Oscar-nominated writer-director Chris Sanders (“Lilo & Stitch,” “How to Train Your Dragon,” “The Croods”) has long had a fascination with mermaids, so when his wife, Jessica Steele ...

When director Chris Sanders decided to take on The Wild Robot, the script had been at DreamWorks Animation for a few years. In what he deems to be a stroke of luck, Sanders came in at the perfect ...

Chris Sanders, director and screenwriter of DreamWorks’ highly praised The Wild Robot, has just received his fourth career Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature for the film, after previous ...

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Filmmaker Chris Sanders was visiting DreamWorks Animation to see what was in development, when he came across Peter Brown’s novel “The Wild Robot.“ The first few sentences of Brown’s story ...

Part of what makes “The Wild Robot” so exciting is that it is pure, unfiltered Chris Sanders, from top to bottom. In it, a robot, ROZZUM 7134 or Roz (voiced by Lupita Nyong’o) washes ashore ...

EXCLUSIVE: After crossing $100M globally last weekend, The Wild Robot filmmaker Chris Sanders confirmed this morning at Deadline Contenders that a sequel to the pic is on the way and currently in ...

Chris Sanders, the writer and director of The Wild Robot, came of age at Disney during the era of laborious hand-drawn animation. He’s seen major changes in the industry since then, and he ...

Awards News Chris Sanders On The Significance Of An Oscar Nom For ‘The Wild Robot’: “All The Reasons I Got Into Animation Are Contained Within This Film” By Ryan Fleming January 23, 2025 9 ...