedford Falls Company, named for the town in It's a Wonderful Life, as home for their film and television projects. The company's first project, two years later, was the acclaimed television series thirtysomething. For his work on this series, Herskovitz received two additional Emmys, two Directors Guild Awards, a Writers Guild Award, a Humanitas award, the Golden Globe Award, the People's Choice Award, the Peabody Award, and several others.

After thirtysomething, Herskovitz directed the 1992 feature film Jack The Bear, starring Danny DeVito, then produced Legends of the Fall, starring Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins, in 1993. The following year Herskovitz and Zwick teamed to produce the groundbreaking series My So-Called Life, starring a then-unknown Claire Danes, followed by Relativity in 1995. In 1996 Herskovitz produced and directed the historical epic Dangerous Beauty. He also produced Traffic, winner of two Golden Globe Awards and four Academy Awards, directed by Steven Soderberg and starring Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Benicio Del Toro; I Am Sam, starring Sean Penn and Michelle Pfeiffer; and Women vs. Men, starring Paul Reiser and Joe Montegna.

Most recently, Herskovitz and Zwick created and executive produced the award-winning series Once and Again for ABC.

TOM CRUISE (Captain Nathan Algren / Producer) made his film debut in 1981 with the critically acclaimed film Taps and has subsequently experienced a distinguished and distinctive career. He last starred as "pre-cog" specialist John Anderton in Steven Spielberg's futuristic thriller Minority Report, the latest of his many intriguing, ground-breaking and diverse films. He has collaborated with some of the film industry's most respected directors and actors, including Barry Levinson and co-star Dustin Hoffman in the Academy Award-winning Rain Man; Martin Scorsese in The colour of Money, opposite Paul Newman; Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July; Cameron Crowe's Jerry Maguire and Vanilla Sky; Ron Howard's Far and Away; Sydney Pollack's The Firm; and Neil Jordan's Interview with the Vampire, to name just a few.

In 1983, Cruise won widespread acclaim for his bravura performance in Risky Business, which earned him his first Golden Globe nomination. He went on to create one of the most memorable characters of all time, flying ace Maverick, in the highest-grossing film of 1986, Top Gun. In 1989, Cruise received his first Oscar nomination and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in Oliver Stone's searing tale of Viet Nam veteran Ron Kovic in Born on the Fourth of July. More accolades and a Golden Globe nomination followed in 1992 with Rob Reiner's A Few Good Men, also starring Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore. In 1996 he received an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in Jerry Maguire. In 1999, Cruise dazzled audiences and critics alike with his work in P.T. Anderson's ensemble drama Magnolia. His powerful performance earned him his third Academy nomination and his third Golden Globe Award, this time for Best Supporting Actor. That same year he starred in what would be Stanley Kubrick's final film, the psychological thriller, Eyes Wide Shut.

Cruise is currently filming Collateral, directed by Michael Mann.

A testament to his critical and popular success, Cruise has received numerous awards, tributes and nominations, including The Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, the BAFTA Awards, The Chicago Film Critics Association, The Golden Satellite Awards, The National Board of Review, The People's Choice Awards, The Screen Actors Guild Awards and The Kids Choice Awards. In 1987, the ShoWest Convention acknowledged Cruise as the Boxoffice Star of the Year and, in 1990, the American Cinema presented him with its Distinguished Achievement Award. He earned Harvard's Hasting Pudding Man of the Year Award in 1994 and the prestigious American Cinematheque Award in 1996. In 1998, the Artists Rights Foundation recognized Cruise with the John Huston Award, an honour bestowed upon those known for safeguarding the integrity of the artistic process.

Cruise is also a successful producer. In 1993, he teamed with Paula Wagner to form Cruise/Wagner Productions, which quickly grew to become one of the industry's leading production companies, known for its commitment to supporting new talent. The first film released under the Cruise/Wagner banner was the 1996 worldwide blockbuster Mission: Impossible. That same year, Cruise/Wagner collaborated with Cameron Crowe on the award-winning Jerry Maguire. In 1997, the Producers Guild of America celebrated Cruise/Wagner with the Nova Award for the Most Promising Producers in Theatrical Motion Pictures. The following year, Cruise/Wagner produced the critically acclaimed film about runner Steve Prefontaine, Without Limits, written by Robert Towne, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Chinatown.

