1) James Cameron
Director: Avatar, Titanic
2) Steven Spielberg
Director: Saving Private Ryan, Jurassic Park, ET: The Extra Terrestrial
Producer: Letters From Iwo Jima, Flags of Our Fathers
3) Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor: Inception, Shutter Island, Titanic
4) John Lasseter
Director: Toy Story, Toy Story 2
Chief creative officer: Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios
5) Brad Pitt
Actor: Inglourious Basterds, The Assassination of Jesse James by the
Coward Robert Ford
Producer: Kick-Ass, A Mighty Heart, The Departed
6) Christopher Nolan
Director: Inception, The Dark Knight
7) Scott Rudin
Producer: No Country for Old Men, The Queen, The Truman Show
8) Quentin Tarantino
Director: Inglourious Basterds, Pulp Fiction
9) George Clooney
Actor: Michael Clayton, Ocean's Eleven
Director: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Good Night, and Good Luck
10) Ed Vaizey
Politician: Minister for culture, communications and creative industries
11) Johnny Depp
Actor: Alice in Wonderland, Pirates of the Caribbean, Sleepy Hollow
Producer: Hugo Cabret, The Rum Diary
12) Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner
Producers: Pride & Prejudice, United 93, Love Actually; co-chairmen of
Working Title
13) JJ Abrams
Creator: Lost
Director: Mission: Impossible III, Star Trek
Producer: Cloverfield
14) Alan F Horn and Jeff Robinov
Studio executives: President and Chief Operating Officer of Warner
Bros, and President of Warner Bros Pictures
15) Ridley Scott
Director: Robin Hood, Gladiator, Blade Runner
16) Tom Rothman and Jim Gianopulos
Studio executives: Co-chairmen of Fox Filmed Entertainment
17) Tim Burton
Director: Alice in Wonderland, Sweeney Todd, Sleepy Hollow
18) Angelina Jolie
Actor: Salt, Changeling, A Mighty Heart
19) Brad Grey
Studio executive: chief executive of Paramount Pictures
20) Martin Scorsese
Director: Shutter Island, The Departed, Gangs of New York
21) Aaron Sorkin
Creator: The West Wing
Writer: The Social Network
22) Amy Pascal and Jeff Blake
Studio executives: Co-chair of Sony Pictures Entertainment, and
vice-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment
23) Jeffrey Katzenberg,
Studio executive: Chief executive of Dreamworks Animation
24) Peter Jackson,
Director: King Kong, The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Producer: District 9, The Adventures of Tintin
25) Bob Iger and Richard Ross
Studio executives: Chief executive of Walt Disney Co, and chairman of
Walt Disney Studios
26) Sacha Baron Cohen
Actor: Borat, Brüno, Hugo Cabret
27) David Heyman
Producer: Harry Potter, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Yes Man
28) Adam Fogelson
Studio executive: Chairman of Universal Pictures
29) Kate Winslet
Actor: The Reader, Revolutionary Road, Titanic
30) Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson
Producers: Goldeneye, Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace
31) Danny Boyle
Director: Slumdog Millionaire, 28 Days Later, Trainspotting
32) Graham King
Producer: Hugo Cabret, The Departed, Traffic
33) Tessa Ross
Commissioning executive: Controller of film and drama, Channel 4
34) Ryan Kavanaugh
CEO: Relativity Media
35) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Director-Writer-Producers: No Country for Old Men, Fargo, The Big Lebowski
36) Christine Langan
Commissioning executive: Creative director, BBC Films
37) Guillermo del Toro
Director: Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth
Producer: The Orphanage
38) Keira Knightley
Actor: Never Let Me Go, Atonement, Pride & Prejudice
39) Harvey Weinstein and Bob Weinstein
Distributors: Co-chairmen of The Weinstein Company
40) Patrick Wachsberger
Studio executive: President, Summit Entertainment
41) Richard Curtis
Director: The Boat That Rocked, Love Actually
Writer: Notting Hill, Four Weddings and a Funeral
42) Ari Emanuel and Patrick Whitesell,
Co-CEO: William Morris Entertainment
43) Paul Greengrass
Director: United 93, The Bourne Ultimatum, Green Zone
44) Richard Lovett, Bryan Lourd and Kevin Huvane
