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Based on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem "Beowulf". The warrior Beowulf saves a town from the monster Grendel then has to deal with the creature's vengeful mother.

Cast & credits

Cast

Beowulf Ray Winstone
Hrothgar Anthony Hopkins
Unferth John Malkovich
Wealthow Robin Wright Penn
Wiglaf Brendan Gleeson
Grendel Crispin Glover
Ursula Alison Lohman
Grendel's mother Angelina Jolie
musician 1 Paul Baker
musician 2 John Bilezikjian
musician 3 Rod D. Harbour
musician 4 Brice Martin
Gitte Sonje Fortag
Hild Sharisse Baker-bernard
Estrith Charlotte Salt
Cille Julene Rennee
Garmund Greg Ellis
Eofor Rik Young
Wulfgar Sebastian Roché
Yrsa Leslie Zemeckis
Aesher Woody Schultz
young Cain Tyler Steelman
drunken thane Nick Jameson
Scylding's watch Shay Duffin
Hondshew Costas Mandylor
Olaf Christopher Coppola
Cain Dominic Keating
Aethelbeorg Jacquie Barnbrook
Frisian leader Fredrik Hiller
Beowulf's scop Daniel Mcgrew
Beowulf's jester Alan J. Silva
Golden Man Ray Winstone
dragon Ray Winstone
cast member Kevin Dorman
cast member Rick Burns
cast member Jared Weber
cast member Tom West Jr
cast member Chris Mala
cast member Timothey J. Trobec
cast member Camille Lannan
cast member Michael Lofgren
cast member Rob McCabe
cast member Larkin Campbell
cast member Christopher Cummins
cast member John Littlefield
cast member Shawn Driscoll
cast member Amy Esacove
cast member Emily Johnson
cast member Nadine Stenovitch
cast member Anne-Marie Wilson
cast member Fred Tatasciore
cast member Holly Susan Dorff
cast member Neil Dickson
cast member Peter Lavin
cast member Matt Ward
cast member Peter Dennis

Credits

Direction

Directed by Robert Zemeckis
2nd Unit Director Steve Starkey
Assistant Director (1st) Josh Mclaglen
Assistant Director (2nd) Maria Battle
Script Supervisor (Perf Capture Unit) Luca Kouimelis
Mocap Script Co-ord (Perf Capture Unit) Erica Headley
Imagemotion Script Sup (Add'l IW Crew) Heather McCann
Imagemotion Sc Co-ord (Add'l IW Crew) Erica Headley

Production

© Shangri-La Entertainment
© Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
Production Company ImageMovers
Presents [US] Paramount Pictures
Presents [UK] Warner Bros.
[Production Services] Cineroma
Executive Producer Martin Shafer
Executive Producer Roger Avary
Executive Producer Neil Gaiman
Produced by Steve Starkey
Produced by Robert Zemeckis
Produced by Jack Rapke
Co-producer Steven Boyd
Associate Producer Jacqueline M. Lopez
Associate Producer Peter 'Toby' Tobyansen
Associate Producer Josh Mclaglen
Imageworks Crew (Assoc Digital Producer) Julie Zackary
Cineroma Producer (Perf Capture Unit) David Nichols
Cineroma Prod'n Man (Perf Capture Unit) Francesco Marras
Cineroma Accountant (Perf Capture Unit) Mastroviti Loredana
Imageworks Crew (Bidding Producer) Jan Hirota
Unit Production Manager Josh Mclaglen
Imageworks Crew (Digital Prod'n Manager) Bradford S. Simonsen
Imageworks Crew (Digital Prod'n Manager) Nancy Ong
Imagemotion Stg Prod M (Add'l IW Crew) Sean Stanek
SPI (Texture Supervisor) Dennis Bredow
SPI (Character Modelling Supervisor) Edward Taylor Iv
SPI (Environment/Props Modelling S'visor Mark Krentz
SPI (Character Setup Supervisor) Rick Grandy
Production Co-ord (Perf Capture Unit) Gabriela Rios
Accountant Susanne B. Lariviere
Post-production Co-ordinator Chris Browne
Post-production Co-ordinator Will Sherrod
Filmed at Culver Studios
Made at Sony Pictures Imageworks Inc.

