Mulan
1998
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Barry Cook (born August 12, 1958) is an American film director who has worked in the animated film industry since the 1980s. Cook and Tony Bancroft directed Mulan (1998), for which they won the 1998 Annie Award for Best Animated Feature. [1] . Cook was also the co-director for Arthur Christmas (2011), directed by Sarah Smith.
- Film director, writer, animator
- 12 August 1958 (age 65), Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Director: Mulan. Barry Cook was born and raised in Nashville, TN, USA. He began making films at the age of ten on the family super 8 camera. He won two prizes in the local PBS-sponsored Young Filmakers Festival with "The Vampire" and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" at the age of twelve.
- January 1, 1
- Director, Visual Effects, Writer
- Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Barry Cook
Jun 19, 1998 · Mulan: Directed by Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook. With Miguel Ferrer, Harvey Fierstein, Freda Foh Shen, June Foray. To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.
- (306K)
- Animation, Adventure, Comedy
- Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook
- 1998-06-19
Barry Cook. Director: Mulan. Barry Cook was born and raised in Nashville, TN, USA. He began making films at the age of ten on the family super 8 camera. He won two prizes in the local PBS-sponsored Young Filmakers Festival with "The Vampire" and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" at the age of twelve.
- August 12, 1958
- A Few Good Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come
- The Monster in President Richard Nixon’s Basement
- A Smurfing Start in Animation
- The Rise of Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida
- Off His Rockers
- Mulan
- “A Great Way to Spend Your Life”
- “Too Human” For Animation
- My Peoples
- Animated Cast, Animated Characters
To Barry Cook, it was not long ago when he was growing up in Goodlettsville, TN, just north of Nashville. At 10 years old, Cook already desired to be a filmmaker. With a Super 8 camera, Cook made his very first film: a three-minute, 20-second adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. “Because that’s how long the cartridge in Super 8 film ra...
Cook soon began experimenting with animation. He had always been drawn to illustrations, seeing as how his father was a painter. “The arts were really encouraged in my family,” says Cook. “Painting, sculpting and filmmaking – that was our lifestyle. It was sort of unusual amongst our neighbors and friends, but it was really great to have that backg...
Cook’s love of animation was partially ignited by sitting in front of the television, as a four-year-old boy, enjoying the cartoons of Hanna-Barbera Studios. Hence, it seemed appropriate to him that, at age 18, his first break in the animation industry arrived with an internship at Hanna-Barbera, as an assistant animator. One of his most notable ta...
In 1981, Cook joined Disney after hearing a friend speak of the cutting edge technology soon to be introduced in TRON(1982). He served as an effects animator on the film, crediting the experience as when his career “took off, with a lot of bits and pieces in-between.” In his first role at Disney, Cook shared an office with fellow animator Mark Dind...
The Florida studio’s chance to shine came with their own short but high-profile project: the Roger Rabbit vehicle Roller Coaster Rabbit (1990). Having worked with the Burbank studio on the wacky rabbit’s first short, Tummy Trouble(1989), Rob Minkoff returned to the director’s chair, with Cook assisting on the special effects. After their regular wo...
Instead, Cook was involved with something bigger – much bigger – for WDFA Florida: its first full-length feature. Disney execs saw fitting that the Florida studio should craft the 36th entry in the company’s official animation canon. Given the positive reception to his short films, Cook was selected to direct the film, its tentative titles includin...
But Mulanhad taken its toll on Cook, having worked tirelessly on the film for a five-year stretch, almost exactly to the day it began. “I was the first person who would start developing the movie, and I was literally the last person to leave the Technicolor lab after the final color timing.” Worn, Cook began to question his future in the animation ...
After a five-month sabbatical, Cook began developing ideas for his next animated feature. The one that “stuck” was based on a short story he had developed years earlier: The Ghost & His Gift, a retelling of Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost. Set in the late 1940s Appalachia, Gifttold how a ghost and three children helped bring together a young ma...
Cook knew he had to do something special to capture Schumacher’s attention and persuade him to greenlight My Peoples. He shipped an old wooden violin case to L.A. through FedEx and instructed an assistant to place it on a conference room table. Via teleconference, Schumacher entered the meeting, although Eisner was unable to attend. Cook, still in ...
There was another benefit to the animation hybrid. With My Peoples, the animators of WDFA Florida could animate traditionally, while also training to someday complete a fully-computer animated feature. For example, the respected Alex Kupershmidt, best known for animating the title character in Aladdin, would get his start in computer animation, whi...
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Barry Cook. Director/Writer/Producer. Barry Cook is a veteran of film and animation with 40 years of experience in the industry. He began his career at Hanna-Barbera Studios, where he worked as an assistant animator on the pilot episode of “The Smurfs”.
