Pete Docter
Peter " Pete " Hans Docter ( born August 10, 1968 in Bloomington, Minnesota ) is an American film director and screenwriter and animator for Pixar Animation Studios.
Biography
The son of a music teacher and a choir director grew up with two sisters. While his siblings also devoted to music, Docter created first own flip books at the age of eight. He was considered an introvert, the John F. Kennedy attended 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 late 1980s, with Docter devoted Next Door, Palm Springs and Winter first own animated short films. First-mentioned film earned him the 1990 Student Academy Award. The admirers of Friz Freleng and Walt Disney worked after graduating from college for Disney, Reelworks, Bajus -Jones Film Corporation and Bob Rogers & Company. Great success brought him his work as a screenwriter and animator at Pixar Animation Studios, a, to its first employees he belonged. After the scripts for Toy Story (1995) and Toy Story 2 ( 1999), which was created in collaboration with John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich, Docter directed and wrote the screenplay for his first animated feature film, Monsters, Inc. (2001). The story of two sympathetic monster who regularly through doors in the world of men to rise in a factory, to scare children, was created in 2002 nominated for four Oscars, including Docter with John Lasseter for Best Animated Feature.
After Monsters, Inc. Docter directed the Oscar - nominated short film Mike's New Car (2002), who went back to the two main characters of his hit film. He received another nomination together with Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon for the movie script to Stanton's animated feature film WALL-E - Legend of the Dee on Earth (2008). His greatest success as a director was 2009, the animated film Up, in which he had worked for five years. The 175 million -US-dollar production about a lonely old widower who transforms his house using balloons in an airship and direction Amazon breaks, opened as the first animated film the International Film Festival of Cannes. Top Docter brought great praise a part of critics who praised the film as " heartbreaking, visually stunning and highly entertaining Pixar 's Tale", which could establish the hopefuls 3D technology as a cinematic tool among others. Docter, who had once more drawn also responsible for the screenplay template, won, among others, the animated film Annie Price, the British Academy Film Award and a Golden Globe Award. 2010, the film was nominated for five Oscars and won the first animated film since 1992, a nomination for Best Picture. Docter won the award for the best animated film.
Pete Docter is married and has two children. His daughter Elie he entrusted to the top with a speaking role as young Ellie. Several times he borrowed characters from Pixar films even his voice. In 2009 he received along with his Pixar colleagues Brad Bird, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival for his life's work.
Filmography (selection)
Awards
- 2002: BAFTA Children 's Award for Best Feature Film for Monsters, Inc.
- 2010: Best Animated Feature and was nominated in the category Best Original Screenplay for the top
Broadcast Film Critics Association
- 2010: nominated for Best Original Screenplay for the top
Hochi Film Award
- 2002: Best Foreign Language Film for Monsters, Inc.
Nebula Award
- 2008: Best Script ( Best Screenplay ) for WALL · E - Legend of the Dee on earth ( with Jim Reardon and Andrew Stanton )
Online Film Critics Society Awards
- 2000: nominated for Best Original Screenplay for Toy Story 2
Phoenix Film Critics Society
- 2009: Best Original Screenplay for the top
Robert
- 2010: Best American film for the top
Satellite Awards
- 2009: nominated for Best Original Screenplay for the top
International Film Festival of Venice
- 2009: Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
Visual Effects Society Award
- 2010: nominated in the category Pray animation in an animated feature film for the top
Washington DC Area Film Critics Association
- 2009: nominated for Best Original Screenplay for the top