A Life in Film
Sean Gilman’s all-time stats
Top films
Best of 2012
The best movies I've seen from 2012
Best of 1939
The Top 20 movies I've seen from 1939.
Best of 1933
A ranked list of the films I've seen from 1933.My picks…
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Spider-Man (Avengers) Collection 3 watched
The Avengers Collection 4 watched
The Dark Knight Collection 3 watched
The Lord of the Rings Collection 3 watched
Captain America Collection 3 watched
Star Wars Collection 9 watched
Thor Collection 4 watched
Spider-Man Collection 3 watched
Iron Man Collection 3 watched
Toy Story Collection 4 watched
Ant-Man Collection 3 watched
The Matrix Collection 4 watched
The 1997 Trilogy 3 watched
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin Collection 3 watched
Ant-Man Collection 3 watched
The Apu Trilogy 3 watched
Arabian Nights Collection 3 watched
The Avengers Collection 4 watched
Batman Collection 4 watched
Before... Collection 3 watched
A Better Tomorrow Collection 3 watched
The Broadway Melody Collection 4 watched
Captain America Collection 3 watched
A Chinese Ghost Story Collection 3 watched
A Chinese Odyssey Collection 3 watched
The Dark Knight Collection 3 watched
Dragon Inn 3 watched
Drunken Master Collection 3 watched
Evil Dead Collection 3 watched
Female Prisoner Scorpion Collection 4 watched
From Vegas to Macau Collection 3 watched
Golden Chicken Collection 3 watched
Henry Fool Collection 3 watched
The Hobbit Collection 3 watched
The Inspector Wears Skirts Collection 4 watched
In the Line of Duty Collection 9 watched
Ip Man Collection 4 watched
Iron Angels Collection 3 watched
Iron Man Collection 3 watched
The Lord of the Rings Collection 3 watched
Love in a... Collection 3 watched
Mad Max Collection 4 watched
The Matrix Collection 4 watched
Mission: Impossible Collection 6 watched
The Mole Song Collection 3 watched
A Moment of Romance Collection 3 watched
The Monkey King Collection 3 watched
Monsieur Hulot Collection 4 watched
Once Upon a Time in China Collection 6 watched
The Outlaws Collection 3 watched
Overheard Collection 3 watched
Pirates of the Caribbean Collection 5 watched
Pitch Perfect Collection 3 watched
The Prostitute Trilogy 3 watched
Rebuild of Evangelion Collection 4 watched
Resident Evil Collection 6 watched
Spider-Man (Avengers) Collection 3 watched
Spider-Man Collection 3 watched
SPL Collection 4 watched
Star Trek: Alternate Reality Collection 3 watched
Star Wars Collection 9 watched
Stray Cat Rock Collection 5 watched
Swordsman Collection 3 watched
Thor Collection 4 watched
Tiger Cage Collection 3 watched
Toy Story Collection 4 watched
Wong Kar-Wai’s Love Trilogy 3 watched
World of Tomorrow Collection 3 watched
X-Men Collection 7 watched
The Yakuza Papers Collection 5 watched
Aces Go Places Collection 5 of 6 watched
Anchorman Collection 2 of 3 watched
Armour of God Collection 2 of 3 watched
Back to the Future Collection 2 of 3 watched
Beverly Hills Cop Collection 2 of 3 watched
Bill & Ted's Most Excellent Collection 2 of 3 watched
Detective Chinatown Collection 2 of 3 watched
Fantômas Serial 4 of 5 watched
The Fast and the Furious Collection 8 of 10 watched
Father Knows Best Collection 2 of 3 watched
The Godfather Collection 2 of 3 watched
Guardians of the Galaxy Collection 2 of 3 watched
I Know What You Did Last Summer Collection 2 of 3 watched
