Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (also known as Spirit) is a 2002 American animated Western film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by DreamWorks Pictures. The film was directed by Kelly Asbury and Lorna Cook (in their feature directorial debuts) from a screenplay by John Fusco, based on an idea by Jeffrey Katzenberg, who produced the film alongside Mireille Soria. The film combines traditional animation and computer animation.
Plot
In the late 19th-century American West, a Kiger mustang colt, Spirit, is born to a herd of wild horses; he grows into a stallion, and assumes the leadership of the herd. One night, upon following a strange light near his herd, Spirit finds horses tied to a log and their wranglers sleeping around a campfire. The men awaken, and, after a chase, capture Spirit and take him to a US cavalry fort.
Awards
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| author | John Fusco |
|---|---|
| award | Annie Award Bronze Wrangler Genesis Award Young Artist Awards |
| contentLocation | North America |
| director | Kelly Asbury Lorna Cook |
| editor | Clare De Chenu Nick Fletcher |
| events | horse |
| genre | adventure animation historical western |
| keywords | 19th-century american west american frontier american west boast break capture colonel colt first transcontinental railroad force grand canyon held captive horse training jump kiger mustang lakota lakota people lead rope meet morning one night river run shoot sleep around stallion steam locomotive transcontinental railroad trap understand united states cavalry us cavalry wild horse wrangler |
| musicBy | B Hans Zimmer |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Animated Feature |
| producer | Jeffrey Katzenberg Mireille Soria |
| productionCompany | AFI Catalog of Feature Films DreamWorks Animation |
| publisher | DreamWorks Pictures |
| theme | animated children's coming-of-age |