name	Shrek
director	Andrew AdamsonVicky Jenson
producer	Jeffrey KatzenbergAron WarnerJohn H. Williams
writer
based on
narrator	Mike Myers
starring	Mike MyersEddie MurphyCameron DiazJohn Lithgow
music	Harry Gregson-WilliamsJohn Powell
editing	Sim Evan-Jones
studio	DreamWorks AnimationPacific Data Images
distributor	DreamWorks Pictures (through Universal Pictures)
released
runtime	92 minutes
country
language	English
budget	$60 million
gross	$484,409,218 }}

''Shrek'' is a 2001 American computer-animated fantasy comedy film directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, featuring the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, and John Lithgow, and loosely based on William Steig's 1990 fairy tale picture book ''Shrek!''. ''Shrek'' stars Mike Myers as a big, strong, solitude-loving, intimidating ogre named Shrek; Cameron Diaz as the beautiful, feisty, but very down-to-earth Princess Fiona; Eddie Murphy as the talkative Donkey; and John Lithgow as the villain Lord Farquaad. The film made notable use of popular music; the soundtrack includes music by Smash Mouth, Eels, Joan Jett, The Proclaimers, Jason Wade, The Baha Men, and Rufus Wainwright (covering Leonard Cohen).

When Steven Spielberg bought the rights to the book in 1991, before the founding of Dreamworks, he thought about making a traditionally animated film based off the book. However, John H. Williams convinced the idea of the film to Dreamworks in 1994, the time Dreamworks was founded, and the film was put quickly into active development by Jeffrey Katzenberg after the rights were bought by the studio in 1995. The film was originally planned to be motion-captured, but after poor results, the studio decided to get PDI to help Shrek get it's final computer animated look.

Earning $484.4 million, ''Shrek'' was a commercial and critical success. It was acclaimed as an animated film worthy of adult interest, with many adult-oriented jokes and themes but a simple enough plot and humour to appeal to children. ''Shrek'' won the first ever Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. The film was also nominated for six BAFTAs, including the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Eddie Murphy for his voice-over performance as Donkey, and won the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. The film's main (and title) character was awarded his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in May 2010.

''Shrek'' established DreamWorks Animation as a prime competitor to Pixar in the field of feature film animation, particularly in computer animation. The film's success also prompted DWA to create three sequels: ''Shrek 2'', ''Shrek the Third'', and ''Shrek Forever After''. There were also a Christmas special called ''Shrek the Halls'', a Halloween special called ''Scared Shrekless'' and a spin-off film ''Puss in Boots''.

Plot

Shrek, a grouchy, mean, selfish green ogre that has always enjoyed living in peaceful solitude in his swamp, finds his life disrupted when numerous fairytale beings, including Pinocchio, the Three Little Pigs, and Donkey, are forced into the swamp by order of the obsessive, perfectionistic, fairy-tale despising Lord Farquaad.

Shrek leaves the swamp to ask Farquaad for the return of his privacy, with Donkey happily tagging along. Meanwhile, Farquaad tortures the Gingerbread Man into revealing the whereabouts of the remaining fairytale creatures until his guards rush in with an object Farquaad has been searching for: the Magic Mirror. The Mirror tells him that Farquaad can only become a real king by marrying a princess (completely disregarding his original question regarding if his kingdom was the fairest of them all). The Mirror gives him three princesses to choose from (in a parody of ''The Dating Game''): Cinderella, Snow White, and Princess Fiona. Farquaad chooses Fiona and silences the Mirror before he can mention "the little thing that happens at night" (which is later revealed to be a curse).

Shrek and Donkey arrive at Farquaad's palace in Duloc, where they find themselves in the midst of a tournament. The winner will have the "privilege" of attempting to rescue Fiona from a castle surrounded by lava and protected by a fire-breathing dragon so that Farquaad may marry her. Shrek (with some help from Donkey) easily beats the other knights in a fashion that resembles a wrestling match and Farquaad agrees to remove the fairytale creatures from the swamp if Shrek rescues Fiona.

Shrek and Donkey travel to the castle and split up to find Fiona. Donkey encounters the dragon and sweet-talks the beast to save himself before discovering that the dragon is female. Dragon takes a liking to Donkey and carries him to her chambers. When Shrek finds Fiona, she is appalled at his lack of romanticism. As they are leaving, Shrek manages to save Donkey, caught in Dragon's tender clutches, and causing her to become irate, chasing Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey out of the castle. At first, Fiona is thrilled to be rescued but quickly becomes disappointed when Shrek takes his helmet off and she realises that he is an ogre. The three make their return journey to Farquaad's palace, with Shrek and Fiona finding they have more in common with each other along the way, and falling in love. However, at night, Fiona refuses to camp with them, taking shelter in a nearby cave until morning. Shrek and Donkey stay awake and watch the stars while Shrek informs Donkey that he plans to build a 10 foot wall around his swamp when he returns. When Donkey persistently asks Shrek why he is doing this, Shrek sadly confesses to him that everyone judges him before they know him; therefore, he feels he is better off alone, despite Donkey's admittance that he did not immediately judge him when they first met.

The next night, Fiona takes shelter in a nearby windmill. When Donkey hears strange noises coming from the windmill, he finds Fiona has turned into an ogress. Fiona explains she was cursed as a child and turns into an ogress every night, which is why she was locked away in the castle, and that only a kiss from her true love will return her to her "love's true form". Shrek, about to confess his feelings for Fiona, overhears part of their conversation, and is heartbroken as he misinterprets her disgust at her transformation into an "ugly beast" as being disgusted with him. Fiona makes Donkey promise not to tell Shrek about the spell, vowing to do it herself, but when the next morning comes, Shrek has brought Lord Farquaad to Fiona. The two return to the castle, while a hurt Shrek returns to the now-vacated swamp, not long after breaking off his friendship with Donkey, out of anger.

Shrek finds that, despite his privacy, he is miserable and misses Fiona. Donkey comes to the swamp, angry at Shrek and Shrek reveals that he overheard their conversation. Donkey keeps his promise to Fiona and tells Shrek that she was talking about someone else. He then tells him that Fiona will be getting married shortly, urging Shrek into action to gain Fiona's true love. They are able to travel to Duloc quickly, thanks to Dragon, who had escaped her confines and followed Donkey. They interrupt the wedding before Farquaad can kiss Fiona, but not before the sun sets, which causes Fiona to turn into an ogress in front of everyone. While her transformation causes Shrek to fully understand what he overheard at the windmill, Farquaad, disgusted over the change, orders Shrek killed and Fiona imprisoned, but Shrek whistles for Dragon, who bursts in and devours Farquaad. Shrek and Fiona admit their love for each other and share a kiss; Fiona is bathed in light as her curse is broken, but is surprised to find that she has remained an ogress, as she thought she was supposed to become beautiful, to which Shrek replies that she is beautiful. The two of them get married in the swamp and depart on their honeymoon while the rest celebrate by singing "I'm a Believer".

Cast

Mike Myers as Shrek

Eddie Murphy as Donkey

Cameron Diaz as Princess Fiona

John Lithgow as Lord Farquaad

Vincent Cassel as Monsieur Hood (a French rendition of Robin Hood)

Conrad Vernon as Gingerbread Man

Chris Miller as Geppetto/ Magic Mirror

Cody Cameron as Pinocchio / The Three Little Pigs

Simon J. Smith as Three Blind Mice

Christopher Knights as Three Blind Mice and Thelonius

Aron Warner as Big Bad Wolf

Jim Cummings as Captain of the Guards

Kathleen Freeman as Old Woman (Donkey's ex-owner)

Andrew Adamson as Duloc Mascot (a man dressed in a suit that looks like Lord Farquaad)

Bobby Block, Elisa Gabrielli and Eddie Murphy as Three Bears

Elisa Gabrielli as Additional Voices

Frank Welker as Dragon (uncredited)

Michael Galasso as Peter Pan

Cinderella, Snow White, Pied Piper, and several other characters are not speaking roles and are thus uncredited

Production

At the time Dreamworks was founded, producer John H. Williams got hold of the book from his children, and when he brought it to Dreamworks, it caught Jeffrey Katzenberg's attention and the studio decided to make it into a movie. After buying the rights to the film in 1995, Katzenberg quickly put the film in active development. Steven Spielberg had thought about making a traditionally animated film of the book before, when he bought the rights to the book in 1991, before the founding of Dreamworks, where Bill Murray would play Shrek and Steve Martin would play Donkey. In the beginning of production, co-director Andrew Adamson refused to be intimidated by Katzenberg, and had an argument with him how much should the film appeal to adults. Katzenberg wanted both audiences, but he found some of Adamson's ideas about adding sexual jokes and Guns 'n Roses music to the soundtrack a bit too outrageous.

