Filmmakers

James McAvoy

James McAvoy is one of today's true rising stars in films.

Mr. McAvoy has recently had starring roles in Kevin Macdonald's The Last King of Scotland, opposite Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker, and for which he received BAFTA, London Film Critics Circle, and British Independent Film Award nominations; Julian Jarrold's Becoming Jane, with Anne Hathaway; Mark Palansky's Penelope, opposite Christina Ricci; Tom Vaughan's Starter for Ten, which also starred Benedict Cumberbatch of Atonement; and Andrew Adamson's blockbuster The Chronicles of Narnia: Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

He previously starred for Focus Features and Working Title Films in Damien O'Donnell's Rory O'Shea Was Here (a.k.a. Inside I'm Dancing), opposite Steven Robertson and Romola Garai of Atonement, and for which Mr. McAvoy earned a London Film Critics Circle award nomination; and also appeared for Working Title in Richard Loncraine's Wimbledon. His other film credits include Stephen Fry's Bright Young Things; Gillies Mackinnon's Regeneration; and Jeremy Wooding's Bollywood Queen.

A graduate of the prestigious Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Mr. McAvoy has also starred on television and stage.

For television, he starred in David Yates' miniseries State of Play, which aired to great acclaim in both the U.K. and the U.S.; filmed two series of the U.K. comedy show Shameless; and had roles in such notable miniseries and telefilms as the globally celebrated Band of Brothers, Greg Yaitanes' Children of Dune, Mike Barker's Lorna Doone, and Julian Jarrold's White Teeth.

His stage work includes appearing in Privates on Parade, at the Donmar Warehouse.

Mr. McAvoy recently completed filming Timur Bekmambetov's action thriller Wanted, starring with Academy Award winners Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman.

Keira Knightley

Keira Knightley previously starred for Atonement director Joe Wright in Pride & Prejudice, also for Focus Features and Working Title Films. Ms Knightley's portrayal of Jane Austen's heroine Elizabeth Bennet earned her Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Critics' Choice Award, and London Film Critics Circle award nominations, among others; and the Best Actress citation from New York Film Critics Online.

She is also known to audiences worldwide for her portrayal of another heroine, Elizabeth Swann, in Gore Verbinski's blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean trio (respectively, The Curse of the Black Pearl, Dead Man's Chest, and At World's End), all of which starred her opposite Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom for producer Jerry Bruckheimer.

Ms. Knightley had earlier starred in Gurinder Chadha's sleeper hit Bend It Like Beckham, for which she was honored with the London Critics Circle Award for British Newcomer of the Year. Her other films include Richard Curtis' Love Actually, also for Working Title; Tony Scott's Domino, as the late bounty hunter Domino Harvey; John Maybury's The Jacket; Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur, again for producer Jerry Bruckheimer, as Guinevere; Gillies Mackinnon's Pure; and George Lucas' Star Wars: Episode I–The Phantom Menace, in which she had her first big-screen role.

The U.K. native acquired an agent at an early age, and appeared in her first television drama, Ferdinand Fairfax' Royal Celebration, at the age of 6. Her subsequent television credits included playing Lara in Giacomo Campiotti's miniseries remake of Doctor Zhivago .

Ms. Knightley's most recent films are François Girard's Silk, opposite Michael Pitt; and the just-wrapped The Edge of Love. The latter project reunites her with director John Maybury and also stars Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, and Matthew Rhys.

Romola Garai

Romola Garai has previously starred for Focus Features in Woody Allen's Scoop; Mira Nair's Vanity Fair; and, opposite James McAvoy of Atonement, Damian O'Donnell's Rory O'Shea Was Here (a.k.a. Inside I'm Dancing).

The latter performance earned her a London Film Critics Circle award as well as well as a British Independent Film Award nomination. In 2003, she was cited as one of Daily Variety's "10 Actors to Watch."

