Steve Box

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Steve Box (born January 23, 1967 in Bristol ) is a British animator and film director who works for Aardman Animations . Together with Nick Park , he won the Oscar for best animated film at the 2006 Academy Awards for Wallace & Gromit - On the Hunt for the Giant Rabbit .

Life

Steve Box began his career as an animator on the British television series The Trap Door , a children's series with modeling clay that aired on ITV . At that time he was only 17 years old. He got the job through an advertisement that his father saw. In 1988 he was responsible for Stoppit and Tidyup .

In 1990 he joined Aardman Animations. He was the animator for the two Wallace & Gromit films Wallace & Gromit - Die Techno-Hose and Wallace & Gromit - Unter Schafen . He made his directorial debut with the short film Stage Fright , for which he received the BAFTA Award . His second directorial work was the music video for Spice Girls ' Viva Forever . He also shot commercials, including for Kelloggs and an AIDS campaign by Red Cross . In 2000 he was an animator for the movie Chicken Run (2000).

Together with Nick Park, he directed Wallace & Gromit in 2005 - On the Hunt for the Giant Rabbit , for which the two won an Oscar, two Annie Awards and two BAFTA Awards.

Filmography

As a director
As an animator

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Aardman's Steve Box Talks . In: Animation World Network . ( awn.com [accessed January 24, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Steve Box. In: IMDb. Retrieved January 24, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Box, Steve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British animator and film director
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Bristol