title: Michelle Dockery
Northern Lights (novel)
Rhythm and Hues Studios
Mathieu Raynault
Paul Groothuis
His Dark Materials
The Golden Compass (film)
Mir Zafar Ali
Lord Asriel
Deborah Forte
sentences: Michelle Suzanne Dockery (born 15 December 1981) is an English actress and singer.
 She is most widely known for her performance as Lady Mary Crawley in the ITV (UK) and PBS (U.S.) television period drama series "Downton Abbey" (2010–15), for which she was nominated for three consecutive Emmy Awards in the category for Outstanding Lead Actress In Drama Series, and a Golden Globe Award nomination.
 She made her professional stage debut in "His Dark Materials" in 2004.
 For her role as Eliza Doolittle in the 2007 London revival of "Pygmalion", she was nominated for the Evening Standard Award.
Northern Lights (known as The Golden Compass in North America and some other countries) is a young-adult fantasy novel by Philip Pullman, published by Scholastic UK in 1995.
 Set in a parallel universe, it features the journey of Lyra Belacqua to the Arctic in search of her missing friend, Roger Parslow, and her imprisoned uncle, Lord Asriel, who has been conducting experiments with a mysterious substance known as "Dust".
Rhythm & Hues Studios is an American visual effects and animation company that received the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 1995 for "Babe", in 2008 for "The Golden Compass", and in 2013 for "Life of Pi".
 It has also received four Scientific and Technical Academy Awards.
Mathieu Raynault is a Canadian digital matte painter, concept artist, and VFX art director.
 He has been producing matte paintings and illustrations for over 15 years.
 He is well known for his contributions on film productions like The Lord of the Rings, The Matrix series, Terminator Salvation, The Golden Compass, King Kong, Gangs of New York, and Star Wars saga; as well as many video games and print advertising projects.
Paul Groothuis is an award-winning sound designer who has had a long and prolific career working on the London stage.
 Groothuis was born in the Netherlands and moved to the UK in 1979 to study Stage Management at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
 He joined the National Theatre on the South Bank in 1984 and has designed sound for more than 120 NT productions.
 Some of his recent productions are "Her Naked Skin", "Rafta, Rafta...", "The Man of Mode", "The Life of Galileo", "The Royal Hunt of the Sun", "Once in a Lifetime", "His Dark Materials", "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" and "Stuff Happens".
 He has also designed sound for musicals at the NT, including "Sunday in the Park with George", "Sweeney Todd", "A Little Night Music", "Lady in the Dark" and "Guys and Dolls".
 In 1999, he won Live!
 Magazine Sound Designer of the Year Award for his work on "Oklahoma!
" and "Oh, What a Lovely War!
".
His Dark Materials is an epic trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman consisting of "Northern Lights" (1995, published as "The Golden Compass" in North America), "The Subtle Knife" (1997), and "The Amber Spyglass" (2000).
 It follows the coming of age of two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, as they wander through a series of parallel universes.
 The three novels have won a number of awards, most notably the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year prize, won by "The Amber Spyglass".
 "Northern Lights" won the Carnegie Medal for children's fiction in the UK in 1995.
 The trilogy took third place in the BBC's Big Read poll in 2003.
The Golden Compass is a 2007 British-American fantasy adventure film based on "Northern Lights", the first novel in Philip Pullman's trilogy "His Dark Materials".
 Written and directed by Chris Weitz, it stars Nicole Kidman, Dakota Blue Richards, Daniel Craig, Sam Elliott, Eva Green, and Ian McKellen.
 The project was announced in February 2002, but difficulties over the script and the selection of a director caused significant delays.
 At US$180 million, it was one of New Line Cinema's most expensive projects ever, and its disappointing results in the USA contributed to New Line's February 2008 restructuring.
Mir Zafar Ali (Urdu:میر ظفر علی) is a Pakistani movie visual effects artist.
 He worked in the team that won the Academy Award for best visual effects for the 2007 movie "The Golden Compass".
 He is the first Pakistani to have been connected with an Academy Award-winner for Best Visual Effects.
Lord Asriel is a major character in Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy.
 Asriel is a member of the aristocracy in a parallel universe dominated by the Church.
 He is described as being "a tall man with powerful shoulders, a fierce dark face, and eyes that seem to flash and glitter with savage laughter."
 Possessed of enormous determination and willpower, he is fierce in nature and commands great respect in both the political and academic spheres, being a military leader and a fellow of Jordan College in his world's version of the University of Oxford.
Deborah Forte is an American award-winning producer of family television series and movies, websites and digital media including "Clifford the Big Red Dog", "The Magic School Bus", "Goosebumps", "WordGirl", "Maya & Miguel", "I Spy", "The Baby-Sitters Club", "The Golden Compass" and "Astroblast".
 She created Scholastic Media, a division of Scholastic Inc. She is the founder of Silvertongue Films, and currently is producing Mortal Engines with Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh for Universal, a Goosebumps sequel for Sony, and a television adaptation of His Dark Materials.
 She is attached to produce the 39 Clues and Spirit Animals for Universal and Clifford the Big Red Dog for Paramount.