Casting

Casting by Ronna Kress
Casting by Nina Gold
Casting (Perf Capture Unit Extras Drctr) Kristan Berona
Casting (Perf Capture Unit Associate) Courtney Sheinin

Writing

Screenplay by Neil Gaiman
Screenplay by Roger Avary

Photography

Director of Photography Robert Presley
Imageworks Crew (Colour/Lighting Lead) Ben Aguillon
Imageworks Crew (Colour/Lighting Lead) Thelvin Puravida Cabezas
Imageworks Crew (Colour/Lighting Lead) Clara Chan
Imageworks Crew (Colour/Lighting Lead) Jeff Dillinger
Imageworks Crew (Colour/Lighting Lead) Ruben A. Flores
Imageworks Crew (Colour/Lighting Lead) Willi Hammes
Imageworks Crew (Colour/Lighting Lead) Kieron Cheuk-chi Lo
Imageworks Crew (Colour/Lighting Lead) Rosendo Salazar
Imageworks Crew (Colour/Lighting Lead) Carlos A. Vidal
Imageworks Crew (Matte Painting Lead) Steve Matson
Camera Operator (Perf Capture Unit) Patrick B. O'Brien
Camera Operator (Perf Capture Unit) Marc Lulkin
1st Assistant Camera (Perf Capture Unit) Steven Cueva
1st Assistant Camera (Perf Capture Unit) William Kirby Washington
1st Assistant Camera (Perf Capture Unit) David Howard
Chief Lighting Tech (Perf Capture Unit) Steve Mcgee
1st Company Grip (Perf Capture Unit) James Gaudenti
Production Video Supervisor Ian Kelly

Stills

Research and Reference Photography Leah Hardstark
Research and Reference Photography Chris Hebert

Special Effects

Senior Visual Effects Supervisor Jerome Chen
Visual Effects Supervisor Alex Bicknell
Imagery/Animation Sony Pictures Imageworks Inc.
SPI (Executive Visual Effects Producer) Debbie Denise
SPI (Visual Effects Design Consultant) Ken Ralston
SPI (Digital Effects Supervisor) Sean Macleod Phillips
SPI (Animation Supervisor) Ken Mcdonald
SPI (Senior Visual Effects Producer) Chris D. Juen
SPI (Digital Producer) Skye Lyons
SPI (Visual Effects Art Director) Martin A. Kline
SPI (Imagemotion Supervisor) Demian 'Dman' Gordon
SPI (Imagemotion Integration Supervisor) Corey Turner
SPI (CG Supervisor) Theodore Bialek
SPI (CG Supervisor) Max Bruce
SPI (CG Supervisor) Patrick Cohen
SPI (CG Supervisor) Brian Steiner
SPI (CG Supervisor) Jeff Stern
Sp Effects Co-ord (Perf Capture Unit) Michael Lantieri
Sp Effects Technician (Perf Capture Unit Roland Loew
Sp Effects Technician (Perf Capture Unit Daniel B. Ossello
Sp Effects Technician (Perf Capture Unit Greg Tippie
CG Supervisor Pete Billington
CG Artist Young Duk Cho
CG Artist Matt Dougan
CG Artist Zac Wollons
Model Maker John Duncan
Model Maker Jason Mahakian
Model Maker Tony Bohoroquez

