Ruben Östlund is a Swedish filmmaker best known for his black comedic and satirical films Force Majeure (2014), The Square (2017) and Triangle of Sadness (2022). He is the recipient of various accolades, including two Palmes d'Or, four European Film Awards and nominations for three Academy Awards.
Alice Rohrwacher is an Italian film director, editor and screenwriter. She made her directorial debut with Heavenly Body (2011). She has since directed notable films such as The Wonders (2014), Happy as Lazzaro (2018), which received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay, and La chimera (2023). Her short Le pupille (2022) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.
The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2016, and took place on February 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, at 5:30 p.m. PST. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards in 24 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd and directed by Glenn Weiss. Comedian Jimmy Kimmel hosted the ceremony for the first time.
Arianne Sutner is an American film producer and animator, best known for producing the stop-motion animated film Kubo and the Two Strings. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at both the 89th Academy Awards and the 92nd Academy Awards.
Andy "Frank" Wright is an Australian supervising sound editor. He is known for his work on the war-drama film Hacksaw Ridge directed by Mel Gibson, for which he received two Academy Award nominations at the 89th Academy Awards, Best Sound Editing and winning Best Sound Mixing (both shared with Robert Mackenzie).
Robert Mackenzie is an Australian supervising sound editor. He is best known for his work on Animal Kingdom (2010), The Hunter (2011), Lore (2012), Felony (2013), The Grandmaster (2013), The Rover (2014), Deadline Gallipoli (2015), Partisan (2015), Lion, and critically acclaimed war-drama film Hacksaw Ridge, for which he received two Academy Award nominations at the 89th Academy Awards, Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing (both shared with Andy Wright).
Steven "Steve" A. Morrow is an American production sound mixer. Morrow has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound or Best Achievement in Sound Mixing a total of three times for his work on La La Land, A Star is Born, and Ford v Ferrari. He has been nominated for three BAFTA Film Awards for Best Sound for La La Land, A Star is Born, and Ford v Ferrari.
Daphne Matziaraki is a Greek director, writer and producer, graduated from University of California, Berkeley. Her thesis-film 4.1 Miles received critical appraisal and recognition earning her a Gold Medal at 43rd Annual Student Academy Awards, The film went onto receive a nomination for Academy Award for Best Documentary at the 89th Academy Awards.
Juanjo Giménez Peña is a Spanish director and filmmaker. He is best known for his films Indirect Free Kick (1997), Rodilla (2009), "Nitbus" (2007), Maximum Penalty (2005) and Timecode that earned him Short Film Palme d'Or at 69th annual Cannes Film Festival and received Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film nomination at the 89th Academy Awards. He is also the founder of the production companies Nadir Films and Salto de Eje.
Silent Nights is a Danish short film directed by Aske Bang. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 89th Academy Awards in 2017, that he shared with Kim Magnusson.
Ennemis intérieurs is a French drama short film directed and written by Sélim Azzazi. It received critical appraisal and was nominated for many industry awards including Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 89th Academy Awards in 2017.
La femme et le TGV is a 2016 Swiss French-language short film directed by Timo von Gunten. It received critical acclaim and was nominated for many industry awards including the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 89th Academy Awards in 2017 with producer Giacun Caduff.
Sélim Azzazi is a French sound editor, producer and director. Best known for his work on Ennemis intérieurs as director, which earned him critical appraisal and recognition including Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 89th Academy Awards in 2017.
Aske Bang is a Danish actor and director. Best known for his work on Silent Nights as director, which earned him critical appraisal and recognition including Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 89th Academy Awards in 2017.
Timo von Gunten is a Swiss director, writer and producer. Best known for his work on La femme et le TGV as director, which earned him critical appraisal and recognition including a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 89th Academy Awards in 2017. He plays the cello in the symphonic orchestra TiFiCo.
Giacun Caduff is a Swiss director and producer. Best known for his work on La femme et le TGV as producer, which earned him critical appraisal and recognition including Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 89th Academy Awards in 2017 with director Timo von Gunten.
Anna Udvardy was a Hungarian film producer and production manager. Best known for her work on Sing as producer, which earned her critical appraisal and recognition including an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 89th Academy Awards in 2017. Udvardy died on 23 May 2019, at the age of 69.
Kristóf Deák is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, film producer and editor who is best known for his work on Sing, which earned him critical appraisal and recognition including the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 89th Academy Awards in 2017.
Jenno Topping is an American film producer. Films she has produced include Dr. Dolittle (1998), Charlie's Angels (2000), St. Vincent (2014), Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) and Hidden Figures (2016), which earned her an Academy Award for Best Picture nomination with Donna Gigliotti, Peter Chernin, Pharrell Williams, and Theodore Melfi, and again in 2020 at the 92nd Academy Awards for the 2019 film Ford v Ferrari, along with Chernin and James Mangold.
Peter Grace is an Australian production sound mixer. He is best known for his work on critically acclaimed war-drama film Hacksaw Ridge (2016) for which he received the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing at the 89th Academy Awards, sharing with Robert Mackenzie, Kevin O'Connell and Andy Wright.