Early sketches of ''Shrek'' done in 1996 through 1997 were about Shrek first living in a garbage dump near a human village called Wart Creek. It was also thought one time that he lived with his parents and kept rotting fish in his bedroom. Donkey was modeled after ''Pericles'' (born 1994; also known as ''Perry''), a real miniature donkey from Barron Park, Palo Alto, California. Raman Hui, supervising animator of ''Shrek'', stated that Fiona "wasn't based on any real person." and he did many different sketches for Princess Fiona and had done over 100 scupltures of Fiona before the directors picked the final design. In early development, the Art Directors visited Hearst Castle, Stratford upon Avon and Dordogne for inspiration. Art Director Douglas Rogers visited a magnolia plantation in Charleston, South Carolina for inspiration for Shrek's swamp.

When the project was started in 1996, Chris Farley was planned to do the voice for Shrek which he recorded 80 to 90% (or 95% according to Farley's brother Tom) of the dialogue for the character, but died in December 1997 before completing the project. ''Shrek'' screenwriter Terry Rossio describes Chris' vocal performance as "the good hearted young orgre as being extraordinary". DreamWorks then re-cast the voice role to Mike Myers, who insisted on a complete script rewrite, to leave no traces of Farley's version of Shrek. After Myers had completed providing the voice for the character, when the film was well into production, he asked to re-record all of his lines in a Scottish accent similar to the one his mother had used when she told him bedtime stories. Myers explained his decision, "There is a class struggle in ''Shrek'' between the fairy-tale kings and queens and the common people. I always thought that Shrek was raised working-class. And since Lord Farquaad (the villain) was played English, I thought of Scottish". After hearing the alternative, Katzenberg agreed to redo scenes in the film, saying, "It was so good we took $4m worth of animation out and did it again." Myers later reported: "I got a letter from Spielberg thanking me so much for caring about the character... And he said the Scottish accent had improved the movie." Janeane Garofalo was also set to star alongside Farley as Princess Fiona, but stated in an interview that she was fired from the project with little explanation. Years later, Garofalo stated "I was never told why [I was fired]. I assume because I sound like a man sometimes? I don't know why. Nobody told me... But, you know, the movie didn't do anything, so who cares?"

''Shrek'' was originally set up to be live-action/CG animation hybrid with background plate miniature sets and the main characters composited into the scene as motion-captured computer graphics, using an ExpertVision HiRES FALCON(TM) 10 camera system to capture and apply realistic human movement to the characters. After a year and a half of R & D, a test was finally screened. The results were not satisfactory, Katzenberg stating, "It looked terrible, it didn't work, it wasn't funny, and we didn't like it." The studio then turned to its production partners at PDI, who began production with the studio in 1998 and helped ''Shrek'' to get its final, computer-animated look. At this time, ''Antz'' was still in production by the studio and Effects Supervisor Ken Bielenberg was asked by Aron Warner "to start development for Shrek." “We did a lot of work on character and set-up, and then kept changing the set up while we were doing the animation,” Hui noted. “In ''Antz'' we had a facial system that gave us all the facial muscles under the skin. In Shrek we applied that to whole body. So if you pay attention to Shrek when he talks, you see that when he opens his jaw, he forms a double chin, because we have the fat and the muscles underneath. That kind of detail took us a long time to get right."

Music

Cultural references

The film is in many places in the classic Disney movies, fairy tales and parodies: When Tinkerbell falls on Donkey and he says "I can fly" and people around including three little pigs, say "He can fly, he can fly", this is a reference to ''Disney's Peter Pan film''. This scene is also a reference to another Disney movie named ''Dumbo'', where Donkey says, while flying, "You might have seen a house fly, maybe even a super fly, but I bet you ain't never seen a Donkey fly." When Shrek crosses the bridge to the Castle and says, "That'll do, Donkey, that´ll do", this is a reference to the movie ''Babe''.

Marketing

Radio Disney was told not to allow any ads for the film to air on the station, stating, "Due to recent initiatives with the Walt Disney Company, we are being asked not to align ourselves promotionally with this new release Shrek. Stations may accept spot dollars only in individual markets." Also resulting initiatives from Disney, Katzenberg, who left Disney under somewhat acrimonious circumstances in 1994, "showed each and every scene to lawyers as we went along. We certainly did not want to be sued by Disney."

On May 7, 2001 Burger King began promotions for the film, giving out a selection of nine exclusive Candy Caddies based on the ''Shrek'' characters, in Big Kids Meal and Kids Meal orders.

Critical reception

''Shrek'' received critical acclaim, praising ''Shrek'' as an animated film worthy of adult interest, with many adult-oriented jokes and themes but a simple enough plot and humor to appeal to children. Review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes reports that 89% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 176 reviews, with an average score of 7.7/10. The critical consensus is: ''While simultaneously embracing and subverting fairy tales, the irreverent Shrek also manages to tweak Disney's nose, provide a moral message to children, and offer viewers a funny, fast-paced ride.''

Roger Ebert praised the film, giving it four stars out of a possible four and describing it as "jolly and wicked, filled with sly in-jokes and yet somehow possessing a heart." USA Today's Susan Wloszczyna praised Eddie Murphy's performance, stating it "gives the comic performance of his career, aided by sensational digital artistry, as he brays for the slightly neurotic motormouth." Richard Schickel also enjoyed Murphy's role, stating, "No one has ever made a funnier jackass of himself than Murphy."''

Peter Rainer of New York magazine liked the script, also stating that "The animation, directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, is often on the same wriggly, giggly level as the script, although the more "human" characters, such as Princess Fiona and Lord Farquaad, are less interesting than the animals and creatures -- a common pitfall in animated films of all types."

William Steig, the author of the original book, and his wife Jeanne Steig also enjoyed the film, stating "We all went sort of expecting to hate it, thinking, 'What has Hollywood done to it?' But we loved it. We were afraid it would be too sickeningly cute and, instead, Bill just thought they did a wonderful, witty job of it."

Box office

''Shrek'' opened in more than 3,587 movie theaters on its 2001 release, 11 of them showing them digitally, made possible by the THX Division of Lucasfilm. This was the first time that DreamWorks had shown one of its movies digitally. The film earned $11,573,015 on its first day and $42,347,760 on its opening weekend, topping the box office for the weekend and averaging $11,805 from 3,587 theaters. In its second weekend, due to the Memorial Day Weekend holiday, the film gained 0.3 percent to $42,481,425 and $55,215,620 over the four-day weekend, resulting in an overall 30 percent gain. Despite this, the film finished in second place behind ''Pearl Harbor'' and had an average of $15,240 from expanding to 3,623 sites. In its third weekend, the film retreated 34 percent to $28,172,869 for a $7,695 average from expanding to 3,661 theaters. The film closed on December 6, 2001, after grossing $267,665,011 domestically along with $216,744,207 overseas for a worldwide total of $484,409,218. Produced on a $60 million budget, the film was a huge box office smash and is the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2001 behind ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', ''The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'' and ''Monsters Inc.''

''Shrek'' became the highest-grossing animated movie ever to be released in Australia, passing the mark set by ''The Lion King'' in 1994. In the United Kingdom, ''Shrek'' regained the top spot at the British box office after being beaten out the previous week by ''Lara Croft: Tomb Raider'', earning a $20.3 million since its opening in the UK.

Accolades

At the 74th Academy Awards, ''Shrek'' won the first ever Academy Award For Best Animated Feature, beating ''Monsters, Inc.'' and ''Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius''. ''Entertainment Weekly'' put it on its end-of-the-decade, "best-of" list, saying, "Prince Charming? So last millennium. This decade, fairy-tale fans — and Princess Fiona — fell for a fat and flatulent Ogre. Now, that's progress."

''Shrek'' was also nominated for 6 BAFTA Award, including the BAFTA Award for Best Film. Eddie Murphy became the first actor to ever receive a BAFTA nomination for a voice-over performance. The film was also nominated for Best Visual Effects, Best Sound, Best Film Music, and won the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

''Shrek'' was nominated for a dozen Annie Awards from ASIFA-Hollywood, and won eight Annies including Best Animated Feature and Outstanding Individual Achievement for Directing in an Animated Feature Production.

In June 2008, the American Film Institute revealed its "Ten top Ten"; the best ten films in ten "classic" American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community ''Shrek'' was acknowledged as the eighth best film in the animated genre, and the only non-Disney·Pixar film on the top ten. It is also third on Bravo's 100 funniest films. ''Shrek'' was also ranked second in a Channel 4 poll of the "100 Greatest Family Films", losing out on the top spot to ''E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial''. In 2005, ''Shrek'' came sixth in Channel 4's 100 Greatest Cartoons poll behind ''The Simpsons'', ''Tom and Jerry'', ''South Park'', ''Toy Story'' and ''Family Guy''. In November 2009, the character, Lord Farquaad, was listed #14 in IGN UK's "Top 15 Fantasy Villains".

American Film Institute recognition:

AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains:

*Shrek - Nominated Hero

AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs:

*I'm a Believer - Nominated

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) - Nominated

AFI's 10 Top 10 - #8 Animated film

Festivals

The film was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, and was the first animated film since Disney's Peter Pan (1953) to receive that honour.

