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Chris Sanders On The Significance Of An Oscar Nom For ‘The Wild Robot’: “All The Reasons I Got Into Animation Are Contained Within This Film”


Director Chris Sanders on being nominated for 'The Wild Robot', a film that contains all the reasons he got into animation.

THE WILD ROBOT, from top, center: Roz (voice: Lupita Nyong'o), Brightbill (voice: Kit Connor)DreamWorks Animation/Universal Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection While most people woke up very early for the Oscar nomination announcements this morning, Chris Sanders watched the feed from Tokyo, Japan. As the last stop on his tour of premiering The Wild Robot, being nominated for Best Animated Feature was a perfect bookend to the trip. The lack of dialogue meant that one of the biggest voices in this film is the music and that was going to be handled by Kris Bowers.

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