In addition to Atonement and Vanity Fair, Ms. Garai has starred in several other notable screen adaptations of novels.  These have included Tim Fywell's I Capture the Castle (from the Dodie Smith book), for which she received her first British Independent Film Award nomination; was a member of the ensemble cast of Douglas McGrath's Nicholas Nickleby (from the Charles Dickens book); starred in Tom Hooper's miniseries Daniel Deronda (from the George Eliot book); and played the title role in François Ozon's Angel (from the Elizabeth Taylor book), which world-premiered at the 2007 Berlin International Film Festival.

Her other film credits include Michael Apted's Amazing Grace; Kenneth Branagh's As You Like It; and Gillies Mackinnon's telefilm The Last of the Blonde Bombshells, in which she played the younger incarnation of Dame Judi Dench's character, also for Working Title.

Ms. Garai's other U.K. television credits include the series Attachments and John Strickland's miniseries Perfect.

She notably starred on the London stage as James Joyce's daughter Lucia in Calico, which was written by Michael Hastings and directed by Edward Hall; and, most recently, alternating in the Royal Shakespeare Company productions of King Lear and Chekhov's The Seagull, both staged by Trevor Nunn.

Saoirse Ronan

Saoirse (pronounced "sear-sha") Ronan began her acting career at the age of 9.

After recurring roles on two Irish television series, The Clinic and Proof, she began making movies. Among these have been Amy Heckerling's I Could Never Be Your Woman, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Paul Rudd; Bill Clark's The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey, starring Joely Richardson and Tom Berenger; and Gillian Armstrong's Death Defying Acts, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Guy Pearce.

Ms. Ronan is currently at work on Gil Kenan's City of Ember, a fantasy adventure in which she stars opposite Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, and Toby Jones.

Her next film is Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones, based on Alice Sebold's novel, in which she stars with Rachel Weisz and Ryan Gosling.

Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave won the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award, as well as awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the Kansas City Film Critics Circle, for her performance in the title role of Julia (directed by Fred Zinnemann and adapted by Alvin Sargent from Lillian Hellman's novel of the same name).

She has received five additional Academy Award nominations and eleven additional Golden Globe Award nominations, as well as been honored with a second Golden Globe Award win for her performance in the telefilm If These Walls Could Talk 2 (for the segment written and directed by Jane Anderson). The latter performance also earned her an Emmy Award. She had previously won an Emmy Award for her portrayal of Holocaust survivor Fania Fénelon in Playing for Time (directed by Daniel Mann and adapted from Ms. Fénelon's autobiography), and has been nominated for an Emmy three additional times.

The London native trained for eight years at the Ballet Rambert School and later graduated from the Central School of Speech and Drama. She made her U.K. stage debut with her father Michael Redgrave in A Touch of the Sun, in January 1958. In July 1961, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her theater work has since encompassed starring roles in The Cherry Orchard, Lady Windermere's Fan, Daniel Deronda, The Threepenny Opera, Design for Living, and The Lady from the Sea, among many other plays across the U.K. and the U.S. She produced and co-directed a staging of the newly discovered Tennessee Williams play Not About Nightingales at The National Theatre; and starred opposite Eileen Atkins in the latter's play Vita and Virginia.

In 2003, Ms. Redgrave won a Tony Award for her performance in the Robert Falls-directed Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night.In 2007, she starred on Broadway in The Year of Magical Thinking, written by Joan Didion and directed by David Hare, and was again a Tony Award nominee.

She previously starred for the latter director in his film Wetherby, for which she was honored by the National Society of Film Critics with their Best Actress award. Her other films include Fred Zinnemann's A Man for All Seasons; Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup; Karel Reisz' Isadora (for which she won Best Actress awards at the Cannes International Film Festival and from the National Society of Film Critics); Sidney Lumet's Murder on the Orient Express; Michael Apted's Agatha; Merchant Ivory's The Bostonians (for which she was cited as Best Actress by the National Society of Film Critics); Stephen Frears' Prick Up Your Ears (for which she was named Best Supporting Actress by the New York Film Critics Circle); Simon Callow's The Ballad of the Sad Café; Marleen Gorris' Mrs. Dalloway (adapted from the Virginia Woolf novel by Eileen Atkins); her son Carlo Nero's The Fever; and Roger Michell's Venus. Ms. Redgrave was most recently seen on-screen in Lajos Koltai's Evening (also for Focus Features), in which she starred alongside Eileen Atkins, Toni Collette, Meryl Streep, and her daughter Natasha Richardson.

