This is award-winning cinematographer Roger Deakins' fifth film with Joel and Ethan Coen, following "The Big Lebowski," "Fargo," "The Hudsucker Proxy," and "Barton Fink." Deakins' work with the Coens has been honored with an Academy Award® nomination for "Fargo," and Best Cinematography awards from the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics, and the National Society of Film Critics for "Barton Fink." He has also been recognized with an Academy Award nomination and an A.S.C. Award for his work on "The Shawshank Redemption," and an Oscar® nomination and Best Cinematography awards from the New York Film Critics Circle, the Boston Society of Film Critics, and the National Society of Film Critics for "Kundun."

Deakins began working as a still photographer before enrolling in Britain's National Film School in 1972. His association with fellow student Michael Radford led to director of photography work on three of Radford's films, "White Mischief," "1984," and "Another Time, Another Place." Deakins credits include such notable films as "The Siege," "Courage Under Fire," "Dead Man Walking," "Secret Garden," "Passion Fish," "Thunderheart," and "Sid and Nancy." His distinguished career also includes feature documentaries such as "When the World Changed" and "Eritrea: Behind the Lines," and music documentaries including "Blue Suede Shoes" and "Van Morrison in Ireland." He has shot music videos for Herbie Hancock, Eric Clapton, Marvin Gaye, and Madness, among others.

Born in New York on 18th November 1955, Burwell is a well respected film score composer having worked on well over 50 films since his debut on the Coen brother's debut Blood Simple. He has a reputation for daring to be different and experimentation, especially on the Coen brother's movies because they trust him and his work implicitly. He has contributed to all of the Coen's movies to date, scoring them all up to Fargo and then adding incidental music to both The Big Lebowski and O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Burwell has also composed music for the following movies; Psycho III, Buffy The Vampire Slayer (the Luke Perry/Kristy Swanson starring movie of 1992 NOT the trendy TV series), Wayne's World 2, Kalifornia (underrated), Airheads (Buscemi), Conspiracy Theory, Gods And Monsters, The Velvet Goldmine, Three Kings and, err, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2.

Zophres has distinguished herself with costume design contributions to such critically acclaimed motion pictures as the Academy Award®-winning "Fargo" and 1998's blockbuster comedy "There's Something About Mary."

Zophres has also designed costumes for "The Big Lebowski," "Playing God," "Where's Marlowe," "God Said 'Ha!'," "Digging to China," "Paulie," "Last of the High Kings," "Kingpin," "Bushwacked," and "Dumb and Dumber." Recently she designed costumes for "Any Given Sunday" and "Thick as Thieves."

As an assistant costume designer her credits include "Natural Born Killers," "The Hudsucker Proxy," "This Boy's Life," "Jennifer 8," "Man Trouble," "City Slickers," "Radio Flyer," "Young Guns II," "The Heidi Chronicles," and "Born on the Fourth of July."

Zophres earned a degree in art history and studio art from Vassar College before beginning her professional career working in the fashion industry for Norma Kamali and Esprit. She began her film industry career as the extra's wardrobe supervisor on Oliver Stone's "Born on the Fourth of July."

Working Title Films is Europe's preeminent production house, run by Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner (Executive Producers) -- British-based producers with a strong presence in the Hollywood community. Bevan/Fellner recently negotiated a 5-year deal with Universal Pictures and Canal, providing the resources and distribution structure to allow them to retain creative autonomy and produce predominantly European films, while enjoying full studio backing and worldwide distribution.

This is Working Title's fourth collaboration with Joel and Ethan Coen. Recent commercial and creative successes for the powerhouse company include "Notting Hill," the highest-grossing British film ever, with a current gross of over US $350 million worldwide; "Four Weddings and a Funeral" (1994), which grossed over US $250 million worldwide; "Bean" (1997), which grossed over US $220 million worldwide; and the following Oscar®-winning features: Shekhar Kapur's "Elizabeth" (1998), Tim Robbins' "Dead Man Walking" (1996), and the Coen Brothers' "Fargo" (1997). Other notable productions include "The Big Lebowski" (1997), "The Borrowers" (1996), and "French Kiss" (1995). Most recently, Bevan and Fellner served as producers on Touchstone Pictures' "High Fidelity" starring John Cusack. Other recent releases include Sally Potter's "The Man Who Cried," starring Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, and John Turturro; WT2's first feature, "Billy Elliot" (in conjunction with the BBC and Tiger Aspect), directed by Stephen Daldry; "Bridget Jones' Diary," starring Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant, and Colin Firth and directed by Sharon Maguire; and "Captain Corelli's Mandolin," directed by John Madden and starring Nicolas Cage, Penelope Cruz, and John Hurt. Projects in advanced development include "A Touch of Weevil" starring Rowan Atkinson.

