Steve Box

Steve Box
Born	Steven Box (1967-01-23) 23 January 1967 Bristol, England
Nationality	British
Occupation	animator, director, writer, producer
Employer	Aardman Animations

Steven "Steve" Box (born 23 January 1967) is an English animator and director who works for Aardman Animations.

His early work in animation included the popular British claymation television series The Trap Door for Bristol-based animation studio CMTB Animation.

Box joined Aardman Animations in 1990. He directed the video for the Spice Girls' "Viva Forever" in 1998. He won a BAFTA Award in 1998 for his 11-minute animated film Stage Fright which he wrote, directed and produced. He also provided the voice for the character of Vince in the TV series Rex the Runt.

He was the key animator for Aardman's film Chicken Run and was an animator for the Wallace and Gromit films The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave, before co-writing and co-directing the much-anticipated Wallace and Gromit feature film, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit with Nick Park. The film scooped his second BAFTA and his first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. The film has also collected another 22 international awards and 12 other nominations for other awards.The film was a massive success at the Annie Awards where it won 10 Annie awards out of its 16 nominations.

External links and references

Steve Box at the Internet Movie Database
Four become five in virtual spice, BBC News Online, 21 June 1998.
Animators prepare for the big day, BBC News Online, 4 March 2006.
Aardman's Steve Box Talks, Animation World Magazine, 25 July 2002.

Awards for Steve Box

Academy Award for Best Animated Feature

Shrek – Aron Warner (2001)
Spirited Away – Hayao Miyazaki (2002)
Finding Nemo – Andrew Stanton (2003)
The Incredibles – Brad Bird (2004)
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit – Nick Park and Steve Box (2005)
Happy Feet – George Miller (2006)
Ratatouille – Brad Bird (2007)
WALL-E – Andrew Stanton (2008)
Up – Pete Docter (2009)
Toy Story 3 – Lee Unkrich (2010)
Rango – Gore Verbinski (2011)
Brave – Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman (2012)
Frozen – Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee and Peter Del Vecho (2013)
Big Hero 6 – Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli (2014)
Inside Out – Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera (2015)

Annie Award for Directing in a Feature Production

John Lasseter (1996)
Ron Clements and John Musker (1997)
Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook (1998)
Brad Bird (1999)
John Lasseter, Ash Brannon and Lee Unkrich (2000)
Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson (2001)
Hayao Miyazaki (2002)
Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich (2003)
Brad Bird (2004)
Nick Park and Steve Box (2005)
Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick (2006)
Brad Bird (2007)
Mark Osborne and John Stevenson (2008)
Pete Docter (2009)
Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders (2010)
Jennifer Yuh Nelson (2011)
Rich Moore (2012)
Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee (2013)
Dean DeBlois (2014)
Pete Docter (2015)

Annie Award for Writing in a Feature Production

Andrew Stanton, Joss Whedon, Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow (1996)
Rita Hsiao, Chris Sanders, Philip LaZebnik, Raymond Singer and Eugenia Bostwick-Singer (1998)
Brad Bird and Tim McCanlies (1999)
John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Ash Brannon, Andrew Stanton, Rita Hsiao, Doug Chamberlin and Chris Webb (2000)
Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman and Roger S. H. Schulman (2001)
Hayao Miyazaki (2002)
Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson and David Reynolds (2003)
Brad Bird (2004)
Steve Box, Nick Park and Mark Burton (2005)
Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Christopher Lloyd, Joe Keenan and William Davies (2006)
Brad Bird (2007)
Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger (2008)
Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach (2009)
Chris Sanders, Will Davies and Dean DeBlois (2010)
James Ward Byrkit, John Logan and Gore Verbinski (2011)
Phil Johnston and Jennifer Lee (2012)
Hayao Miyazaki (2013)
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (2014)
Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley (2015)

Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Animated Feature

1998–2000	A Bug's Life – John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton / The Prince of Egypt – Simon Wells, Brenda Chapman, and Steve Hickner (1998) Toy Story 2 – John Lasseter, Lee Unkrich, and Ash Brannon (1999) Chicken Run – Peter Lord and Nick Park (2000)

2001–2010	Shrek – Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson (2001) Spirited Away – Hayao Miyazaki (2002) Finding Nemo – Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich (2003) The Incredibles – Brad Bird (2004) Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit – Nick Park and Steve Box (2005) Cars – John Lasseter and Joe Ranft (2006) Ratatouille – Brad Bird and Jan Pinkava (2007) WALL-E – Andrew Stanton (2008) Up – Pete Docter and Bob Peterson (2009) Toy Story 3 – Lee Unkrich (2010)

2011–present	Rango – Gore Verbinski (2011) Wreck-It Ralph – Rich Moore (2012) Frozen – Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee (2013) The Lego Movie – Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (2014) Inside Out – Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen (2015) Zootopia – Byron Howard and Rich Moore (2016)

Empire Award for Best Director

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