Influence

Previous films and TV shows, such as ''Fractured Fairy Tales'' and ''The Princess Bride'', have parodied the traditional fairy tale. However, ''Shrek'' itself has noticeably influenced the current generation of mainstream animated films. Particularly after ''Shrek 2'', animated films began to incorporate more pop culture references and end-film musical numbers. Such elements can be seen in films like ''Ice Age: The Meltdown'', ''Robots'', and ''Chicken Little''. It also inspired a number of computer animated films which also spoofed fairy tales, or other related story genres, often including adult-oriented humor, most of which were not nearly as successful as ''Shrek'', such as ''Happily N'Ever After'', ''Doogal'', ''Igor'', and ''Hoodwinked!''.

Home media

The film was released on VHS and DVD on November 2, 2001. Both releases included ''Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party!'', a 3-minute musical short film, that takes up right after the ''Shrek'''s ending, with film's characters performing a medley of modern pop songs.

''Shrek'' was released to video on Friday, the same day that Pixar's ''Monsters, Inc.'' hit theaters. Since videos were traditionally released on Tuesdays, Disney's executives didn't received that well, saying "that the move seemed like an underhanded attempt to siphon off some of their film's steam". DreamWorks responded that "it simply shifted the release to a Friday to make it more of an event and predicted that it and other studios would do so more frequently with important films." ''Monsters, Inc.'' earned that weekend more than $62 million, breaking the record for an animated film, while the ''Shrek'''s video release made more than $100 million, and eventually became the biggest selling DVD of all time with over 5.5 million sales.

A 3D version of the film was released on Blu-ray 3D on December 1, 2010, along with its sequels.

Other media

Video games

Several video game adaptations of the film have been published on various game console platforms.

''Shrek'' (2001)

''Shrek: Hassle at the Castle'' (2002)

''Shrek: Extra Large'' (2002)

''Shrek: Super Party'' (2002)

''Shrek SuperSlam'' (2005)

Shrek was also included as a bonus unlockable character in the video game ''Tony Hawk's Underground 2''. (2004)

Comic books

In 2003, Dark Horse Comics released a Shrek three-issue mini-series comic book adaptation, which was collected into a trade paperback.

Musical

A musical version, based on the film, with music by Jeanine Tesori and a book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire, opened on Broadway on December 14, 2008, and closed January 3, 2010, running for a total of 441 performances. It starred Brian d'Arcy James in the title role, Sutton Foster as Princess Fiona, Christopher Sieber as Lord Farquaad, Daniel Breaker as Donkey, and John Tartaglia as Pinocchio. A North American Tour opened July 25, 2010, in Chicago. A London production opened in the West End on June 7, 2011.

The musical received many Tony Award nominations and won the 2009 Tony Award for Best Costume Design. It received five Laurence Olivier Award nominations including Best New Musical.

Sequels and spin-offs

''Shrek'' had three sequels including ''Shrek 2'', ''Shrek the Third'' and ''Shrek Forever After''. Although ''Shrek 2'' received similar acclaim from critics, the last two movies did not receive as much acclaim, but were still box office hits. There were also two holiday specials called ''Shrek the Halls'' and ''Scared Shrekless'' and a spin-off called ''Puss in Boots''.

References

External links

Tom Hester - Shrek Character Designer

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background	non_performing_personnel
birth date	September 18, 1963
origin	London, England, United Kingdom
genre	Film scores
occupation	Composer, Conductor, Music producer
instrument	Piano, Violin
years active	1990-present
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John Powell (born 18 September 1963) is a British composer, best known for his scores to motion pictures. He has been based in the United States since 1997 and has composed the scores to over fifty feature films. He rose to fame in the late 1990s and 2000s, scoring numerous animated films, in addition to his live-action collaborations with directors Doug Liman and Paul Greengrass. His 2010 score for the film ''How to Train Your Dragon'' earned him his first Academy Award nomination at the 83rd Academy Awards. He was a member of Hans Zimmer's music studio, Remote Control Productions, and collaborated frequently with other composers from the studio, including Harry Gregson-Williams and Zimmer himself.

Life and career

Powell was born in London. He originally trained as a violinist as a child, before studying at London's Trinity College of Music. He later ventured into jazz and rock music, playing in a soul band the Fabulistics. On leaving college, he composed music for commercials, which led to a job as an assistant to the composer Patrick Doyle on several film productions, including ''Much Ado About Nothing''.

In 1995, he co-founded the London-based commercial music house Independently Thinking Music, which produced scores for more than 100 British and French commercials and independent films.

Powell's first film score was for the 1990 film ''Stay Lucky''. He moved to the U.S. in 1997, and scored his first major film, ''Antz'' in 1998, the first film produced by DreamWorks Animation which he co-scored with fellow British composer Harry Gregson-Williams. Two years later the two collaborated again to compose the score to ''Chicken Run'', and again the following year on ''Shrek'', which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. All subsequent Shrek films however, have been scored solely by Gregson-Williams. During 2001 he also scored ''Evolution'', ''I Am Sam'', ''Just Visiting'', and ''Rat Race''.

In 2002 Powell was hired to score ''The Bourne Identity'', after Carter Burwell left the project, and has gone on to score all of director Doug Liman's subsequent films. He also returned to score the other two films in the series; ''The Bourne Supremacy'' and ''The Bourne Ultimatum'', which were both directed by British director Paul Greengrass.

Following the Bourne films, Powell collaborated with Liman again to score the 2005 film ''Mr. & Mrs. Smith''. That year, he also scored ''Robots''.

In 2006, he scored Greengrass' ''United 93''. He also composed music for ''Ice Age: The Meltdown'', following David Newman, who scored the first ''Ice Age'' film, as well as ''X-Men: The Last Stand'', and ''Happy Feet'', for which he won a Film & TV Music Award for Best Score for an Animated Feature Film. The following year he scored ''The Bourne Ultimatum''. In 2008 he collaborated with composer Hans Zimmer to score ''Kung Fu Panda'', and also wrote music that year for ''Jumper'', Hancock, and Bolt. In 2009 he scored the third, and to date, most popular installment in the ''Ice Age'' series; ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs''.

In 2010, Powell composed the score to ''How To Train Your Dragon''. This was his sixth score for a DreamWorks Animation film, although the first where he composed the whole score himself. It also became his first work to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score. That year, he has also scored Greengrass' ''Green Zone'', Asif Kapadia documentary, ''Senna'', along with Antonio Pinto and ''Knight and Day''.

John Powell composing the Scores to ''Chippies'' from Sony Pictures Animation

Discography

Artist	John Powell
Soundtrack	54
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! Year	! Title	! Notes
	''Stay Lucky''
	''The Wild Heels''
	''High Incident''
	''Face/Off''
	''Human Bomb''
''With Friends Like These...''
''Antz''	with Harry Gregson-Williams
''Forces of Nature''
	with Hans Zimmer
	''The Road to El Dorado''	with Hans Zimmer
''Chicken Run''	with Harry Gregson-Williams
''Shrek''	with Harry Gregson-Williams
''I Am Sam''
	''D-Tox''
''The Adventures of Pluto Nash''
''Two Weeks Notice''
	''Stealing Sinatra''
''Agent Cody Banks''
''Gigli''
''Mr. 3000''
	''Be Cool''
	''Ice Age: The Meltdown''
''X-Men: The Last Stand''
''Happy Feet''
''Kung Fu Panda''	with Hans Zimmer
	''Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs''
''Knight and Day''
	''Mars Needs Moms''
''Kung Fu Panda 2''	with Hans Zimmer
''Happy Feet Two''
''Ice Age: Continental Drift''
	''How to Train Your Dragon 2''

Awards and nominations

Awards

1998 ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Films - ''Face/Off''

1999 ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Films - ''Antz'' (with Harry Gregson-Williams)

2001 ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Films - ''Chicken Run'' (with Harry Gregson-Williams)

2001 Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Music Score an Animated Feature Production - ''Shrek'' (with Harry Gregson-Williams)

2002 ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Films - ''Shrek'' (with Harry Gregson-Williams)

2003 ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Films - ''The Bourne Identity''

2004 ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Films - ''The Italian Job''

2005 ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Films - ''The Bourne Supremacy''

2006 ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Films - ''Mr. & Mrs. Smith''

2006 ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Films - ''Robots''

2009 Annie Award for Best Music in an Animated Feature Production - ''Kung Fu Panda'' (with Hans Zimmer)

2009 Annie Award for Best Music in an Animated Television Production or Short Form - ''Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five'' (with Henry Jackman and Hans Zimmer)

2011 Annie Award for Best Music in an Animated Feature Production - ''How To Train Your Dragon''

2011 IFMCA Award for Best Original Score for an Animated Feature - ''How To Train Your Dragon''

2011 IFMCA Award for Film Score of the Year - ''How To Train Your Dragon''

Nominations

1998 Saturn Award for Best Music - ''Face/Off''

1999 Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature Production - ''Antz'' (with Harry Gregson-Williams)

