Chris Williams (director)

Chris Williams is an American screenwriter, film producer, film director, animator and voice actor. After he had previously worked on some well-known animated films, he was with the film Bolt - for all cases known to a wider audience. He wrote, among other things, the script of the film and worked on the animations, but also acted as a director and synchronized all the additional voices of the film.

Life and career

Chris Williams is a native Canadian, he was born in ( Ottawa, Ontario) where he attended high school of Confederation from 1984 to 1989, then from 1989 to 1993, he studied at McGill University ( Montreal) art history, which he with the bachelor's degree finished. 1994-1997 he continued his education at Sheridan College ( Ontario) and graduated with a degree in animation. During this time, 1996, he worked for Chuck Jones 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.

For the first time Williams came in 1998, much in evidence, as he contributed to the history of award-winning and as often nominated animated film Mulan. Only two years later, he also provided the story for the film The Emperor 's New Groove, in which he participated also to the animations. This film also won some important film awards and has also been nominated many times. It also Williams was nominated along with Mark Dindal in 2001 for the Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Writing in a Feature Production Animated, but could not in this category prevail against Shrek. Similarly, it was also published in 2003 in the film Brother Bear, where Williams added a few additional stories of the already existing main story. He worked with already the third Oscar-nominated film in a row and made ​​it in 2005, even in the animation team of Chicken, followed by another animation activity in Meet the Robinsons in 2007.

In 2008 he made ​​the first time as a director attention to himself when he was the director with the short clip Glago 's Guest, which he also wrote the story. The short film was nominated among other things three times for the Annie Award and an additional time even won an Annie Award. Williams himself received it the Award for Best Storyboarding in category of Animated Television Production or Short Form and was nominated in the category of Best Writing in a Animated Television Production or Short Form. In addition, he wrote the screenplay for this year an episode of the broadcast in the German speaking among other DMAX series The proto- types - workshop for inventors. After the actual director Chris Sanders, who had previously worked as a script writer on the project, from the ongoing work on Bolt in December 2006 - was a dog for all cases, which was produced at this time under the title American Dog, released, followed in early February Sanders Williams on position. Following the acquisition of the new office, Williams was not only as a director in use, but also wrote parts of the script, worked on the animations and synchronized with some additional voices in the film, which was finally published on 21 November 2008. Produced with a budget of $ 150 million film grossed $ 300 million worldwide and was nominated for numerous film awards, managed in the end was not to win one of many prizes.

Among others, Williams and his colleague Byron Howard, who came in February 2007 along with Williams in the production of the film, nominated for an Oscar in the Best Animated Feature, could be in this category but not to WALL-E - Legend of the Dee prevail on earth. In addition, Williams was even nominated also for the VES Award for Outstanding Animation in at Animated Motion Picture for Prep & Landing, but could not win in this category also. In 2009, finally the approximately 22 minute long short film Prep & Landing was published, in which Williams was as a story writer and executive producer in use. The multi- nominated and excellent film won four Primetime Emmy Awards, where Chris Williams was allowed to receive (less than one hour) the award for Outstanding Animated Program / ​​Animation shipment. Also in 2009 was also the roughly four-minute short film Super Rhino, based on the character of Rhino from Bolt - for all cases published. In the film, Chris Williams was again hired as executive producer. In August 2010, Williams was confirmed as director of the next Disney animated film King of the Elves; the start date for the production of the film, however, is not scheduled until 2011.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

  • 2009: Awarded the Annie Award for Best Storyboarding in category of Animated Television Production or Short Form for Glago 's Guest
  • 2010: Awarded the Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program / ​​Animation shipment (less than one hour) for Prep & Landing
  • 2001: Nominated for the Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Writing in a Feature Production Animated for The Emperor's New Groove ( with Mark Dindal )
  • 2009: Nominated for the Annie Award in the Best Writing category of Animated Television Production or Short Form for Glago 's Guest
  • 2009: Nominated for VES Award for Outstanding Animation in at Animated Motion Picture for Prep & Landing (along with Byron Howard, John Murrah and Doug Bennett )
  • 2009: Nominated for the Oscar for Best Animated Feature for Bolt - for all cases (along with Byron Howard)
Spider-Man (2002 film) Mulan (1998 film) DMAX (TV channel) Chris Sanders (director)
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