Special Guests

Bernard is pleased to welcome many top industry professionals to his classes. He would like to thank the artists below who have shared their time and insights with his students.

 

Partial List:

EDWARD ZWICK - Academy Award winning Director & Producer-                      Shakespeare in Love, Traffic, The Last Samurai & Legends of the Fall"

SIMON BEAUFOY - Academy Award winning screenwriter-                                                              "Slumdog Millionaire, Full Monty"

STEPHEN FREARS - Two Time Academy Award Nominee- Director "The Queen"
                                                                                                         “& Dangerous Liaisons"

JAMES HORNER - 10 time Academy Award Nominated Composer-
                                                                                          "Avatar, Titanic (Original Song, My Heart Will Go On)"

BRETT RATNER - Director- "Rush Hour, Red Dragon, X-Men 3"
who brought with him...

BRIAN GRAZER - Oscar Winning Producer- "The Da Vinci Code,
                                   Angels & Demons, A Beautiful Mind, Frost/Nixon"

GUY RIEDEL - Executive Producer- "Wedding Crashers, Cloverfield
                                                and New Harrison Ford film"

JUNIE LOWRY-JOHNSON - 6 time Emmy Winning Casting Director-
                                 "Desperate Housewives, Trueblood, Bruce Almighty"


ERWIN STOFF - Executive Producer- "I Am Legend, The Matrix, Austin Powers 2"


ANDY TENNANT - Director- "Hitch"

JOE ROTH - Chairman of "The Walt Disney Studios & 20th Century Fox"

PETER GUBER - Academy Award Winner-Producer "Rain Man, Batman
                                                                                                         “& The Color Purple"

MARK HARRIS - Academy Award Winner-Producer "Crash"

BOBBY MORESCO - Academy Award Winner-Writer "Crash"

DAVID WARD - Academy Award Winner- Writer "The Sting"

JACKIE EARLE HALEY - Academy Award- Supporting Actor Nominee
                                                                                “Little Children” & Watchmen”

ED LACHMAN - DP -Academy Award Nominee- "Far From Heaven"

MICHEAL OHOVEN - Academy Award Nominee- Producer "Capote"

DENISE CHAMIAN - Casting Director- "Saving Private Ryan"

APRIL WEBSTER - Emmy Award Winning Casting Director- "Lost, NEW Star Trek"

RANDY HILLER - Casting Director- "Crash, Iron Man & Iron Man 2"

DEBRA AQUILA - Casting Director- "Shawshank Redemption"

GARRY MARSHALL - Director- "Pretty Woman"

Several agents from CAA, Innovative Artists, Diverse, Metropolitan Talent Agency, Manager Miles Levy plus many other agents and managers.