2000 Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature Production - ''The Road to El Dorado'' (with Hans Zimmer, Elton John and Tim Rice)

2001 Saturn Award for Best Music - ''The Road to El Dorado'' (with Hans Zimmer)

2001 Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards for Best Original Score - ''Chicken Run'' (with Harry Gregson-Williams)

2002 BAFTA Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music - ''Shrek'' (with Harry Gregson-Williams)

2002 Saturn Award for Best Music - ''Shrek'' (with Harry Gregson-Williams)

2005 Golden Satellite Award for Best Original Score - ''Alfie'' (with David A. Stewart and Mick Jagger)

2007 Saturn Award for Best Music - ''X-Men: The Last Stand''

2007 Annie Award for Best Music in an Animated Feature Production - ''Ice Age: The Meltdown''

2007 BAFTA Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music - ''Happy Feet''

2008 Grammy for Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media - ''Happy Feet''

2008 Satellite Award for Best Original Score - ''Horton Hears a Who!''

2008 Saturn Award for Best Music - ''The Bourne Ultimatum''

2009 Saturn Award for Best Music - ''Jumper''

2009 Annie Award for Best Music in an Animated Feature Production - ''Horton Hears a Who!''

2010 Annie Award for Music in a Feature Production - ''Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs''

2011 Saturn Award for Best Music - ''How To Train Your Dragon''

2011 BAFTA Award for Best Original Music - ''How To Train Your Dragon''

2011 Academy Award for Best Original Score - ''How To Train Your Dragon''

References

External links

SoundtrackNet - John Powell Biography

Category:1963 births Category:English film score composers Category:Ivor Novello Award winners Category:Living people Category:Shrek music

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name	Harry Gregson-Williams
background	non_performing_personnel
birth name	Harry Gregson-Williams
birth date	December 13, 1961
origin	Chichester, England, UK
genre	Film scores, video game music
occupation	Composer, Conductor, Music Producer
instrument	Piano, Guitar and Percussion
years active	1993–present
label	Wavecrest Music
website	http://www.harrygregsonwilliams.com/ }}

Harry Gregson-Williams (born 13 December 1961) is a prolific English composer, orchestrator, conductor, and music producer. He is best known for his film scores, of which he has composed using over sixty electronic music and orchestral pieces. He is also known for his collaborations with director Tony Scott, having scored all his films since the 1998 film ''Enemy of the State'', and for composing video game scores for the ''Metal Gear Solid'' series. Gregson-Williams is one of the most recognized film score composers and a highly-respected film score composer for his musical style, combining electronic music with orchestral and classic music elements.

Life and career

Early in his career, Gregson-Williams held a position in the 1980s as a music teacher at the Amesbury School in Hindhead, Surrey, (his brother Rupert Gregson-Williams, also a film composer, also taught at Amesbury School during this period). Also, in the 1980s Harry was an estate agent for Palmer Snell in Wells, Somerset.

He later taught music at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where he had been a pupil, and also for a short period in Egypt and other African states.

In addition to scoring a number of motion pictures including ''Kingdom of Heaven'', ''The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'', ''Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas'', ''The Rock'', ''Shrek'', ''Chicken Run'', ''Antz'', ''Spy Game'', ''Man on Fire'', ''Domino'', and ''Team America: World Police'', Gregson-Williams has also worked on the video games ''Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty'', ''Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater'', ''Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots'', and ''Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare''. His arrangement of the original Metal Gear Solid Main Theme was one of many works he created for the Metal Gear Solid productions that involved both orchestral and electronic textures.

In his score to the Ridley Scott film ''Kingdom of Heaven'', he introduced a mix of Medieval and Renaissance polyphony with Middle Eastern themes. One track, ''Ibelin'', was reprised as the closing credits theme with singer Natacha Atlas performing Arabic lyrics.

Gregson-Williams scored ''The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'', as well as the second instalment in the series, ''The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian''. (David Arnold is under contract for ''The Voyage of the Dawn Treader''.) Gregson-Williams also composed the soundtrack for the film ''X-Men Origins: Wolverine''.

Gregson-Williams has also worked with the electronic music group Hybrid. In 2004, he produced a track called The Drop (''Man On Fire'' Edit) for Hybrid Present Y4K. He and Kirsty Hawkshaw worked with Hybrid on their 2006 album, I Choose Noise.

Gregson-Williams is a prominent member of Hans Zimmer's ''Remote Control Productions'' (formerly known as ''Media Ventures'') along with John Powell, Lisa Gerrard, Trevor Rabin, Geoff Zanelli, Klaus Badelt, and Mark Mancina. During his first years in Media Ventures, he was mentored by Hans Zimmer and Nick Glennie-Smith with whom he is close. He is also good friends with fellow film composers and musicians Martin Tillman, Heitor Pereira, Klaus Badelt, John Powell (with whom he collaborated to compose the scores to ''Antz'', ''Chicken Run'', and ''Shrek''), along with his musical assistants David Buckley, Stephen Barton, Welsh band Hybrid and producers and film directors Andrew Adamson and Tony Scott. He was a favourite of Hans Zimmer and considered as the most talented and prominent apprentice during his time in Media Ventures. Thanks to Zimmer's teachings and his own great creative ideas, Gregson-Williams began a close collaboration with Zimmer by making additional music and giving ideas for his music along of conducting many of his scores. Zimmer was so satisfied with the results that he decided to put Gregson-Williams in charge as conductor of both the orchestra and choir for many projects and became his protégé. Thanks to the experiences he shared with Zimmer, Gregson-Williams began mentoring several musicians such as Steve Jablonsky, Toby Chu, Stephen Barton, David Buckley and Marc Streitenfeld among others. He is also the first Media Ventures composer working in the video games industry and he stated that it was very different compared to his work but interesting and fun at same time. Now as an independent contractor he has his own studio called ''Wavecrest Music''.

His most recent project was in the 2010 film ''The Town'', directed by Ben Affleck which received widespread acclaim and extraordinary reviews for both story and original score. It was recently confirmed that Gregson-Williams will be composing the score of the upcoming film ''Cowboys & Aliens'' directed by Jon Favreau and starring Daniel Craig, Olivia Wilde, Ana de la Reguera and Harrison Ford. It was also announced that Gregson-Williams will be in charge of composing the score for the upcoming film ''The Night Stalker'', a film version of author ''Philip Carlo'''s book about the 1980s serial killer Richard Ramirez. James Franco will star and direct the film. The film's date for release is 2012.

Filmography

Television

! Year	! Title	! Notes
1992	''Champion Children''
1999		Episode: "Sanctuary"
2002	''AFP: American Fighter Pilot''
2007-2008	''The Riches''
2007	''Shrek the Halls''	TV special

Film

! Year	! Title	! Notes
''Broken Heart''	short film
	''Hotel Paradise''	short film
''Three Miles Up''	TV movie
''Full Body Massage''	TV movie
	''The Whole Wide World''
''Witness Against Hitler''	TV movie
	''Smilla's Sense of Snow''	with Hans Zimmer
	''The Replacement Killers''
''Antz''	with John Powell
	with Trevor Rabin
		TV movie
''The Match''
''Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?''
	''The Tigger Movie''
''The Magic of Marciano''
''Chicken Run''	with John Powell
	''Shrek''	with John Powell
''Spy Game''
	''Passionada''
''The Hire: Beat the Devil''
	''Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas''
''Veronica Guerin''
''The Rundown''
''Shrek 2''
''Team America: World Police''
''The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe''	Golden Globe nominee
	''The Uninvited''	short film
''Seraphim Falls''
''Flushed Away''
	''The Number 23''
''Shrek the Third''
''Gone Baby Gone''
	''Em''
''The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian''
	''X-Men Origins: Wolverine''
''Shrek Forever After''
	''I Am Bad''
''Arthur Christmas''
	''Mister Pip''

Video games

! Year	! Title	! Notes
2001	''Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty''	with Norihiko Hibino
2004	''Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater''	with Norihiko Hibino
2006	''Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops''	Main themes and samples only (uncredited)
2007	''Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare''	Main Themes only and producer. Score by Stephen Barton
2007	''Plasma Pong''
2008	''Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots''	with Nobuko Toda
2010	''Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker''	Main themes and samples only (uncredited)

Awards and nominations

Awards

1999 ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Films - ''Antz'' (with John Powell)

1999 BMI Film & TV Awards - ''Antz'' (with John Powell)

1999 BMI Film & TV Awards - ''Enemy of the State''

2001 ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Films - ''Chicken Run'' (with John Powell)

2001 Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Music Score an Animated Feature Production - ''Shrek'' (with John Powell)

