Bill Murray

Bill Murray has been praised for his performances in both seriocomic films and blockbuster movies.

His portrayal of Herman Blume in Wes Anderson's Rushmore brought him the New York Film Critics Circle, National Society of Film Critics, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and Independent Spirit Awards for Best Supporting Actor. He has twice been nominated for a Golden Globe Award, for his performances in Rushmore and Ivan Reitman's Ghostbusters.

Born in Chicago, Mr. Murray began his acting career there with the improvisational troupe Second City. He joined the cast of NBC's Saturday Night Live in the show's second season, and shortly thereafter won an Emmy Award as one of the show's writers.

After making his screen debut in Ivan Reitman's Meatballs, he reteamed with the director on Stripes and the Ghostbusters movies. His film credits also include Harold Ramis' Caddyshack and Groundhog Day, Art Linson's Where the Buffalo Roam, Sydney Pollack's Tootsie, John Byrum's The Razor's Edge (1984), Richard Donner's Scrooged, Frank Oz' What About Bob?, John McNaughton's Mad Dog and Glory and Wild Things, Tim Burton's Ed Wood, Peter and Bobby Farrelly's Kingpin, Jon Amiel's The Man Who Knew Too Little, Tim Robbins' Cradle Will Rock, Michael Almereyda's Hamlet (2000), and Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums.

Mr. Murray authored the book Cinderella Story: My Life in Golf.

Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Johansson first attained worldwide recognition for her performance as Grace Maclean, the teen traumatized in a riding accident, in Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer. More recently, her performance as Rebecca Doppelmeyer in Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World (alongside Thora Birch) earned her the Toronto Film Critics Association award for Best Supporting Actress.

She has recently completed starring roles in two soon-to-be-released films: Brian Robbins' The Perfect Score (with Erika Christensen) and Peter Webber's Girl with a Pearl Earring (as Griet, the subject of the famed titular Vermeer painting, opposite Colin Firth as Vermeer).

A native New Yorker, Ms. Johansson made her professional acting debut at age eight in the off-Broadway production of Sophistry at New York's Playwrights Horizons.

Her breakthrough film role, as Manny in Lisa Krueger's critically acclaimed Manny & Lo, earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Female Lead.

Ms. Johansson's additional film credits include Rob Reiner's North, Arne Glimcher's Just Cause (as Sean Connery's daughter), Eric Schaeffer's If Lucy Fell, Raja Gosnell's Home Alone 3, Eva Gardos' autobiographical An American Rhapsody, Joel and Ethan Coen's The Man Who Wasn't There (opposite Billy Bob Thornton), and Ellory Elkayem's Eight Legged Freaks.

Giovanni Ribisi

Giovanni Ribisi previously worked with Sofia Coppola as the (off-screen) narrator of her debut feature, The Virgin Suicides.

Honored with ShoWest's Male Star of Tomorrow Award, he has captured industry attention in several notable features. These have included Steven Spielberg's Academy Award-winning Saving Private Ryan (for which he received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination as a member of the film's ensemble cast), Sam Raimi's The Gift (for which he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Male), and Agnieszka Holland's HBO film Shot in the Heart (for which he received an AFI Actor of the Year nomination).

Among the upcoming releases that Mr. Ribisi stars in are Anthony Minghella's Cold Mountain, Jan Sardi's Love's Brother, and Adam Goldberg's I Love Your Work (in which he plays the lead role).

He has also had starring roles in Tom Tykwer's Heaven, Ben Younger's Boiler Room, Garry Marshall's The Other Sister, Jesse Peretz' First Love, Last Rites, and Richard Linklater's Suburbia.

Mr. Ribisi's other film credits include Larry Charles' Masked and Anonymous, John McTiernan's Basic, Dominic Sena's Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000), James D. Stern's It's the Rage, Adam Goldberg's Scotch and Milk, David Lynch's Lost Highway, and Tom Hanks' That Thing You Do!

Anna Faris

Anna Faris is known to audiences worldwide for her starring role as hapless heroine Cindy Campbell in Keenen Ivory Wayans' blockbuster Scary Movie and Scary Movie 2. She returns as Cindy in David Zucker's soon-to-be-released Scary Movie 3.

The Seattle native began acting in theater at a young age and embarked on her professional acting career there. She starred in commercials before being cast in Jon Steven Ward's independent feature Lovers Lane.

Ms. Faris' other film credits include Lucky McKee's May (which premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival) and Tom Brady's The Hot Chick (starring opposite Rob Schneider).

Sofia Coppola

Sofia Coppola grew up in Northern California. After doing costume design on two feature films, she studied Fine Art at California Institute of the Arts.

She then wrote and directed the short film Lick the Star (which world-premiered at the Venice International Film Festival), followed by the feature The Virgin Suicides.

Ms. Coppola wrote the screenplay for the latter film, adapting it from Pulitzer Prize winner Jeffrey Eugenides' novel of the same name. The movie starred Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, James Woods, and Kathleen Turner. A world premiere at the Cannes International Film Festival, The Virgin Suicides subsequently earned her the MTV Movie Award for Best New Filmmaker.

