Christopher Sadler

Chris Sadler (born 1970^[1]) is an award-winning British Animator director who works with Aardman Animations. He has worked on Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run, Rex the Runt, Cracking Contraptions, Creature Comforts and Shaun the Sheep.

He completed his secondary education at Codsall High School, Staffordshire, United Kingdom, leaving in 1989 having passed four A levels. He then joined a one year art and design foundation course at Stafford College before moving to Bristol and embarking on a Graphic Design degree at University of the West of England. Although he originally focused on illustration, Sadler later turned his hand to stop motion animation. He graduated in 1993.

He began his professional career as a freelance model/set builder before returning to animation. During the 1990s he worked for various film production companies including Bolex Brothers and Elm Road Studios in Bristol, Aaagh Animations in Cardiff and Gnome Productions in Wellington, New Zealand.

He first worked for Aardman Animations in 1994 as a collaborator animating commercials and the pilot episode for Richard Goleszowski’s Rex the Runt series. This led to him being given his first chance to direct when the second series went into production in 2001. In 1999 he was a member of the animation team on Robbie the Reindeer for the BBC, his last independent production outside Aardman.

He became a full-time Aardman staff member in 2001 and has enjoyed several roles including writer, animator and director on episodes of Cracking Contraptions and key animator on their feature film productions. He joined the Shaun the Sheep team in late 2005, helping to develop the look and animation style of the series and was director of ten episodes.^[2] He was made series director for the second series of forty episodes, which completed production in March 2010.

Awards and nominations

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• 2010 - International Emmy Awards - Winner of Children and Young People category for 'Shaun The Sheep'
• 2010 - The Writers' Guild of Great Britain - Winner^[3] Best Children’s Television Drama/Comedy - live action or animation - Richard Goleszowski, Rob Dudley, Glenn Dakin, Lucy Daniel Raby, Elly Brewer, Jimmy Hibbert, Will Maclean, John Camm, Lee Pressman, Julie Jones, Dan Berlinka, Andy Williams, David Ingham, Richard Vincent, Patrick Makin, Chris Sadler, Kieron Self, Giles New, James Henry, Nick Park, Kay Stonham, Sarah Ball, Ian Carney, Mark Daydy, Craig Ferguson, Patrick Gallagher
• 2010 - BAFTA Children's Awards - Winner^[4] for Animation - Director: Richard Webber, Series Director: Chris Sadler; Producer: Gareth Owen
• 2010 - British Animation Awards - Winner^[5] for Best Children's Series for "Ewe've Been Framed" Director: Richard Webber, Series Director: Chris Sadler; Producer: Gareth Owen^[6]
• 2008 - International Emmy Awards - Winner of Children and Young People category for 'Shaun The Sheep' (Director with Richard Goleszowski and JP Vine)^[7]
• 2007 - Annecy Awards - Winner of Best TV Production - 'Still Life' from the 'Shaun the Sheep' (Director) ^[8]
• 2007 - BAFTA Children's Award - Nominated for 'Shaun the Sheep' (Director, along with Julie Lockhart & Richard Goleszowski) ^[9]
• 2007 - Rushes Soho Short Film Festival - Winner of The Era Animation Award - ‘Shaun the Sheep – Off the Baa’ (Director)^[10]
• 2005 - 33rd Annie Awards - Nomination for Best character animation 'Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit' (with Jay Grace) ^[11]

References

1. ^ http://www.animacor.com/animacor07/selected-films.php?pelicula=8
2. ^ http://www.shaunthesheep.com/forum/read/29075/1
3. ^ "Writers' Guild Award winners". The Writers' Guild. 22 November 2010. http://www.writersguild.org.uk/news-a-features/general/105-guild-award-winners-2010. Retrieved 15 March 2011. 
4. ^ "British Academy Children's Awards Winners in 2010". BAFTA. 28 November 2010. http://www.bafta.org/awards/childrens/awards2010,1452,BA.html#jump0. Retrieved 15 March 2011. 
5. ^ "Aardman sweeps board at British Animation Awards". BBC News. 1 March 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8609918.stm. Retrieved 9 April 2010. 
6. ^ "British Animation Awards nominees announced". Forbidden Planet. 1 March 2010. http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2010/british-animation-awards-nominees-announced/. Retrieved 20 March 2010. 
7. ^ "UK Wins in Seven Categories including Best Performance by an Actor & Best Performance by an Actress". International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. 24 November 2008. http://www.iemmys.tv/news_item.aspx?id=72. Retrieved 23 August 2009. 
8. ^ http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2007/brit-animation-steals-the-show-at-annency/
9. ^ Dixon, Suzi (22 October 2007). "BAFTA Children's Awards: will Harry get the public vote?". The Daily Telegraph (London). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/3354879/BAFTA-Childrens-Awards-will-Harry-get-the-public-vote.html. Retrieved 30 April 2010. 
10. ^ http://www.creativematch.co.uk/viewnews/?94554
11. ^ http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/news/1646106/33rd_annual_annie_nominations_are_out

External links

• Christopher Sadler at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Sadler, Christopher
Alternative names	Sadler, Chris
Short description	British animator
Date of birth	1970
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