2001 BMI Film & TV Awards - ''Chicken Run'' (with John Powell)

2002 BMI Film & TV Awards - ''Shrek'' (with John Powell)

2005 BMI Film & TV Awards - ''Shrek 2''

2005 BMI Film & TV Awards - ''Man on Fire''

2005 Hollywood Film Award for Composer of the Year

2006 BMI Film & TV Awards - BMI Richard Kirk Award for Outstanding Career Achievement

2005 Satellite Award for Outstanding Original Score - ''Kingdom of Heaven''

2009 BMI Film & TV Awards - ''The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian''

2009 BMI Film & TV Awards - ''Eleventh Hour'' (with Graeme Revell and David E. Russo)

2009 Brooklyn International Film Festival Certificate of Excellence - ''Em'' (with Jim Jermanok, Jesse Biltz and Britt Napier)

Nominations

1997 Saturn Award for Best Music - ''The Rock'' (with Nick Glennie-Smith and Hans Zimmer)

1999 Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature Production - ''Antz'' (with John Powell)

2001 Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Original Score - ''Chicken Run'' (with John Powell)

2002 Saturn Award for Best Music - ''Shrek'' (with John Powell)

2002 Golden Satellite Award for Best Original Score - ''Spy Game''

2002 BAFTA Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music - ''Shrek'' (with John Powell)

2004 Annie Award for Outstanding Music in an Animated Feature Production - ''Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas''

2004 World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Soundtrack of the Year - ''Shrek 2''

2004 World Soundtrack Award for Soundtrack Composer of the Year - ''Shrek 2''

2005 Annie Award for Music in an Animated Feature Production - ''Shrek 2''

2006 Golden Globe for Best Original Score - Motion Picture - ''The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe''

2006 World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Song Written for Film - ''"Can't Take It In"'' from ''The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'' (with Imogen Heap)

2007 Grammy for Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media - ''The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe''

2007 World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Score of the Year - ''Shrek the Third''

2007 World Soundtrack Award for Film Composer of the Year - ''Déjà Vu'', ''Shrek the Third'', ''The Number 23'' and ''Flushed Away''

References

External links

Artist profile at OverClocked ReMix

An interview with Harry Gregson-Williams

Epicenter Games Interviews Harry Gregson-Williams, an interview with Harry Gregson-Williams regarding Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, from EpicenterGames

Harry Gregson-Williams at scorereviews.com

Category:1961 births Category:Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Category:British film score composers Category:English film score composers Category:Living people Category:Shrek music Category:Video game composers Category:Academics of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama

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name	Eddie Murphy
birth name	Edward Regan Murphy
birth date	April 03, 1961
birth place	Brooklyn, New York, United States
medium	Film, television, stand-up, music, books
nationality	American
active	1976–present
genre	Observational comedy, musical comedy, black comedy, satire, physical comedy, Dance Pop
subject	African American culture, race relations, racism, marriage, everyday life, current events, pop culture, human sexuality
influences	Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Peter Sellers, Redd Foxx Robin Williams,
spouse	Nicole Mitchell (1993–2006) (divorced) 5 childrenTracey Edmonds (2008) (unofficial)
domesticpartner	Melanie Brown (2006–07) 1 child
othername	Fred Braughton, Edward "Eddie" Regan Murphy, Edie Murphy, Edward Regan Murphy, Eddy Murphy
notable work	Axel Foley in ''Beverly Hills Cop'' Various on ''Saturday Night Live''''Shrek'' series
website	}}

Edward Regan "Eddie" Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, singer, director, and musician.

Box office takes from Murphy's films make him the second-highest grossing actor in the United States. He was a regular cast member on ''Saturday Night Live'' from 1980 to 1984 and has worked as a stand-up comedian. He was ranked #10 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time.

He has received Golden Globe Award nominations for his performances in ''48 Hrs'', ''Beverly Hills Cop'' series, ''Trading Places'', and ''The Nutty Professor''. In 2007, he won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of soul singer James "Thunder" Early in ''Dreamgirls''.

Eddie Murphy's work as a voice actor includes Thurgood Stubbs in ''The PJs'', Donkey in the ''Shrek'' series and the dragon Mushu in Disney's ''Mulan''. In some of his films, he plays multiple roles in addition to his main character, intended as a tribute to one of his idols Peter Sellers, who played multiple roles in ''Dr. Strangelove'' and elsewhere. Murphy has played multiple roles in ''Coming to America'', Wes Craven's ''Vampire In Brooklyn'', the ''Nutty Professor'' films (where he played the title role in two incarnations, plus his father, brother, mother, and grandmother), ''Bowfinger'', ''Norbit'', and ''Meet Dave''.

Early life

Murphy grew up in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn. His mother, Lillian, was a telephone operator, and his father, Charles Edward Murphy, was a transit police officer and an amateur actor and comedian. His father died when he was young. When Murphy's single mom became ill, the eight-year-old Eddie Murphy and his older brother lived in foster care for one year. In interviews, the actor and comedian says that his time in foster care was influential in developing his sense of humour. Later Murphy and his older brother Charlie were raised in Roosevelt, New York by his mother and stepfather Vernon Lynch, a foreman at an ice cream plant. Around the age of 15, Murphy was writing and performing his own routines, which were heavily influenced by Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.

Career

Stand-up comedy

Murphy performed stand-up at the same Bay Area Comedy Club as Robin Williams and Whoopi Goldberg. His early comedy was characterized by frequent swearing and sketches lampooning a diverse group of people (including WASPs, African Americans, Italian Americans, overweight people, and gay people). This racy content was akin to that of Richard Pryor, whom Murphy has credited as his inspiration to enter comedy; however, in his autobiography, ''Pryor Convictions'', Pryor wrote that he found Murphy's comedy at times excessively insensitive. Murphy later apologized for insensitive jokes about gay people and HIV. The stand-up shows ''Delirious'' and ''Raw'' have been recorded and released.

1980s acting career

Murphy first earned attention as a regular actor at ''Saturday Night Live'', and was credited with helping revitalize the series during its first true slump in quality in the early 1980s. Some of his notable characters included a grown version of the Little Rascals character Buckwheat, impoverished but street-wise children's show host Mr. Robinson (a spoof of Fred Rogers, who found it amusing), and Gumby, a harshly cynical version of the animated character; Murphy's take on the latter character spawned one of SNL's many catchphrases, "I'm Gumby, dammit!" Although Buckwheat was his most popular character, Murphy asked that he be retired because the actor grew tired of people asking him to "Do Buckwheat! Do Buckwheat!"; the character was assassinated on camera in front of 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

In 1982, Murphy made his big screen debut in the film ''48 Hrs.'' with Nick Nolte. ''48 Hrs.'' proved to be a hit when it was released in the Christmas season of 1982. Nolte was scheduled to host the December 11, 1982 Christmas episode of ''Saturday Night Live'', but became too ill to host, so Murphy took over. He became the only cast member to host while still a regular. Murphy opened the show with the phrase, "Live from New York, It's the Eddie Murphy Show!" The following year, Murphy starred in ''Trading Places'' with fellow ''SNL'' alumnus Dan Aykroyd. The movie marked the first of Murphy's collaborations with director John Landis (who also directed Murphy in ''Coming to America'' and ''Beverly Hills Cop III'') and proved to be an even greater box office success than ''48 Hrs''. In 1984, Murphy starred in the successful action comedy film ''Beverly Hills Cop''. The film was Murphy's first full-fledged starring vehicle, originally intended to star Sylvester Stallone (who later tweaked the script as his own starring vehicle ''Cobra'' in 1986). ''Beverly Hills Cop'' grossed over $230 million at the box office and is 40th in the list of all-time total U.S. box office grosses (4th-highest amongst "R" rated films), after adjusting for inflation, .

In 1984, Murphy appeared in ''Best Defense'', co-starring Dudley Moore. Murphy, who was credited as a "Strategic Guest Star", was added to the film after an original version was completed but tested poorly with audiences. ''Best Defense'' was a major financial and critical disappointment. When he hosted ''SNL'', Murphy joined the chorus of those bashing ''Best Defense'', calling it "the worst movie in the history of everything". Murphy's ''Trading Places'' co-star Dan Aykroyd had originally written the character of Winston Zeddemore in ''Ghostbusters'' specifically for Murphy, but he was unable to commit at the time due to the ''Beverly Hills Cop'' shooting schedule. The part ultimately went to Ernie Hudson. Murphy was also offered a part in 1986's ''Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home'', a role that, after being heavily re-written from comic relief to love interest, ultimately went to future ''7th Heaven'' star Catherine Hicks. By this point Murphy's near-exclusive contract with Paramount Pictures rivaled ''Star Trek'' as Paramount's most lucrative franchise.

In 1986, Murphy starred in the supernatural comedy, ''The Golden Child''. ''The Golden Child'' was originally intended to be a serious adventure picture starring Mel Gibson. After Gibson turned the role down, the project was offered to Murphy as it was subsequently rewritten as a partial comedy. Although ''The Golden Child'' (featuring Murphy's "I want the knife!" routine) performed well at the box office, the movie was not as critically acclaimed as ''48 Hrs.'', ''Trading Places'', and ''Beverly Hills Cop''. ''The Golden Child'' was considered a change of pace for Murphy because of the supernatural setting as opposed to the more "street smart" settings of Murphy's previous efforts. A year later, Murphy reprised his role of Axel Foley in the Tony Scott-directed ''Beverly Hills Cop II''. It was a box office success, grossing over $150 million. Producers reportedly wanted to turn the ''Beverly Hills Cop'' franchise into a weekly television series. Murphy declined the television offer, but was willing to do a film sequel instead.

