29. J.J. ABRAMS
AGE 41
JOB TITLE Producer/director
SMART BECAUSE He also writes screenplays and designs entire marketing campaigns. Used his clout from directing Mission: Impossible III to persuade Paramount to let him make January's monster flick Cloverfield and reboot the Star Trek franchise. Already conquered TV (Alias, Lost);
now modeling his career after Spielberg, and just may get there.
EXTRA CREDIT Appeared in Six Degrees of Separation, starring fellow Smart Lister Will Smith.
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