Shrek (2001 film)

Shrek is a 2001 computer-animated fantasy comedy from DreamWorks Animation, directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson and based on William Steig's 1990 picture book Shrek!. The film follows a grumpy ogre who reluctantly sets out to rescue a princess in order to win back his swamp from a banished kingdom of fairy tale creatures. It won the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, a category created the same year the film debuted, and its blend of fairy tale parody, contemporary humor and pop culture references helped establish DreamWorks Animation as a serious rival to Pixar in computer animation. In 2020 the Library of Congress selected Shrek for preservation in the National Film Registry, the first animated film of the twenty first century to receive that recognition.