Chris Buck

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.

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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.

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)

Origin

Wichita, Kansas, United States

Occupation

Film director / Screenwriter / Voice actor / Character animator / Character designer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rat

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

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/chrisbuckguitar/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Buck
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q156596

Tags

• Born in Kansas
• Film director
• Screenwriter
• Voice actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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