THE POST (2017) Cast and Crew
For almost 40 years MERYL STREEP has portrayed an astonishing array of characters.
CAST AND CREW
STEVEN SPIELBERG (Director/Producer), one of the industry's most successful and influential filmmakers, is Chairman of Amblin Partners. Formed in 2015, Spielberg leads the content creation company in partnership with Participant Media, Reliance Entertainment, entertainment One, Alibaba Pictures and Universal Pictures.
Spielberg is also, collectively, the top-grossing director of all time, having helmed such blockbusters as Jaws, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, the Indiana Jones franchise, and Jurassic Park. Among his myriad honors, he is a three-time Academy Award winner.
Spielberg took home his first two Oscars, for Best Director and Best Picture, for the internationally lauded Schindler's List, which received a total of seven Oscars. The film was also named the Best Picture of 1993 by many of the major critics organizations, in addition to winning seven BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globe Awards, both including Best Picture and Director. Spielberg also won the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award for his work on the film.
Spielberg won his third Academy Award, for Best Director, for the World War II drama Saving Private Ryan, which was the highest-grossing release (domestically) of 1998. It was also one of the year's most honored films, earning four additional Oscars, as well as two Golden Globe Awards, for Best Picture - Drama and Best Director, and numerous critics groups awards in the same categories. Spielberg also won another DGA Award, and shared a Producers Guild of America (PGA) Award with the film's other producers. That same year, the PGA also presented Spielberg with the prestigious Milestone Award for his historic contribution to the motion picture industry.
He has also earned Academy Award nominations for Best Director for Lincoln, Munich, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Additionally, he earned DGA Award nominations for those films, as well as Amistad, Empire of the Sun, The Color Purple and Jaws. With eleven to date, Spielberg has been honored by his peers with more DGA Award nominations than any other director. In 2000, he received the DGA's Lifetime Achievement Award. He is also the recipient of the Irving G. Thalberg Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Hollywood Foreign Press's Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Kennedy Center Honor, and numerous other career tributes.
In 2012, Spielberg directed Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln, based in part on Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals, with a screenplay by Tony Kushner. The DreamWorks Pictures/Twentieth Century Fox film, in association with Participant Media, garnered 12 Academy Award nominations and earned $275 million worldwide. The film won two Oscars, including Daniel Day-Lewis' third Oscar for Best Actor playing the iconic 16th President, as well as Best Production Design.
Spielberg's 2015 dramatic thriller Bridge of Spies, starring Tom Hanks received six Academy Award nominations including Best Picture with Mark Rylance winning for Best Supporting Actor. That same year, he was also an executive producer on Jurassic World, which earned over $1.6 billion worldwide. Directed by Colin Trevorrow and starring Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, it was the fourth film in the Jurassic series. A follow-up to the blockbuster, directed by J.A. Bayona, will be released on June 22, 2018. Following The Post, he has Ready Player One based on the popular science-fiction novel by Ernest Cline which will be released in theaters on March 30, 2018.
Spielberg's career began with the 1968 short film Amblin, which led to him becoming the youngest director ever signed to a long-term studio deal. He directed episodes of such TV shows as Night Gallery, Marcus Welby, M.D. and Columbo, and gained special attention for his 1971 telefilm Duel. Three years later, he made his feature film directorial debut on The Sugarland Express, from a screenplay he co-wrote. His next film was Jaws, which was the first film to break the $100 million mark at the box office.
In 1984, Spielberg formed his own production company, Amblin Entertainment. Under the Amblin Entertainment banner, he served as producer or executive producer on such hits as Gremlins, Goonies, Back to the Future I, II, and III, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, An American Tail, Twister, The Mask of Zorro and the Men in Black films. In 1994, Spielberg partnered with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen to form the original DreamWorks Studios. The studio enjoyed both critical and commercial successes, including three consecutive Best Picture Academy Award winners: American Beauty, Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind. In its history, DreamWorks has also produced or co-produced a wide range of features, including the Transformers blockbusters, Clint Eastwood's World War II dramas Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, the latter earning a Best Picture Oscar nomination, Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers, and The Ring, to name only a few. Under the DreamWorks banner, Spielberg also directed such films as War of the Worlds, Minority Report, Catch Me If You Can and A.I. Artificial Intelligence.
