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Spider-Man (Avengers) Collection 3 watched
The Dark Knight Collection 3 watched
The Avengers Collection 4 watched
Guardians of the Galaxy Collection 3 watched
The Lord of the Rings Collection 3 watched
Captain America Collection 3 watched
Star Wars Collection 9 watched
Spider-Man Collection 3 watched
Thor Collection 4 watched
Iron Man Collection 3 watched
Toy Story Collection 4 watched
The Hunger Games Collection 4 watched
Ant-Man Collection 3 watched
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Back to the Future Collection 3 watched
Batman Collection 4 watched
Before... Collection 3 watched
Bill & Ted's Most Excellent Collection 3 watched
Captain America Collection 3 watched
The Conjuring Collection 3 watched
Creed Collection 3 watched
The Dark Knight Collection 3 watched
Evil Dead Collection 3 watched
Fear Street Collection 3 watched
Final Destination Collection 5 watched
Ghostbusters Collection 3 watched
Godzilla Collection 3 watched
Guardians of the Galaxy Collection 3 watched
The Hobbit Collection 3 watched
The Hunger Games Collection 4 watched
Indiana Jones Collection 5 watched
Iron Man Collection 3 watched
John Wick Collection 4 watched
Jumanji Collection 3 watched
Jurassic Park Collection 6 watched
Kingsman Collection 3 watched
The Lord of the Rings Collection 3 watched
Magic Mike Collection 3 watched
The Matrix Collection 4 watched
Mission: Impossible Collection 7 watched
Ocean's Collection 3 watched
Planet of the Apes (Reboot) Collection 3 watched
Scream Collection 6 watched
The Souvenir Collection 3 watched
Spider-Man (Avengers) Collection 3 watched
Spider-Man Collection 3 watched
Star Trek: Alternate Reality Collection 3 watched
Star Wars Collection 9 watched
Thor Collection 4 watched
Three Colors Collection 3 watched
Toy Story Collection 4 watched
World of Tomorrow Collection 3 watched
The ABCs of Death Collection 2 of 3 watched
Alien Collection 3 of 4 watched
Blade Collection 2 of 3 watched
Blair Witch Collection 2 of 3 watched
Clerks Collection 2 of 3 watched
Fantastic Beasts Collection 2 of 3 watched
The Godfather Collection 2 of 3 watched
Harry Potter Collection 7 of 8 watched
Hostel Collection 2 of 3 watched
The Mighty Ducks Collection 2 of 3 watched
Monsieur Hulot Collection 3 of 4 watched
The Mummy Collection 2 of 3 watched
Pirates of the Caribbean Collection 4 of 5 watched
The Three Mothers Collection 2 of 3 watched
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Adam Somner 19
Brian Smrz 13
Jeremy Marks 12
Peter Kohn 12
H.H. Cooper 12
Dan Bradley 11
David Webb 11
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Producers
Scott Rudin 43
Jason Blum 41
Kevin Feige 33
Tim Bevan 24
Eric Fellner 24
David Heyman 19
Dede Gardner 18
Olivier Père 17
Judd Apatow 17
Jon Kilik 16
Ethan Coen 16
Brian Grazer 15
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Exec. Producers
Stan Lee 40
Bruce Berman 24
