The Prince of Egypt is a 1998 American animated musical film produced by DreamWorks Animation, directed by Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner and Simon Wells, retelling the biblical account of Moses from his upbringing in the Egyptian royal household through the Exodus of the Israelites. It was DreamWorks Animation's first traditionally animated feature and one of the first major American animated films built around a large-scale biblical narrative for a general theatrical audience rather than a specifically religious one. The Prince of Egypt is widely regarded within the animation industry as a demonstration that a traditionally animated studio feature could address serious religious and historical subject matter at a large scale.
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Which Academy Award did The Prince of Egypt win?
It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for the song When You Believe.
The Prince of Egypt won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, at the ceremony the Academy lists as the 71st Academy Awards, held in 1999. The winning song was "When You Believe", with music and lyrics credited to Stephen Schwartz.
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Produced under the DreamWorks Pictures and DreamWorks SKG studio banner at its 1998 release; the cited source text uses the later DreamWorks Animation name for the same studio, which was not separately incorporated until 2004.
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The Prince of Egypt is a 1998 American animated musical drama film directed by Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, and Simon Wells, and written by Philip LaZebnik.
The Prince of Egypt, Description, original language
The Prince of Egypt is a 1998 American animated musical film produced by DreamWorks Animation, directed by Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner and Simon Wells, retelling the biblical account of Moses from his upbringing in the Egyptian royal household through the Exodus of the Israelites.
Created By: DreamWorks Pictures, lead paragraph, second sentence
It is the first traditionally animated film from DreamWorks Animation, and the first to be animated entirely in-house at DWA Glendale after Amblimation was closed in 1997.
View the Source 2. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: The 71st Academy Awards | 1999
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Music (Original Song) Winner The Prince of Egypt
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