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Hayao Miyazaki
Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka (born 1941)

Jason Bateman
Jason Kent Bateman is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Michael Bluth in the Fox / Netflix sitcom Arrested Development (2003–2019) and Marty Byrde in the Netflix crime drama series Ozark (2017–2022), as well as for his work in numerous comedy films. His accolades include a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.

Eddie Murphy
Edward Regan Murphy is an American comedian, actor, and singer. He is widely recognized as one of the most influential Black artists in the entertainment industry, and one of the greatest comedians of all time. He had his breakthrough as a stand-up comic before gaining stardom for his film roles; He has received several accolades including a Golden Globe Award, a Grammy Award, and an Emmy Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award. He was honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2015, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2023, and the 51st AFI Life Achievement Award in 2026.
Dustin Hoffman
American actor (born 1937)
Sting
British musician (born 1951)
Ian McKellen
British actor (born 1939)
Ellen DeGeneres
American comedian, television host, actress, and writer (born 1958)
Jeremy Irons
British actor (born 1948)
Hans Zimmer
German film composer (born 1957)
Carlos Alazraqui
American actor, comedian, voice actor, and singer (born 1962)

Bryan Cranston
Bryan Lee Cranston is an American actor. He established himself as a leading actor in both comedic and dramatic works on stage and screen. His accolades include seven Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award.

Ben Kingsley
Sir Ben Kingsley is a British-Indian actor. He has received various accolades throughout his career spanning seven decades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Grammy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards as well as nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards and two Laurence Olivier Awards. Kingsley was appointed Knight Bachelor in 2002 for services to the British film industry. He was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010 and received the Britannia Award in 2014.

Stephen Hillenburg
American marine science educator and artist (1961-2018)
Eartha Kitt
American singer and actress (1927–2008)

Seth MacFarlane
Seth Woodbury MacFarlane is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, director, comedian, and singer. He is the creator and star of the television series Family Guy and The Orville, and co-creator of the television series American Dad! and The Cleveland Show. He also co-wrote, co-produced, directed, and starred in the films Ted, its sequel Ted 2, and A Million Ways to Die in the West.

John Williams
American composer and conductor (born 1932)

Lupita Nyong'o
Kenyan-Mexican actress and film director (born 1983)

Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro Gómez is a Mexican filmmaker, author, and artist. His work has been characterized by a strong connection to fairy tales, gothicism and horror, often blending the genres, with an effort to infuse visual or poetic beauty in the grotesque. He has had a lifelong fascination with monsters, which he considers symbols of great power. He is known for pioneering dark fantasy in the film industry and for his use of insectile and religious imagery, his themes of Catholicism, celebrating imperfection, underworld motifs, practical special effects, and dominant amber lighting.
Matt Groening
American cartoonist (born 1954)

Tim Allen
Timothy Alan Dick, known professionally as Tim Allen, is an American actor and comedian. He is known for playing Tim "The Toolman" Taylor on the ABC sitcom Home Improvement (1991–1999) for which he won a Golden Globe Award and Mike Baxter on the ABC/Fox sitcom Last Man Standing (2011–2021). He voices Buzz Lightyear for the Toy Story franchise (1995–present) for which he won an Annie Award and played Scott Calvin and Santa Claus in The Santa Clause franchise (1994–2023).
Jenny Slate
American actress and comedian (born 1982)

Dan Castellaneta
American actor

Wes Anderson
American filmmaker (born 1969)
Joan Cusack
American actress
Ian Holm
British actor (1931–2020)

Skrillex

Joss Whedon
American director, screenwriter, and producer (born 1964)
Jerry Goldsmith
American film composer (1929–2004)
Jeff Bennett
American voice actor
Hank Azaria
American actor
Trey Parker
American actor, animator and filmmaker (born 1969)
Joe Hisaishi
Japanese composer, conductor, pianist
Bill Nighy
British actor (born 1949)

Hanna-Barbera
Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. ( ; formerly known as H-B Enterprises, Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. and H-B Production Co.), commonly known simply as Hanna-Barbera, was an American animation studio and production company which operated from 1957 until its absorption into Warner Bros. Animation in 2001. The studio was founded on July 7, 1957, by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the creators of Tom and Jerry and former MGM Cartoons employees, along with film producer George Sidney. Initially headquartered at Kling Studios in Los Angeles from 1957 to 1960, the company later moved to Cahuenga Bou
Ramin Djawadi
German score composer (born 1974)
Ming-Na Wen
American actress and model

Alexandre Desplat
French film composer

Matt Stone
American actor, animator and filmmaker (born 1971)
Seth Green
American actor
Randy Newman
American singer-songwriter and pianist

Nancy Cartwright
American actress

Tom Kenny
American actor and comedian (born 1962)
John Lasseter
American animator, film director, screenwriter, producer (born 1957)
Trent Reznor
American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and composer
Gore Verbinski
American film director (born 1964)
Lin-Manuel Miranda
American songwriter and composer (born 1980)

Charlie Kaufman
American filmmaker and novelist

Michael Giacchino
American music composer

Brad Bird
American film director, animator, screenwriter and producer (born 1957)
Josh Gad
American actor (born 1981)

Kristen Schaal
American actress

Maurice LaMarche
Canadian voice actor (born 1958)

Ella Purnell
Ella Summer Reed Purnell is a British actress. She began her career as a child actress in West End theatre and films including Never Let Me Go (2010), Intruders (2011) and Maleficent (2014). Her other films include Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016), Churchill (2017) and Army of the Dead (2021).

Alan Menken
American composer (born 1949)

Andrew Stanton
American animator, film director and screenwriter (born 1965)
Thomas Newman
American composer and conductor (born 1955)

Bud Luckey
American animator (1934–2018)

Michael Kamen
American composer (1948–2003)
Alan Tudyk
American actor
Genndy Tartakovsky
Russian-American cinema and television animator, director and producer