Rose Garnett 22
Tessa Ross 20
Jason Cloth 19
Joseph Drake 19
Jeff Skoll 18
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Writers
Joel Coen 19
Ethan Coen 18
Wes Anderson 15
Agnès Varda 14
Billy Wilder 14
David Koepp 12
George Lucas 12
David Lynch 11
Ben Hecht 11
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Original Writers
Stan Lee 35
Jack Kirby 29
Stephen King 17
Larry Lieber 16
Bob Kane 15
Jim Starlin 10
Steve Ditko 10
Don Heck 9
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Casting
Mary Vernieu 58
Avy Kaufman 47
Nina Gold 43
Ellen Lewis 35
Carmen Cuba 35
Jane Jenkins 32
Terri Taylor 31
Kerry Barden 29
Rich Delia 28
Debra Zane 27
Mike Fenton 27
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Editors
Michael Kahn 26
Lee Smith 16
William Hoy 15
Paul Hirsch 14
Joel Coen 13
Sarah Flack 12
Brent White 12
Dan Lebental 12
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Cinematography
Peter Deming 17
Dean Cundey 17
Bill Pope 16
Don Burgess 15
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Mitch Dubin 23
Kyle Rudolph 12
Pat Sweeney 11
David Smith 11
Lee Walters 11
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Production Design
Rick Carter 16
David Wasco 15
Carol Spier 14
Jess Gonchor 14
Jack Fisk 13
Wynn Thomas 12
Judy Becker 11
Grant Major 11
Stuart Craig 11
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Art Direction
Hans Dreier 18
Hal Pereira 14
Brad Ricker 13
Gary Tomkins 13
Gary Jopling 12
Austin Gorg 12
Peter Dorme 11
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Set Decoration
Nancy Haigh 25
Anna Pinnock 17
Adam Willis 16
Larry Dias 15
Gene Serdena 15
Tim Croshaw 14
Jay Hart 13
Dean Wolcott 12
Tammy S. Lee 12
David Chow 12
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Special Effects
Sam Conway 10
Steve Cremin 10
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Visual Effects
Hiroshi Mori 19
John Knoll 17
Craig Barron 17
Brian Adler 16
Russell Earl 14
Grant Miller 12
Glenn Allen 12
John Bair 12
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Stunts
Debbie Evans 43
Clay Cullen 41
Doug Coleman 41
Dane Farwell 39
Rick Avery 39
Henry Kingi 37
Steve Kelso 36
Zack Duhame 33
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Choreography
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Composers
Hans Zimmer 46
Howard Shore 42
Danny Elfman 40
Brian Tyler 23
James Horner 22
Tyler Bates 17
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Songs
Sia 7
Al Dubin 4
Fred Ebb 3
SZA 3
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Sound
Peter Burgis 75
John Roesch 73
Andy Nelson 59
Skip Lievsay 58
Andy Malcolm 45
Jana Vance 44
Goro Koyama 41
Glen Gathard 40
Ron Bartlett 39
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Costume Design
Edith Head 36
Ann Roth 21
Mary Zophres 20
Mark Bridges 20
Sandy Powell 16
Lynda Foote 15
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Makeup
Gary Archer 64
