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It may seem as if British actor Eddie Redmayne, 32, sprang from nowhere to win hearts with his revelatory turn as Marius in 2012’s Les Miserables. But nothing could be further from the truth.

“I have only been on one plane in the last two and a half year, which was three days ago, to get here and I already have a passage booked to go back to Europe this summer on a boat, so I really find any way to not get on a plane. ” This was Wes Anderson last February in New York, telling the HFPA during an exclusive press conferences of one of his many idiosyncrasies.

When Alejandro González Iñarritu was 17, he decided to go see the world. Having just been kicked out of high school due to poor grades, Iñarritu followed the steps of so many of his generation (and many other adventurers before them): he signed up for a job as a merchant seaman.

It is no surprise that the talented Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal, more popularly known as Jake Gyllenhaal, would end up in the entertainment field as an actor since his parents are also, as they say, in the biz. Acting since the tender age of 11, Jake has claimed his place as one of Hollywood’s top leading performers based on his talent, intelligence and passion for his craft.

When someone watches The Theory of Everything for the first time, it seems that the story revolves around the complicated life of Stephen Hawking, the famous scientist and writer who changed the way the masses understand physics while fighting ALS, the neurodegenerative disease that slowly paralyzes the bodies of those affected. But if you take a closer look, without taking anything away from the amazing performance by Eddie Redmayne as Hawking, it is easy to realize that the film works as a whole due to another astonishing acting lesson.

We almost lost Benedict Cumberbatch to law. The talented and acclaimed British actor, who was born Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch to thespians Timothy Carlton and Wanda Ventham, revealed to us that acting was not really his first choice.

When director David Fincher had to decide which actress to cast for the role of Amy Dunne, the apparently perfect wife of Nick (Ben Affleck) in Gone Girl, the task was not easy. Every movie star in town was dying to play the complex character created by Gillian Flynn in her amazing novel, but Fincher was looking for someone who can mislead the audience in a very special way.

It’s in his eyes. Whether he’s playing baddies like the Nazi commandant in his first major Hollywood movie, Schindler’s List, the depraved psychopath in Red Dragon or the fearsome Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter movies; or romantic leading men like the burn victim swathed in bandages in The English Patient, or the star-crossed lover in The End of the Affair, the weight of that magnetic grey-green gaze has caused his on-screen adversaries to cower, his on-screen lovers to swoon, and audiences everywhere to realize that Ralph Fiennes dominates the screen and can do anything.

It’s in his eyes. Whether he’s playing baddies like the Nazi commandant in his first major Hollywood movie, Schindler’s List, the depraved psychopath in Red Dragon or the fearsome Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter movies; or romantic leading men like the burn victim swathed in bandages in The English Patient, or the star-crossed lover in The End of the Affair, the weight of that magnetic grey-green gaze has caused his on-screen adversaries to cower, his on-screen lovers to swoon, and audiences everywhere to realize that Ralph Fiennes dominates the screen and can do anything.

Some call it the biggest comeback of the decade. He just calls it having a long career.