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Aron J. Warner is an American film producer, screenwriter, and voice actor, best known for producing the Shrek films. He was known as the first person to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature .
- Before Shrek
- Shrek
- After Shrek
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Prior to the production of Shrek, Aron Warner worked as a production coordinator, manager, and supervisor for various live-action films. His biggest roles during this time was producer for Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, and executive producer for Tank Girl. He was also the production executive for Titanic, which was the highest grossing film o...
After the success of Antz, Warner would join the production of Shrek as one of the producers (sharing credit with Jeffery Katzenberg and John H. Williams). Despite the troublesome production cycle, the film would release as one of the highest grossing films of the year and earn critical acclaim. This would also make him the first recipient of the A...
Since the release of Shrek Forever After, Aron Warner moved to Reel FX Animation Studios, where he would executive produce Free Birds and The Book of Life. His first major producing credit came in 2021 with the release of Sony Pictures Animation's Wish Dragon, which he co-produced with Jackie Chan.
Aron Warner was originally uncredited for his role as the Big Bad Wolf in Shrek. He would receive credit in all subsequent media.
- Mike Myers as Shrek. Putting on quite possibly the worst Scottish accent of all time, comedy legend Mike Myers stars throughout the Shrek movies in order as the titular ogre, who after falling into a routine of solitude finds himself on a knight’s mission to rescue a princess from a tower.
- Eddie Murphy as Donkey. Donkey is Shrek’s companion from the very first film onward. The complete opposite of Shrek as an optimist and chatter box, Donkey is prone to landing himself in hot water (and procreating with dragons?)
- Cameron Diaz as Princess Fiona. Princess Fiona, at the time anyway (this was before the likes of Frozen), was the antithesis to the sometimes antiquated Disney princesses of classic film.
- Antonio Banderas as Puss in Boots. Who would have thought the shift little ginger cat from Shrek 2 would go onto have the finest entry in the whole franchise?
In the film, an embittered ogrenamed Shrek(Myers) finds his home in the swamp overrun by fairy tale creatures banished by the obsessive ruler Lord Farquaad(Lithgow). With the help of Donkey(Murphy), Shrek makes a pact with Farquaad to rescue Princess Fiona(Diaz) in exchange for regaining control of his swamp.
May 25, 2022 · Aron Warner was the producer of DreamWorks' first CG animated feature, Antz. He then won the first-ever academy award for an animated feature as the producer of Shrek, before going on to produce Shrek 2 and Shrek the Third, working with Jorge Gutierrez on The Book of Life and more recently, Wish Dragon.
ARON WARNER (producer/writer) is the Academy Award®-winning producer of the animated blockbusters “Shrek,” “Shrek 2,” the highest grossing animated film of all time, the 800 million dollar grossing “Shrek the Third,” and the latest installment, “Shrek Forever After.”
Feb 27, 2002 · “Shrek” producer and PDI-DreamWorks head Aron Warner remembers the conception, gestation and subsequent birth of the big, lovable green monster as a “grueling, time-consuming job … but definitely...
