Cuarón's feature, Children of Men, an adaptation of the P. D. James novel starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore and Michael Caine, received wide critical acclaim, including three Academy Award nominations.

Famous people who have studied the Alexander Technique include writers Aldous Huxley, Robertson Davies and Roald Dahl, playwright George Bernard Shaw, actors Judy Dench, Hilary Swank, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Jeremy Irons, John Cleese, Kevin Kline, William Hurt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Paul Newman, Mary Steenburgen, Robin Williams and Patti Lupone, musicians Paul McCartney, Madonna, Yehudi Menuhin and Sting, and Nobel Prize winner for medicine and physiology Nikolaas Tinbergen.

The closing song of the 1969 Michael Caine crime caper, The Italian Job, (" Getta Bloomin ' Move On " a. k. a. " The Self Preservation Society ") contains many slang terms.

His less fantastic rivals include Le Carre's George Smiley and Harry Palmer as played by Michael Caine.

Many British actors have achieved international fame and critical success, including Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, Michael Caine, Charlie Chaplin, Sean Connery, Vivien Leigh, David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Peter Sellers and Kate Winslet.

In 1985, Frankenheimer directed an adaptation of the Robert Ludlum bestseller The Holcroft Covenant, starring Michael Caine.

Miss Congeniality is a 2000 American police comedy film directed by Donald Petrie, written by Marc Lawrence, Katie Ford, and Caryn Lucas, and starring Sandra Bullock, Michael Caine, Benjamin Bratt, and Candice Bergen.

Beauty pageant coach Victor Melling ( Michael Caine ), whose reputation was ruined after his last contestant criticized his methods, teaches the tomboyish Hart how to dress, walk, and act like a contestant.

* Michael Caine as Victor Melling

( 2008 ) directed by John Crowley and starring Michael Caine, score composed by Joby Talbot ; It's a Boy Girl Thing ( 2006 ) directed by Nick Hurran, score composed by Christian Henson and has featured on TV soundtrack and themes tunes, most recently for Psychoville, composed by Joby Talbot and episodes of Wallander, composed by Ruth Barrett.

It has interviewed such celebrities as Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruce Willis and Sir Michael Caine.

** Michael Caine, English actor ( Alfie )

Gelbart also co-wrote the golden-era film spoof Movie Movie ( 1978 ) starring George C. Scott in dual roles, the racy comedy Blame It on Rio ( 1984 ) starring Michael Caine and Demi Moore, and the 2000 remake of Bedazzled with Elizabeth Hurley and Brendan Fraser.

Set in South Africa and starring Michael Caine and Sidney Poitier, the film was an action melodrama with a focus on apartheid.

However, the film was poorly received and ridiculed for a heavy-handed approach, and for the casting of Michael Caine as a Southern patriarch.

* Michael Caine ( Hollywood film star, born in Rotherhithe )

It was made into a film in 1965 produced by Harry Saltzman and directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Michael Caine as the protagonist.

A film adaptation starring Michael Caine was released in 1965 and produced by the James Bond co-producer Harry Saltzman, assisted by several prominent members of the Bond production family.

* The Holcroft Covenant ( 1985 ), story from Robert Ludlum starring Michael Caine

Other films include The 25th Hour ( 1967 ), with Virna Lisi ; The Magus ( 1968 ), with Michael Caine and Candice Bergen, and based on the novel by John Fowles ; La Bataille de San Sebastian ( Guns for San Sebastian ) with Charles Bronson ; and The Shoes of the Fisherman, where he played a Catholic Archbishop in a Soviet Ukrainian prison who becomes Pope.

Actor Michael Caine was born Maurice Micklewhite and chose the name Michael because he preferred the sound of it to the less glamorous-sounding " Maurice ".

He chose the name Caine reputedly because at the precise instant he needed to decide upon his new stage name, he saw a cinema marquee for the then-current movie The Caine Mutiny and thought that it would make a good last name in conjunction with Michael.

Len Deighton ( left ) teaches Michael Caine how to break an egg on the set of The Ipcress File ( film ) | The IPCRESS File.

