Which animated film did John Powell compose the score to that became the highest-grossing stop motion animated film ever?
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John Powell (film composer) John Powell (born 18 September 1963) is an English composer, best known for his scores to motion pictures. He has been based in Los Angeles since 1997 and has composed the scores to over fifty feature films. He is particularly known for his scores for animated films, including "Antz", "Chicken Run", "Shrek" (all three co-composed with Harry Gregson-Williams), "Robots", "Happy Feet" (and its sequel), three "Ice Age" sequels, "Rio", "How to Train Your Dragon", for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, and its 2014 sequel.
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Chicken Run Chicken Run is a 2000 stop-motion animated comedy film produced by the British studio Aardman Animations. As the studio's first feature-length film, it was directed by Peter Lord and Nick Park. It was co-financed by DreamWorks Pictures and Pathé, with the former distributing the film worldwide except for Europe, where it was handled by Pathé. The plot centres on a band of chickens who see a smooth-talking Rhode Island Red named Rocky as their only hope to escape from certain death when the owners of their farm decide to move from selling eggs to selling chicken pot pies. The film features the voices of Julia Sawalha, Mel Gibson, Timothy Spall, Phil Daniels, Tony Haygarth, and Miranda Richardson. "Chicken Run" received positive reviews from critics, and grossed over $224 million, becoming the highest-grossing stop motion animated film ever.
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Father Noah's Ark Father Noah's Ark is a 1933 Walt Disney "Silly Symphonies" animated film. It is based on the story of Noah's Ark. The short's musical score is an adaptation of the first dance in Ludwig van Beethoven's "12 Contredanses".
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Watchmen: Original Motion Picture Score Watchmen: Original Motion Picture Score is a film score album for the 2009 film "Watchmen". It was released concurrently with the soundtrack album "".
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List of highest-grossing openings for animated films List of highest-grossing openings for animated films
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Wat's Pig "Wat’s Pig" is a 1996 British stop motion animated short film created by Aardman Animations and written and directed by Peter Lord. It is a tale of two princes who are split as babies only to reunite as adults during a war. It is told almost entirely non-verbally.
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Christopher Panzner Christopher Panzner (born 1959) is an American artist/writer/producer living and working in France. He has worked for a number of pioneers in the television and film industry, notably as Technical Director for the inventor of interactive television shopping, the Home Shopping Network and as Operations Director, France, for the inventor of the colorization process for black-and-white films, Color Systems Technology. He has developed animation software (Pixibox), designed theme channels (Canal +) and was Managing Director of the Luxembourg-based studio, Luxanima, which shared an International Emmy in 1994 for French CGI series Insektors. He went on to set up an animation/FX studio (motion capture/motion control), Image Effects, where he supervised the creation of 2D animated series "The Tidings" for Entertainment Rights before creating his own studio in the east of France the following year, Talkie Walkie, specializing in pre-production (design, storyboard and layout) and computer production (ink-and-paint/compositing) and whose clients included a Who’s Who of international television animation producers such as SIP, RTV Family Entertainment, Alphanim and Cinar (now called Cookie Jar.) He joined Paris-based production company TEVA in 2001 and was instrumental in the financing and/or the making of five animated features there in 2002–2004: double-Oscar nominated The Triplets of Belleville, Venice Film Festival selection "The Dog, the General and the Birds", "Jester Till", "Blackmor’s Treasure" (Associate Producer) and "Charlie and Mimmo" (Co-Producer). In 2002, TEVA and Mistral Films won the grand prize at IMAGINA for an experimental short film, "The Tale of the Floating World" directed by Alain Escalle, beating such prestigious competition as "Shrek", "Amélie" and "The Lord of the Rings", and was entirely responsible for the fabrication of Storimages’ Pulcinella-winning and International Emmy-nominated special, "Harold Peeble", based on the book by famous French illustrator Sempé. In 2006, "The Triplets of Belleville", "The Dog, the General and the Pigeons" and "Blackmor’s Treasure" were part of an eight-film retrospective of contemporary French animation at the Museum of Modern Art in New York called "Grand Illusions: The Best of Recent French Animation."
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Chief Blue Meanie The Chief of the Blue Meanies is a fictional character and the main antagonist from the 1968 animated film "Yellow Submarine". A high-pitched, flamboyant character, he is set on ruling Pepperland with fear and oppression. His most heinous of crimes from The Beatles' point of view, however, is his hatred of music. He is voiced by Paul Angelis, who also provided the voice of Ringo Starr.
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Birds of a Feather (1931 film) Birds of a Feather is a "Silly Symphonies" animated Disney short film. It was released in February 10, 1931 by Columbia Pictures.
