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Chris Buck

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Christopher James Buck, known as Chris Buck, born in Wichita, Kansas, on 24 February 1958, is an American film director, animator and screenwriter who has been active since 1978. He is known for co-directing Tarzan in 1999, Surf's Up in 2007, which was nominated for the 2007 Oscar for Best Animated Feature, and Frozen in 2013. Within this atlas Chris Buck is credited as the co-director and writer of Tarzan and Frozen. These details are drawn from the English Wikipedia article Chris Buck, which this entry cites as its source.

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Academy Award for Best Animated Feature 1
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1958 1
Chris Buck
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Frozen, Landmark Works
Source Frozen (2013 film) (Wikipedia)
Source Wikipedia - Frozen (franchise)
Source Tarzan (1999 film) - Wikipedia
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1. Chris Buck (Wikipedia)
  • Article lead sentence
    Christopher James Buck (born February 24, 1958) is an American film director, animator, and screenwriter known for co-directing Tarzan (1999), Surf's Up (2007) (which was nominated for the 2007 Oscar for Best Animated Feature), Frozen (2013; which won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature in 2014), Frozen II (2019), and Wish (2023).
  • Article text
    On March 2, 2014, upon accepting the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for co-directing Frozen at the 86th Academy Awards, Buck dedicated the award to his son Ryder.
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Tarzan (1999 film) - Wikipedia
Works Created: Tarzan (1999 film), Article lead sentence
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Produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, it was directed by Kevin Lima and Chris Buck, from a screenplay by Tab Murphy and the writing team of Bob Tzudiker and Noni White, and is the first major animated film adaptation of the story.
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Frozen (2013 film) (Wikipedia)
Works Created: Frozen, Infobox: director
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Chris Buck Jennifer Lee (filmmaker), Jennifer Lee
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Wikipedia - Frozen (franchise)
Works Created: Frozen (franchise), Lead
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Frozen is a Disney media franchise started by the 2013 American animated feature film Frozen, which was directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, screenplay by Lee and produced by Peter Del Vecho, music score by Christophe Beck, and songs written by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez.
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