Agents: President and managing-partners of Creative Artists Agency
45) Jerry Bruckheimer
Producer: Prince of Persia, Pirates of the Caribbean, Armageddon
46) Col Needham
Web Entrepreneur: Co-founder and general manager, Internet Movie Database
47) Jeff Berg
Agent: Chairman and Chief Executive, ICM
48) Andrew Macdonald
Producer: Never Let Me Go, Sunshine, Trainspotting
49) Stuart Ford
Sales Agent: Chief Executive, IM Global
50) Judd Apatow
Director: Funny People, Knocked Up
Producer: Superbad, Get Him to the Greek
51) Rupert Murdoch
Media owner: Chairman and Chief Executive News Corporation
52) Colin Firth
Actor: A Single Man, Mamma Mia!, Bridget Jones's Diary
53) Harry Knowles
Web Entrepreneur: Founder, Ain't It Cool News
54) Peter Morgan
Writer: The Queen, The Damned United, Frost/Nixon
55) Nigel Green
Distributor: Managing Director of Entertainment Film Distributors
56) Guy Ritchie
Director: Sherlock Holmes, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
57) Olivier Courson
Studio Executive: Chief Executive of Studio Canal
58) Tracey Jacobs
Agent: Co-head of Talent, United Talent Agency
59) Thierry Frémaux
Film Festival Director: General delegate, Cannes film festival
60) Michael Cera
Actor: Scott Pilgrim Vs the World, Youth in Revolt, Juno
61) Sam Mendes
Director: Revolutionary Road, American Beauty
62) Claudia Winkelman
TV personality: Presenter of Film 2010
63) Danny Perkins
Distributor: Chief Executive of Optimum Releasing
64) Sofia Coppola
Director: Somewhere, Lost in Translation
65) Peter Bradshaw
Journalist: Film critic, the Guardian
66) Tilda Swinton
Actor: We Need to Talk About Kevin, I Am Love, Michael Clayton
67) Duncan Heath
Agent: Co-chairman, Independent Talent Group
68) Armando Iannucci
Producer-writer: The Day Today and I'm Alan Partridge
Director-writer: The Thick of It, In the Loop
69) John Cooper
Film Festival Director: Director of the Sundance Film Festival
70) Clare Binns
Film Programmer: Programming-Director of City Screen
71) Edgar Wright
Director: Scott Pilgrim Vs the World, Shaun of the Dead
72) Stewart Till
Distributor: Chief Executive of Icon UK
73) Tim Smith and Paul Brett
Film financiers: Chief Executive and Director of Finance of Prescience
74) Kristin Scott Thomas
Actor: I've Loved You So Long, Leaving, Nowhere Boy, The English Patient
75) Mark Kermode
Journalist: freelance film critic for Radio 5 Live and The Observer
76) Philip Knatchbull
Distributor: Chief Executive of Curzon Artificial Eye
77) St John Donald
Agent: Managing Director of United Agents
78) Piers Handling
Film Festival Director: Director of the Toronto film festival
79) Steve Wiener
Exhibitor: Chief Executive of Cineworld
80) Steve Jenkins
TV buyer: Head of Films for BBC Programme Acquisition
81) Roger Ebert
Journalist: Film critic of the Chicago Sun - Times
82) Tim Highsted,
TV Programmer: Senior Editor of feature films, Channel 4
83) Kathryn Bigelow
Director: The Hurt Locker, Point Break
84) Pedro Almodóvar
Director: Volver, Talk to Her, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
85) Eddie Ibrahim
Festival Director: Film programmer at Comic Con
86) Andy Whittaker
Distributor: Chairman, Dogwoof
87) Robbie Collin
Journalist: Film critic, News of the World
88) Graydon Carter
Journalist: Editor, Vanity Fair
89) Mike Leigh
Director: Another Year, Vera Drake, Secrets & Lies
90) Nikki Finke
Web Entrepreneur: Editor in chief of Deadline.com
91) Shane Meadows
Director: Le Donk, Somers Town, This Is England
92) Geoff Andrew
Programmer: Head of Film programming, BFI Southbank
93) Janet Pierson
Programmer: Head of Film programming, SXSW
94) James King
Journalist: Film reviewer, Radio 1
95) Charlie Kaufman
Writer: Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Director: Synecdoche, New York
96) Jane Goldman
Writer: Stardust, Kick-Ass
970 Allan Niblo and Rupert Preston
Producers-distributors: Co-founders of Vertigo Films
98. Fabien Riggall
Exhibitor: Founder of Secret Cinema and Future Shorts
99) Catharine des Forges
Distributor: Director of the Independent Cinema Office
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