Ross Katz

Ross Katz received Best Picture Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations as producer of Todd Field's In the Bedroom, which starred Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson, and Marisa Tomei (all of whom received Academy Award nominations for their performances). The drama, which world-premiered at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, also received an Academy Award nomination for Todd Field's adapted screenplay.

Mr. Katz' first job in the movie business was as part of the crew of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs. He later worked with producers Sydney Pollack and Lindsay Doran on Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility.

He then joined leading NYC independent film company Good Machine, spending five years working on some of the company's most notable productions, such as Ang Lee's The Ice Storm and Todd Solondz' Happiness.

Mr. Katz' first feature as producer was Jim Fall's Trick, which debuted to acclaim at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. The independent romantic comedy starred Christian Campbell, J.P. Pitoc, and Tori Spelling.

He received an Emmy Award nomination for executive-producing Moisés Kaufman's The Laramie Project, the HBO Films feature that world-premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.

In 2002, Mr. Katz inaugurated his own NYC-based production company, Elemental Films. In 2003, he was cited as one of Variety's "10 Producers to Watch."

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola is one of the most respected talents in the entertainment business.

Best known as a five-time Oscar-winning director, writer and producer, he won his first Oscar at age 31 for the screenplay for Patton, which he co-wrote with Edmund H. North.

Mr. Coppola's impressive body of work includes directorial credits for 20 films: epic films such as the Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now; The Conversation; The Outsiders and Rumblefish; and Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Throughout his career, he has always searched for better tools for filmmakers and is considered the pioneer of electronic cinema. Many of the techniques he developed have become the industry standard.

Mr. Coppola's San Francisco-based film company, American Zoetrope, develops and produces film projects for both the large and small screen. In its first 30 years, American Zoetrope has produced some of the most important films in American cinema, including American Graffiti, The Godfather (Parts II and III), The Black Stallion, The Outsiders and Rumblefish, Peggy Sue Got Married, Barfly, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Don Juan DeMarco, Mi Familia, The Virgin Suicides, and cq.

American Zoetrope films have received 15 Academy Awards, out of 68 nominations. Four of the company's films were included in the American Film Institute's ranking of the Top 100 American Films.

American Zoetrope has constantly embraced the creative possibilities of technology, and has launched many of today's cinema technologies: Video Assist, Pre-visualization, electronic editing, and Network-enabled creative services. Under Mr. Coppola's leadership, American Zoetrope has become known for orchestrating alternative approaches to filmmaking.

Fred Roos

For over 35 years, Fred Roos has been working with many of the film industry's most gifted moviemakers and actors.

His long-term collaboration with Francis Ford Coppola has brought him an Academy Award, for producing Best Picture winner The Godfather Part II. He also was nominated for producing Apocalypse Now; and co-produced two more Best Picture Oscar nominees, The Conversation and The Godfather Part III.

Among the other features directed by Mr. Coppola that Mr. Roos and Mr. Coppola have produced together are One From the Heart, The Outsiders and Rumblefish, The Cotton Club, Gardens of Stone, and Tucker: The Man and His Dream.

His producing credits also include Carroll Ballard's The Black Stallion, Wim Wenders' Hammett, Barbet Schroeder's Barfly, Agnieszka Holland's The Secret Garden (1993), and (as co-producer) Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides. He received a CableACE Award, as well as an Emmy Award nomination, as executive producer of the documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse.

Prior to becoming a producer, Mr. Roos had a notable career as a casting director. In that capacity, he cast such films as Richard Lester's Petulia, John Huston's Fat City, Bob Rafelson's Five Easy Pieces and The King of Marvin Gardens, Mr. Coppola's The Godfather, and George Lucas' American Graffiti and Star Wars (as casting consultant on the latter).

Lance Acord

Lance Acord previously collaborated with Sofia Coppola as cinematographer on her short film Lick the Star.

After studying photography and filmmaking at the San Francisco Arts Institute, the Northern California native began his career with acclaimed photographer/filmmaker Bruce Weber. Together they made documentaries, commercials, and music videos.

Mr. Acord continued to work extensively in the latter mediums. He earned the MTV Video Music Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice," which memorably featured Christopher Walken and was directed by Spike Jonze.

Stephane Sednaoui, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, Mark Romanek, and Michel Gondry are just a few of the talented directors Mr. Acord works with. He has shot numerous highly acclaimed television commercial campaigns for innovative advertisers such as Levi's, Volkswagen, and Nike.

Mr. Acord made his first foray into narrative feature filmmaking as the cinematographer on Vincent Gallo's Buffalo 66. Since then, he has since been the director of photography on Spike Jonze's multi-award-winning features Being John Malkovich and Adaptation., as well as Peter Care's The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys.

Anne Ross

Anne Ross began working in film production while still in high school, as an intern to the late Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Charles Guggenheim. She went on to attend New York University, graduating with a double major (in film and art history).