In Cruise/Wagner's 2000 hit sequel Mission: Impossible 2, Cruise reprised his roles both as Agent Ethan Hunt and as a producer. Mission: Impossible 2 gave Cruise/Wagner one of the most successful film franchises in history, grossing over one billion dollars. The company also produced the successful thriller The Others, which marked Cruise's first collaboration, as executive producer, with director Alejandro Amenabar. Amenabar came to Cruise's attention after Cruise saw Amenabar's Spanish romantic thriller, Abre Los Ojos. Cruise/Wagner optioned the project and it eventually became the basis of Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky, for which Cruise also starred and produced. He recently served as executive producer on the Billy Ray feature drama Shattered Glass, which screened at the Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals and premiered at the Hollywood Film Festival.

Cruise/Wagner is currently in pre-production on the third Mission Impossible installment, to be directed by Joe Carnahan, in addition to Cameron Crowe's upcoming drama Elizabethtown.

PAULA WAGNER (Producer) partnered with Tom Cruise to form Cruise/Wagner Productions in 1993. Their first feature under the C/W banner was the worldwide box office sensation Mission:Impossible, in 1996. They duplicated that success with the highly anticipated sequel, Mission: Impossible 2, the highest grossing film worldwide in 2000. The franchise has a combined overall box office of more than one billion dollars.

Showing its range, Cruise/Wagner also produced Without Limits with writer/director Robert Towne. Ranked by Premiere magazine as one of the most critically acclaimed films of 1998, it was also included in Time's "Top Ten." In 2001, Cruise and Wagner executive produced the Alejandro Amenábar gothic sensation The Others, which won seven Goya Awards, including best picture. C/W's 2002 release of writer/director Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky, starring Tom Cruise, earned more than $200 million worldwide and garnered two Golden Globe nominations and an Academy Award nomination.

In a continuing effort to support new filmmakers, Wagner and Cruise served as executive producers on Narc and, along with Paramount Pictures, championed a release campaign for the film in an effort to bring broader awareness and a spotlight to the tour de force direction of Joe Carnahan and performances from Jason Patric and Ray Liotta. This year, Wagner and Cruise executive produced Billy Ray's directorial debut, Shattered Glass, starring Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard, Choloe Sevigny, Steve Zahn and Hank Azaria.

Currently, Cruise and Wagner are in pre-production on the next installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise with Joe Carnahan at the helm, and Cameron Crowe's next work, Elizabethtown, both scheduled to begin shooting in 2004. C/W will then re-team with longtime collaborator, writer/director Robert Towne, on Ask the Dust, starring Colin Farrell.

In addition to producing, Wagner runs the daily operations of C/W Productions, now in its 10th year. The company has grown substantially since its inception to become one of the most respected entities in the entertainment world. As C/W looks to the future, she is developing a diverse slate of projects that will continue to define the quality they are known for, with many of the industry's most sought-after talent.

Wagner served on the Board of her alma mater, Carnegie Mellon University, for six years, where she continues to champion the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama and is instrumental in the development of the Digital Arts Degree Program, a groundbreaking combination of theater arts and science. She has lectured at Harvard Business School, Stanford, NYU and the AFI and was the keynote speaker at the 1996 Toronto Film Festival as well as the Hollywood Reporter's 2001 "Women in Entertainment" breakfast. In 1997, Wagner and Cruise were honoured with the Producers Guild Nova Award. Wagner was also honoured by Premiere magazine with the 2001 "Women in Hollywood Icon Award" and was featured this year in Bravo's "Women on Top" documentary profiling top women in entertainment. She is co-chairing this year's Hollywood Film Festival and has recently joined the American Cinematheque's Board of Directors.

Prior to producing, Wagner spent nearly 15 years as one of the industry's top talent agents at CAA where, in additional to Tom Cruise, she guided the careers of Oliver Stone, Demi Moore, Robert Towne, and Val Kilmer, among others. Before becoming an agent, Wagner was an accomplished stage actress appearing at the Yale Repertory Theater as well as on and off-Broadway. Also a published playwright, she co-authored Out of Our Father's House. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Rick Nicita, Co-chairman of CAA and their son, Zachary, drummer for the up-and-coming band Royal Orange.