Murphy was one of the last movie actors to sign an exclusive contract with a studio. In this case, it was Paramount Pictures, which released all of his early films.

Singing career

Murphy is also a singer and musician, having frequently provided background vocals to songs released by The Bus Boys, which their song "The Boys Are Back in Town" was featured in ''48 Hrs.'' and Murphy's comedy special ''Eddie Murphy Delirious''. As a solo artist, Murphy had two hit singles, "Party All the Time" (which was produced by Rick James) and "Put Your Mouth on Me" in the mid-1980s (although he actually started singing earlier in his career, with the songs "Boogie In Your Butt" and "Enough Is Enough", the latter being a parody of Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer's 1979 song, "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)". They both appear on his 1982 self-titled comedy album.) "Party All the Time" was featured on Murphy's 1985 debut album ''How Could It Be'', which included a minor follow-up R&B; hit in the title track, a duet with vocalist Crystal Blake. This track was written by Rusty Hamilton and was produced by Stevie Wonder's cousin Aquil Fudge after a brief falling out and bet with Rick James. In 2004, VH-1 and ''Blender'' voted "Party All the Time" number seven among the "50 Worst Songs of All-Time." Sharam used a sample of the song for the UK #8 hit "PATT (Party All The Time)" in 2006.

Murphy recorded the album ''Love's Alright'' in the early 1990s. He performed in a music video of the single "Whatzupwitu", featuring Michael Jackson. He recorded a duet with Shabba Ranks called "I Was a King". In 1992, Murphy appeared in Michael Jackson's "Remember the Time" alongside Magic Johnson and Iman.

Though uncredited, Murphy provided vocal work on ''SNL'' castmate Joe Piscopo's comedy single, "The Honeymooners Rap." Piscopo impersonated Jackie Gleason on the single, while Murphy provided an imitation of Art Carney.

In ''Coming to America'', he imitated Jackie Wilson when he sang "To Be Loved", but because the character he was playing had a thick accent, he had to sing it in character. In later years, Murphy performed several songs in the ''Shrek'' film franchise. In the first film, he performed a version of "I'm a Believer" in the film's final scene; in ''Shrek 2'' he performed Ricky Martin's hit "Livin' La Vida Loca" along with co-star Antonio Banderas.

Murphy's all-time favorite singer is Elvis Presley.

Career slump

From 1989 until the mid 1990s, box office results for Murphy's films dropped, hitting a low point with the critically panned ''Beverly Hills Cop III'' (1994), a movie Murphy would ultimately denounce during an appearance on ''Inside the Actors Studio'', although he did find minor box office success with ''''Boomerang'''', ''Another 48 Hrs.'' and ''Vampire In Brooklyn''. ''Harlem Nights'' featured Murphy, who had previously been known only as a performer, as director, producer, star, and co-writer, with his brother, Charlie Murphy, as well as supporting roles for Murphy's comic idols Redd Foxx and Richard Pryor.

During this period Murphy was criticized by filmmaker Spike Lee for not using his show business stature to help black actors break into film, despite Murphy's films (especially those he produced) often being populated with predominantly black casts (''Coming To America, Harlem Nights, Boomerang, Vampire In Brooklyn, Life''). Many black actors who would later gain wider recognition make early appearances in Murphy films such as Damon Wayans in ''Beverly Hills Cop'', Halle Berry and Martin Lawrence in ''Boomerang'', Samuel L. Jackson and Cuba Gooding Jr. in ''Coming to America,'' Dave Chappelle in ''The Nutty Professor'' and Chris Rock in ''Beverly Hills Cop II''.

Although Murphy has enjoyed commercial success since ''Saturday Night Live'', he has never attended cast reunions or anniversary specials, nor did he participate in the making of the ''Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live'' retrospective book by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller (2002).

Comeback and image makeover

Murphy's box office results began to recover in 1996, starting with ''The Nutty Professor''. He followed with a series of very successful family-friendly movies like ''Mulan'', ''Dr. Dolittle'' and its sequel, the ''Shrek'' series, ''Daddy Day Care'', and ''The Haunted Mansion'', along with ''Nutty Professor II: The Klumps''. However, most of his movies meant for more adult audiences performed moderately; ''Metro'', ''I Spy'', and ''Showtime'' all ended to gross less than $40 million domestically, ''Holy Man'' performed poorly, grossing less than $13 million, and ''The Adventures of Pluto Nash'' is on record as one of the biggest theatrical money-losers of all time, grossing just $7 million worldwide on a reported $110 million budget. A notable exception to this run of poorly received adult-themed films was the Frank Oz comedy ''Bowfinger'', also starring Steve Martin. The film garnered generally positive critical reviews, and grossed $98 million at the box office.

In 2006, he starred in the motion picture version of the Broadway musical ''Dreamgirls'' as soul singer James "Thunder" Early. Murphy won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award in that category. Several reviews for the film highlighted Murphy's performance while he received some pre-release Academy Awards buzz. Murphy was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor on January 23, 2007, but lost to Alan Arkin for his performance in ''Little Miss Sunshine''. ''Dreamgirls'' was the first film distributed by Paramount Pictures to star Murphy (who once was on an exclusive contract with the studio) since ''Vampire in Brooklyn'' in 1995.

In 2007, Murphy was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. As a result of Viacom's acquisition of Dreamworks SKG, Paramount distributed his other 2007 releases: ''Norbit'' and ''Shrek the Third''. He starred in the 2008 film ''Meet Dave'' and the 2009 film ''Imagine That'' for Paramount Pictures.

Murphy co-starred in ''Tower Heist'', directed by Brett Ratner. Murphy played a thief who joins a group of hardworking men who find out they have fallen victim to a wealthy businessman's Ponzi scheme, and conspire to rob his high-rise residence. Ben Stiller, Matthew Broderick, and Casey Affleck also starred in the film, released on November 4, 2011.

It was reported in late 2011 that Murphy would host the 84th Academy Awards in 2012. However, he dropped out of his hosting duties on November 9, 2011, in the wake of the Brett Ratner scandal.

Personal life

Family

Murphy began a longtime romantic relationship with Nicole Mitchell (born January 5, 1968) after meeting her in 1988 at an NAACP Image Awards show. They lived together for almost two years before getting married at the Grand Ballroom of The Plaza Hotel in New York City on March 18, 1993. Murphy and Mitchell had five children together: Bria L. Murphy (born November 18, 1989), Myles Mitchell (born November 7, 1992), Shayne Audra (born October 10, 1994), Zola Ivy (born December 24, 1999) and Bella Zahra (born January 29, 2002). In August 2005, Mitchell filed for divorce, citing "irreconcilable differences". The divorce was finalized on April 17, 2006.

He also has a child by Tamara Hood: son Christian Murphy (born on 29 November 1990).

Murphy as of 2008 resided in Long Island, New York.

Following his divorce from Mitchell, in 2006, Murphy began dating former Spice Girl Melanie Brown, who became pregnant and stated that the child was Murphy's. When questioned about the pregnancy in December 2006 by ''RTL Boulevard,'' Murphy told Dutch reporter Matthijs Kleyn, "I don't know whose child that is until it comes out and has a blood test. You shouldn't jump to conclusions, sir". Brown gave birth to a baby girl, Angel Iris Murphy Brown, on Murphy's 46th birthday, April 3, 2007. On June 22, 2007, representatives for Brown announced in ''People'' that a DNA test had confirmed that Murphy was the father. Brown has stated in an interview that Murphy has not sought a relationship with Angel.

Murphy exchanged marriage vows with film producer Tracey Edmonds, former wife of Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, on January 1, 2008, in a private ceremony on an island off Bora Bora. On January 16, the couple released a statement saying, "After much consideration and discussion, we have jointly decided that we will forego having a legal ceremony as it is not necessary to define our relationship further," and called the Bora Bora wedding a "symbolic union". The two had planned on having a legal ceremony upon their return to the U.S. but did not, and their wedding was never official.

Legal problems

According to Murphy's childhood friend Harris Haith in his book, ''Growing Up Laughing With Eddie'', long before Murphy did any writing for ''Coming to America'', Art Buchwald had approached Paramount Pictures with the idea for a similar film. His material was rejected, but the information was retained by Paramount. They liked Buchwald's idea but did not see fit to pay him and saved it for use later down the road. Some years later, Paramount presented the idea of ''Coming to America'' to Eddie and gave him the contract. Murphy wrote a screenplay that came to light exactly as it aired on the silver screen. In 1988, Buchwald sued Murphy and Paramount Pictures, but Murphy was not found liable because Paramount had received the material.

In May 1997, Murphy was stopped by police with a transvestite prostitute in his car shortly before the release of ''Holy Man'', causing him a number of public relations problems.