Animation

Imageworks Crew (S'vising Anim Lead) Keith Kellogg
Imageworks Crew (Animation Lead) Stephane Couture
Imageworks Crew (Animation Lead) Stephen Enticott
Imageworks Crew (Animation Lead) Alice V. Kaiserian
Imageworks Crew (Animation Lead) Les Major
Imageworks Crew (Animation Lead) Jeff Schu
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Alfonso Alpuerto
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Jim Baker
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Katie Cheang
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Jeff Croke
Imageworks Crew (Animation) James Michael Crossley
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Christopher Hunter Endicott
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Robert Fox
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Kelly Hartigan Goldstein
Imageworks Crew (Animation) William Haller
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Jordan Harris
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Toby M. Haruno
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Alan Hawkins
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Scott Holmes
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Ethan Hurd
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Paul W. Jessel
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Sebastian Kapijimpanga
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Jeff Lin
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Pericles Michielin
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Gavin Moran
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Koji Morihiro
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Maksymilian Naporowski
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Rob Mackenzie
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Paul Newberry
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Irene Parkins
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Andreas Procopiou
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Gwendelyn Robson
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Sandra Ryan
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Denis Samoilov
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Atsushi Sato
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Henry Sato Jr
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Brett Schroeder
Imageworks Crew (Animation) P. Kevin Scott
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Keith A. Sintay
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Keith W. Smith
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Ron Smith
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Tom St. Amand
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Pepe Valencia
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Roger L. Vizard
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Mark Vulcano
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Christopher Walsh
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Danny Wawrzasek
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Alex Whitney
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Dougg Williams
Imageworks Crew (Animation) John Wong
Imageworks Crew (Animation) Paul Wood
Imageworks Crew (Effects Animation Lead) Steve Avoujageli
Imageworks Crew (Effects Animation Lead) Henrik Fält
Imageworks Crew (Effects Animation Lead) Marc Horsfield
Imageworks Crew (Effects Animation Lead) Bill Labarge
Imageworks Crew (Effects Animation Lead) Daniel La Chapelle
Imageworks Crew (Effects Animation Lead) Vincent Serritella
Imageworks Crew (Effects Animation) Dimitre Berberov
Imageworks Crew (Effects Animation) Joseph Cavanaugh
Imageworks Crew (Effects Animation) Brian C. Davis
Imageworks Crew (Effects Animation) Ross De Young
Imageworks Crew (Effects Animation) Eyal Erez
Imageworks Crew (Effects Animation) John Han
Imageworks Crew (Effects Animation) Cody Harrington
Imageworks Crew (Effects Animation) Andrew Hofman
Imageworks Crew (Effects Animation) Seung-Hyuk Kim
Imageworks Crew (Effects Animation) Zsolt Krajcsik
Imageworks Crew (Effects Animation) Tom Lynnes
Imageworks Crew (Effects Animation) Cory Mcmahon
Imageworks Crew (Effects Animation) Sigfried Ostertag
Imageworks Crew (Effects Animation) John Patton
Imageworks Crew (Effects Animation) Jamie Pilgrim
Imageworks Crew (Effects Animation) Thomas Pushpathadam
Imageworks Crew (Effects Animation) Gregory Wade Reynolds
Imageworks Crew (Effects Animation) Mark Story
Imageworks Crew (Effects Animation) Youngsam Suh
Imageworks Crew (Effects Animation) Chris Wachter
Imageworks Crew (Effects Animation) Magnus Wrenninge
Imageworks Crew (Effects Animation) Chris Y. Yang
Stereoscopic Imagery by Imageworks 3D
3D Senior Visual Effects Producer Buzz Hays
Stereographer/3D Digital Effects S'visor Rob Engle
3D Digital Production Manager Mickey Levy
3D CG Supervisor Grant Anderson
3D CG Supervisor Layne Friedman
3D Previsualization Lead Joanie Karnowski
3D Previsualization Artist Ed Harmon
3D Effects Animation Carlos Donis Lemus
3D Effects Animation Steven S. Shapiro
3D Colour/Lighting Lead Noah Klabunde
3D Colour/Lighting Lead Jeremy Squires
SPI (Effects Animation Supervisor) Theo Vandernoot
SPI (Layout Supervisor) Brian Doman
Layout Artist Matthew Ward
Layout Artist Trevor Tuttle
Layout Artist Eric Carney
Layout Artist Chris Edwards
Imageworks Crew (Rough Layout Lead) John Meehan
Imageworks Crew (Final Layout Lead) Hajime Ogata

Editing

Edited by Jeremiah O'Driscoll
Video Editor (Add'l IW Crew) Ray Wong
Video Editor (Add'l IW Crew) Sean Callan
Visual Effects Editor Carin-Anne Strohmaier
Imageworks Crew (Visual Effects Editor) Tim Eaton
Imageworks Crew (Assoc Vis Effects Ed) Patrick Ballin
1st Assistant Editor Ryan Chan
1st Assistant Editor Todd Busch
Visual Effects Assistant Editor Alison Learned
Assistant Editor Michael Struk
Assistant Editor Rolf Fleischmann
Assistant Editor Peter Lonsdale
Editorial Co-ordinator (Add'l IW Crew) Nikki Bell
Editorial Co-ordinator (Add'l IW Crew) Rigoberto Rangel

Design

Production Designer Doug Chiang
Supervising Art Director Norman Newberry
Art Director Greg Papalia
Grendel's Mother Designed by John Bolton
Art Department Producer Erin Collins
Assistant Art Director Jackson Bishop
Assistant Art Director Andrew L. Jones
Assistant Art Director Jim Wallis
Assistant Art Director Todd Cherniawsky
Assistant Art Director Mike Stassi
Art Co-ordinator J. Virdone
Set Designer Scott Herbertson
Set Decorator Karen O'hara
Set Decoration Co-ordinator Darlene Salinas
SPI (Look Development Supervisor) Francis Liu
SPI (Cloth & Hair Supervisor) Sho Igarashi
On-set Dresser Brenner Hugh Harris
Set Dresser David M. Milstein
Imageworks Crew (Cloth & Hair Lead) Mark Desousa
Imageworks Crew (Cloth & Hair Lead) Christopher Alex Logan
Imageworks Crew (Cloth & Hair Lead) Chris Yee
Imageworks Crew (Cloth & Hair Lead) David Kersey
Imageworks Crew (Look Development Lead) Owen Demers
Imageworks Crew (Look Development Lead) The-Hung Quach
Imageworks Crew (Look Development Lead) Joe Strasser
Imageworks Crew (Shader Lead) Kevin Andrew Smith
Character Artist Colin Fix
Character Artist Dermot Power
Concept Artist Aaron Becker
Concept Artist Marc Gabbana
Concept Artist Randy Gaul
Concept Artist Brian Flora
Concept Artist Kurt Kaufman
Concept Artist Bill Mather
Concept Artist Mark Sullivan
Concept Artist Vladimir Todorov
Concept Artist Josh Viers
Concept Artist Terryl Whitlatch
Concept Sculptor Robert Barnes
Concept Sculptor Tony Mcvey
Concept Sculptor Peter Konig
Illustrator Phil Keller
Illustrator Dan Sweetman
Illustrator Simeon Wilkins
Pre-vizualization Artist Ryan Heuett
Pre-vizualization Artist Sathyan Panneerselvam
Pre-vizualization Artist Justin Mettan
Prop Master (Perf Capture Unit) Michael Gastaldo
Construction Co-ord (Perf Capture Unit) John Villarino

