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My Take
Chris Buck is one of those quietly essential figures in modern animation whose name fewer people know than the films he made. What I admire most is his range: he went from the lush, hand-drawn warmth of Tarzan to co-steering Frozen, the movie that basically reshaped a decade of Disney. He has a real instinct for emotional storytelling underneath the spectacle, and the fact that 'Let It Go' became a global phenomenon owes a lot to the staging he and his team built. He feels less like a flashy auteur and more like a steady craftsman, and animation is better for it.
Overview
Chris Buck is an American film director, screenwriter and animator born in Wichita, Kansas. A graduate of the California Institute of the Arts, he spent much of his career in feature animation and is best known for co-directing Walt Disney Animation Studios' Frozen, which won the 2014 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. He has also received recognition from the Annie Awards for his work in the field.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Chris Buck
- Name (Japanese)
- クリス・バック
- Reading
- くりす・ばっく
- Born
- October 25, 1960 (age 65)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Rat
- Origin
- Wichita, Kansas, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- Film director / Screenwriter / Voice actor / Character animator / Character designer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- El Dorado High School (Placentia, California)
- University
- California Institute of the Arts
Awards & achievements
- Annie Award
- 2014 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.