Philanthropy

Murphy has donated money to the AIDS Foundation, and cancer, education, creative arts, family/parent support, health and homeless charities. He has donated to the Martin Luther King Jr. Center, various cancer charities and $100,000 to the Screen Actors' Guild's strike relief fund.

Filmography

''Trading Places'' ''Eddie Murphy Delirious'' ''Best Defense'' ''The Golden Child'' ''Beverly Hills Cop II'' ''Coming to America'' ''Harlem Nights'' ''Another 48 Hrs.'' ''Boomerang (1992 film) ''Beverly Hills Cop III'' ''Vampire in Brooklyn'' ''The Nutty Professor (1996 film) ''Metro (1997 film) ''Mulan (1998 film) ''Life (film) ''Nutty Professor II: The Klumps'' ''Shrek'' ''Showtime (film) rowspan=3 ''Daddy Day Care'' ''Shrek 2'' ''Dreamgirls (film) ''Norbit'' Golden Raspberry AwardDonkey (Shrek) ''Meet Dave'' Nominated – Golden Raspberry Award ''Imagine That (film) ''Shrek Forever After'' ''Tower Heist'' ''A Thousand Words (film)

colspan=4 style="background:#B0C4DE;"	Film
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1982	''48 Hrs.''	Reggie Hammond
1983	|	Billy Ray Valentine	Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1983	|	Himself	Also Producer
rowspan="2"	1984	|	Lieutenant T.M. Landry
''Beverly Hills Cop''	Axel Foley>Det. Axel Foley
1986	|	Chandler Jarrell
rowspan="2"	1987	|	Axel Foley>Det. Axel Foley
''Eddie Murphy Raw''	Himself
1988	|	Prince Akeem/Clarence/Randy Watson/Saul
1989	|	Quick (real name Vernest Brown)	Also Director and Writer
1990	|	Reggie Hammond
rowspan="2"	1992	Boomerang'' ||	Marcus Graham
''The Distinguished Gentleman''	Thomas Jefferson Johnson
1994	|	Axel Foley>Det. Axel Foley
1995	|	Maximillian/Preacher Pauly/Guido	Also Producer
1996	The Nutty Professor'' ||	Professor Sherman Klump/Buddy Love/ Lance Perkins/Cletus 'Papa' Klump/ Anna Pearl 'Mama' Jensen Klump/ Ida Mae 'Granny' Jensen/Ernie Klump, Sr.	Also Producer Saturn Award for Best Actor National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated – NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1997	Metro'' ||	Insp. Scott Roper
rowspan="3"	1998	Mulan'' ||	Mushu	(voice)
''Dr. Dolittle (film)	Doctor Dolittle''	Doctor Dolittle>Dr. John Dolittle
''Holy Man''	G
rowspan="2"	1999	Life'' ||	Rayford "Ray" Gibson	Also Producer
''Bowfinger''	Kit Ramsey/Jeffernson 'Jiff' Ramsey
2000	|	Professor Sherman Klump/Buddy Love/ Lance Perkins/Cletus 'Papa' Klump/ Anna Pearl 'Mama' Jensen Klump/ Ida Mae 'Granny' Jensen/Ernie Klump	Also Producer Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
rowspan="2"	2001	|	Donkey (Shrek)>Donkey	(voice) Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Male Performer in an Animated Feature Production Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated – Black Reel Award: Best Supporting Actor
''Dr. Dolittle 2''	Doctor Dolittle>Dr. John Dolittle
rowspan="3"	2002	Showtime'' ||	Officer Trey Sellers	Nominated – Razzie Award for Worst ActorNomianted - Razzie Award for Worst Screen Couple (with either Robert De Niro, Owen Wilson or himself cloned)
''The Adventures of Pluto Nash''	Pluto Nash/Rex Crater
''I Spy (film)	I Spy''	Kelly Robinson
rowspan="2"	2003	|	Charles "Charlie" Hinton
''The Haunted Mansion (film)	The Haunted Mansion''	Jim Evers
2004	|	Donkey (Shrek)>Donkey	(voice)
2006	Dreamgirls'' ||	Dreamgirls (film)#Cast>James 'Thunder' Early	Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Central Ohio Film Critics Association for Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated – Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated – Black Reel Award: Best Supporting Actor Nominated – Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated – NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Nominated – Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated – Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
rowspan="2"	2007	|	Norbit Rice/Rasputia Latimore-Rice/Mr. Wong	Razzie Award for Worst Actor (as Norbit)Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor (as Mr. Wong)Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress (as Rasputia)Razzie Award for Worst Screen Couple (with either Eddie Murphy or Eddie Murphy)Nominated – Razzie Award for Worst ScreenplayNominated – Razzie Award for Worst Picture
''Shrek the Third''	Donkey ||(voice)Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie
2008	|	Starship Dave Ming-Chang (Spacecraft), Captain	Razzie Award for Worst ActorNominated – Razzie Award for Worst Screen Couple (''in'' Eddie Murphy)
2009	Imagine That'' ||	Evan Danielson
2010	|	Donkey (Shrek)>Donkey	2011 Kids' Choice Awards>Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie
2011	|	Darnell ("Slide")
2012	A Thousand Words'' ||	Jack McCall

Television

''Eddie Murphy Delirious ''What's Alan Watching?'' ''Dangerous - The Short Films'' ''The PJs'' ''Father of the Pride'' ''Shrek the Halls'' ''Donkey's Christmas Shrektacular''

colspan=4 style="background:#B0C4DE;"	Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1980–1984	''Saturday Night Live''
1983	Eddie Murphy: Delirious'' ||
1989	|
1993	|	Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh	Remember the Time music video
1999–2001	|	Thurgood Stubbs	Voice Nominated – Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production (1999) Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour) (1999)
2004	|	Donkey (Shrek)>Donkey	Voice
2007	|	Donkey (Shrek)>Donkey	TV special Voice Nominated – Annie Award for Best Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production
2010	|	Donkey (Shrek)>Donkey	TV special Voice

Discography

Studio albums

Year	Album details	Peak chartpositions
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1982	style="text-align:left;"	* Release date: 1982	* Label: CBS Records	97	—
1983	style="text-align:left;"	* Release date: 1983	* Label: CBS Records	35	10
1985		* Release date: 1985	* Label: CBS Records	26	17
1989		* Release date: 1989	* Label: CBS Records	70	22
1993		* Release date: February 23, 1993	* Label: Motown Records	—	80

Compilation albums

! Year	! Album details
1997	''Greatest Comedy Hits''	* Release date: May 27, 1997	* Label: Columbia Records
1998	''All I Fuckin' Know''	* Release date: April 28, 1998	* Label: Sony BMG

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions					Album
		! style="width:35px;"	! style="width:35px;"	! style="width:35px;"	! style="width:35px;"	! style="width:35px;"
1982		—	56	—	—	—
		2	8	19	3	87
	—	63	—	—	—
		27	2	—	—	—
	—	75	—	—	—
		—	61	—	—	64
	—	74	—	—	—
	—	—	—	—	—

Awards/nominations

style="background:#B0C4DE;"	Award	Year	Category	Work	Outcome
Academy Awards	2007			Nominated
	1999	Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production	''The PJs''	Nominated
2001	Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Male Performer in an Animated Feature Production	''Shrek''	Won
2008	Best Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production	''Shrek the Halls''	Nominated
BAFTA Awards	2002		''Shrek''	Nominated
	2000	Best Actor in a Motion Picture	''Bowfinger''	Nominated
2002		''Shrek''	Nominated
2007		Nominated
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards	2007			Won
Central Ohio Film Critics Association	2007	Best Supporting Actor		Won
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards	2007			Nominated
rowspan=4	1983	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy, Variety or Music Series	''Saturday Night Live''	Nominated
	Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program	''Saturday Night Live''	Nominated
	''Saturday Night Live''	Nominated
1999		''The PJs''"He's Gotta Have It"	Nominated
	1983		''48 Hrs.''
1984		''Trading Places''
1997
1985		''Beverly Hills Cop''
2007		Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture>Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture		Won
	2005	Best Voice from an Animated Film	''Shrek 2''	Nominated
2008	Best Voice from an Animated Film	''Shrek the Third''	Won
2011	Best Voice from an Animated Film	''Shrek Forever After''	Won
	1997	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Motion Picture		Nominated
2007	Actor in a Supporting Role		Nominated
National Society of Film Critics Awards	1997			Won
Online Film Critics Society Awards	2007			Nominated
	1996	rowspan=2
2001	''Nutty Professor II: The Klumps''
	1997			Won
2002		''Shrek''	Nominated
			rowspan=2	Won
	Nominated

References

External links

Eddie Murphy on Discogs

Maxim Rated Top SNL performer

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name	Cameron Diaz
birth name	Cameron Michelle Diaz
birth date	August 30, 1972
birth place	San Diego, California, United States
occupation	Actress, model
years active	1988–93 (model)1993–present (actress) }}

Cameron Michelle Diaz (born August 30, 1972) is an American actress and former model. She became famous during the 1990s with roles in the movies ''The Mask'', ''My Best Friend's Wedding'', and ''There's Something About Mary''. Other high-profile credits include the two ''Charlie's Angels'' films, voicing the character Princess Fiona in the ''Shrek'' series, and ''Bad Teacher''. Diaz received Golden Globe award nominations for her performances in the movies ''There's Something About Mary'', ''Being John Malkovich'', ''Vanilla Sky'', and ''Gangs of New York''.

