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English animator and director
Steven Royston Box (born 23 January 1967) is an English animator and director who works for
Aardman Animations .
His early work in animation included the popular British
claymation television series
The Trap Door for Bristol-based animation studio CMTB Animation.
Box joined
Aardman Animations in 1990. He directed the video for the
Spice Girls ' "
Viva Forever " in 1998. He won a
BAFTA Award in 1998 for his 11-minute animated film
Stage Fright which he wrote, directed and produced. He also provided the voice for the character of Vince in the TV series
Rex the Runt .
He was the key animator for Aardman's film
Chicken Run and was an animator for the
Wallace and Gromit films
The Wrong Trousers and
A Close Shave , before co-writing and co-directing the feature film
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit with
Nick Park . The film scooped his second BAFTA and his first
Academy Award for Best Animated Feature . The film has also collected another 22 international awards and 12 other nominations for other awards. The film was a massive success at the
Annie Awards where it won 10 Annie awards out of its 16 nominations.
In late 2017, Box was announced as the director behind the TV series,
Moominvalley , based on the
Moomins series.
[1] After a successful crowdfunding campaign, the series made its debut in 2019.
[2] In June 2022, it was announced that he is working on an original animated film for
Netflix .
[3]
References
External links
Awards for Steve Box
Shrek -
Aron Warner (2001)
Spirited Away -
Hayao Miyazaki (2002)
Finding Nemo -
Andrew Stanton (2003)
The Incredibles -
Brad Bird (2004)
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit -
Nick Park and
Steve Box (2005)
Happy Feet -
George Miller (2006)
Ratatouille -
Brad Bird (2007)
WALL-E -
Andrew Stanton (2008)
Up -
Pete Docter (2009)
Toy Story 3 -
Lee Unkrich (2010)
Rango -
Gore Verbinski (2011)
Brave -
Mark Andrews and
Brenda Chapman (2012)
Frozen -
Chris Buck ,
Jennifer Lee and
Peter Del Vecho (2013)
Big Hero 6 -
Don Hall ,
Chris Williams and
Roy Conli (2014)
Inside Out -
Pete Docter and
Jonas Rivera (2015)
Zootopia -
Byron Howard ,
Rich Moore and
Clark Spencer (2016)
Coco -
Lee Unkrich and
Darla K. Anderson (2017)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse -
Bob Persichetti ,
Peter Ramsey ,
Rodney Rothman ,
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (2018)
Toy Story 4 -
Josh Cooley , Mark Nielsen and
Jonas Rivera (2019)
Soul -
Pete Docter and
Dana Murray (2020)
Encanto -
Jared Bush ,
Byron Howard ,
Yvett Merino and
Clark Spencer (2021)
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio -
Guillermo del Toro ,
Mark Gustafson , Gary Ungar and
Alex Bulkley (2022)
The Boy and the Heron -
Hayao Miyazaki and
Toshio Suzuki (2023)
Brenda Chapman (1994)
Andrew Stanton ,
Joss Whedon ,
Joel Cohen and
Alec Sokolow (1996)
Rita Hsiao,
Chris Sanders ,
Philip LaZebnik , Raymond Singer and Eugenia Bostwick-Singer (1998)
Brad Bird and
Tim McCanlies (1999)
John Lasseter ,
Pete Docter ,
Ash Brannon ,
Andrew Stanton , Rita Hsiao, Doug Chamberlin and Chris Webb (2000)
Ted Elliott ,
Terry Rossio ,
Joe Stillman and
Roger S. H. Schulman (2001)
Hayao Miyazaki (2002)
Andrew Stanton ,
Bob Peterson and David Reynolds (2003)
Brad Bird (2004)
Steve Box ,
Nick Park and
Mark Burton (2005)
Dick Clement ,
Ian La Frenais ,
Christopher Lloyd ,
Joe Keenan and
William Davies (2006)
Brad Bird (2007)
Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger (2008)
Wes Anderson and
Noah Baumbach (2009)
Chris Sanders ,
Will Davies and
Dean DeBlois (2010)
James Ward Byrkit,
John Logan and
Gore Verbinski (2011)
Phil Johnston and
Jennifer Lee (2012)
Hayao Miyazaki (2013)
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (2014)
Pete Docter ,
Meg LeFauve and
Josh Cooley (2015)
Jared Bush and
Phil Johnston (2016)
Adrian Molina and Matthew Aldrich (2017)
Phil Lord and
Rodney Rothman (2018)
Jérémy Clapin and Guillaume Laurant (2019)
Pete Docter ,
Mike Jones and
Kemp Powers (2020)
Mike Rianda and
Jeff Rowe (2021)
Dean Fleischer Camp ,
Jenny Slate , Nick Paley and
Elisabeth Holm (2022)
Robert L. Baird and Lloyd Taylor (2023)
International National Artists Other