Indiana Jones Collection 4 of 5 watched
Infernal Affairs Collection 2 of 3 watched
John Wick Collection 3 of 4 watched
Little Forest Collection 2 of 3 watched
Living Dead Collection 3 of 4 watched
The Mummy Collection 2 of 3 watched
The Musketeers Collection 2 of 3 watched
The One-Armed Swordsman Collection 3 of 4 watched
The Paul Dédalus trilogy 2 of 3 watched
Police Story Collection 5 of 7 watched
Prison On Fire Collection 2 of 3 watched
Scream Collection 5 of 6 watched
The Slumber Party Massacre Collection 2 of 3 watched
That's Entertainment Collection 2 of 3 watched
Three Colors Collection 2 of 3 watched
Tiger on the Beat Collection 2 of 3 watched
The Transporter Collection 2 of 3 watched
Undisputed Collection 3 of 4 watched
The Untold Story Collection 2 of 3 watched
Wandering Earth Collection 2 of 3 watched
The Water Margin Collection 2 of 3 watched
The Wolverine Collection 2 of 3 watched
越南三部曲(系列) 2 of 3 watched
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Stars
Directors
Crew & studios
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Co-Directors
Masayuki 4
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Add. Directing
Adam Somner 14
Jeremy Marks 10
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Producers
Johnnie To 42
Tsui Hark 41
Mona Fong 38
Run Run Shaw 37
Scott Rudin 35
Kevin Feige 33
Runme Shaw 31
Walt Disney 26
Arthur Freed 26
Wai Ka-fai 20
Howard Hawks 19
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Exec. Producers
Stan Lee 44
Jack Rollins 24
Bruce Berman 19
John Sloss 16
George Lucas 16
Alan Fine 13
Chad Oman 11
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Writers
Ni Kuang 52
Tsui Hark 37
Wong Jing 34
Yau Nai-hoi 32
Woody Allen 30
Wai Ka-fai 27
Ben Hecht 27
Chang Cheh 22
Barry Wong 19
Yasujirō Ozu 18
Jeffrey Lau 17
Au Kin-Yee 16
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Original Writers
Stan Lee 29
Jack Kirby 27
Bob Kane 13
Larry Lieber 12
Louis Cha 12
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Casting
Ellen Lewis 34
Mary Vernieu 29
Mike Fenton 27
Avy Kaufman 23
Nina Gold 23
Jane Jenkins 20
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Editors
Peter Cheung 57
Treg Brown 26
Michael Kahn 25
Nick Cheung 24
Angie Lam 16
Sandra Adair 16
Joel Cox 15
Jack Murray 15
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Cinematography
Billy Bitzer 36
Horace Wong 23
Peter Pau 22
Andrew Lau 19
Kung Mu-To 19
Joe Chan 18
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Add. Photography
Mitch Dubin 12
Ray Quinlan 12
Igor Meglic 11
Peter Field 10
Dan Kneece 10
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Production Design
Rick Carter 12
David Wasco 11
Jack Fisk 11
Mel Bourne 10
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Art Direction
Hans Dreier 42
Hal Pereira 26
Richard Day 25
James Basevi 17
John Dexter 12
Jack Okey 12
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Set Decoration
Sam Comer 22
Ray Moyer 17
Henry Grace 16
Julia Heron 15
Nancy Haigh 13
Gene Serdena 11
Emile Kuri 11
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Special Effects
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Visual Effects
John Knoll 19
Craig Barron 14
Fred Sersen 14
Brian Adler 13
Dennis Muren 10
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Stunts
Debbie Evans 30
Jeff Imada 29
Rick Avery 26
Henry Kingi 26
Donna Evans 23