Evening marked the second film in which she has starred opposite Natasha Richardson, following Merchant Ivory's The White Countess. Ms. Redgrave has also starred opposite her daughter Joely Richardson, most recently in several episodes of the latter's hit television series Nip/Tuck.

Joe Wright

For his feature film directorial debut on Focus Features and Working Title Films' Pride & Prejudice, Joe Wright won BAFTA's Carl Foreman Award for Special Achievement by a British Director, Writer or Producer in Their First Feature Film. He was also honored with the London Film Critics Circle's award for British Director of the Year and the Boston Society of Film Critics' award for Best New Filmmaker.

Pride & Prejudice was nominated for five additional BAFTA Awards, four Academy Awards (including Best Actress [Keira Knightley]), and two Golden Globe Awards; and won a second London Film Critics Circle award, for Best British Supporting Actor (Tom Hollander), among other honors.

Mr. Wright had earlier won a BAFTA Award for the miniseries Charles II: The Power & The Passion (which aired in the U.S. as The Last King), which he directed and which starred Rufus Sewell. The project won two additional BAFTA Awards, and was nominated for three more.

His prior credits as director include another highly acclaimed miniseries, the epic drama Nature Boy (for which he was a BAFTA Award nominee), starring Lee Ingleby; the miniseries Bodily Harm, starring Timothy Spall; and episodes of the television series Bob & Rose (which won several international awards).

Mr. Wright has also directed two short films, The End (written by Kathy Burke, and aired on the U.K.'s Channel 4) and Crocodile Snap (starring Claire Rushbrook, and aired on the BBC). The latter was a BAFTA Award nominee.

He directed his first short film, Whatever Happened to Walthamstow Marshes, back in 1991, while enrolled at the Camberwell School of Arts. From 1991 to 1994, he studied Fine Art, Film and Video at St. Martin's.

In 1993, Mr. Wright was awarded a Fuji Film Scholarship to make The Middle Ground. As part of the development process, he spent six weeks teaching drama at Islington Green School, where the short was cast and subsequently filmed.

Tim Bevan

Working Title Films, co-chaired by Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner since 1992, is Europe's leading film production company, making movies that defy boundaries as well as demographics.

Founded in 1983, Working Title has made nearly 90 films that have grossed over $3.5 billion worldwide. Its films have won 4 Academy Awards (for Tim Robbins' Dead Man Walking, Joel and Ethan Coen's Fargo, and Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth), 24 BAFTA Awards, and prestigious prizes at the Cannes and Berlin International Film Festivals.

Messrs. Bevan and Fellner have been honored with two of the highest film awards given to British filmmakers; the Michael Balcon Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema, at the Orange British Academy Film [BAFTA] Awards, and the Alexander Walker Film Award at the Evening Standard British Film Awards. They have also both been honored with CBEs (Commanders of the Order of the British Empire).

Working Title has enjoyed long and successful creative collaborations with filmmakers Richard Curtis, Stephen Daldry, and Joel and Ethan Coen; and actors Rowan Atkinson, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, and Emma Thompson, among others. Its worldwide successes (in addition to those mentioned above) include Mike Newell's Four Weddings and a Funeral; Richard Curtis' Love Actually; Stephen Daldry's Billy Elliot; Roger Michell's Notting Hill; Mel Smith's Bean; Sydney Pollack's The Interpreter; Peter Howitt's Johnny English; the Coen brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou?; Chris and Paul Weitz' About a Boy; both Bridget Jones movies (directed by Sharon Maguire and Beeban Kidron, respectively); Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice; Kirk Jones' Nanny McPhee; Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead andHot Fuzz.; and Steve Bendelack's Mr. Bean's Holiday. The company also had great success in the U.K. with Mark Mylod's Ali G Indahouse, starring Sacha Baron Cohen.

