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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).
Chris Buck is an Oscar-winning animation film director and writer who worked on Disney and Sony Pictures Animation projects. He is known for Frozen, Tarzan, Surf's Up and Pocahontas.
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Christopher James "Chris" Buck is an American animator film director, who has worked for Walt Disney Animation Studios since 1978. He is most well-known for co-directing Tarzan (along with Kevin Lima), Frozen and its sequel (both along with Jennifer Lee), and Wish (along with Fawn Veerasunthorn). Outside of Disney, he co-directed the 2007 Sony comp...
•The Frozen II character Ryder is named after Chris Buck’s oldest son, who died shortly before the premiere of the original Frozen in 2013.
Chris Buck. Director: Frozen. Chris Buck is an animation film director from Wichita, Kansas. He directed the Disney animated films Tarzan, Frozen, Frozen Fever and Frozen II and Sony Pictures Animation's Surf's Up. He was a supervising animator for Percy, Grandmother Willow and Wiggins for Pocahontas. He won Best Animated Feature for Frozen. He had three children with Shelley Rae Hinton.
- February 24, 1958
Nov 16, 2023 · Published Nov 16, 2023. Wish directors Chris Buck and Fawn Veerasunthorn reveal how they came up with the original idea for Disney's 100th-anniversary film. Wish is the 62nd film from Walt Disney ...
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Nov 27, 2013 · Frozen is a Disney animated adventure comedy about a sister's quest to save her kingdom from eternal winter. Chris Buck co-directed the film with Jennifer Lee and won two Oscars for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song.