Beginning his movie career as a cinematographer in 1982, he first worked with the Coen brother's on their debut, Blood Simple. He worked in the same capacity on Raising Arizona and Miller's Crossing for the Coens along with movies including Big, Throw Momma From the Train and Misery. He got his directing break with The Addams Family before really making a splash with the Elmore Leonard adaptation, Get Shorty, which led to the blockbuster comedy Men In Black, and the uber flop Wild, Wild West. Now working on MIB 2.

Jaynes began his career minding the tea cart at Shepperton Studios in the 1930s. He eventually moved into the editing department, where he worked on some of the more marginal pictures of the British film industry of the '50s and '60s. With the demise of the "Carry On" series he retired from film, but emerged from retirement to work on Joel and Ethan Coen's first movie, "Blood Simple." He has worked on most of their pictures since.

Mr. Jaynes resides in Hove, Sussex, with his chow, Otto. He is still widely admired in the film industry for his impeccable grooming and is the world's foremost collector of Margaret Thatcher nudes, many of them drawn from life.

We, of course, know Jaynes to be a pseudonym for the Coens devised because they didn't want to see their names too many times in the credits. It's worth noting that 'he' has been nominated for an Oscar and how embarassing it would have been for the Academy had 'he' won...

Cameron has been associated with Joel and Ethan Coen for many years, having first met the brothers during his early career with director Sam Raimi.

Cameron first began working with Raimi and actor/producer Bruce Campbell in 1973 when the trio was in high school. After attending NYU film school, Cameron rejoined Raimi, Campbell, and producer Robert Tapert for Raimi's first feature "The Evil Dead." Subsequently, Cameron served as first assistant director on many of Raimi's films, including "Crimewave," "Darkman," "Army of Darkness," and "The Quick and the Dead."

Other credits as first assistant director include "Dazed and Confused" and the blockbuster "Men in Black." Continuing his long association with Raimi and Tapert, Cameron has directed episodes of both "Hercules" and "Xena: Warrior Princess."

Cameron first worked with Joel and Ethan Coen as first assistant director on "The Hudsucker Proxy." He coproduced their next film, "Fargo," and has acted as their coproducer on every film since then, including "The Big Lebowski," "O Brother, Where Art Thou?," and the upcoming "Untitled Barber Project." In addition, Cameron is the president of the Coen Brothers' new production company, The KL Line.

Burnett is a writer, performer, and music producer. Born Joseph Henry Burnett in St. Louis, Missouri, he grew up in Fort Worth, Texas. He began making records in 1965, producing Texas blues, country, and rock and roll bands, and occasionally, himself. He now lives and works in Los Angeles, California, where he is completing two new albums, "Tooth of Crime," music he wrote for the Sam Shepard play that premiered in New York in 1997; and "The True False Identity," his first album of original songs since "The Criminal Under My Own Hat" was released in 1992, for which he received a Grammy Award nomination.

While finishing his work on "O Brother, Where Art Thou?," Burnett has begun performing songs from those albums in preparation for their release next year. His previous motion picture credits include "The Big Lebowski," "The Horse Whisperer," "Hope Floats," "Stealing Beauty," "Clay Pigeons," "Until the End of the World," and "Ruby in Paradise."

The long list of artists whose work Burnett has produced includes such legends as Elvis Costello, Los Lobos, Roy Orbison, Jackson Browne, the Wallflowers, Counting Crows, and Spinal Tap. In addition, his songs have been recorded by Peter Case, Rita Coolidge, Robert Gordon, Arlo Guthrie, Kris Kristofferson, K.D. lang, Los Lobos, and B.J. Thomas, to name a few.