The success of Billy Elliot on film has since been repeated on the London stage. Director Stephen Daldry and screenwriter Lee Hall reunited for a stage musical version in 2005, with songs composed by Sir Elton John. The hit production, marking Working Title's debut theatrical venture (co-produced with Old Vic Prods.), continues to play to full houses in London and garnered nine 2005 Olivier Award nominations, with a win for Best New Musical. Preparations are now underway to take Billy Elliot to Sydney, and then New York (where it will open in 2008).

Last year saw the release of Paul Greengrass' United 93 to critical acclaim worldwide, leading to two BAFTA wins (for Best Direction and Best Editing) and an Academy Award nomination for Best Directing.

Forthcoming releases in 2007 and 2008 include Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth: The Golden Age, the long-awaited follow-up to the celebrated Elizabeth, starring Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, and Clive Owen; Adam Brooks' Definitely, Maybe, starring Ryan Reynolds, Isla Fisher, Derek Luke, Abigail Breslin, Elizabeth Banks, and Rachel Weisz; Nick Moore's Wild Child, starring Emma Roberts; Beeban Kidron's Hippie Hippie Shake, starring Cillian Murphy, Sienna Miller, Emma Booth, and Max Minghella; Kevin Macdonald's State of Play, starring Brad Pitt; Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon, adapted by Peter Morgan from his play of the same name and starring Frank Langella and Michael Sheen; and Joel and Ethan Coen's Burn After Reading, starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, and John Malkovich.

Eric Fellner

Working Title Films, co-chaired by Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner since 1992, is Europe's leading film production company, making movies that defy boundaries as well as demographics.

Founded in 1983, Working Title has made nearly 90 films that have grossed over $3.5 billion worldwide. Its films have won 4 Academy Awards (for Tim Robbins' Dead Man Walking, Joel and Ethan Coen's Fargo, and Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth), 24 BAFTA Awards, and prestigious prizes at the Cannes and Berlin International Film Festivals.

Messrs. Bevan and Fellner have been honored with two of the highest film awards given to British filmmakers; the Michael Balcon Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema, at the Orange British Academy Film [BAFTA] Awards, and the Alexander Walker Film Award at the Evening Standard British Film Awards. They have also both been honored with CBEs (Commanders of the Order of the British Empire).

Working Title has enjoyed long and successful creative collaborations with filmmakers Richard Curtis, Stephen Daldry, and Joel and Ethan Coen; and actors Rowan Atkinson, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, and Emma Thompson, among others. Its worldwide successes (in addition to those mentioned above) include Mike Newell's Four Weddings and a Funeral; Richard Curtis' Love Actually; Stephen Daldry's Billy Elliot; Roger Michell's Notting Hill; Mel Smith's Bean; Sydney Pollack's The Interpreter; Peter Howitt's Johnny English; the Coen brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou?; Chris and Paul Weitz' About a Boy; both Bridget Jones movies (directed by Sharon Maguire and Beeban Kidron, respectively); Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice; Kirk Jones' Nanny McPhee; Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead andHot Fuzz.; and Steve Bendelack's Mr. Bean's Holiday. The company also had great success in the U.K. with Mark Mylod's Ali G Indahouse, starring Sacha Baron Cohen.

The success of Billy Elliot on film has since been repeated on the London stage. Director Stephen Daldry and screenwriter Lee Hall reunited for a stage musical version in 2005, with songs composed by Sir Elton John. The hit production, marking Working Title's debut theatrical venture (co-produced with Old Vic Prods.), continues to play to full houses in London and garnered nine 2005 Olivier Award nominations, with a win for Best New Musical. Preparations are now underway to take Billy Elliot to Sydney, and then New York (where it will open in 2008).

