The spellers were Neil Kadakia, Emily Stagg, Ashley White, April DeGideo, Harry Altman, Angela Arenivar, Nupur Lala and Ted Brigham.

As they appear from left to right on the DVD's cover: Neil (as speller # 139) missed "hellebore" as "helebore" in the bee to get ninth place.

He is currently the COO of Greens Global, a real estate company based out of San Clemente, CA.

In 2006, as a junior in Carleton College, she wrote an op-ed article for the New York Times questioning the usefulness of the National Spelling Bee.

[1] The proctor of the Washington Informer regional spelling bee featured in the film is Mac McGarry.

In a prolonged clip, Altman was eliminated in the fourth round, on the word "banns", which he spelled "bands".

In 2014 Harry completed a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Michigan, focusing on integer complexity.

One of the more notable stories from his experience is the congratulations posted by students on the marquee in front of his high school in which "champ" was misspelled (presumably as an ironic joke) as "chapm".

Ted attended medical school in Kansas City, Missouri until his death in December 2007.

The website's critical consensus states, "A suspenseful, gripping documentary that features an engaging cross section of American children".

Spellbound won the Emmy Award for Cultural/Artistic Programming and Jeffrey Blitz was nominated for directing.