Topic: Pete Docter

Pete Docter is an animated film director, screenwriter, and voice actor. On February 15 th, 2010 , Docter was nominated for two Oscars at the 82nd Academy Awards . The first is for "Best Animated Feature Film" for "Up", of which Docter directed along ...

The Online Film Critics Society has published our list of the 100 best FIRST films. The list includes some neglected gems by directors who went on to make more widely lauded films as well as "L'Atlante by Jean Vigo, who made ...

Monsters, Inc." is an animated film about two monsters, Sulley and his best friend, Mike. They work for Monsters, Inc., the largest...

College students get a taste of Hollywood as Student Academy Award winnersIsaiah Powers, Jeremy Casper and Stuart Bury were just excited their Kansas City college offered an animation program. They never really expected they'd come to Hollywood to meet with their ...

In a recent junket, Pete Docter and Bob Peterson answered questions regarding the film, their experiences and inspirations. ________________________________________ Q: ________________________________________ Q: To Bob Peterson - did you model Dug's character after any real dogs you know? ________________________________________ Q: ________________________________________ Q: ________________________________________ ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Writing animated films requires patience, flexibility and an imagination larger than life. "Such constant reworking was nothing new to animation veterans Ron Clements and John Musker, who directed Disney's return to 2D animation with "The Princess and ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Mark Boal was crouched on the ground, preparing for impact. A freelance journalist and screenwriter, Boal had gone to Iraq and was working with a bomb-defusal squad as research for a Playboy article that would later inspire the ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When an expanded list of 10 movies competes next year for the best picture Oscar, director Pete Docter hopes his " Up" will become the first animated film since 1991's "Beauty and the Beast" to vie for Hollywood's ...

Pixar's 10th full-length film is also the studio's first venture into 3-D, which required some technical adjustments. " The grouch here is Carl (Asner), who so desires solitude that he affixes helium balloons to his house and flies away from civilization ...

`Up' with Pixar: "Up," with Edward Asner providing the voice of a 78-year-old curmudgeon flying to South America in a house rigged with 10,000 helium balloons, promises to continue the impeccable track record of Pixar, whose releases all have been critical ...