Last year saw the release of Paul Greengrass' United 93 to critical acclaim worldwide, leading to two BAFTA wins (for Best Direction and Best Editing) and an Academy Award nomination for Best Directing.

Forthcoming releases in 2007 and 2008 include Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth: The Golden Age, the long-awaited follow-up to the celebrated Elizabeth, starring Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, and Clive Owen; Adam Brooks' Definitely, Maybe, starring Ryan Reynolds, Isla Fisher, Derek Luke, Abigail Breslin, Elizabeth Banks, and Rachel Weisz; Nick Moore's Wild Child, starring Emma Roberts; Beeban Kidron's Hippie Hippie Shake, starring Cillian Murphy, Sienna Miller, Emma Booth, and Max Minghella; Kevin Macdonald's State of Play, starring Brad Pitt; Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon, adapted by Peter Morgan from his play of the same name and starring Frank Langella and Michael Sheen; and Joel and Ethan Coen's Burn After Reading, starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, and John Malkovich.

Paul Webster

Paul Webster previously teamed with Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner to produce Atonement director Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice for Focus Features and Working Title Films. That film's many honors included four Academy Award nominations, among them a Best Actress nod for Keira Knightley.

He is an independent film producer based in London. In 2004, he launched the feature film division of Kudos Film & Television Ltd., one of Britain's premier television production companies, founded by joint managing directors Jane Featherstone and Stephen Garrett.

Mr. Webster most recently produced David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises, also for Focus Features. The thriller stars Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, and Vincent Cassel, and is the first project for Kudos' new division to reach movie screens. Since its inception in 1992, Kudos has produced such notable projects as the hit caper series Hustle; the BAFTA Award-nominated cop fantasy series Life on Mars; Paul Lynch's International Emmy Award-winning The Magician's House; Grant Gee's Grammy Award-nominated feature documentary on Radiohead, Meeting People is Easy; and the BAFTA Award-winning spy drama series Spooks (titled MI-5 in the U.S.), which gave Matthew Macfadyen his breakout role.

Also for Focus Features, Mr. Webster is executive-producing Kudos' Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, starring Frances McDormand and Amy Adams and directed by Bharat Nalluri, whose most recent credit was Kudos' miniseries Tsunami: The Aftermath. That film is currently in post-production for a 2008 release. Rounding out the current Kudos slate of features in production under Mr. Webster is the documentary The Crimson Wing, co-directed by Matthew Aeberhard and Leander Ward, for Walt Disney Pictures.

Mr. Webster was executive producer of Walter Salles' award-winning The Motorcycle Diaries (also a Focus release).

As the creator and head of FilmFour, the feature film arm of the U.K.'s Channel Four, he oversaw a slate of original productions from 1998 through 2002 that included such movies as Gregor Jordan's Buffalo Soldiers; Jez Butterworth's Birthday Girl; Gillian Armstrong's Charlotte Gray; and Jonathan Glazer's Sexy Beast (for which Sir Ben Kingsley received an Academy Award nomination).

Prior to forming FilmFour, Mr. Webster was head of production at Miramax Films for over two years. In that capacity, he supervised such Academy Award-winning films as Anthony Minghella's The English Patient, Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting, and John Madden's Shakespeare in Love.

He had previously worked as a producer, both independently and with Working Title Films, during which time he produced such films as Mel Smith's The Tall Guy; Peter Medak's Romeo is Bleeding; and James Gray's Little Odessa, which won the Silver Lion Award at the 1994 Venice International Film Festival. He subsequently reteamed with the latter filmmaker as producer of The Yards.

Prior to segueing into his producing career, he ran Palace Pictures, the theatrical distribution arm of the U.K. production company Palace. Mr. Webster began working in the film industry in the mid-1970s, clerking at the (Notting Hill) Gate cinema.

Christopher Hampton

Christopher Hampton won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Dangerous Liaisons, which he adapted from his own stage play (itself an adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses). The film version was directed by Stephen Frears and starring Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Uma Thurman. The film also brought Mr. Hampton BAFTA, London Film Critics Circle, and Writers Guild of America Awards.