Annie Ellis 23
Loren Janes 23
Dick Ziker 21
J.J. Perry 20
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Choreography
Hermes Pan 17
Farah Khan 10
Brinda 3
Mang Hoi 3
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Composers
Hans Zimmer 38
Max Steiner 32
Howard Shore 25
Danny Elfman 24
James Horner 23
Roy Webb 20
Joe Hisaishi 19
Wang Fu-Ling 18
Victor Young 17
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Songs
Harry Warren 10
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Sound
John Roesch 52
Skip Lievsay 48
Andy Nelson 35
Tu Duu-chih 33
Paul Massey 31
Jana Vance 29
Drew Kunin 29
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Costume Design
Edith Head 49
Adrian 31
Irene 23
Helen Rose 23
Orry-Kelly 22
Liu Chi-Yu 20
Jean Louis 19
Lee Pik-Kwan 18
Li Chi 16
Mark Bridges 15
Sandy Powell 15
Ann Roth 14
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Makeup
Mel Berns 38
Ben Nye 36
Gary Archer 35
Jack Dawn 29
Bud Westmore 22
Fern Buchner 22
Gordon Bau 22
Ve Neill 18
Judy Chin 17
Fong Yuen 17
John Truwe 16
Sian Grigg 14
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Hairstyling
Alex Rouse 21
Joy Zapata 14
Helen Hunt 14
Janine Rath 13
Kay Georgiou 13
Adruitha Lee 10
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Studios
Paramount 209
20th Century Fox 146
Shaw Brothers 114
TOHO 62
Canal+ 48
Shochiku 48
Miramax 34
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Co-Directors
Katsuro Onoue 4.2
Masayuki 4.1
Kazuya Tsurumaki 4.0
Mahiro Maeda 4.0
Huang Jianxin 3.5
Qin Tianzhu 3.5
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Add. Directing
Tokuzō Tanaka 5.0
Giancarlo Santi 5.0
Roman Coppola 5.0
Sakae Hirosawa 5.0
Henry Bergman 5.0
Arne Schmidt 5.0
Chiyoko Ueno 5.0
Futoshi Nishiya 5.0
Robert Bober 5.0
Shohei Imamura 5.0
Franco Indovina 5.0
Gianni Arduini 5.0
Subir Hajra 5.0
Jude Gorjanc 5.0
Chen Hwai-En 5.0
Ashwin Gangaraju 5.0
Tony Brandt 4.8
Claude Miller 4.8
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Producers
Hiroshi Nezu 5.0
Serge Silberman 5.0
Takeshi Yamamoto 5.0
Gary Kurtz 5.0
Victor Lyndon 5.0
Bruce Sharman 5.0
Ken Peterson 5.0
Guy Cavagnac 5.0
Don Hertzfeldt 5.0
Éric Heumann 5.0
Roger Edens 5.0
Jacques Tati 5.0
Tage Nielsen 5.0
Ren Yue 5.0
Edwin S. Porter 5.0
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Exec. Producers
Rick Dempsey 5.0
Rudd Simmons 5.0
Owen Wilson 5.0
Ben Barenholtz 5.0
Jan Hung-Tze 5.0
Olivier Aknin 5.0
Chris Blackwell 5.0
Karen Konicek 4.8
Jan Harlan 4.8
Chan Ye-cheng 4.8
Mark Ordesky 4.8
Daniel Melnick 4.8
Robert Evans 4.8
Chad A. Verdi 4.8
George Furla 4.8
Niels Juul 4.8
Tyler Zacharia 4.8
Pui-wah Chan 4.8
Jean Labadie 4.8
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Writers
Sidney Buchman 5.0
Mickey Knox 5.0
Elio Bartolini 5.0
Ernest Haycox 5.0
Arthur Sheekman 5.0
Nat Perrin 5.0
Viña Delmar 5.0
Rahul Koda 5.0
James Goldman 5.0
Winsor McCay 5.0
Liu Jiayin 5.0
Raymond Chandler 4.8
Tonino Guerra 4.8
Ben Maddow 4.8
Luis Buñuel 4.8
Whit Stillman 4.8
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Original Writers
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay 5.0
Erdman Penner 5.0
Marcel Moussy 5.0
Philip Barry 5.0
Rumer Godden 5.0
Frank Norris 5.0
Mario Puzo 4.8
Nicholas Pileggi 4.8
Lionel White 4.8
James M. Cain 4.8
Edith Wharton 4.8
Alan Jay Lerner 4.8
Cornell Woolrich 4.5
James Jones 4.5
Raymond Chandler 4.5
