Chris Williams (screenwriter, I)

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Chris Williams is an American screenwriter , film producer , film director , animator, and voice actor . After he had previously worked on a number of well-known animated films, he became known to a larger audience with the film Bolt - A dog just in case . Among other things, he wrote the script for the film and worked on the animations , but also acted as a director and dubbed all the additional voices in the film.

life and career

Chris Williams is a native Canadian , he was born in ( Ottawa , Ontario ) where he attended Confederation High School from 1984 to 1989, then from 1989 to 1993 he studied art history at McGill University ( Montreal ), which he obtained with a bachelor's degree. Graduation finished. 1994–1997 he continued his education at Sheridan College (Ontario) and graduated with a diploma in animation . During this time he worked for Chuck Jones in 1996 , from 1999 to 2001 he was an animator at Nelvana, an animation studio, from 2002 to 2004 for Imageworks and from 2006 to 2007 for the film Spider-Man at Sony Pictures Imageworks .

Williams first made a significant impact in 1998 when he contributed the story to the award-winning and equally often nominated animated film Mulan . Just two years later he also provided the story for the film A Kingdom for a Lama , for which he also worked on the animations. This film also won several important film awards and was also nominated many times. Williams was nominated together with Mark Dindal in 2001 for the Annie Award in the category Outstanding Individual Achievement for Writing in an Animated Feature Production , but could not prevail in this category against Shrek . It was similar with the 2003 film Bear Brothers , where Williams added a few additional stories to the main story. He worked on the third Oscar-nominated film in a row and made it into the animation team of Heaven and Chicken in 2005 , followed by another animation activity in Meet the Robinsons in 2007.

He first caught on as a director in 2008 when he directed the short clip Glago's Guest , for which he also wrote the story. The short film was nominated three times for the Annie Award and was even awarded an Annie Award an additional time . Williams himself received the award in the category Best Storyboarding in an Animated Television Production or Short Form and was nominated in the category Best Writing in an Animated Television Production or Short Form . In addition, he wrote the screenplay for an episode of the series The Proto-Types - Workshop for Inventors, which was broadcast in German-speaking countries on DMAX , among others . After the actual director Chris Sanders , who had previously worked as a scriptwriter on the project, was released from the ongoing work on Bolt - A dog for all cases , which was still being produced under the title American Dog at the time , followed in December 2006 Williams in Sander's position in early February. After taking on the new position, Williams not only worked as a director, but also wrote parts of the script, worked on the animations and dubbed some additional voices in the film, which was finally released on November 21, 2008. The film, which was produced with a budget of $ 150 million, grossed over $ 300 million worldwide and was nominated for numerous film awards, but in the end failed to win one of the many awards.

Among others were Williams and his colleague Byron Howard , who came in February 2007, along with Williams in the production of the film for the Oscar in the Best Animated Feature nomination, could in this category but not to WALL-E - of the Dee Earth on prevail. Williams himself was also nominated for the VES Award in the Outstanding Animation in an Animated Motion Picture category for Prep & Landing , but could not win in this category either. In 2009, the 22-minute short film Prep & Landing was finally released, on which Williams was a story writer and executive producer . The multiple nominee and award-winning film received four Primetime Emmys , with Chris Williams also receiving the award in the Outstanding Animated Program category (less than an hour) . Also in 2009, the four-minute short film Super Rhino , based on the character Rhino from Bolt - A Dog for All Occasions was released. For the film, Chris Williams was again engaged as executive producer. In August 2010, Williams was confirmed as the director of the next Disney animated film, King of the Elves ; However, the start date for the production of the film is not set for 2011.

As a director he was involved in the film Baymax - Huge Robowabohu in 2014 .

Filmography

Awards and nominations

Awards
  • 2009: Winner of the Annie Award for Best Storyboarding in an Animated Television Production or Short Form for Glago's Guest
  • 2010: Awarded an Emmy in the category Outstanding Animated Program / cartoon show (less than an hour) for Prep & Landing
  • 2015: Awarded the Oscar in the category Best Animated Feature Film for Baymax - Huge Robowabohu (together with Don Hall and Roy Conli )
Nominations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chris Williams on linkedin.com
  2. ↑ CHRIS SANDERS NO LONGER DIRECTING AMERICAN DOG ( Memento of February 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 27, 2010
  3. ↑ Toy Story 3 and American Dog News ( Memento of the original from May 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed December 27, 2010  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cartoonbrew.com
  4. ^ King of the Elves being reworked; Disney plans far ahead , accessed December 27, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Williams, Chris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter, film producer, film director, animator, and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century