Bill Corso 28
Ve Neill 27
Chris Lyons 23
Sian Grigg 21
Judy Chin 21
Gordon Bau 19
Ben Nye 18
Rick Baker 17
Donald Mowat 16
Morag Ross 15
Mel Berns 15
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Hairstyling
Alex Rouse 26
Joy Zapata 20
Adruitha Lee 17
Janine Rath 15
Kay Georgiou 14
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Studios
Paramount 172
20th Century Fox 128
Canal+ 66
Lionsgate 45
Miramax 45
StudioCanal 40
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Add. Directing
Richard Oswald 5.0
Hal W. Polaire 5.0
Yōichi Matsue 4.8
Don Kranze 4.8
Kim Seong-sik 4.8
Brian W. Cook 4.8
Fred T. Gallo 4.8
Nicolas Baldino 4.8
Charlie Watson 4.8
Marc Ashton 4.8
Cheyenne Corre 4.8
Stan Winston 4.8
Glenn R. Wilder 4.8
Christos Nikou 4.8
Takeshi Honda 4.8
Deepak Nayar 4.8
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Producers
John Wentworth 5.0
Ingmar Bergman 5.0
Laurence Clerc 5.0
Rick Porras 4.8
JoAnne Sellar 4.8
Jon Read 4.8
Adam Somner 4.8
Syd Lim 4.8
Alain Sarde 4.8
George Miller 4.8
Doug Mitchell 4.8
Jeong Won-jo 4.8
Neal Edelstein 4.8
David Foster 4.8
Marcus Loges 4.8
Guy Cavagnac 4.8
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Exec. Producers
Michael Lynne 4.8
Mark Ordesky 4.8
Park Chan-wook 4.8
Cate Blanchett 4.8
Rae Sanchini 4.8
Lawrence Gordon 4.8
Pierre Edelman 4.8
Uwe Schott 4.8
Marcus Loges 4.8
Berry Welsh 4.8
Ian Hutchinson 4.8
Trudie Styler 4.8
Celine Rattray 4.8
Bill Pohlad 4.8
Spike Lee 4.8
Michael Katz 4.7
Jon Kamen 4.7
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Writers
Mark Frost 5.0
Budd Schulberg 5.0
Robert Altman 4.8
Kim Krizan 4.8
George Miller 4.8
William Wisher 4.8
Jeb Stuart 4.8
Edward Yang 4.8
Robert Bolt 4.8
Mel Brooks 4.8
Eijirō Hisaita 4.8
Walter Newman 4.8
Hideo Oguni 4.7
Stanley Kubrick 4.6
Don Hertzfeldt 4.6
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Original Writers
Raymond Carver 4.8
Georges Arnaud 4.8
Philip K. Dick 4.5
Pierre Boileau 4.5
Thomas Narcejac 4.5
David Grann 4.5
Mary Shelley 4.5
Mario Puzo 4.5
Thomas Harris 4.5
Kim Krizan 4.5
Haruki Murakami 4.5
Elmore Leonard 4.5
Philip MacDonald 4.5
Raymond Chandler 4.5
Kōbō Abe 4.5
Shūgorō Yamamoto 4.5
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Casting
Ann Robinson 4.8
Alexandra Montag 4.8
Jennifer Yoo 4.8
Louis DiGiaimo 4.8
Elise Buedel 4.8
Lucky Englander 4.8
Al Ernest Garcia 4.8
John S. Lyons 4.6
James Liggat 4.5
Ann Goulder 4.5
Ashley Gray 4.5
Rene Haynes 4.5
Gary Chason 4.5
Irene Howard 4.5
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Editors
Valeriya Belova 5.0
Mario Morra 5.0
Adam Gough 4.8
Monika Willi 4.8
Margaret Sixel 4.8
Chen Po-Wen 4.8
Hisashi Sagara 4.8
William Reynolds 4.7
Peter Przygodda 4.7
Jacques Witta 4.7
Joe Bini 4.7
Nadine Muse 4.7
Don Hertzfeldt 4.7
Ray Lovejoy 4.6
Mary Sweeney 4.6
Gene Milford 4.6
Akira Kurosawa 4.6
Alfonso Cuarón 4.5
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Cinematography
Ted D. McCord 4.8
