Photo: Boungawa / CC BY-SA 4.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
I admire how Dudok de Wit lets silence and watercolor textures do the heavy lifting. Father and Daughter is the kind of short that earns its Academy Award without a single line of dialogue, and The Red Turtle proved he could sustain that hushed lyricism across a whole feature with Studio Ghibli behind him. What strikes me is the patience: a Dutch animator based in London, working in a register where so much of the industry chases noise and spectacle. His art has the feel of someone who trusts the audience to sit with a feeling. I find that quietly radical.
Overview
Michaël Dudok de Wit (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmixaːɛl ˈdydɔɡ də ˈʋɪt]; born 15 July 1953) is a Dutch animator, director and illustrator based in London. He won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for Father and Daughter (2000) and was nominated in the same category for The Monk and the Fish (1994) as well as for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for The Red Turtle (2016).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Michaël Dudok de Wit
- Name (Japanese)
- マイケル・デュドク・ドゥ・ヴィット
- Reading
- まいける・でゅどく・どぅ・ゔぃっと
- Born
- July 15, 1953 (age 72)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Cancer / Snake
- Origin
- Abcoude, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film director / illustrator / screenwriter / painter / animator
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College
Awards & achievements
- 2001 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Film director — see all → · Illustrator — see all → · More people from Netherlands →
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.