Chris Buck(II)
- Animation Department
- Director
- Writer
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.
- Won 1 Oscar
- 14 wins & 21 nominations total
Animation Department
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- 2010
- 2009
- 2004
- 2004
- Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse6.6Video
- additional animator (segment Mickey's Christmas Carol, uncredited)
- 2001
- 1998
- 1998
- 1998
- 1997
- 1997
- 1996
- 1996
- 1995
- 1994
Director
Writer
- Born
- Spouse
- Shelley Rae HintonApril 29, 1989 - present (3 children)
- Children
- Publicity listings
- TriviaHis eldest son, Ryder, died at the age of 23 on October 27, 2013, in a car collision, when he was hit by two cars after his car broke down on the Glendale Freeway. Ryder was a singer and songwriter performing in his band Ryder Buck and the Breakers, and was recovering from a year-long battle with a Stage 4 testicular cancer. On March 2, 2014, upon accepting the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for co-directing Frozen at the 86th Academy Awards, Buck dedicated the award to Ryder.
- QuotesEveryone's asking if there will be a 'Frozen 2', but at the Studio there's actually been no talk about it!
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