Steve Box
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
- 1997: Stage Fright (also screenplay and animation)
- 1998: Spice Girls : Viva Forever (music video)
- 2005: Wallace & Gromit - On the hunt for the giant rabbit (The Curse of the Were-Rabbit) (also screenplay)
- As an animator
- 1984: The trapdoor (The Trap Door)
- 1988: Stoppit and Tidyup
- 1993: Wallace & Gromit - Die Techno-Hose (The Wrong Trousers) (short film)
- 1995: Wallace & Gromit - Unter Schafen (A Close Shave) (short film)
- 2000: Chicken Run (Chicken Run)
Web links
- Steve Box in Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Aardman's Steve Box Talks . In: Animation World Network . ( awn.com [accessed January 24, 2018]).
- ↑ Steve Box. In: IMDb. Retrieved January 24, 2018 .
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SURNAME | Box, Steve |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British animator and film director |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1967 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bristol |