Born in the Azores, he lived in Aden, Egypt and Zanzibar as a child. As a teenager, he went to New College, Oxford to study German and French, and graduated with a First Class Honours Degree.

While at Oxford, Mr. Hampton became involved in theater, and became the youngest writer ever to have a play staged in the West End. His early playwriting credits include Total Eclipse, The Philanthropist, Savages, and Treats, all staged the Royal Court Theatre; and translations of such classics as Uncle Vanya, Hedda Gabler, A Doll's House, and Don Juan.

In addition to Dangerous Liaisons with the Royal Shakespeare Company, his subsequent theater work includes the stage adaptation of Sunset Boulevard for Andrew Lloyd Webber, which brought Mr. Hampton Tony Awards for both Book and Lyrics; Tales from Hollywood; an adaptation of Tartuffe, also for the Royal Shakespeare Company; and Talking Cure,for the National Theatre. Mr. Hampton's translation of Yasmina Reza's Art won Olivier and Tony Awards, and ran for 2,500 performances in the West End.

His teleplays include The History Man, adapted from Malcolm Bradbury's novel and directed by Robert Knights; Tartuffe, adapted from Molière's play and directed by Bill Alexander; the BAFTA Award-winning Hotel du Lac, adapted from Anita Brookner's novel and directed by Giles Foster; the miniseries The Ginger Tree, adapted from Oswald Wynd's novel; and Tales from Hollywood, directed by Howard Davies.

Mr. Hampton's screenwriting credits include A Doll's House, adapted from Henrik Ibsen's play and directed by Patrick Garland; The Good Father, adapted from Peter Prince's novel and directed by Mike Newell; Agnieszka Holland's Total Eclipse; and, with Robert Schenkkan, The Quiet American, based on the Graham Greene novel and directed by Phillip Noyce.

He has directed and adapted three films to date. These are Carrington, based on Michael Holroyd's book, for which Mr. Hampton was awarded Special Jury Prize at the 1995 Cannes International Film Festival, where the film's star Jonathan Pryce was also chosen Best Actor; The Secret Agent, based on the Joseph Conrad novel and starringBob Hoskins and Patricia Arquette; and Imagining Argentina, based on Lawrence Thornton's novel and starring Antonio Banderas and Emma Thompson.

Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature. While completing his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia, he took a creative writing course taught by the novelists Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson.

Mr. McEwan's books have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He has won the Somerset Maugham Award, for his first collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites; the Whitbread Novel Award and Prix Fémina étranger, for The Child in Time; and Germany's Shakespeare Prize. He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction three times, winning the award for Amsterdam. Most recently, he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel Saturday, and the Commonwealth Award for Literature. His latest published work is the novel On Chesil Beach.

His novel Atonement was published in 2002 and received the WH Smith Literary Award, National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award, the Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction, and the Santiago Prize for the European Novel.

In addition to Atonement, other works by Mr. McEwan have been made into feature films. Among these have been The Comfort of Strangers, adapted by Harold Pinter and directed by Paul Schrader; The Cement Garden, adapted and directed by Andrew Birkin; The Innocent, adapted by the author and directed by John Schlesinger; the short story "First Love, Last Rites," adapted by Jesse Peretz and David Ryan and directed by Mr. Peretz; and Enduring Love, adapted by Joe Penhall and directed by Roger Michell.

In 1999, Mr. McEwan was named a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire).

Jane Frazer

Jane Frazer was co-producer on Atonement director Joe Wright's award-winning Pride & Prejudice, also for Focus Features and Working Title Films.

She began her producing career in the mid-1980s, working with directors Stephen Frears (on My Beautiful Laundrette, as production manager) and Bernard Rose (on Paperhouse and Chicago Joe and the Showgirl, as associate producer), and then on Peter Medak's Let Him Have It (as associate producer).

