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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.
Chris