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John Arthur Lithgow (; born , 1945 ) is an American actor , musician , singer , and author . He has received two Tony Awards , five Emmy Awards , two Golden Globe Awards , three Screen Actors Guild Awards , an American Comedy Award , four Drama Desk Awards and has also been nominated for two ___MASK79___ and four Grammy Awards . Lithgow has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and has been inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame . Leonard Norman Cohen ( September 21 , 1934  November 7 , 2016 ) was a Canadian singer , songwriter , musician , poet , novelist , and painter . His work mostly explored religion , politics , isolation , sexuality , and personal relationships . Cohen was inducted into both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame as well as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame . He was a Companion of the ___MASK62___ , the nation ' s highest civilian honor . In 2011 , Cohen received one of the Prince of Asturias Awards for literature and the ninth Glenn Gould Prize . Victoria " Vicky " Jenson ( born 1960 ) is a film director of both live - action and animated films , and has been said to be " one of Hollywood ' s most inspiring female Directors [" sic "]". She has directed projects for DreamWorks Animation including " Shrek ", the first film to win an ___MASK88___ , giving rise to one of Hollywood ' s largest film franchises . The Hobbit , or There and Back Again is a children ' s fantasy novel by English author J . R . R . Tolkien . It was published on 21 September 1937 to wide critical acclaim , being nominated for the ___MASK77___ and awarded a prize from the " New York Herald Tribune " for best juvenile fiction . The book remains popular and is recognized as a classic in children ' s literature . The Lord of the Rings is an epic high - fantasy novel written by English author J . R . R . Tolkien . The story began as a sequel to Tolkien ' s 1937 fantasy novel " The Hobbit ", but eventually developed into a much larger work . Written in stages between 1937 and 1949 , " The Lord of the Rings " is one of the best - selling novels ever written , with over 150 million copies sold . Batman Forever is a 1995 American superhero film directed by Joel Schumacher and produced by Tim Burton , based on the DC Comics character Batman . It is the third installment of the , with Val Kilmer replacing Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne / Batman . The film stars Chris O ' Donnell , Nicole Kidman , Tommy Lee Jones and Jim Carrey . The plot focuses on Batman trying to stop Two - Face ( Jones ) and the Riddler ( Carrey ) in their villainous scheme to extract confidential information from all the minds in Gotham City and use it to learn Batman ' s identity and bring the city under their control . He gains allegiance from a love interest  psychiatrist Dr . Chase Meridian ( Kidman ) and a young , orphaned circus acrobat named Dick Grayson ( O ' Donnell ), who becomes his sidekick Robin . Shrek is a 2001 American computer - animated fantasy - comedy film directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson in their directorial debut . It features the voices of Mike Myers , Eddie Murphy , Cameron Diaz , and John Lithgow . It is loosely based on William Steig ' s 1990 fairy tale picture book " Shrek !", and somewhat serves as a parody film , targeting other films adapted from numerous children ' s fantasies ( mainly animated Disney films ). The film ' s includes music by Smash Mouth , Eels , Joan Jett , The Proclaimers , Jason Wade , Baha Men , and John Cale ( covering Leonard Cohen ). Nicole Mary Kidman , AC ( born 20 June 1967 ) is an Australian actress and film producer . Kidman ' s breakthrough roles were in the 1989 feature film thriller " Dead Calm " and television thriller miniseries " Bangkok Hilton ". Appearing in several films in the early 1990s , she came to worldwide recognition for her performances in the stock - car racing film " Days of Thunder " ( 1990 ), the romance - drama " Far and Away " ( 1992 ), and the hero film " Batman Forever " ( 1995 ). Other successful films followed in the late 1990s . Her performance in the musical " Moulin Rouge !" ( 2001 ) earned her a second Golden Globe Award for Best Actress  Motion Picture Comedy or Musical and her first nomination for the ___MASK61___ . Kidman ' s performance as Virginia Woolf in the drama film " The Hours " ( 2002 ) received critical acclaim and earned her the ___MASK61___ , the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role , the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture  Drama and the ___MASK70___ at the Berlin International Film Festival . Andrew Ralph Adamson , MNZM ( born 1 December 1966 ) is a New Zealand film director , producer and screenwriter based mainly in Los Angeles , where he made the blockbuster animation films , Shrek and Shrek 2 for which he received an Academy Award nomination . He was director , executive producer , and scriptwriter for C . S . Lewis ' The Lion , the Witch , and the Wardrobe . Shooting took place in New Zealand , primarily in and around Auckland , but also in South Island where much of Peter Jackson ' s The Lord of the Rings trilogy was filmed . He also worked on the movies Batman Forever and Batman & Robin as a visual effects supervisor . He was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2006 Queen ' s Birthday Honours List .