From Juilliard to Mork & Mindy, from Good Will Hunting to the misunderstood final year of Lewy body dementia — the complete life story of the king of improvisational comedy.

From Perth to Brokeback Mountain to the Joker — the extraordinary, tragically short career of one of his generation's most fearless actors.

From the Sundance Kid to Ordinary People to founding Sundance itself — the actor, director, and environmentalist who reshaped American independent film.

From Roman Holiday to Breakfast at Tiffany's — the ballet dancer turned Hollywood icon whose final chapter was devoted to UNICEF and humanitarian work.

From Yale Drama School to the most Oscar-nominated actor in history — a career defined by an unmatched range across drama, comedy, and musicals.

From Welsh boarding stages to Hannibal Lecter to the oldest Best Actor winner in Oscar history — six decades of never repeating himself.

From Niigata stages to The Last Samurai and Letters from Iwo Jima — the Japanese actor who conquered leukemia twice and never lost his cultural roots in Hollywood.

From child stunt actor under Sonny Chiba to Shogun's Emmy-winning Lord Toranaga — five decades bridging Japanese and Hollywood cinema through discipline and craft.

From a black-and-white micro-budget debut to Oppenheimer's Oscar sweep — the auteur who proved blockbusters can carry serious intellectual weight.

From young Vito Corleone to Jake LaMotta's 60-pound transformation — the actor who redefined how far method acting could go.

From The Graduate's awkward everyman to Rain Man's meticulous savant — the actor who proved stardom never needed a classic leading-man face.

From Michael Corleone's icy silence to Tony Montana's operatic rage — the actor who proved restraint and explosion can be equally powerful.

From Rashomon to Ran — the director who proved samurai-era Japan could speak to the whole world, inspiring everyone from Leone to Lucas.

From six years unemployed to the only filmmaker to win Best Director twice for Asian-directed films — Brokeback Mountain to Life of Pi, a career built on crossing every cultural boundary.

From A City of Sadness to The Assassin — the master of the long take who proved slowness could be the most radical cinematic language, confronting Taiwan's deepest historical wounds.

From The Terrorizers to Yi Yi — the engineer-turned-director who dissected modern Taipei's urban alienation with the precision of a blueprint, then said cinema triples a human life.

From Big to back-to-back Oscars for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump — Hollywood's most trusted everyman, and the force behind the War Trilogy's WWII epics.

From Schindler's List's chilling Amon Göth to Voldemort to Conclave — the RSC-trained actor who moves fluently between horror, comedy and prestige drama.

From Prime Suspect's Jane Tennison to an Oscar-winning Queen Elizabeth II to RED's lethal retiree — proof that grace and power were never a binary choice.

From The Hustler's self-destruction to a 25-year wait for his Oscar in The Color of Money — the anti-hero icon who turned his stardom into Newman's Own charity.