DAME VANESSA REDGRAVE
SANAA LATHAN
DOMINIC COOKE (former artistic director Royal Court theatre London)
DAME KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS
GEORGE C. WOLFE
EUZHAN PALCY (director A Dry White Season etc)
COLMAN DOMINGO
SALMA HAYEK
SIR MARK RYLANCE (first artistic director Shakespeare’s Globe theatre London)
PATRICK CHAMOISEAU (Prix Goncourt)
DAME HELEN MIRREN
JEREMY IRONS
LILY TOMLIN
INDIRA ETWAROO
CLARKE PETERS
CLAIRE FOY
STERLING K. BROWN
TOBY JONES
ALFRE WOODARD
LATANYA RICHARDSON JACKSON
MARTIN SCORSESE
KEN LOACH
MIKE LEIGH
ARMANDO IANNUCI
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
REBECCA HALL
JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD
OCTAVIA SPENCER
STEVE COOGAN
ROBERT LEPAGE (founder and artistic director of Ex Machina Canada)
NADIA FALL (current artistic director Stratford East theatre London)
LESLEY MANVILLE
ANGELA BASSETT
TRACY LETTS
DANIEL CRAIG
STEPHEN SONDHEIM
PAAPA ESSIEDU
IMELDA STAUNTON
COSTA-GAVRAS (President of the Cinémathèque français)
ORLANDO BLOOM
EDWARD NORTON
RUFUS NORRIS (current artistic director Royal National Theatre)
KATIE MITCHELL (former associate director at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Court theatre and Royal National theatre)
KWAME KWEI-ARMAH (current artistic director Young Vic)
SIR RICHARD EYRE (former artistic director Royal National Theatre)
FIONA SHAW
CAREY MULLIGAN
VIOLA DAVIS
MATHEW RHYS
BARBRA STREISAND
SIR LENWORTH (LENNY) HENRY
SIR JONATHAN PRYCE
MICHAEL SHEEN
RUTH NEGGA
KENNY LEON
MARK DORNFORD-MAY (artistic director of the Isango Ensemble Cape Town SA)
KEITH DAVID
SHARON D CLARKE
JOSETTE BUSHELL-MINGO (Principal Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)
MARIANNE ELLIOTT (director War Horse etc)
VANESSA WILLIAMS