1st Edition
Secrets of Oscar-winning Animation Behind the scenes of 13 classic short animations
Frank Film (Oscar 1973)
Le Chateau de sable (The Sand Castle), (Oscar 1977)
A Legy, (The Fly), (Oscar 1980)
Anna & Bella (Oscar 1985)
The Man Who Planted Trees, (Oscar 1987)
Balance (Oscar 1989)
Manipulation (Oscar 1991)
Mona Lisa descending a staircase (Oscar 1992)
Quest (Oscar 1996)
The Old Man of the Sea (Oscar 1999)
Father and Daughter (Oscar 2000)
Harvie Krumpet (Oscar 2003)
Biography
Olivier Cotte worked as an animation and computer artist for movies, and as a animation director between 1987 and 2002. He is a journalist, historian and animation teacher. He studied in fine art school and at the Sorbone and started making his first films at the age of fourteen. He collaborates as a journalist on numerous film animation and new digital tools magazines. He has written nine books on animation, of which one is a technical and historic world encyclopedia of animation "Il était une fois le dessin animé (Once Upon A Time.in Animation - 2001), two monographs about animation directors (David Ehrlich, Georges Schwizgebel) and has also translated a book on animation methods "The Animator's Survival Kit by Richard Williams into French. He also works with international animation festivals and major events in animation as a selection jury member and jury member and lecturer on animation history and teaches in several animation schools in France and around the world.
"Oliver Cotte's excellent new book, Secrets of Oscar-winning Animation, offers a chance to revisit 13 of these eclectic Oscar-winning shorts, through in-depth interviews and behind-the-scenes notes about the making of each mini masterpiece. Cotte does such a great job we kind of wish he had compiled a whole series of books about each and every animated short favored by old man Oscar." - Animation, September 2007