Thomas Harris 4.5
Roald Dahl 4.5
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Casting
Jane Brody 5.0
Leonard Murphy 5.0
Al Ernest Garcia 5.0
Jeremy Ritzer 5.0
Fred Roos 4.8
Leon Vitali 4.8
Robert Weiner 4.8
Adele Raymond 4.8
Pat MacDonnell 4.8
Ross Brown 4.8
James Liggat 4.7
Ned Lott 4.7
Vic Ramos 4.6
Howard Feuer 4.6
John S. Lyons 4.5
Jennifer Shull 4.5
Edward R. Morse 4.5
Allison Hall 4.5
Kate Dowd 4.5
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Editors
King Hu 5.0
Michael Bradsell 5.0
Saar Klein 5.0
Henri Colpi 5.0
Jasmine Chasney 5.0
Marthe Huguet 5.0
John Woo 5.0
Suzanne Baron 5.0
Andrew Hafitz 5.0
Frank E. Hull 5.0
Philip Cahn 5.0
Tsui Hark 5.0
Bob Dylan 5.0
Robert Leighton 4.8
Jacques Witta 4.8
George A. Romero 4.8
Lou Lombardo 4.8
Patrick Tam 4.8
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Cinematography
John Alcott 5.0
Hisao Shirai 5.0
Yang Wei-han 5.0
Babette Mangolte 5.0
Don Hertzfeldt 5.0
Bobby Byrne 5.0
Jean-Paul Alphen 5.0
Alfred Gilks 5.0
Hua Hui-Ying 5.0
Louis Lumière 5.0
Wilson Chan 5.0
Michel Kelber 5.0
Subrata Mitra 4.8
John L. Russell 4.8
Henri Decaë 4.8
Jean Rabier 4.8
Christian Matras 4.8
Howard Alk 4.8
Kazuo Miyagawa 4.8
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Add. Photography
Kelvin Pike 5.0
Mike Joyce 5.0
Douglas Milsome 5.0
Robert Ward 5.0
Simon Bray 5.0
James F. Boyle 5.0
Gary Graver 5.0
George Minassian 5.0
Emmanuel Machuel 5.0
Ronald Burke 5.0
John Bailey 4.8
Bobby Greene 4.8
Peter Robinson 4.8
David Williamson 4.8
Laurie Shane 4.8
Caleb Deschanel 4.8
John Nostri 4.8
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Production Design
Claude Lenoir 5.0
Pierre Guffroy 5.0
Piero Poletto 5.0
Henri Schmitt 5.0
Max Douy 5.0
Anne Davey 5.0
Ringo Cheung 5.0
Alfred Junge 4.9
Bernard Evein 4.8
Huang Wen-Ying 4.8
Eugène Lourié 4.8
Jean d'Eaubonne 4.8
Ward Preston 4.8
Kristi Zea 4.7
Carlo Simi 4.7
Sabu Cyril 4.7
Stuart Wurtzel 4.7
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Art Direction
John Hubley 5.0
Kendall O'Connor 5.0
McLaren Stewart 5.0
Wade B. Rubottom 5.0
Peter Jamison 5.0
Peter Murton 5.0
Terrell Stapp 5.0
Tom Codrick 5.0
Al Zinnen 5.0
Dick Kelsey 5.0
Kisaku Ito 5.0
Robert M. Haas 5.0
Lam Shung-Man 5.0
Manu Jagadh 5.0
David Crank 4.9
Jack Fisk 4.8
Leslie Dilley 4.8
Henry Bumstead 4.8
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Set Decoration
Frank R. McKelvy 5.0
Kintarô Yamamoto 5.0
Henri Schmitt 5.0
Mariko Braswell 4.8
David Hack 4.8
Gary J. Brink 4.8
Sydney Moore 4.8
Charles Merangel 4.8
A. Roland Fields 4.7
Alan Lee 4.7
Erich Kettelhut 4.7
Karl Vollbrecht 4.7
Carol Joffe 4.6
Edgar G. Ulmer 4.6
Amy Wells 4.5
Jacques Mapes 4.5
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Special Effects
David H. Watkins 5.0
Gerald Endler 5.0
Brian Johnson 4.9
Eros Bacciucchi 4.9
Joe Lombardi 4.8
Kaoru Tanifuji 4.8
Garth Inns 4.8
Irving G. Ries 4.8
Rodney Burke 4.8
Sass Bedig 4.8
Robert A. Mattey 4.8
Daniel Hays 4.8
Ernst Kunstmann 4.8
Miguel Vázquez 4.8
Jeff Clifford 4.8
Dave Koehler 4.8
A. Paul Pollard 4.8
Eiji Tsuburaya 4.8
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Visual Effects
Rachel Berry 4.8
Neil Krepela 4.8
Jack Rabin 4.8
Louis DeWitt 4.8
Greg Behrens 4.8
Linwood G. Dunn 4.8
Richard Edlund 4.7
John P. Fulton 4.7
Dean Lyon 4.7
Paul Lasaine 4.7
Christina Graff 4.7
Peter Kuran 4.7
Paul Graff 4.6
Eileen Moran 4.5