Yoshio Miyajima 4.8
Sofian El Fani 4.8
Babette Mangolte 4.8
Mitch Breit 4.8
Mahmoud Kalari 4.8
Asakazu Nakai 4.6
Hong Kyung-pyo 4.6
Łukasz Żal 4.6
Al Ruban 4.6
Haskell Wexler 4.6
Boris Kaufman 4.6
Takao Saitō 4.6
Lee Daniel 4.5
Claire Mathon 4.5
John Alcott 4.5
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Add. Photography
Kelvin Pike 5.0
Guy Norman Bee 5.0
Yang Hyeon-seok 4.8
Lee Hyun 4.8
Jeon Seung-hwan 4.8
Mark Vollmer 4.8
Luca Mercuri 4.8
Mel Cannon 4.8
Michael Chapman 4.8
Richard Quinlan 4.8
Tony Arnaud 4.8
Dimitri Zaunders 4.8
Steve Koster 4.8
Rick Woollard 4.8
Brant S. Fagan 4.8
Saul Midwall 4.8
George Hill 4.8
Marie Spencer 4.8
Enrique Bravo 4.8
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Production Design
Peter Lamont 5.0
Chris Jones 4.8
Allan Starski 4.8
Katarzyna Sobańska-Strzałkowska 4.8
Marcel Sławiński 4.8
John Box 4.7
Yoshirō Muraki 4.6
Christoph Kanter 4.5
Florencia Martin 4.5
Alex Holmes 4.5
Claude Lenoir 4.5
Eugène Lourié 4.5
Lee Ha-jun 4.5
Bob Shaw 4.5
Thomas Grézaud 4.5
Stephonik Youth 4.5
Roger Rosenberg 4.5
Andrea Crisanti 4.5
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Art Direction
Rob Outterside 4.8
Agata Maliauka 4.8
Philip Ivey 4.8
John Pollard 4.8
Robert Parle 4.8
Héctor Romero 4.8
Irene O'Brien 4.8
Shigemasa Toda 4.8
Terence Marsh 4.8
Roy Walker 4.8
Bruno Via 4.8
A. Earl Hedrick 4.7
Dan Hennah 4.5
Henry Bumstead 4.5
David Crank 4.5
Wade B. Rubottom 4.5
Dean Gordon 4.5
Jake Cavallo 4.5
Anna Georgiadou 4.5
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Set Decoration
Frank R. McKelvy 5.0
Alan Lee 4.8
Daniel Bradford 4.8
Michael Timman 4.8
Ethan Goodwin 4.8
Danny Rowe 4.8
Hank Liebeskind 4.8
Mark Boucher 4.8
Lee Gi-seok 4.8
E.C. Chen 4.8
Philipp Hübner 4.8
Michael Seirton 4.8
Soizic Hervé 4.8
Dario Simoni 4.8
Graham Wichman 4.8
Bradley Groleau 4.7
Howard Bristol 4.5
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Special Effects
Dianne Carlucci 5.0
Gary L. King 5.0
Brian Johnson 4.8
Jay King 4.8
Mark Bero 4.8
Steve Sosner 4.8
Stan Winston 4.8
Richard L. Hill 4.8
David Domeyer 4.8
Doug Hubbard 4.8
Ron Petruccione 4.8
Joe Lombardi 4.7
Thomas L. Fisher 4.7
Sass Bedig 4.5
John C. Carlucci 4.5
César Abades 4.5
Milt Rice 4.5
Jeremy Hays 4.5
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Visual Effects
Antony Bluff 5.0
Matthew Yuricich 5.0
Irmin Roberts 5.0
Paul Lasaine 4.8
Dean Lyon 4.8
Jim Rygiel 4.8
Eileen Moran 4.8
Lucy Killick 4.8
Robyn Isaacs 4.8
Mark Dornfeld 4.8
Cho Yong-seok 4.8
Alain Carsoux 4.8
John Mangia 4.8
Robin Saxen 4.7
Andrew Jackson 4.6
Alex Lemke 4.5
Dean Wright 4.5
Bryan Grill 4.5
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Stunts
Kiran Shah 5.0
Glen Yrigoyen 4.8
Mike McKee 4.8
Rusty Hanson 4.8
Mick Van Moorsel 4.8
Dusan Hyska 4.8
Dimo Lipitkovský 4.8
Jeff Milburn 4.8
Douglas Crosby 4.8
Bobby Porter 4.8
Bobby Clark 4.8
Alex Stevens 4.8
Roy Scammell 4.8
David Webster 4.8
Bill Davey 4.8