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Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree is a 1966 animated featurette based on the first two chapters of the book "Winnie-the-Pooh" by A. A. Milne. The film combines live-action and animation, and was produced by Walt Disney Productions. Its songs were written by the Sherman Brothers (Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman) and the score was composed and conducted by Buddy Baker.
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Tarzan (1999 film soundtrack) Tarzan: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack is the soundtrack for the 1999 Disney animated film, "Tarzan". The songs on the soundtrack were composed by Phil Collins, and the instrumental score by Mark Mancina. The song "You'll Be in My Heart" won both the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media, while the soundtrack album won a Grammy Award for Best Soundtrack Album. For his contribution to the soundtrack, Collins received an American Music Award for Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist.
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The Prince of Egypt The Prince of Egypt is a 1998 American animated epic musical film and the first traditional animated film produced and released by DreamWorks. The film is an adaptation of the Book of Exodus and follows the life of Moses from being a prince of Egypt to his ultimate destiny to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt. Directed by Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, and Simon Wells, the film features songs written by Stephen Schwartz and a score composed by Hans Zimmer. The voice cast consists of Val Kilmer in a dual role, Ralph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Goldblum, Danny Glover, Patrick Stewart, Helen Mirren, Steve Martin, and Martin Short.
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Toby Tortoise Returns Toby Tortoise Returns is an animated Technicolor cartoon in Walt Disney's "Silly Symphonies" series. It was directed by Wilfred Jackson. It is a sequel to "The Tortoise and the Hare". It premiered on August 22, 1936.
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More (1998 film) More is a 1998 short film created by Mark Osborne using stop motion animation. "More" has won several awards, and was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Animated Short Film in 1998.
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Laika (company) Laika Entertainment, LLC., or simply Laika, is an American stop-motion animation studio specializing in feature films, commercial content for all media, music videos and short films. It is best known for its stop-motion feature films, "Coraline", "ParaNorman", "The Boxtrolls" and "Kubo and the Two Strings", all co-produced in partnership with Universal Pictures through its Focus Features label.
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park (film score) Like its predecessor, was scored by famed composer John Williams (a longtime collaborator with director Steven Spielberg), orchestrated by Conrad Pope and John Neufeld, and recorded in Los Angeles. Notably, Williams did not write a stereotypical sequel score, but instead developed a wildly different style for the different location, cast, and darker tone of the second "Jurassic Park" film.
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The Pied Piper (1933 film) The Pied Piper is a 1933 American Pre-Code animated short film based on the story of the "Pied Piper of Hamelin". The short was produced by Walt Disney Productions, directed by Wilfred Jackson, and released on September 16, 1933, as a part of the Silly Symphonies series.
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The Boxtrolls The Boxtrolls is a 2014 American 3D stop-motion animated fantasy comedy film based on the novel "Here Be Monsters!" by Alan Snow. Produced by Laika, it was directed by Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi and written by Irena Brignull and Adam Pava. The film tells the story of Eggs, a human boy raised by trash-collecting trolls, known as "Boxtrolls", as he attempts to save them from Archibald Snatcher, a pest exterminator. The film introduces Isaac Hempstead-Wright as the voice of Eggs and features the voices of Ben Kingsley, Elle Fanning, Dee Bradley Baker, Steven Blum, Toni Collette, Jared Harris, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade, Tracy Morgan, and Simon Pegg.
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Lady and the Tramp Lady and the Tramp is a 1955 American animated romantic musical comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney and released to theaters on June 22, 1955 by Buena Vista Distribution. The 15th Disney animated feature film, it was the first animated feature filmed in the CinemaScope widescreen film process. Based on "Happy Dan, The Whistling Dog" by Ward Greene, "Lady and the Tramp" tells the story of a female American Cocker Spaniel named Lady who lives with a refined, upper-middle-class family, and a male stray mongrel called the Tramp. When the two dogs meet, they embark on many romantic adventures. A direct-to-video sequel, "", was released in 2001.
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High Note (film) High Note is a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes animated short directed by Chuck Jones. It was originally released on December 3, 1960 and is performed without dialog, relying solely on the animation and music to carry the plot. This short was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Film (Cartoon) in 1961.
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Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom is an educational "Adventures in Music" animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions, and originally released to theaters by Buena Vista Distribution on November 10, 1953. A sequel to the first "Adventures in Music" cartoon, the 3-D short "Melody", Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom is a stylized presentation of the evolution of the four orchestra sections over the ages with: the brass ("toot"), the woodwind ("whistle"), the strings ("plunk"), and the percussion ("boom").
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Pinocchio (soundtrack) Pinocchio is the soundtrack to the 1940 Walt Disney film of the same name, first released on February 9, 1940. The album was described as being "recorded from the original soundtrack of the Walt Disney Production "Pinocchio"". According to Walt Disney Records, "this is the first time the phrase 'original soundtrack' was used to refer to a commercially available movie recording".