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Thereafter, Adefarasin shot such diverse films as “Onegin,” starring Ralph Fiennes; Terence Davies “House of Mirth,” starring Gillian Anderson; Paul and Chris Weitz’s “About a Boy,” and Paul Weitz’s “In Good Company, starring Scarlett Johansson.

He also shot many episodes of the acclaimed HBO series “Band of Brothers,” for which he received an Emmy nomination, and also shot the follow up series, “The Pacific.”

In 2004 and 2005, Adefarasin worked with Woody Allen shooting “Match Point” and “Scoop,” both starring Scarlett Johansson. Thereafter, he shot Michael Apted’s “Amazing Grace” and he teamed up with Shekhar Kapur again on the follow-up to “Elizabeth,” “Elizabeth: The Golden Age.”

Adefarasin collaborated with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant on their feature “Cemetery Junction.” “Little Fockers” followed with Paul Weitz. He reunited with Ricky Gervais on the mockumentary “David Brent: Life on the Road.”

He recently worked with Burr Steers on “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.”

Having graduated with an MFA in Fine Arts, McAlpine received a Gulbenkian grant to create some breakthrough work in holography. The concept of illusion as a journey has also lead McAlpine to collaborate with other artists, such as Juan Munoz at the Tate Modern in London and Architects Branson and Coates, with whom he created “Journey through The Body” for the Millennium Dome. His recent projects include work for sustainable eco hotels and with architects The Manser Practice, with whom he is developing Rockflower.

McAlpine is best known for films such as “Sid and Nancy,” directed by Alex Cox; “The Piano,” directed by Jane Campion, for which he won an AFI and BAFTA Award; “Clockers,” directed by Spike Lee; and “The Beach,” directed by Danny Boyle. Along with these films he has designed many commercials and pop promos.

His other credits include Biyi Bandele’s “Half a Yellow Sun” and Dustin Hoffman’s directorial debut, “Quartet.”  McAlpine also designed “Made in Dagenham,” which won him a nomination for an Evening Standard Award for Best Production Design in 2011.

Cutting his teeth on documentaries, it was while working at the Central Office of Information that Wilson met Peter Greenaway and began a long and fruitful collaboration which saw him editing all of Greenaway’s prolific output of music documentaries and arts programmes for television, as well as five feature films over the next eight years, beginning with “The Draughtsman’s Contract” in 1981 and culminating in the highly acclaimed “The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover” in 1989.

Wilson’s career then broadened into a raft of critically acclaimed feature films and television dramas, including the massively successful “Billy Elliot” in 2000, which gained 13 BAFTA and three Oscar nominations, including a BAFTA and an American Eddie nomination for Best Film Editing. Following this U.S. nomination, Wilson was invited to join American Cinema Editors ACE.

In 2006, Wilson edited the film version of Alan Bennett’s multi-award winning play “The History Boys,” directed by Nicholas Hytner. His television dramas have included projects such as “Henry V,” directed by Thea Sharrock for the BBC.

After working on “From Time to Time” in 2009, directed by Julian Fellowes, he began a three-year relationship with Fellowes, Liz Trubridge and Brian Percival, editing three consecutive series of ITV’s “Downton Abbey,” gaining him nominations for a BAFTA, two Emmys and an Eddie, as well as winning two HPA awards.

Jill Taylor (Costume Designer) earned BAFTA and Broadcast Film Critics nominations in 2012 for her work on Simon Curtis’s “My Week with Marilyn,” starring Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh and Judi Dench.  Taylor also received an Emmy nomination and a Costume Designers Guild Award in 2005 for her work on Stephen Hopkins’ “The Life and Death of Peter Sellers.” 

She has worked extensively with director Woody Allen, on “Cassandra’s Dream,” “Scoop” and “Match Point,” and also Gurinder Chadha on “It’s a Wonderful Afterlife” and “Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging.” 

Her other feature credits include John Madden’s “Proof,” Peter Howitt’s “Johnny English” and “Sliding Doors,” David Kane’s “Born Romantic” and “This Year’s Love,” and Peter Cattaneo’s “The Full Monty.” 

More recently, Taylor has worked on Kenneth Branagh’s “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit,” with Keira Knightly, Chris Pine and Kevin Costner; Pierre Morel’s “The Gunman,” with Sean Penn, Idris Elba and Javier Bardem; and Ariel Vroman’s “Criminal,” with Kevin Costner, Ryan Reynolds, Alice Eve and Gary Oldman.

He most recently composed the score for Stone’s “Victor Frankenstein” and Stone’s upcoming “Snowden,” as well as the score for Thomas Vinterberg’s BBC film “Far From the Madding Crowd.”

Armstrong first collaborated with Academy Award-nominated director Baz Lurhmann on “William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet,” for which Armstrong received an Anthony Asquith BAFTA Award and an Ivor Novello Award.  The director and composer reteamed for the critically acclaimed film “Moulin Rouge!,” garnering Armstrong a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, a BAFTA Award, an AFI Award, a Golden Satellite Award, and the World Soundtrack Award for Discovery of the Year.  He also composed the score for Lurhmann’s “The Great Gatsby,” which garnered him the AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score from the Australian Film Institute as well as a Film Critics Circle of Australia Award nomination for Best Music and a Grammy nomination for Best Soundtrack.

Armstrong’s other films include the scores for “In Time,” “Neds,” “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” and “World Trade Center.” 

Beginning his career as an in-house composer with Glasgow’s highly respected Tron Theatre Company, Armstrong has written works performed by the Scottish Ensemble, the London Sinfonietta, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. His other stage work includes the commissions “The Tempest” and “A Broken Heart,” with director Michael Boyd at the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Armstrong’s orchestral works include Gesualdo, an operetta commissioned by Scottish Opera, and acclaimed pieces for the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Cappella Nova and violinist Clio Gould. In 2012, Armstrong received a Herald Angel award for a new Scottish Opera commission The Lady from the Sea, which premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival.