WHO DREW THAT?
Best Animated Picture
I DIDN'T KNOW HE DIRECTED ANIMATION!
BEFORE AND AFTER
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100

The horse from Adventure Time--you know the one!

Who is James Baxter?

100

Released in 2023: Directed by Hayao Miyazaki

What is "The Boy and the Heron?"

100

This director of "The Nightmare Before Christmas" isn't here because he normally directs live action--it's because he's often forgotten about in favor of another big director!

Who is Henry Selick? 

100

E.C. Segar's spinach-obsessed boatsman would probably get into a very interesting duel with a blonde-haired magical girl over a legendary silver crystal.

What is "Popeye the Sailor Moon?"

100

Wes Anderson returned to directed animated films in 2018 with "Isle of Dogs." His first venture into animation, released in 2009, also starred talking animals!

What is "Fantastic Mr. Fox?"

200

Tarzan, or maybe Ariel, or maybe the Beast, or maybe Long John Silver, or maybe...

Who is Glen Keane?

200

Released in 2009: Directed by Pete Doctor

What is "Up?"

200

Andrew Adamson directed the whimsical "Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe," but he's better known for having directed this Dreamworks smash-hit first!

What is Shrek?

(Shrek 2 is acceptable)

200

Imagine, if you will, an adopted animated mouse voiced by Michael J. Fox reading Winsor McCay's famous comic strip in the newspaper. How absurd!

What is Stuart Little Nemo?

200

Megumi Hayashibara, the Japanese voice of Rei from Evangelion, also played the part of a famous female pilot in another 90s sci-fi anime--though this character was likely gambling instead of flying any Units.

Who is Faye Valentine?

300

Many of the fight scenes in "My Hero Academia;" if you don't know him as a Studio Bones animator, maybe you'll know him for drawing the ground shattering into perfect cubes!

Who is Yutaka Nakamura?

300

Released in 2005: Directed by Nick Park and Steve Box

What is "Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit?"

300

This director, in a surprising fashion, outsourced a studio that animated the backstory of the villain in his bloody, graphic action flick with Uma Thurman.

Who is Quentin Tarantino?

300

Key and Peele's stop-motion horror comedy followed by a show with Nigel saying "Smashing!"

What is "Wendell and Wild Thornberrys?"

300

Meditate on this one: the first film to be rated PG by the MPAA was this trippy French cut-out animated film about Draags and Oms fighting for dominance on a distant planet. 

What is "Fantastic Planet?"

400

The Bewilderbeast from How To Train Your Dragon 2

Who is Jalil Sadool?

400

Released in 2011: Directed by Gore Verbinski

What is "Rango?"

400

Steven Spielberg surprised everybody by directing this animated adaption of a classic Belgian comic series...remember, motion capture is animation, too.

What is "The Adventures of Tintin?"

400

Gerald Scarfe did the animated sequences in this cult film inspired by a British album, all while a box-shaped robot is trying to return a boot to his lover. 

What is "Pink Floyd-The Wall-E?"

400

This early 2000s anime series was animated by legendary studios Gainax and Production I.G...only to release six episodes in its original airing? Oh well, didn't stop it from being one of Gus's favorites!

What is "FLCL?"

500

The German Queen of Cutout Animation: notably, Prince Achmed and Cinderella!

Who is Lotte Reiniger?

500

Released in 2019: Directed by Josh Cooley

What is "Toy Story 4?"

500

This director of "Brazil" and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" began as an animator on "Do Not Adjust Your Set." There, he would meet many funny men and form the Monty Python troupe with them.

Who is Terry Gilliam?

500

One of the Nine Old Men from Disney, he animated Madame Medusa and Shere Khan...though he probably would've raised an eyebrow at the catchy last line of the Kim Possible theme!

What is "Milt Kahl me, beep me, if you wanna reach me?"
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The last name of German-American Oskar, who did the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor sequence in Fantasia, is known for his colorful and abstract animation.

What is "Fischinger?"

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