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DreamWorks launched a major campaign to increase American Beautys chances of Academy Award success ; at the 72nd Academy Awards the following year, the film won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor ( for Spacey ), Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography.
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DreamWorks and launched
DreamWorks had launched a major campaign for American Beauty five weeks before ballots were due to be sent to the 5, 600 Academy Award voters.
On August 31, 2005, Keith parted ways with Universal Music Group — which had since bought DreamWorks — and launched his own record label, Show Dog Nashville.
DreamWorks and major
In contrast to the 1990s, fewer major animated features of the 2000s included musical numbers, as the success of Pixar and DreamWorks computer animated films ( which were not musicals ) upset Disney's dominance.
As a consequence Paramount fell from No. 1 in the international markets to the lowest ranked major studio in 2006 but recovered in 2007 if the DreamWorks films, acquired by Paramount but still distributed internationally by Universal, are included in Paramount's market share.
In 2002, California's AFI signed to DreamWorks Records and changed its sound considerably for its successful major label debut Sing the Sorrow.
Rollins Band signed with the then new major label DreamWorks Records, who released 1997's Come In And Burn.
After two years of touring, Morphine signed with DreamWorks Records, who released their major label debut, Like Swimming, in 1997.
From 1998 through 2005, DreamWorks SKG commanded a large enough market share to arguably qualify it as a seventh major, despite its relatively small output.
Smith's first work on a major label, it was released by DreamWorks Records on August 25, 1998.
However his first major composition was for the DreamWorks video game adaptation of the 1997 movie, The Lost World: Jurassic Park.
DreamWorks and campaign
In 2000, the Publicists Guild of America recognized DreamWorks for the best film publicity campaign.
DreamWorks and increase
Ball was not keen on the more well-known directors because he believed their involvement would increase the budget and lead DreamWorks to become " nervous about the content ".
DreamWorks and American
Producers Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen took American Beauty to DreamWorks ; the fledgling film studio bought Ball's script for $ 250, 000, outbidding several other production bodies.
DreamWorks financed the $ 15 million production and served as the North American distributor.
American Beauty cost DreamWorks $ 15 million to produce, slightly above their projected sum.
Following American Beautys wins at the 57th Golden Globe Awards, DreamWorks re-expanded the theater presence from a low of 7 in mid-February, to a high of 1, 990 in March.
Nancy Willen encouraged DreamWorks to produce a special about the making of American Beauty, to set up displays of the film in the communities ' bookstores, and to arrange a question-and-answer session with Mendes for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
She won an American People's Choice Award for voicing the wicked Fairy Godmother in the DreamWorks animated film Shrek 2, but more recently she has written and starred in another two BBC sitcoms, Jam and Jerusalem and The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle.
Antz is a 1998 American computer animated action adventure film produced by DreamWorks Animation.
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas is a 2003 American animated swashbuckling fantasy adventure film produced by DreamWorks Animation, using traditional 2D animation with some 3D.
This is the last DreamWorks animated film to use traditional animation, due to DreamWorks ' decision that the American public appeared to be more interested in computer animation.
* DreamWorks SKG, an American movie studio
* Pacific Data Images ( 1980 – 2000 ), former American computer animation production company, purchased by DreamWorks
Jeffrey Katzenberg ( born December 21, 1950 ) is an American film producer and CEO of DreamWorks Animation.
After DreamWorks Animation suffered a $ 125 million loss on the traditionally-animated Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, Katzenberg proclaimed that traditional animation was dead, as the American public seemed to appeal more to computer animation and the studio switched to all computer-generated animation.
The Others is an American TV series created by John Brancato and Michael Ferris, and produced by Delusional Films, NBC and DreamWorks Television.
However, a few post-1998 films still had distribution by Columbia or a related company, such as Envy ( distributed by Columbia outside the US, as DreamWorks had American rights ), or the 2007 remake of Sleuth ( through the Sony Pictures Classics division in North America ; Paramount Pictures handled distribution in a few other English-speaking countries ).
Mo Ostin ( born March 27, 1927 ) is an American record executive who has worked for several companies, including Verve, Reprise Records, Warner Bros. Records, and DreamWorks.
He is also signed on to the lead role in The Ambassador for DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures, in which he will play " a former U. S. vice president's privileged son, who is assigned an ambassadorship in Europe, where he quickly becomes the quintessential ugly American.
Old School is a 2003 American comedy film released by DreamWorks Pictures and The Montecito Picture Company and directed by Todd Phillips, director of the documentary Frat House.
DreamWorks Records ( also SKG Music, or SKG Music Group, and Spielberg Music Group, or Katzenberg Records ) was an American record label.
Prior to release, DreamWorks pulled the original poster from circulation, which depicted an American flag flying upside down ( a standard distress call ), due to concerns about public sensitivity related to the September 11 attacks.
DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. () is an American animation studio based in Glendale, California that creates animated feature films, television program and online virtual worlds.
Joseph: King of Dreams is a 2000 American animated musical film and the first and so far only direct-to-video release from DreamWorks Animation.
DreamWorks and Academy
He also provided songs for DreamWorks ' first animated feature, The Prince of Egypt ( 1998 ), winning another Academy Award for the song When You Believe.
Since then, DreamWorks ' animated feature films have been consistently successful financially and critically with several Annie Awards and Academy Awards nominations and wins.
Together with DreamWorks Animation, Katzenberg founded the DreamWorks Animation Academy of Inner-City Arts in 2008.
The film got a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and established Blue Sky as the third studio, after Pixar and DreamWorks, to launch a successful CGI franchise.
As the studio ’ s president, Parkes, in partnership with Laurie MacDonald, oversaw development and production of all DreamWorks ’ film projects, including, for only the second time in the history of the Motion Picture Academy, three consecutive Best Picture Oscar winners: American Beauty, Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind -- the latter two in partnership with Universal Studios.
PDI / DreamWorks has won four Scientific and Technical Academy Awards.
DreamWorks and success
In July 2011, in the wake of critical and box office success of the animated feature, Rango, and the departure of DreamWorks Animation upon completion of their distribution contract in 2012, Paramount announced the formation of a new division, devoted to the creation of animated productions.
After the film's Golden Globe success in January 2000, DreamWorks re-expanded its market presence to 1, 990 theaters.
Furthermore, DreamWorks finally had their own success in 2001 with the computer animated feature film Shrek, a gigantic box-office hit that overpowered Disney's summer release for that year, Atlantis.
In the early 2000s, Doghouse signed their first big success, The All-American Rejects, releasing their debut LP in late 2002, which was later re-issued by DreamWorks Records.
With the film The Lost World: Jurassic Park expected to be a success and after securing the movie license, the pair approached several movie animation groups before signing with DreamWorks Interactive.
Despite having success in Canada, the band was struggling in the United States and were dropped from DreamWorks in late 2004.
In 2010 DreamWorks Animation released MegaMind to middling success.
After the success of Antz, Carl Rosendahl sold in 2000 his remaining interest in PDI to DreamWorks.
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