SCOTT KROOPF (Producer) is President and COO of Radar Pictures. Since forming the company four years ago with Chairman/CEO Ted Field, Kroopf has assembled a slate of over 25 projects embracing a wide range of styles and featuring some of the finest filmmakers working today. Radar's productions include The Last Samurai; Merchant-Ivory's Le Divorce, starring Kate Hudson and Naomi Watts; How to Deal, starring Mandy Moore; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, produced by Michael Bay; and The Chronicles of Riddick, directed by David Twohy and starring Vin Diesel.

Radar was built on the foundation of the former Interscope Communications, where from 1985 to 1999 Kroopf started as an in-house producer and development executive and eventually became President. Interscope produced more than 50 motion pictures during the course of its 20-year history, among them Jumanji, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Pitch Black, Runaway Bride, Very Bad Things, Gridlock'd, Mr. Holland's Opus, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Three Men and a Baby and Outrageous Fortune.

At Interscope, Kroopf shepherded projects ranging from epic, to action adventure, to indie. Directors such as Stephen Herek, Joe Johnston, Garry Marshall, and actors such as Julia Roberts, Richard Gere and Robin Williams came to know him as a supportive presence engaged in the filmmaking process from pre-production to marketing. Kroopf also built a reputation for sighting and nurturing talent early in their careers, among them writers-turned-directors Curtis Hanson, Peter Berg, David Twohy, Chris Matheson, Joe Carnahan and Ed Solomon and actors Keanu Reeves and Vin Diesel.

Before joining Interscope, Kroopf was Executive in Charge of Production for Embassy Pictures from 1982 to 1985, where he supervised the development and production of Stand by Me, The Sure Thing and A Chorus Line. He began his motion picture production career at Robe-Ackerman, a commercial-television-documentary production company.

Kroopf received his drama degree from the University of California at Irvine. He has extensive experience in theatrical lighting and set design and directed the play The Don Juan and the Non Don Juan, starring Keith Carradine, at L.A.'s Groundlings Theatre.

TOM ENGELMAN (Producer) Tom Engelman is a writer's producer who balances an attraction to daring material with a sense of audience appeal. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Engelman worked as a first and second assistant director before earning his MFA in drama from Stanford in 1983. In between studies, he wrote a screenplay that became his calling card to an above-the-line career. In 1986 he was named head of development at Fox-based Lawrence Mark Productions, where he earned his stripes as a writer's advocate working with such emerging talents as Tony Gilroy, Wesley Strick and Scott Frank. Three years later, he branched out as an independent producer, developing "unTV" movies for Fox Television and selling theatrical projects. He wrote the story for and produced the feature The Temp.

In 1991, Engelman joined Interscope Communications. His first project was the action comedy Terminal Velocity, followed by the telefilm Snow White: A Tale of Terror, which earned Sigourney Weaver Emmy and SAG nominations and later, the ABC biopic The Three Stooges. The success of Pitch Black, his breakout film that launched Vin Diesel's career, confirmed Engelman's commitment to genre fare.

Engelman produced Wes Craven Presents They, the first film from Interscope's successor Radar Pictures.

Engelman is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and the Producers Guild of America. He is a dedicated father who lives with his two children in Los Angeles.

JOHN LOGAN's (Screenplay / Story) film work includes Gladiator, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, Any Given Sunday, The Time Machine, Sinbad, Star Trek: Nemisis and RKO 281. Logan's next feature project is The Aviator, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes, currently in production for a 2004 release. He is presently working with Ridley Scott on Gladiator II and with director Sam Mendes on a film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd.

Logan began his career as a playwright. His play Never The Sinner premiered in Chicago in 1985 and subsequently played on London's West End and in New York. His new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's The Master Builder appeared on the West End this summer.