Her NYU days put her in contact with famed production designer Dean Tavoularis, whom she assisted on Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula. She later worked on such features as Philip Kaufman's Rising Sun and Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate.

Ms. Ross' own production design credits include James Toback's Black and White and Richard Shepard's Mercy, as well as music videos for such artists as R.E.M., The Strokes, and Air (on "Playground Love," co-directed by Sofia and Roman Coppola).

She has also designed commercials for (among other top clients) Calvin Klein, Samuel Adams, and Citibank.

K.K. Barrett

K.K. Barrett has twice been honored with the MTV Video Music Award for Best Art Direction: for Beck's "New Pollution" (1996) and for Smashing Pumpkins' "Tonight, Tonight" (1997).

He has collaborated with director Spike Jonze on several projects: the multi-award-winning feature films Being John Malkovich and Adaptation.; two Silver Clio Award-winning commercials for Nissan ("Lazy Boy Chair") and Sprite ("Sun Fizz"); a memorable Levi's commercial ("Hospital" ["Tainted Love"]); and the music video for Sean Lennon's "My House."

Mr. Barrett's extensive commercials credits include spots for Budweiser, Revlon, the Yellow Pages, Puma, and Mountain Dew, working with such directors as Stephane Sednaoui, Simon West, Mark Romanek, Lance Acord (the cinematographer of Lost in Translation), and the late Herb Ritts.

He has worked on music videos for such artists as Janet Jackson ("Go Deep"), Mariah Carey ("I'd Give My All"), and Chris Isaak ("Wicked Game").

Mr. Barrett was the production designer on Michel Gondry's film Human Nature, as well as the art director on The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: The Hollywood Follies, directed by Michael Schultz as part of the Lucasfilm television project.

Nancy Steiner

Nancy Steiner has worked extensively in film, commercials, music videos, and print.

She previously collaborated with Sofia Coppola as costume designer on The Virgin Suicides; and on the Air music video "Playground Love" (co-directed by Roman Coppola).

Ms. Steiner's film credits include Miguel Arteta's The Good Girl, Michel Gondry's Human Nature, Wim Wenders' Million Dollar Hotel, Alex Cox' The Winner, and Todd Haynes' Safe.

Her commercial campaigns include Levi's, Gap, Nike, Volkswagen, Pontiac, Adidas, Earthlink, Volvo, Bacardi, Puma, Lincoln, and Miller Beer.

In the past decade, Ms. Steiner has been particularly well-represented on MTV, designing the costumes for six short "Rock the Vote" films as well as for numerous music videos. The latter include Mick Jagger's "God Give Me Everything I Want" (directed by Mark Romanek), David Bowie's "Thursday's Child" (directed by Walter Stern), and Sheryl Crow's "Steve McQueen" (directed by Wayne Isham). She has frequently collaborated with directors Michel Gondry (on Bjork's "Bachelorette" and Foo Fighters' "Everlong"), Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (on several music videos apiece for Smashing Pumpkins and The Red Hot Chili Peppers), and Sophie Muller (on three No Doubt music videos, including "Don't Speak").

Her print career includes work with Gwyneth Paltrow, Cameron Diaz, Milla Jovovich, Sheryl Crow, Sandra Bullock, Tom Hanks, R.E.M., and Sade. Her work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Dazed & Confused, Interview, Allure, Us, The Face, Premiere, and I.D.

Sarah Flack

Sarah Flack's most recent feature editing credit was on Jim Simpson's The Guys.

She has collaborated with Steven Soderbergh on several projects, and was the film editor on his features Full Frontal, The Limey, and Schizopolis.

Ms. Flack's credits as film editor also include John Polson's Swimfan, Mark Gibson's Lush, Tom Putnam's Shafted, and Joe Berlinger's Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2. She did additional editing on two independent features, Peter Mattei's Love in the Time of Money and Peter Sehr's Love the Hard Way.

She graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in Political Science and Semiotics/Film. After working on the set of Steven Soderbergh's Kafka in Prague, her first apprentice editing job was with Mark Conte on Sheldon Lettich's Double Impact. She later worked as an assistant editor with Claire Simpson (on Caroline Thompson's Black Beauty and Robert Towne's Without Limits); with Nancy Richardson and Pietro Scalia (on Desmond Nakano's White Man's Burden); and with Jill Bilcock (on Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's 'Romeo + Juliet').

Brian Reitzell

Brian Reitzell previously collaborated with Sofia Coppola on The Virgin Suicides, on which he was music supervisor and additionally recorded the score with the French pop duo Air.

A musician by trade, he has recorded with such artists as Air, Beck, and Turin Brakes. He was the drummer for the beloved L.A. punk/pop band Redd Kross.

Mr. Reitzell's affinity for film scores led him to compose and record the soundtrack Logan's Sanctuary - the imagined sequel to Michael Anderson's 1976 feature Logan's Run. He has since progressed to working on movies that are being made, including Roman Coppola's cq. On that film, he was music supervisor and helped record the score with the French band Mellow. His work with Kevin Shields on Lost in Translation continues that approach of combining the task of music supervision with the art of scoring original music for a feature film.