Costumes

Costumes Designed by Gabriella Pescucci
1st Asst Cost Dsg'er (Perf Capture Unit) Massimo Cantini Parrini
2nd Asst Cost Dsg'er (Perf Capture Unit) Flora Brancatella
Costume Co-ordinator (Perf Capture Unit) Daria Montagni
Mocap Costume S'visr (Perf Capture Unit) Antonio Almaraz

Make-up

Dept Head Make-up (Perf Capture Unit) John E. Jackson
Key Make-up Artist (Perf Capture Unit) Tegan Taylor
Make-up Artist (Perf Capture Unit) Jane English
Make-up Artist (Perf Capture Unit) Heather Plott
Make-up Artist (Perf Capture Unit) Nadege Schoenfeld
Make-up Artist (Perf Capture Unit) Robert Ryan
Make-up Artist (Perf Capture Unit) Karen Westerfield
Make-up Artist (Perf Capture Unit) Nacoma Whobrey
Make-up Artist (Perf Capture Unit) Cinzia Zanetti
Head Cast S'visor (Perf Capture Unit) Matthew Mungle
Hair Designer (Perf Capture Unit) Susan Germaine
Department Head Hair (Perf Capture Unit) Rozane Griffin
Key Wig Stylist (Perf Capture Unit) Charlotte Parker
Hairstylist (Perf Capture Unit) Dena Fayne
Hairstylist (Perf Capture Unit) Laurel E. Kelly

Film processing

Opticals by Pacific Title & Art Studio
Digital Intermediate by Technicolor Digital Intermediates
Logo Kodak Motion Picture Film
Laboratory DeLuxe

Music

Music Score Composed/Conducted by Alan Silvestri
Original Songs by Glen Ballard
Original Songs by Alan Silvestri
Orchestrations by John Ashton Thomas
Orchestrations by Alan Silvestri
Music Score Co-ordinator David Bifano
Music Contractor Sandy Decrescent
Music Contractor Peter Rotter
Page LA Studio Voices Vocal Contractor Bobbi Page
Hollywood Film Chorale Vocal Contractor Sally Stevens
Song Contractor Jolie Levine
Song Co-ordinator Stephanie Kubiak
Song Co-ordinator Angela Vicari
Supervising Music Editor Ken Karman
Music Editor Ryan Rubin

Sound

Music Recorded/Mixed by Dennis Sands
Sound Designer Randy Thom
Prod'n Sound Mixer (Perf Capture Unit) William Kaplan
Boom Operator (Perf Capture Unit) Peggy Names
Boom Operator (Perf Capture Unit) Robert Jackson
Boom Operator (Perf Capture Unit) Matt Mcfadden
Post-production Sound Services by Skywalker Sound
Sound Re-recording Mixer Randy Thom
Sound Re-recording Mixer Tom Johnson
Sound Re-recording Mixer Dennis Sands
Additional Re-recording Mixer Gary A. Rizzo
Additional Re-recording Mixer Colette Dahanne
Supervising Sound Editor Dennis Leonard
Dialogue Supervising Editor Jonathan Null
Sound Effects Recordist Jessica Lemes da Silva
Sound Effects Editor Douglas Murray
Sound Effects Editor Al Nelson
Sound Effects Editor Robert Shoup
Loop Group L.A. MadDogs
ADR Recordist David Lucarelli
ADR (Engineer) Derek Casari
ADR Mixer Charleen Richards
ADR (Supervising Editor) Jonathan Null
ADR Editor Daniel Laurie
Foley Artist Jana Vance
Foley Artist Dennie Thorpe
Foley Artist Ellen Heuer
Foley Recordist Sean England
Foley Mixer Frank Rinella
Foley Editor Suzanne Fox

Stunts

Stunt Co-ordinator Garret Warren
Stunt Co-ordinator (2nd Unit) Jesse Johnson
Fight Choreographer Dominique Vandenberg

Consultant

[Art Department] Research Archivist Greg Bossert
[Art Department] Researcher David Craig
[Art Department] Researcher Jason C. Brown
Old English Consultant Karl Hagen
Dialect Coach (Perf Capture Unit) Róisín Carty
Animal Co-ordinator (Perf Capture Unit) Sled Reynolds

Publicity

Unit Publicist Jane E. Russell