ISHTAR CREDITS - Those who put it all together






DIRECTOR & WRITER: Elaine May
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS:
• Actor
   - In ground breaking duo with Mike Nichols during the '60s.
   - Roles in 'Enter Laughing', 'Luv', 'Bach to Bach', 'A New Leaf', 'California Suite', 'In the Spirit', 'Small Time Crooks'
• Director
   - A New Leaf (1971) - also role as Henrietta Lowell (WGA nominee)
   - The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
   - Mikey & Nicky (1976)

IN HER WORDS:
  • 'If all of the people who hate Ishtar had seen it, I would be a rich woman today.'


PRODUCER: Warren Beatty
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS:
• Actor
   'McCabe & Mrs. Miller', 'Bonnie & Clyde', 'Bugsy', 'Shampoo'
• Director
   'Reds', 'Bulworth', 'Dick Tracy', 'Heaven Can Wait'
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IN HIS WORDS:
  • 'Ishtar is a very good, not very big, comedy, made by a brilliant woman. And I think it's funny.'


ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS: David L. MacLeod • Nigel Wooll
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS:
MacLeod - co-producer on 'REDS'; first cousin to Warren Beatty; served as a senior advisor to the provincial Ontario Progressive Conservatives in Canada during the 1970's
Wooll - 'G. I. Jane', 'White Squall', 'Patriot Games', 'Willow', 'Reds'



CINEMATOGRAPHY: Vittorio Storaro A.I.C. - Technicolor
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS:
• Movies
'Apoalypse Now', 'Reds', 'Ladyhawke', 'The Last Emperor', 'Tucker', 'Dick Tracy', 'Dune'
• Awards
'Apoalypse Now', 'Reds', 'The Last Emperor', 'Dick Tracy'

FOR MORE INFO, CHECK OUT http://www.storarovittorio.com/



EDITING: Stephen A. Rotter • William Reynolds (II) A.C.E. • Richard P. Cirincione
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS:
Rotter - 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels', 'Head of State', 'Heaven Help Us', 'My Blue Heaven', 'Prelude to a Kiss', 'Rising Sun', 'The Deadliest Season', 'The Parent Trap', 'The Right Stuff', 'The World According to Garp', 'What Women Want'
Reynolds - '52nd Street', 'Carousel', 'Fanny', 'Give My Regards to Broadway', 'Hello, Dolly!', 'The Day the Earth Stood Still', 'The Godfather Saga', 'The Great White Hope', 'The Lonely Guy', 'The Sound of Music', 'The Sting', 'Yellowbeard'
Cirincione - 'Harry & Son', 'Midnight Cowboy', 'Q & A', 'Target'



PRODUCTION DESIGN: Paul Sylbert
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS:
'Biloxi Blues', 'Fresh Horses', 'Gorky Park', 'Heaven Can Wait', 'Kramer vs. Kramer', 'Mikey & Nicky', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest', 'Rosewood', 'The Drowning Pool', 'The Pick-up Artist', 'The Pope of Greenwich Village', 'Without a Trace'



ART DIRECTION: Tony Reading • Vicki Paul • Bill Groom • Peter Childs
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS:
Reading - 'Event Horizon', 'Jack the Ripper', 'Sahara', 'Shanghai Knights', 'Superman', 'The Bounty', 'The Da Vinci Code', 'The Mummy', 'The Mummy Returns', 'Tomorrow Never Dies', 'Van Helsing', 'Willow'
Paul - 'My Cousin Vinny'
Childs - 'Mission: Impossible'



SET DIRECTION: Steven Jordan • Alan Hicks
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS:
Jordan - 'Clueless'
Hicks - 'Author! Author!', 'Black Rain', 'Cape Fear', 'Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights', 'Jenny', 'Kramer vs. Kramer', 'Sweet Liberty', 'The Dream Team', 'The Mirror Has Two Faces', 'The Seduction of Joe Tynan', 'Without a Trace'



COSTUME DESIGN: Anthony Powell
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS:
'Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade'



MAKEUP: Bob Jiras • Alan Boyle
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS:
Jiras - '$', 'Bonnie & Clyde', 'First Monday in October', 'Fresh Horses', 'Ghost Story', 'Jaws 2', 'Lilith', 'Splendor in the Grass', 'Starting Over', 'Taps', 'The Hustler', 'The Pick-up Artist', 'Two Tickets to Paris'
Boyle - 'Barry Lyndon'






SOUND & MUSIC COORDINATION: John Strauss
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS:
'Amadeus' (Also actor: Conductor), 'Mikey & Nicky', 'Impromptu'



ORIGINAL SCORE: Dave Grusin
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS:
'A Man Called Gannon', 'Candy', 'Heaven Can Wait', 'On Golden Pond', 'Reds', 'The Electric Horseman', 'The Graduate', 'The Pursuit of Happiness', 'Tootsie'
FOR MORE INFO, CHECK OUT http://www.grusin.net/



MUSIC PRODUCERS: Michael James Jackson • Paul Williams
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS:
Jackson (Other films with his productions & scores) - 'Along For The Ride', 'Bad City Blues', 'Forever Lulu', 'Gleaming The Cube', 'Harley Davidson & The Marlboro Man', 'Lovelines', 'No Nukes', 'Split Decisions', 'The Confession', 'World Gone Wild'
Williams (Song Writing) - 'We've Only Just Begun,' 'Just An Old Fashioned Love Song,' 'Rainy Days & Mondays', 'You & Me Against The World', 'Rainbow Connection'
FOR MORE INFO, CHECK OUT http://paulwilliamsconnection.org/
IN PAUL'S WORDS:
  • 'It was one of the best jobs I've ever had in my life. I've never had more fun on a picture, but I've never worked harder.'



SOUND MIXER: Ivan Sharrock
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS:
'An American Werewolf in London', 'Closer', 'Cold Mountain', 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels', 'Far & Away', 'Frankenstein', 'Gangs of New York', 'Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album', 'Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes', 'Listening to You: The Who at the Isle of Wight Festival', 'Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival', 'Patriot Games', 'Stealing Beauty', 'The Brothers Grimm', 'The Da Vinci Code', 'The English Patient', 'The French Lieutenant's Woman', 'The Last Emperor', 'The Shining', 'U-571'


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