Of Muppets and Men: The Making of the Muppet Show, Michael Joseph: London, 1982 ISBN 0-7181-2112-0

* Richard C. Allen, Robert T. Gillis, Richard Bruce Elliott, Michael L. DePatie, Michael Tomack and Ron Fedele ( Muppet Babies )

The Muppet Babies take Michael on a roller-coaster ride through a drug-inflicted human brain.

Kathy Mullen, with her husband, former Muppet designer Michael K. Frith, has joined forces with British charity " No Strings " to create a film for children in Afghanistan, warning of the dangers of land mines.

Other instances include the 2005 Monday Night game against the Washington Redskins when the team inducted Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, and Michael Irving into the Cowboys Ring of Honor, and the 2006 Christmas Day game against the Philadelphia Eagles.

In July 2011, fellow Canadian superstar Michael Bublé confirmed in a live video chat with fans that he recorded a duet of ' White Christmas ' with Twain for his 2011 Christmas album.

In 2003, the piano-driven cover of the Tears for Fears ' " Mad World ", featured in the film as part of the end sequence was a hit for composer Michael Andrews and singer Gary Jules and a UK Christmas Number One.

In 1430 King Sigismund summoned the nobles of the Holy Roman Empire to a Reichstag in the city of Nuremberg and Oswald with his brother Michael immediately left Tyrol to meet the King, who instead of going directly to Nuremberg undertook a two-month detour to the South German cities of Überlingen and Constance to celebrate Christmas.

When Leo jailed Michael for suspicion of conspiracy, the latter organized the assassination of the Emperor in the palace chapel of St. Stephen on Christmas, 820.

Nevertheless, Michael masterminded a conspiracy which overthrew and murdered Leo in Christmas 820.

Michael sent messages to his co-conspirators threatening to reveal their identity, whereupon his partisans freed him and murdered Leo V during the Christmas mass in the palace chapel of St. Stephen.

They are supposed to hunt on specific nights ( the eves of St. John, St. Martin, Saint Michael the Archangel, All Saints, Christmas, New Year, Saint Agnes, Saint David, and Good Friday ), or just in the autumn and winter.

His skill in this regard was later recognised by George Michael, who worked with him to record " Last Christmas " and " Careless Whisper " using the same studio and equipment.

The Bickleys had two children, Peggy Bickley Point of Austin ( born Christmas Day 1941 ) and William Michael Bickley of Fort Worth ( born October 7, 1946 ).

* Michael Gambon as Kazran Sardick in " A Christmas Carol " on Doctor Who, December 2010.

Later that year he also portrayed Jacob Marley in a 1977 BBC television adaptation of A Christmas Carol, which starred Michael Hordern as Scrooge ; Sergio Angelini, writing for the British Film Institute considered that " although never frightening, he does exert a strong sense of melancholy, his every move and inflection seemingly tinged with regret and remorse ".

Michael learned of the murder at Brasovo, where he was spending Christmas with his family.

Over Christmas, Billy learns his best friend, Michael is gay.

In the first four years of teaming with Dove Award-winning producer Michael Sykes, they made a full length gospel album ( From The Heart ), another Christmas album ( Inconvenient Christmas ), a patriotic album ( Colors ), a bluegrass album ( The Journey ), and recorded gospel songs to be added to a special edition version of From The Heart that was available only from Feed The Children.

These included a tragedy Caesar's Fall ( written with Michael Drayton, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton and Anthony Munday ), and a collaboration with Thomas Dekker Christmas Comes but Once a Year ( 1602 ).

In the other Jack Frost film, Michael Keaton plays a human by the name of Jack Frost, who gets killed in a car-crash on Christmas Eve.

In 1995 Stewart received the Michael Faraday Medal and in 1997 he gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.

The most famous of these are the annual Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, founded by Michael Faraday.

In 2011, Thalía recorded a duet, " Mis Deseos / Feliz Navidad " with Canadian singer Michael Bublé on his 2011 album Christmas.

* 1959 – The Christmas Story ( Michael Flanders & the Mike Sammes Singers )

Michael A. Morrison discusses the influence of Dr. Seuss ' How the Grinch Stole Christmas on the film, writing that Jack parallels the Grinch and Zero parallels Max, the Grinch's dog.