TED FIELD (Executive Producer) is Chairman and CEO of Radar Pictures. Beginning in 1982, as founder and Chairman of Interscope Communications, he served as producer or executive producer for more than 50 major films that generated cumulative worldwide box office receipts exceeding $2.5 billion, including Runaway Bride, Jumanji, Pitch Black, Mr. Holland's Opus, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Three Men and a Baby, Bird on a Wire, Bill %26 Ted's Excellent Adventure, Outrageous Fortune and Cocktail.

Since forming Radar in 1999, Field and his team have assembled a slate of more than 25 projects embracing a wide range of styles and featuring some of the finest filmmakers working today, including Merchant-Ivory's Le Divorce, starring Kate Hudson and Naomi Watts; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, produced by Michael Bay; How to Deal, starring Mandy Moore; and The Chronicles of Riddick, starring Vin Diesel.

In 1990, Field and Jimmy Iovine created Interscope Records, one of the most successful record labels in history. Universal's acquisition of PolyGram in 1999 elevated the team to head of the largest record group in the world, combining such labels as A%26M and Geffen under an Interscope-led group, home to platinum-selling artists such as U2, Eminem, Sting, NIN, The Wallflowers, Dr. Dre, No Doubt, Limp Bizkit, Hole, Beck, Marilyn Manson, Garbage and Sheryl Crow. In 2001, Field became Chairman/CEO of ARTISTdirect and formed a new label, ARTISTdirect Records. ARTISTdirect is a music and media company that combines an online music network with integrated offline assets to provide a single-stop solution for fans, artists, labels and advertisers.

Until 1984, he co-owned Field Enterprises, Inc., a media conglomerate that controlled numerous television stations as well as the Chicago Sun Times, acquired Panavision from Warner Communications and invested in partnerships for control of public corporations such as Crown Zellerback.

Raised in Chicago and Anchorage, Field settled in Southern California at 21 where he pursued race car driving and, in 1979, was a member of the three-man team that won the 24 Hours of Daytona. His extensive philanthropic work includes support for the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AMFAR), the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association, L.A. Music Center, The Sundance Institute, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Rainforest Foundation and the Rape Treatment Center.

RICHARD SOLOMON (Executive Producer) joined the Bedford Falls Company in 1997 as producing partner and president of the company. During his tenure, Bedford Falls produced and released The Siege, Dangerous Beauty and the Academy Award-winning Traffic, which he executive produced. Most recently, Solomon produced the New Line Cinema release I Am Sam, starring Sean Penn and Michelle Pfeiffer, and served as executive producer for the comedy Lone Star State of Mind and Chazz Palminteri's romantic comedy Women Vs. Men for television.

Prior to joining the Bedford Falls Company, Solomon was president of Donner-Shuler Productions, where he co-produced Radio Flyer, Free Willy, Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home, Assassins and Conspiracy Theory, and developed Dave, Maverick and Any Given Sunday, as well as working on the Lethal Weapon series.

VINCENT WARD (Executive Producer) most recently directed the fantasy romance What Dreams May Come, starring Robin Williams, nominated for two Academy Awards and winner for Visual Effects.

In 1984 Ward wrote and directed the feature drama Vigil, which earned him a Best Original Screenplay honour from the New Zealand Film and Television Awards in his native country and was officially selected "in competition" at the Cannes Film Festival. He went on to win the Best Director Award from the Australian Film Institute for the time-traveling adventure The Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey, which he also wrote. The film was nominated for a Golden Palm at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival and claimed Best Director and Best Original Screenplay honours from the New Zealand Film and Television Awards, winning a total of more than 25 national and international awards.

In 1992, he directed, produced and provided the story for Map of the Human Heart, a romantic drama from Miramax that earned Australian Film Institute nominations for Best Film and Best Director. Ward was also a contributing writer on the 1992 science fiction thriller Alien 3. He is currently in production on his new feature, River Queen.

Raised in Honolulu, CHARLES MULVEHILL (Executive Producer) began his career in 1965 as a production assistant on Hawaii and The Hawaiians. Over the course of five years he rose to become head of production for the Mirisch Company. While there, he supervised The Landlord, directed by Hal Ashby, which marked the beginning of a long and fruitful collaboration, with Mulvehill going on to produce Ashby's cult classic Harold and Maude. He later served as associate producer on Being There, Coming Home, Bound For Glory, and The Last Detail and co-produced Ashby's Eight Million Ways to Die.