From 1992 through 1999, Ms. Frazer worked as head of production for Working Title. Among the notable films that she oversaw there were Mike Newell's smash Four Weddings and a Funeral; the Academy Award-winning Dead Man Walking (directed by Tim Robbins) and Elizabeth (directed by Shekhar Kapur); Joel and Ethan Coen's O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Big Lebowski, and Academy Award-winning Fargo; Roger Michell's blockbuster Notting Hill; and Stephen Frears' The Hi-Lo Country and High Fidelity.

She has also been co-producer on Robert Altman's Gosford Park, for which Julian Fellowes won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay; Mira Nair's Vanity Fair, also for Focus Features; and, for Atonement producer Paul Webster, on Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. The latter, directed by Bharat Nalluri and starring Frances McDormand, will be released worldwide by Focus Features in 2008.

Seamus McGarvey, B.S.C.

Seamus McGarvey was born in Armagh, Northern Ireland. He began his career as a stills photographer before attending film school in London.

After graduating in 1988, he began shooting short films and documentaries, including Skin, for which he was nominated for a Royal Television Society Cinematography Award.  He also photographed and directed over 100 music videos, for such artists as Coldplay, Paul McCartney, Dusty Springfield, The Rolling Stones, U2, and Robbie Williams.

In the late 1990s, Mr. McGarvey began his continuing association with Sam Taylor-Wood, lighting many of her installations, photographs, and films (including Atlantic,which was nominated for the Turner Prize). 

In 1998, the British Society of Cinematographers (B.S.C.) invited him to become a member. In 2004, he was awarded the Royal Photographic Society's prestigious Lumière medal, for contributions to the art of cinematography.

Mr. McGarvey's features as director of photography include Oliver Stone's World Trade Center, for which he was nominated for an Irish Film and Television (IFTA) Award; Gary Winick's Charlotte's Web; Stephen Daldry's The Hours, for which he won the Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Technical/Artistic Achievement; Breck Eisner's Sahara, for which he won an IFTA Award; John Hamburg's Along Came Polly; Stephen Frears' High Fidelity; Mike Nichols' Wit; Michael Apted's Enigma; Tim Roth's The War Zone; Alan Rickman's The Winter Guest; and Michael Winterbottom's Butterfly Kiss.

His current feature project as cinematographer is Anthony Minghella's The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency.

Sarah Greenwood

Atonement marks Sarah Greenwood's fifth collaboration with director Joe Wright, following her Academy Award nominee for her production design on Pride & Prejudice. Their prior projects together were the miniseries Nature Boy, Bodily Harm, and Charles II: The Power & the Passion (a.k.a. The Last King). She earned a BAFTA Award nomination for her work on the latter.

She had earlier been nominated for a BAFTA Award as production designer of Mike Barker's miniseries The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, for which she won a Royal Television Society Award.

Ms. Greenwood's other credits as production designer include Robert Bierman's Keep the Aspidistra Flying (a.k.a. A Merry War); Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie, for the BBC; Sandra Goldbacher's The Governess; David Kane's This Year's Love and Born Romantic; and Tom Vaughan's Starter for Ten, which starred James McAvoy of Atonement.

After graduating with a BA from the Wimbledon School of Art, she designed extensively for stage productions and later joined the BBC as a designer. She has also designed for television commercials.

Ms. Greenwood most recently completed work, again for Atonement producer Paul Webster and Focus Features, on Bharat Nalluri's Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, starring Frances McDormand.

Paul Tothill, A.C.E.

Paul Tothill first worked with Atonement director Joe Wright on the miniseries Charles II: The Power & The Passion (a.k.a. The Last King), and on the film Pride & Prejudice. His work editng the latter earned Mr. Tothill an American Cinema Editors (A.C.E.) Eddie Award nomination in the Best-Edited Feature Film [Comedy or Musical] category.