Early life

Diaz, the younger of two daughters, was born in San Diego, California. Her mother, Billie (née Early), is an import-export agent, and her father, Emilio Diaz (1949–2008), worked for the California oil company UNOCAL for more than 20 years as a field gauger. Diaz has an older sister, Chimene. Her father's family came from Cuba by way of Spain, before settling in Tampa's Ybor City, and eventually California where her father Emilio was born. Her mother is of English, German, and Cherokee descent. Diaz was raised in Long Beach, California and attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School.

Career

Modeling

At age sixteen, she began her career as a fashion model, contracted with modeling agency Elite Model Management. For the next few years, she worked around the world for contracts such as with major companies, modeling for designers such as Calvin Klein and Levi's. When she was 17 years old, she was featured on the front cover of the July 1990 issue of the magazine ''Seventeen''.

Acting

At age 21 Diaz auditioned for ''The Mask'', based on the recommendation of an agent for Elite, who met the film's producers while they were searching for the female main actress. Having no previous acting experience, she started acting lessons after being cast. ''The Mask'' became one of the top ten highest grossing films of 1994. Diaz's performance as the sultry lounge singer "Tina Carlyle" earned her nominations for several awards and launched her as a sex symbol.

Preferring to feel her way effectively into the industry, Diaz avoided large studio films for the next three years and took roles in the independent films ''The Last Supper'' (1995), ''Feeling Minnesota'' (1996), ''She's the One'' (1996), and ''Head Above Water'' (1996). She was scheduled to feature in the film ''Mortal Kombat'', but had to resign after breaking her hand while training for the role.

Diaz returned to mainstream films with ''My Best Friend's Wedding'' and ''A Life Less Ordinary'', both released in 1997. The following year, she played the title role in the smash hit ''There's Something About Mary'' (1998), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the category of ''Best Actress – Musical or Comedy''. She received critical acclaim for her performance in ''Being John Malkovich'' (1999), which earned her Best Supporting Actress nominations at the Golden Globe Award, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards, and the Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG Awards). Between 1998 and 2000, Diaz featured in many movies, such as ''Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her'', ''Very Bad Things'', ''Any Given Sunday'', and the successful adaptation of ''Charlie's Angels''. In 2001, she won nominations for Best Supporting Actress for the Golden Globe Awards, the SAG Awards, the Critics' Choice Awards, and the American Film Institute Awards for ''Vanilla Sky'', and also voiced Princess Fiona in the movie ''Shrek'', for which she earned $10 million.

In 2003, Diaz received another Golden Globe nomination for Martin Scorsese's 2002 epic ''Gangs of New York'', and became the third actress (after ''Wedding'' costar Julia Roberts) to earn $20 million for a role, receiving the sum for ''Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle''. Her next movies were ''In Her Shoes'' (2005) and ''The Holiday'' (2006). She was preparing to work again with ''The Mask'' co-star Jim Carrey for the film ''Fun with Dick and Jane'', but resigned to feature in ''In Her Shoes''. Diaz reportedly earned $50 million during the period of a year ending June 2008, for her roles in ''What Happens in Vegas'' opposite Ashton Kutcher, and the ''Shrek'' sequels. In 2009, she starred in ''My Sister's Keeper'' and ''The Box''.

In 2010, Forbes Magazine ranked Cameron Diaz as the richest Hispanic female ''celebrity'', ranking number 60 among the wealthiest 100. Also that year, Diaz voiced Princess Fiona for the movie ''Shrek Forever After'', and reunited with her ''Vanilla Sky'' co-star Tom Cruise in the action adventure ''Knight and Day''. In 2011, she played "Lenore Case", the journalist in the remake of the 1940s film ''The Green Hornet'', and was the central lead in the hit comedy ''Bad Teacher''. She was listed among CEOWORLD magazine's Top Accomplished Women Entertainers.

Personal life

Diaz received "substantial" defamation damages from suing American Media Incorporated, after ''The National Enquirer'' had claimed she was cheating on then-paramour Justin Timberlake. She endorsed Al Gore publicly during 2000. Diaz wore a t-shirt that read "I won't vote for a son of a Bush!" while making publicity visits for ''Charlie's Angels''. Diaz has also been involved with the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), the first and largest nonprofit organization for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and has spoken as an advocate for military families. Although she was quoted by a 1997 ''Time'' magazine article as saying she was germophobic, Diaz specifically denied this on the June 26, 2009, edition of ''Real Time with Bill Maher'', saying that a small comment she made 12 years earlier regarding public bathroom doorknobs was distorted out of proportion. On April 15, 2008, Cameron's father, Emilio Diaz, died at the age of 58 from pneumonia.

Relationships

From 1990 to December 1994, Diaz cohabited with video producer Carlos de la Torre. In 1995, Diaz dated actor Vincent D'Onofrio during the production of ''Feeling Minnesota''. Later in 1995, she began a relationship with actor Matt Dillon. The relationship ended in December 1998. She began dating Jared Leto in 1999 and the couple became engaged in 2000. In 2003, they ended their four-year relationship. Diaz dated singer Justin Timberlake from 2003 to 2006. In October 2004, Diaz and Timberlake were in an altercation with a tabloid photographer outside a hotel. When the photographer and another man tried to photograph them, the couple snatched the camera. Pictures of the incident appeared in ''Us Weekly''. Representatives for the pair claimed that they were acting a scene on a set. Diaz was in a romantic relationship with New York Yankees baseball star Alex Rodriguez from July 2010 to September 2011.

Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	! Notes
1994		Tina Carlyle	Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough PerformanceNominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Dance Sequence shared with Jim CarreyNominated — MTV Movie Award for Most Desirable Female
1995		Jude
	''She's the One''	Heather
''Feeling Minnesota''	Freddie Clayton
''Head Above Water''	Nathalie
''Keys to Tulsa''	Trudy
	''My Best Friend's Wedding''	Kimberly Wallace	ALMA Award
''[[A Life Less Ordinary''	Celine Naville
		Blonde TV Reporter
''There's Something About Mary''	Mary Jensen	American Comedy Award for Funniest Leading Actress in a Motion Picture Blockbuster Award for Favorite Actress – ComedyNew York Film Critics Circle Award for Best ActressMTV Movie Award for Best Female PerformanceTeen Choice Award For Most Disgusting Scene Mary discovers a great new all-natural hair gel. Nominated — ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film in a Crossover RoleNominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or ComedyNominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic PerformanceNominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss shared with Ben Stiller Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo shared with Ben Stiller Nominated — Teen Choice Award For Choice Actress
''Very Bad Things''	Laura Garrety
	''Man Woman Film''	Random Celebrity	cameo
''Being John Malkovich''	Lotte Schwartz	Nominated — American Comedy Awards
''[[Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her''	Carol Faber
	Faith
''Any Given Sunday''	Christina Pagniacci	ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actress — DramaNominated — Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie: Hissy Fit
2000			Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Action Team shared with Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore MTV Movie Award for Best Dance Sequence For her fantasy sequence. MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo shared with Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Supporting ActressNominated — Blimp Award for Favorite Movie Actress Nominated — MTV Movie Awards for Best Line (For "I signed the release, so you can stick anything you want in my slot!".) Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
	''Shrek''	Princess Fiona	Voice
''Vanilla Sky''	Julie Gianni	Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting ActressChicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting ActressNominated — American Film Institute
	''[[The Sweetest Thing''	Christina Walters
''Gangs of New York''	Jenny Everdeane	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss shared with Leonardo Dicaprio Nominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast
2003	''[[Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle''
2004	''Shrek 2''	Princess Fiona	Voice
2005		Maggie Feller	Nominated —
2006	''The Holiday''	Amanda Woods	Nominated — ALMA Award
2007	''[[Shrek the Third''	Princess Fiona	Voice
2008	''What Happens in Vegas''	Joy McNally
		Sara Fitzgerald
	Norma Lewis
	''Shrek Forever After''	Princess Fiona
''Knight and Day''	June Havens
		Lenore Case
''Bad Teacher''	Elizabeth Halsey
		P. J. Puznowski
	Jules
Television
! Year	! Title	! Role	! Notes
2005	''Trippin'''	Herself	MTV – Travel Documentary
2007	''Shrek the Halls''	Princess Fiona	Voice Made for television
2008–2009	''Saturday Night Live''	Kiki Deamore	3 episodes
2009	Sesame Street	Herself
		Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car
''Scared Shrekless''	Princess Fiona	Voice Made for television
2011		Herself, as a guest judge

External links

References

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