Gregg Dandridge 4.8
Steven Burnett 4.7
Yoo Sang-seob 4.6
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Choreography
Woo-Ping Yuen 4.8
Han Ying-Chieh 4.5
Miriam Nelson 4.3
Denna Thomsen 4.2
Liam Steel 4.2
Bob Fosse 4.2
Herbert Ross 4.2
Alex Romero 4.2
Mandy Moore 4.2
Michael Arnold 4.2
Farah Khan 4.2
Toni Basil 4.1
Jennifer White 4.0
Brad Jeffries 4.0
Cynthia Onrubia 4.0
Bill Landrum 4.0
Damien Jalet 4.0
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Composers
Michael Galasso 4.8
Franz Schubert 4.8
Alex Ebert 4.8
Toru Takemitsu 4.7
Bo Harwood 4.7
Robbie Robertson 4.6
John Morris 4.6
Masaru Satō 4.6
Nino Rota 4.5
Jonny Greenwood 4.5
David Shire 4.5
Kenyon Hopkins 4.5
Takanobu Saitō 4.5
Joseph Kosma 4.5
Nigel Godrich 4.5
John Adams 4.5
Ludovico Einaudi 4.5
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Songs
Jacques Demy 4.5
Mitski 4.5
Harold Arlen 4.5
Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry 4.5
Michel Legrand 4.2
Robert Lopez 4.2
Fred Ebb 4.0
John Kander 4.0
Paul Williams 4.0
Ira Gershwin 4.0
Andrea Datzman 4.0
Lady Gaga 4.0
Dan Levy 4.0
Henry Mancini 4.0
Johnny Mercer 4.0
Richard Rodgers 4.0
Alan Bergman 4.0
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Sound
Tex Rudloff 5.0
Loren L. Ryder 5.0
Hartmut Eichgrün 5.0
Samuel Lehmer 5.0
Owe Svensson 4.8
John McKay 4.8
Malcolm Cromie 4.8
Bradford Bell 4.8
Brad Zoern 4.8
Dashen Naidoo 4.8
Luis Huesca 4.8
Sergio Díaz 4.8
Vincent Milner 4.8
Richard Dwan Jr. 4.8
John Neff 4.8
Richard Quinn 4.8
Jon Huck 4.8
Nadine Muse 4.8
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Costume Design
Marik Vos-Lundh 5.0
Tiny Nicholls 4.8
Lyn Askew 4.8
Ola Staszko 4.8
Nicole Greenbaum 4.8
Monique Dury 4.8
Joseph Bato 4.8
Rosine Delamare 4.8
Masahiro Katō 4.7
Olga Mill 4.5
Phyllis Dalton 4.5
Hein Heckroth 4.5
Polly Platt 4.5
Hope Slepak 4.5
Miyako Bellizzi 4.5
Janey Temime 4.5
Eunice Jera Lee 4.5
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Makeup
Lynn Rodgers 5.0
Janine Schneider 4.8
Noreen Wilkie 4.8
Nancy Hennah 4.8
Lenore Stewart 4.8
Tera Treanor 4.8
Emma Moncrieff 4.8
Allie Rutherford 4.8
Laurelle Ziento 4.8
Barbara Daly 4.8
Nacoma Whobrey 4.8
Tanya Travis 4.8
Steve Hopgood 4.8
Angela Mooar 4.8
Gail Wilson 4.8
Giulio Pezza 4.8
Annett Schulze 4.8
Tanja Adams 4.8
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Hairstyling
Anna Majewski 4.8
Jennifer Tremont 4.8
J.C. Davis 4.8
Paul Abascal 4.8
Anna Cristofani 4.8
Nancy Nieves 4.8
Jennifer Bell 4.5
Jon Carter 4.5
Mona Orr 4.5
Philip Leto 4.5
Sherri Bramlett 4.5
Verne Caruso 4.5
Paula Fleet 4.5
Junjirō Yamada 4.5
Amalia Paoletti 4.5
Willis Hanchett 4.5
Anissa Salazar 4.5
Maralyn Sherman 4.5
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Studios
Peregrine 5.0
Alcatraz Films 5.0
TSR 5.0
Personafilm 5.0
Hawk Films 4.8
Canal+ Polska 4.8
Production I.G 4.8
Madeleine Films 4.8
Toei Company 4.8
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