He started his editing career at the BBC. In addition to several Royal Television Society Award nominations, he has received five BAFTA Award nominations, for his work on the following television miniseries: Bille Eltringham's The Long Firm; Stephen Poliakoff's Perfect Strangers; Andy Wilson's Gormenghast; Metin Hüseyin's The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling; and Anthony Page's Middlemarch.

Mr. Tothill's other film credits include Paul Weiland's Sixty Six, also for Working Title Films, and Shane Meadows' A Room for Romeo Brass. His other television credits include Stephen Poliakoff's miniseries Shooting the Past; Beeban Kidron's miniseries Murder; and Simon Cellan-Jones' segments of the epic miniseries Our Friends in the North.

His next feature project is Phyllida Lloyd's musical Mamma Mia!

Jacqueline Durran

Jacqueline Durran first worked with Atonement director Joe Wright on Pride & Prejudice, for which she earned a Best Costume Design Academy Award nomination. Her work on the film also brought her a BAFTA Award nomination and a Satellite Award.

Her first feature as costume designer was Mike Leigh's All or Nothing. She and Mr. Leigh have since collaborated on Vera Drake, starring Imelda Staunton, for which Ms. Durran won the BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design; and on Mr. Leigh's next, currently untitled film.

Her other features as costume designer include David Mackenzie's Young Adam, starring Ewan McGregor, and Sally Potter's Yes, starring Joan Allen and Sam Neill.

Prior to those, Ms. Durran's credits, as assistant costume designer, include Mike Leigh's Academy Award-winning Topsy-Turvy; Simon West's Lara Croft: Tomb Raider; George Lucas' Star Wars: Episode II–Attack of the Clones; and Lee Tamahori's Die Another Day.

Ivana Primorac

Ivana Primorac has been BAFTA Award-nominated for Best Make-Up and Hair three times, for her work on Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, starring Johnny Depp; Anthony Minghella's Cold Mountain, starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, and Academy Award winner Renée Zellweger; and Stephen Daldry's The Hours, starring Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman.

Her work will next be seen in Justin Chadwick's The Other Boleyn Girl, starring Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, and Eric Bana; and in Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd, starring Johnny Depp. 

Other films for which Ms. Primorac has been the hair and make-up designer include Anthony Minghella's Breaking and Entering, starring Jude Law; and Milos Forman's Goya's Ghosts, starring Natalie Portman and Javier Bardem. The latter earned her a Goya Award nomination.

She has also worked on such films as Peter Jackson's Academy Award-winning The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King; Laurence Dunmore's The Libertine, starring Johnny Depp; M. Night Shyamalan's The Village; Patrice Chéreau's Intimacy;Stephen Daldry's Billy Elliot; Ridley Scott's Academy Award-winning Gladiator; Tim Roth's The War Zone; Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth; Kenneth Branagh's In the Bleak Midwinter (a.k.a. A Midwinter's Tale); Nancy Meckler's Sister My Sister; Chris Menges' Second Best; and Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.

Dario Marianelli

For his original score of Atonement director Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice, Dario Marianelli was an Academy Award, Ivor Novello Award, European Film Award, and double World Soundtrack Award nominee; and was honored with the 2006 Classical Brit Award for Best Score.

His film credits as music composer include two BAFTA Award winners, Michael Winterbottom's In This World (which also won the top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival) and Asif Kapadia's The Warrior. He has since reteamed with the latter director in scoring Rogue Pictures' The Return and the upcoming Far North; and most recently completed work scoring Neil Jordan's The Brave One, starring Jodie Foster.

Mr. Marianelli has also composed the music for Bille August's Goodbye Bafana, starring Dennis Haysbert as Nelson Mandela; Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm; James McTeigue's V for Vendetta; Michael Caton-Jones' Shooting Dogs (a.k.a. Beyond the Gates); Peter Cattaneo's Opal Dream; Tim Fywell's I Capture the Castle; David Thewlis' Cheeky; Julien Temple's Pandaemonium; Philippa Collie-Cousins' Happy Now; and Paddy Breathnach's Ailsa, Shrooms, and I Went Down, which won four awards at the San Sebastián International Film Festival.