Pixar Receives Lifetime Award at Venice by Magdalena Rosova

Pixar director and producer John Lasseter an his crew of directors received the lifetime achievement award on the Venice Film Festival last Sunday. For the first time in festival history an entire studio and not only one filmmaker was awarded. The study was rewarded for their hard work creating a new and original animated stories such as Nemo or Woody and Sulley. Pixar was founded in 1986 in norther California and is pioneer in digital computer animation. Four of its films have won Oscars ever since tha animation cateory was introduced in 2001. Lasseter told reporters that their aim was to entertain audience of children and adults as well and added that he felt honored that the festival decided to reaward the team of five Pixar directors. Director Brad Bird directed “Ratatouille” and “The Incredibles,” Pete Docter created “Up” and “Monsters,” Andrew Stanton is famous thanks to “Finding Nemo” and “Wall-E! ,” Lee Unkrich is creator of “Toy Story 3” and Lasseter directed “Toy Story” and “Toy Story2” and “Cars” as well. Lasseter said that fimmaking and animation needed a lot of co-operation, it could never be a work of one person. He finds Pixar one of the most co-operative sutido. For the festival Pixar prepared 3D versions of the first two “Toy Story” films. Curiousity is that children were given very rare invitation to the festival. Three years ago Pixar merged with Disney and Lasseter became chief creative for both. In Disney he reintrudcted traditional hand-drawn animation.

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by Magdalena Rosova
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