In the 1980s, Mulvehill produced Bob Rafaelson's The Postman Always Rings Twice, starring Jessica Lange and Jack Nicholson. He continued his association with Lange on Frances, for which he was associate producer, and on Sweet Dreams, which he co-produced. He was also associate producer on Swing Shift, starring Goldie Hawn and directed by Jonathan Demme, co-producer on Robert Redford's The Milagro Beanfield War, and executive producer on Norman Jewison's In Country, starring Bruce Willis.

In the past ten years, Mulvehill has continued to make movies that entertain audiences of all ages. He executive produced Frankie and Johnny, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Al Pacino, and later joined Francis Ford Coppola and Fred Fuchs in producing Bram Stoker's Dracula, due to their previous work experience together on The Godfather, Part III, which he co-produced. He also produced Only You, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Marisa Tomei, Malice, starring Alec Baldwin and Nicole Kidman, City Hall, starring Al Pacino, Red Corner, starring Richard Gere and Mickey Blue Eyes, starring Hugh Grant.

Mulvehill teamed with director Taylor Hackford in 1995 to produce Dolores Claiborne, starring Kathy Bates and Jennifer Jason Leigh, and again in 2000 for Proof of Life, with Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe.

JOHN TOLL, ASC (Director of Photography) has the distinction of winning back-to-back Academy Awards for Best Cinematography: the first in 1995 for Edward Zwick's sweeping romantic drama Legends of the Fall, and a second in 1996 for his work on Mel Gibson's epic drama Braveheart, which additionally brought him a BAFTA Award. His work on Terrence Malick's World War II drama The Thin Red Line earned him both the New York Film Critics Circle and Chicago Film Critics Association awards for Best Cinematography and a Jury Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as an Oscar nomination and a nomination from the British Society of Cinematographers.

Toll collaborated twice with writer/director Cameron Crowe, photographing Almost Famous and Vanilla Sky. He also lensed the romantic drama Captain Correlli's Mandolin. Among his additional credits as a director of photography are Simpatico, the Francis Ford Coppola films The Rainmaker and Jack, and Carroll Ballard's Wind.

LILLY KILVERT (Production Designer) worked with Edward Zwick on Legends of the Fall, for which she earned an Academy Award nomination, as well as Zwick's The Siege. She recently designed the WWII drama Hart's War, starring Bruce Willis and Colin Farrell.

Kilvert has collaborated with filmmaker Rob Reiner four times, designing the sets for The Story of Us, The American President, The Ghosts of Mississippi and The Sure Thing. Her additional film credits include Heart Breakers; Brad Siberling's City of Angels; Nicholas Hytner's The Crucible, for which she was nominated for the Art Directors Guild Award; Kathryn Bigelow's thriller Strange Days; Wolfgang Petersen's In the Line of Fire; Marshall Herskovitz's Jack The Bear; W.D. Richter's Late for Dinner; Lawrence Kasdan's quirky I Love You To Death; the Zucker brothers' and Jim Abrahams' comedy Ruthless People and William Friedkin's To Live and Die in L.A.

Kilvert hails from Rhode Island, but began her career working in New York as an art director on several independent films. She considers her mentor to be the late, respected production designer Mel Bourne.

STEVEN ROSENBLUM (Editor) is a two-time Academy Award nominee for his work on Mel Gibson's Braveheart and Edward Zwick's Glory. He is also a three-time recipient of the American Cinema Editors Award for his work on Braveheart, Glory and an episode of thirtysomething (shared with Victor du Bois), the acclaimed television series from partners Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz.

Rosenblum has a longtime association with filmmaker Edward Zwick which began while the two attended the American Film Institute in 1976-77. In addition to Glory and thirtysomething, their creative collaborations include the feature films The Siege, Courage Under Fire, and Legends of the Fall.

Among his additional feature film editing credits are the The Four Feathers; the action epic Pearl Harbor; the international blockbuster hit X-Men; Dangerous Beauty and Jack the Bear, both directed by Marshall Herskovitz.