Spielberg has not limited his success to the big screen. He was an executive producer on the long-running Emmy-winning TV drama E.R. produced by his Amblin Entertainment company and Warner Bros. Television for NBC. On the heels of their experience on Saving Private Ryan, he and Tom Hanks teamed to executive produce the 2001 HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, based on Stephen Ambrose's book about a U.S. Army unit in Europe in World War II. Among its many awards, the project won both Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for Outstanding Miniseries. He and Hanks more recently reunited to executive produce the acclaimed 2010 HBO miniseries The Pacific, this time focusing on the Marines in WWII's Pacific theatre. The Pacific won eight Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Miniseries.
Among the shows Spielberg also executive produced were the Emmy-winning Sci-Fi Channel miniseries Taken, the TNT miniseries Into the West, the Showtime series The United States of Tara, NBC's Smash, TNT's Falling Skies, as well as CBS' Under the Dome and Extant. He was also executive producer on the HBO Films' movie All The Way starring Emmy winner Bryan Cranston and the Netflix docuseries Five Came Back. He is currently executive producer on CBS's Bull which was renewed for a second season. His Amblin Television is a producer of FX's The Americans, which has received several Emmy nominations including two wins for Margo Martindale for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. The series also won a Peabody Award in 2015.
Apart from his filmmaking work, Spielberg has also devoted his time and resources to many philanthropic causes. He established The Righteous Persons Foundation using all his profits from Schindler's List. He also founded the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, which in 2006 became the USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education. The Institute has recorded more than 53,000 interviews with survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides and is dedicated to making the testimonies a compelling voice for education and action. Additionally, Spielberg is the Chairman Emeritus of the Starlight Children's Foundation.
For almost 40 years MERYL STREEP (Katharine Graham), has portrayed an astonishing array of characters in a career that has cut its own unique path from the theater through film and television.
Streep was educated in the New Jersey public school system through high school, graduated cum laude from Vassar College, and received her MFA with honors from Yale University in 1975. She began her professional life on the New York stage, where she quickly established her signature versatility and verve as an actor. Within three years of graduation, she made her Broadway debut, won an Emmy for (Holocaust) and received her first Oscar nomination (The Deer Hunter). She has won three Academy Awards and in 2017, in a record that is unsurpassed, she earned a 20th Academy Award nomination for her role in Florence Foster Jenkins. Her performance earned her the Critics' Choice Award for Best Actress, and Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.
Streep has pursued her interest in the environment through her work with Mothers and Others, a consumer advocacy group that she co-founded in 1989. M&O worked for ten years to promote sustainable agriculture, establish new pesticide regulations, and ensure the availability of organic and sustainably grown local foods.
Streep also lends her efforts to Women for Women International, the Committee to Protect Journalists, Donor Direct Action, Women in the World Foundation, and Partners in Health.
She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has been accorded a Commandeur de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government and an honorary Cesar. She received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute, a 2008 honor from the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and the 2010 National Medal of Arts from President Obama. In 2011, Ms. Streep received a Kennedy Center Honor, and in 2014 the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She holds honorary doctorates from Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Dartmouth, and Indiana Universities, the University Of New Hampshire, Lafayette, Middlebury, and the Barnard College medal.
Her husband, artist Don Gummer, and she are the parents of a son and three daughters.
TOM HANKS (Ben Bradlee) is an award-winning actor, producer and director. One of only two actors in history to win back-to-back Best Actor Academy Awards, he won his first Oscar in 1994 for his moving portrayal of AIDS-stricken lawyer Andrew Beckett in Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia. The following year, he took home his second Oscar for his unforgettable performance in the title role of Robert Zemeckis' Forrest Gump. He also won Golden Globe Awards for both films, as well as a Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award for the latter.
