Pete Docter

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Pete Docter at the Venice Film Festival, 2009
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Peter "Pete" Hans Docter (born August 10, 1968 in Bloomington , Minnesota ) is an American film director , screenwriter and animator for Pixar Animation Studios .

Life

The son of a music teacher and a choir director grew up with two sisters. While his siblings also devoted to music, Docter created at the age of eight first own flipbook . He was considered an introvert, attended John F. Kennedy High School in Bloomington and then studied philosophy and art at the University of Minnesota . After a year he moved to the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), where he attended the college program for character animation .

From the end of the 1980s Docter devoted himself to his first animated short films with Next Door , Palm Springs and Winter . The first film mentioned earned him the Student Academy Award in 1990 . The admirer of Friz Freleng and Walt Disney worked for Disney , Reelworks, Bajus-Jones Film Corporation and Bob Rogers & Company after graduating from college . His work as a screenwriter and animator at Pixar Animation Studios , of which he was one of the first employees , brought him great success . After writing the screenplays for Toy Story (1995) and Toy Story 2 (1999) in collaboration with John Lasseter , Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich , Docter directed and wrote the screenplay for his first animated feature film, Die Monster AG (2001) . The story of two likeable monsters who regularly climb through doors into the human world in a factory to scare children was nominated for four Oscars in 2002, including Docter and John Lasseter in the Best Animated Feature Film category .

After Die Monster AG , Docter directed the Oscar-nominated short film Mike's New Car (2002), which featured the two main characters of his hit film. He received another nomination together with Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon for the film script for Stanton's animated feature film WALL · E - The last one clears the earth (2008). His greatest success as a director to date was the animation film Above , on which he had worked for five years. The $ 175 million production about an old, lonely widower who uses balloons to transform his house into an airship and head for the Amazon was the first animated film to open the Cannes International Film Festival . Above , Docter brought in great praise from the critics, who praised the film as a “heart-wrenching, visually stunning and highly entertaining Pixar fairy tale” , which could establish the hope of 3D technology as a cinematic medium among many. Docter, who was once again responsible for the script, won the Annie Animated Film Award , the British Academy Film Award and the Golden Globe Award . In 2010 the film was nominated for five Academy Awards and became the first animated film since 1992 to be nominated in the Best Picture category . Docter won the award for best animated film.

Docter wrote the screenplay with Ronnie del Carmen and directed the Pixar film Everything Stands Up , which was presented at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival .

Private life

Pete Docter is married and has two children. His daughter Elie he entrusted in the top with a voice as a young Ellie. Several times he lent characters from Pixar films himself his voice. In 2009 he and his Pixar colleagues Brad Bird , John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich received the Golden Lion of the Venice International Film Festival for life's work.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Docter at the awarding of the Golden Lion with (from left to right) Andrew Stanton, John Lasseter, laudator George Lucas , Lee Unkrich and Brad Bird

Oscar

  • 1996 : nominated for Best Original Screenplay for Toy Story
  • 2002 : nominated in the Best Animated Feature Film category for Die Monster AG
  • 2003 : Nominated in the Best Animated Short Film category for Mike's New Car
  • 2009 : nominated in the category Best Original Screenplay for WALL · E
  • 2010 : Best animated feature film and nominated in the category Best Original Screenplay for Above
  • 2016 : Best animated feature film for everything is upside down

BAFTA Award

  • 2002: BAFTA Children's Award in the Best Feature Film category for Die Monster AG
  • 2010 : Best animated feature film and nominated in the category Best Original Screenplay for Above

Further

Annie Award

  • 1996: Best Individual Achievement - Animation for Toy Story
  • 2000: Best Screenplay for Toy Story 2
  • 2003: nominated in the category Best Director for Die Monster AG
  • 2010: Best Director and nominated in the Best Screenplay category for Above
  • 2016: Best director and best script for Everything is upside down

Broadcast Film Critics Association

  • 2010: nominated in the category Best Original Screenplay for Above

Hochi Film Award

  • 2002: Best foreign language film for Die Monster AG

Nebula Award

Online Film Critics Society Awards

  • 2000: nominated in the category Best Original Screenplay for Toy Story 2

Phoenix Film Critics Society

  • 2009: Best Original Screenplay for Above

Robert

  • 2010: Best American Film for Up

Satellite Awards

  • 2009: nominated in the category Best Original Screenplay for Above

Venice International Film Festival

Visual Effects Society Award

  • 2010: nominated in the category Bete Animation in an Animated Feature Film for Above

Washington DC Area Film Critics Association

  • 2009: nominated in the category Best Original Screenplay for Above

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Covert, Colin: The Wizard of 'UP' . In: Star Tribune , May 24, 2009, p. 1E.
  2. ↑ cf. Zeckau, Katharina: Above . In: film-dienst 19/2009 (accessed on March 6, 2010 via Munzinger Online ).
personal data
SURNAME Docter, Pete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Docter, Peter Hans (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director, screenwriter and animator
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Bloomington , Minnesota , United States