Born in Mexico, VICTOR du BOIS (Editor) emigrated with his family to the U.S. at age 7 and grew up in Los Angeles. Initially an architecture and photography student, he ultimately discovered his love of film and went on to attend both California Institute of the Arts and the American Film Institute as a cinematography fellow.

Upon completing the AFI program, du Bois joined Hal Ashby Productions under media director Pablo Ferro and worked on ad campaigns for Being There and Second Hand Hearts. He credits Ashby with "railroading" him into the editing department by sponsoring his Editors Guild membership. Du Bois later reunited with fellow AFI alumnus and editor Steven Rosenblum on the Edward Zwick/Marshall Herskovitz series thirtysomething, where he earned Emmy Award nominations for editing and special effects and won an American Cinema Editors Eddie Award. He subsequently earned another Emmy nomination after segueing into directing episodes of the acclaimed series.

Du Bois recently edited USA Network's Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story. Among his additional credits are Braveheart and Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina for Mel Gibson's Icon Productions; Cahoots; Edward Zwick's Leaving Normal; RFK and Sins of the Father for FX; the series That's Life, Profiler and Roswell; HBO's Soul of the Game; and many television movies. As a director, his credits include multiple episodes of thirtysomething, Sirens, My So-Called Life, Second Noah and the 1992 ABC Special Rock the Vote.

The Last Samurai marks the 100th feature film score for multi-taleted composer HANS ZIMMER. Zimmer won an Academy Award for Best Original Score for Disney's The Lion King, as well as a Golden Globe, two Grammys, and a Tony Award (for the film's subsequent Broadway incarnation). For his outstanding score for Ridley Scott's Gladiator, he won the Golden Globe and Broadcast Film Critics Award and received another Oscar nomination. The album sold 3,000,000 units worldwide and spawned a follow-up album, "Gladiator: More Music From the Motion Picture." The acclaimed composer also collected another 5 Academy nominations for his music on Rain Man, As Good As It Gets, The Thin Red Line, The Preacher's Wife and The Prince of Egypt.

Among his diverse credits are scores for Driving Miss Daisy, Mission: Impossible 2, The Road To El Dorado, Green Card, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Crimson Tide, The Rock, Pearl Harbor and most recently, Ridley Scott's Matchstick Men.

Long recognized as one of Hollywood's most innovative musical talents, the German-born artist first achieved success in the pop music world as a member of The Buggles. The group's 1982 worldwide hit single, "Video Killed the Radio Star," helped usher in a new era of global entertainment as the first music video aired on MTV. That same year, Zimmer entered the realm of film music through a collaboration with famed composer Stanley Meyers (The Deer Hunter) on the acclaimed drama Moonlighting. He continued his association with Meyers on such projects as Stephen Frears' My Beautiful Launderette and Nicholas Roeg's Insignificance, learning the power of combining modern synthesized percussion beats with the melodies of classical music. After 15 collaborations with Meyers, Zimmer began his solo composing career with 1988's A World Apart.

He went on to work with such respected filmmakers as Ron Howard (Backdraft), Peter Weir (Green Card), Mike Nichols (Regarding Henry), John Schlesinger (Pacific Heights), James L. Brooks (As Good As It Gets, I'll Do Anything), John Boorman (Beyond Rangoon) and Mimi Leder (The Peacemaker). He is a favorite of directors Penny Marshall (A League of Their Own, Riding in Cars With Boys, Renaissance Man) and brothers Ridley Scott (Hannibal, Thelma %26 Louise, Black Rain, Black Hawk Down, Gladiator) and Tony Scott (Days of Thunder, Crimson Tide, True Romance, The Fan).

Zimmer continues to break ground in the world of film music. A pioneer in the use of digital synthesizers, electronic keyboards and the latest computer technology, he is considered the father of integrating electronic sound with traditional orchestral arrangements. One of his recent achievements is heard on the Hannibal score, which utilized 28 celli and basses to create an opera written especially for the film. The soundtrack recording topped Billboard's Classical Crossover Chart as well as the Top Soundtrack Chart.