Career: Fox debuted as a professional actor at the age of 15 in the sitcom Leo and Me. At 18, he moved to Los Angeles and took several bit parts, eventually making his mark in the sitcom Family Ties. Despite the show's heavy schedule, he found time to star in films, including the first of the Back to the Future trilogy, Teen Wolf, The Secret of My Success, and Bright Lights, Big City. In 1989, the series came to an end, giving Michael time to devote to his movie career, but he returned to TV in 1996 for Spin City and has guest starred in Scrubs. Despite ill health caused by Parkinson's disease, he has continued to work, most notably providing the voice for Stuart Little and featuring on TV in Boston Legal, Rescue Me and The Good Wife.

Career: Zane got his big break in that same year, when he landed the role of psychotic Hughie Warriner in the chilling flick Dead Calm, opposite Sam Neill and Nicole Kidman. A year later, he won his first leading role in the indie sci-fi thriller Megaville, before joining the cast of ensemble piece Memphis Belle. Since then, he has gone on to accumulate a vast number of roles, from playing John Justice Wheeler in TV smash Twin Peaks, to the villainous Caledon Hockley in blockbuster Titanic. In recent years, Zane has turned his hand to producing as well as starring in movies, and demonstrated his singing and dancing skills with a turn on Broadway in Chicago. He always has a number of projects in the pipeline.

Career: At USC, Zemeckis developed a close friendship with fellow student Bob Gale, who he co-wrote the Back to the Future trilogy with. After winning a Student Academy Award at USC for his film A Field of Honor, Zemeckis formed a working relationship with director Steven Spielberg, who executive produced a number of his films. Zemeckis was struggling to find work in the early 1980s until Michael Douglas hired him to direct Romancing the Stone. It was a box-office hit and gave Zemeckis the clout he needed to direct Back to the Future (1985), which was hugely successful and was followed by two sequels. He went on to direct a string of successful movies, including Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Death Becomes Her (1992), Forrest Gump (1994), Contact (1997), What Lies Beneath (2000), Cast Away (2000), The Polar Express (2004) and A Christmas Carol (2009). He produced box-office animated flop Mars Needs Moms (2011) but bounced back by directing live-action drama Flight (2012).