Hanks has also been honored with Academy Award nominations for his performances in Penny Marshall's Big, Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, and Robert Zemeckis' Cast Away, also winning Golden Globes for Big and Cast Away. Hanks was most recently seen in James Ponsoldt's The Circle.
In 2013, Hanks starred in Academy Award and Golden Globe nominated film Captain Phillips, for which he received SAG, Bafta and Golden Globe nominations as well as in AFI's Movie of the Year Saving Mr. Banks with Emma Thompson.
His other feature credits include the Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachoski film Cloud Atlas, Stephen Daldry's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, the animated adventure The Polar Express, which he also executive produced and which reunited him with director Robert Zemeckis; the Coen brothers' The Ladykillers; Steven Spielberg's The Terminal, Catch Me If You Can and Bridge of Spies; Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition; Frank Darabont's The Green Mile; Nora Ephron's You've Got Mail and Sleepless in Seattle; Penny Marshall's A League of Their Own; Ron Howard's Apollo 13, The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, Splash, Hologram for a King and Inferno, Clint Eastwood's Sully; and the computer-animated blockbusters Cars, Toy Story, Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3.
Hanks' work on the big screen has translated to success on the small screen. Following Apollo 13, he executive produced and hosted the acclaimed HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, also directing one segment, and writing several others. His work on the miniseries brought him Emmy, Golden Globe and Producers Guild Awards, as well as an Emmy nomination for Best Director.
His collaboration with Steven Spielberg on Saving Private Ryan led to them executive producing the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, based on the book by Stephen Ambrose. Hanks also directed a segment and wrote another segment of the fact-based miniseries, which won Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Miniseries. In addition, Hanks earned an Emmy Award for Best Director and an Emmy nomination for Best Writing, and received another Producers Guild Award for his work on the project.
In 2008, Hanks executive produced the critically acclaimed HBO miniseries John Adams, starring Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney and Tom Wilkinson. It won 13 Emmy Awards as well as a Golden Globe and a PGA Award. More recently, Hanks and Spielberg re-teamed for the award-winning HBO miniseries The Pacific, for which Hanks once again served as executive producer. The ten-part program won eight Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Miniseries, and brought Hanks his fourth PGA Award.
In 2012, Hanks executive produced the HBO political drama Game Change which was awarded Emmy and Golden Globes for Best Miniseries/Television Film as well as earning several other awards and nominations. In 2013, Hanks served as host, narrator and historical commentator for the two hour National Geographic television movie based on the best-selling book Killing Lincoln. In 2013, Hanks and Playtone produced the Emmy nominated CNN documentary series, The Sixties, and in 2014, the HBO miniseries, Olive Kitteridge, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Elizabeth Strout. In 2015, Olive Kitteridge won eight Emmy awards, including Outstanding Limited Series, three Critics' Choice Television Awards, a DGA award and a SAG award. In 2015, Hanks and Playtone produced The Seventies and in 2016, The Eighties.
In 1996, Hanks made his successful feature film writing and directing debut with That Thing You Do, in which he also starred. He more recently wrote, produced, directed and starred in Larry Crowne, with Julia Roberts. Under his and Gary Goetzman's Playtone banner, they produced 2002's smash hit romantic comedy My Big Fat Greek Wedding, with Hanks wife Rita Wilson. Other producing credits include Where the Wild Things Are, The Polar Express, The Ant Bully, Charlie Wilson's War, Mamma Mia!, The Great Buck Howard, Starter for 10 and the HBO series Big Love.
In 2013, Hanks made his Broadway debut in Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy. His performance earned him Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle, and Tony nominations.
In 2002, Hanks received the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award. He was later honored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center with the Chaplin Award in 2009. In 2014, Hanks received a Kennedy Center Honor.
