producer/ director steven spielberg  is one of the most influential, successful and respected filmmakers of his generation. Spielberg is a two-time winner of the Academy Award for Best Director, for his work on Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List, for which he also won the Oscar for Best Picture as the film's producer. His production companies, Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks SKG, have enjoyed monumental success in the entertainment industry.

Born in Cincinnati and raised in the suburbs of New Jersey and Arizona, Spielberg developed a love for photography and filmmaking at an early age. He had made several amateur films by the time he finished high school and began studies at California State University, Long Beach. His short film Amblin was screened at the Atlanta Film Festival in 1969, and opened the door for him to begin directing at Universal Studios.

Spielberg's first television film, Duel, was soon followed by his feature directing debut, The Sugarland Express, in 1974. Two of his early films, Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, were record-breaking box office successes. Spielberg went on to produce and/or direct eight of the twenty highest-grossing films in history, including Jurassic Park, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Raiders of the Lost Ark. In addition to the aforementioned films, he has directed 1941, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Always, Empire of the Sun, The Color Purple, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Hook, The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Amistad. He has also served as producer or executive producer on many highly successful films including Men in Black, Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Twister and The Mask of Zorro, among many others.

More recently, Spielberg executive produced, along with Tom Hanks, on the HBO series Band of Brothers, which chronicled the plight of American servicemen in action during World War II. He went on to direct, write and produce A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Most recently, he directed and produced Catch Me If You Can starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks.

Spielberg has been honoured with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Irving G. Thalberg Award, and has also received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute and the Directors Guild of America, as well as five Golden Globe Awards and three DGA Awards. In the fall of 2000, Spielberg became the first recipient of the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Filmmaking by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts - Los Angeles.

screenwriter scott frank  grew up in Los Gatos, California. He received a B.A. in Film Studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1982.

His screenplays include Out of Sight, which won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America as well as Best Screenplay awards from both the National Society of Film Critics and the Boston Society of Film Critics and was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Scott Frank's other screenplay credits include Get Shorty (Writers Guild, Edgar and Golden Globe nominations), Malice, Dead Again and Little Man Tate. At the time of the release of Minority Report he penned Flight of the Phoenix for Twentieth Century Fox.

co-screenwriter jon cohen  wrote two novels that have been sold to Hollywood: Max Lakeman and the Beautiful Stranger and The Man in the Window. He then began writing screenplays, two of which were optioned. His spec script Old City caught the attention of filmmaker Jan De Bont, who asked Cohen to write the Minority Report screenplay.

director of photography janusz kaminski has had a long association with director Steven Spielberg. Kaminski received an Academy Award for his work on Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan. The famed cinematographer also won an Oscar, as well as a BAFTA Award, for this black and white cinematography for Schindler's List - as well as honours from the New York and Los Angeles Film Critics. He also earned an Oscar nomination for Spielberg's Amistad and collaborated with the director on The Lost World: Jurassic Park and A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Most recently, he shot Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can.

Kaminski's other film credits as cinematographer include Jerry Maguire, How to Make an American Quilt, Trouble Bound, Tall Tale and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He made his directorial debut with the thriller Lost Souls after a decade as an acclaimed director of photography.

A native of Poland, Kaminski came to the United States in 1981. He studied cinematography at Columbia College in Chicago, receiving his B.A. in 1987. Relocating to Los Angeles, he became a cinematography felly at the American Film Institute, and began his professional career on the feature Fallen Angel. He also lensed two television projects: the Amblin production Class of '61, and the acclaimed cable movie Wildflower, directed by Diane Keaton.

editor michael kahn has won three Academy Awards as the editor of Steven Spielberg's films Raiders of the Lost Ark, Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan. He has also earned Oscar nominations for Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Empire of the Sun, as well as Adrian Lyne's Fatal Attraction. He has also received two BAFTA Awards, for Fatal Attraction and Schindler's List.

He began his editing career on television films such as Hogan's Heroes and Eleanor and Franklin, for which he won an Emmy® Award. Among the many films he has edited are The Return of a Man Called Horse, The Eyes of Laura Mars, Ice Castles, 1941, Used Cars, Poltergeist, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Goonies, The Color Purple, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Always, Arachnophobia, Toy Soldiers, Hook, Alive, Jurassic Park, Caspar, Twister, The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Amistad.

Just prior to Minority Report, Kahn edited A.I. Artificial Intelligence and is currently editing Spielberg's latest film, Catch Me If You Can.

production designer alex mc dowell Minority Report marks his first film for producer/director Steven Spielberg. His work as a production designer in theatrical motion pictures surfaced ten years ago with The Lawnmower Man following a successful initial career as the art director of many high-profile commercials and music videos.

His major theatrical credits include The Affair of the Necklace, Fight Club, The Crow and its sequel Crow: City of Angels, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

McDowell was born in Borneo and lived in Indonesia for seven years where his father worked as an engineer for Shell Oil. He attended Quaker boarding school in England and later studied fine art at the Central School of Art in London.

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