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 Northern Lights (known as The Golden Compass in North America and some other countries) is a young-adult fantasy novel by Philip Pullman, published by Scholastic UK in 1995.
 Set in a parallel universe, it features the journey of Lyra Belacqua to the Arctic in search of her missing friend, Roger Parslow, and her imprisoned uncle, Lord Asriel, who has been conducting experiments with a mysterious substance known as "Dust". 

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 Rhythm & Hues Studios is an American visual effects and animation company that received the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 1995 for "Babe", in 2008 for "The Golden Compass", and in 2013 for "Life of Pi".
 It has also received four Scientific and Technical Academy Awards. 

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 Mathieu Raynault is a Canadian digital matte painter, concept artist, and VFX art director.
 He has been producing matte paintings and illustrations for over 15 years.
 He is well known for his contributions on film productions like The Lord of the Rings, The Matrix series, Terminator Salvation, The Golden Compass, King Kong, Gangs of New York, and Star Wars saga; as well as many video games and print advertising projects. 

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 Paul Groothuis is an award-winning sound designer who has had a long and prolific career working on the London stage.
 Groothuis was born in the Netherlands and moved to the UK in 1979 to study Stage Management at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
 He joined the National Theatre on the South Bank in 1984 and has designed sound for more than 120 NT productions.
 Some of his recent productions are "Her Naked Skin", "Rafta, Rafta...", "The Man of Mode", "The Life of Galileo", "The Royal Hunt of the Sun", "Once in a Lifetime", "His Dark Materials", "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" and "Stuff Happens".
 He has also designed sound for musicals at the NT, including "Sunday in the Park with George", "Sweeney Todd", "A Little Night Music", "Lady in the Dark" and "Guys and Dolls".
 In 1999, he won Live!
 Magazine Sound Designer of the Year Award for his work on "Oklahoma!
" and "Oh, What a Lovely War!
". 

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 His Dark Materials is an epic trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman consisting of "Northern Lights" (1995, published as "The Golden Compass" in North America), "The Subtle Knife" (1997), and "The Amber Spyglass" (2000).
 It follows the coming of age of two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, as they wander through a series of parallel universes.
 The three novels have won a number of awards, most notably the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year prize, won by "The Amber Spyglass".
 "Northern Lights" won the Carnegie Medal for children's fiction in the UK in 1995.
 The trilogy took third place in the BBC's Big Read poll in 2003. 

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 The Golden Compass is a 2007 British-American fantasy adventure film based on "Northern Lights", the first novel in Philip Pullman's trilogy "His Dark Materials".
 Written and directed by Chris Weitz, it stars Nicole Kidman, Dakota Blue Richards, Daniel Craig, Sam Elliott, Eva Green, and Ian McKellen.
 The project was announced in February 2002, but difficulties over the script and the selection of a director caused significant delays.
 At US$180 million, it was one of New Line Cinema's most expensive projects ever, and its disappointing results in the USA contributed to New Line's February 2008 restructuring. 

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 Lord Asriel is a major character in Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy.
 Asriel is a member of the aristocracy in a parallel universe dominated by the Church.
 He is described as being "a tall man with powerful shoulders, a fierce dark face, and eyes that seem to flash and glitter with savage laughter."
 Possessed of enormous determination and willpower, he is fierce in nature and commands great respect in both the political and academic spheres, being a military leader and a fellow of Jordan College in his world's version of the University of Oxford. 

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 Deborah Forte is an American award-winning producer of family television series and movies, websites and digital media including "Clifford the Big Red Dog", "The Magic School Bus", "Goosebumps", "WordGirl", "Maya & Miguel", "I Spy", "The Baby-Sitters Club", "The Golden Compass" and "Astroblast".
 She created Scholastic Media, a division of Scholastic Inc. She is the founder of Silvertongue Films, and currently is producing Mortal Engines with Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh for Universal, a Goosebumps sequel for Sony, and a television adaptation of His Dark Materials.
 She is attached to produce the 39 Clues and Spirit Animals for Universal and Clifford the Big Red Dog for Paramount. 

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Answer: Philip Pullman