John Gaeta 4.5
Eiji Tsuburaya 4.5
Futoshi Nishiya 4.5
Andrew Jimenez 4.5
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Stunts
Peter Brace 5.0
Denney Pierce 5.0
Myke Schwartz 5.0
John Landis 5.0
Henry Wills 5.0
John Hudkins 5.0
Peter Hein 5.0
Ng Ming-Choi 5.0
Alex Stevens 4.8
Courtney Pakiz 4.8
Reg Harding 4.8
Daniel O'Haco 4.8
Gary Fry 4.8
Ric Roman Waugh 4.8
Buster Keaton 4.8
Han Ying-Chieh 4.8
Duke York 4.8
Mike H. McGaughy 4.7
Hou Hsiao 4.7
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Choreography
Danny Daniels 5.0
Surya Kumar 4.8
Richard Yuen Tak 4.8
Prem Rakshith 4.7
Bob Fosse 4.5
Michael Kidd 4.5
Bill Landrum 4.5
Jerome Robbins 4.5
Eugene Loring 4.5
Yuen Bun 4.5
Busby Berkeley 4.4
Toni Basil 4.4
Gene Kelly 4.4
Brad Jeffries 4.2
Maija Garcia 4.2
Piers Gielgud 4.2
Han Ying-Chieh 4.2
David Winters 4.2
Dave Gould 4.2
Saroj Khan 4.2
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Composers
Giovanni Fusco 5.0
Ta Chiang Wu 5.0
Michael Galasso 5.0
Edward H. Plumb 5.0
Franz Schubert 5.0
Dun Tan 5.0
Kensuke Ushio 5.0
Arthur Johnston 5.0
Zhang Hongda 5.0
George Antheil 5.0
Alain Romans 5.0
Poul Schierbeck 5.0
Arthur Morton 5.0
Paul Dunlap 4.8
Chung Chi-wing 4.8
Allan Gray 4.8
Joseph Kosma 4.8
Roel A. García 4.8
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Songs
Michel Legrand 5.0
Larry Morey 5.0
Ted Sears 5.0
Jacques Demy 5.0
Don Raye 5.0
Gene de Paul 4.8
Sammy Fain 4.8
Henry Mancini 4.8
Sahir Ludhianvi 4.8
Frank Churchill 4.7
Al Dubin 4.5
Oliver Wallace 4.5
Prince 4.5
K. Shiva Dutta 4.5
Bert Kalmar 4.5
Harry Ruby 4.5
Ned Washington 4.4
Mack David 4.3
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Sound
Howard Wilson 5.0
Claudio Maielli 5.0
T.A. Carman 5.0
Gordon Davidson 5.0
Aura Gilge 5.0
Tat Leung 5.0
Mark L. Mangino 5.0
Sharron Miller 5.0
Paul Falkenberg 5.0
Don Hertzfeldt 5.0
Koichi Shimizu 5.0
Charlie Lo 5.0
Lou Hanks 5.0
Michael Galloway 4.8
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Costume Design
Anthea Sylbert 5.0
Hein Heckroth 5.0
Yoshirô Muraki 5.0
Jacques Cottin 5.0
Shima Yoshizane 5.0
Bernard Evein 5.0
Françoise Clavel 5.0
Joseph Bato 5.0
Rosine Delamare 4.8
Tiny Nicholls 4.8
Jennifer Butler 4.8
Michael Butler 4.8
Gisela Storch 4.8
Robert Nardone 4.8
Kazumi Hoshino 4.8
Yôji Yamada 4.8
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Makeup
George Blackler 5.0
Barbara Daly 5.0
Jack H. Young 5.0
Aïda Carange 5.0
Odette Berroyer 5.0
John R. Bayless 5.0
Franco Freda 5.0
Jim Gillespie 4.8
Vera Rudina 4.8
Tanya Travis 4.8
Rino Carboni 4.8
Howard Smit 4.8
Janine Jarreau 4.8
Stefano Fava 4.8
Jack Obringer 4.8
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Hairstyling
Hollis Barnes 5.0
Merle Reeves 5.0
Carol Raskin 4.8
Vera Tomei 4.8
Dotha Hippe 4.8
Myrl Stoltz 4.8
Lee Lin-Tai 4.8
Junjirô Yamada 4.7
Joan St. Oegger 4.5
Alice Monte 4.5
A. G. Scott 4.5
Anna Quinn 4.5
Mona Orr 4.5
Mike Lockey 4.5
Renata Magnanti 4.5
Cheri Ruff 4.5
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Studios
Hawk Films 5.0
Cineriz 5.0
Specta Films 5.0
Peregrine 5.0
Quaras 5.0
Studio Fuga 5.0
AMLF 5.0
Madeleine Films 5.0
Producciones Gustavo Alatriste 5.0
Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication 5.0
Les Films Christian Fechner 5.0
Renn Productions 5.0
Backup Media 5.0
Lumière 5.0
Arka Media Works 5.0
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