Happy Feet is a 2006 Australian-American computer-animated musical family film, directed and co-written by George Miller. It was produced at Sydney-based visual effects and animation studio Animal Logic for Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures and Kingdom Feature Productions and was released in North American theaters on November 17, 2006. It is the first animated film produced by Kennedy Miller in association with visual effects/design company Animal Logic. Though primarily an animated film, Happy Feet does incorporate motion capture of live action humans in certain scenes. The film was... simultaneously released in both conventional theatres and in IMAX 2D format. The studio had hinted that a future IMAX 3D release was a possibility. However, Warner Bros., the film’s production company, was on too tight a budget to release Happy Feet in IMAX digital 3D. Happy Feet was the first Australian film to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and won the inaugural BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film, and was nominated for the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature and the Saturn Award for Best Animated Film.
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| Release date: | November 16, 2006 |
| Directed by: | George Miller, Judy Morris, Warren Coleman |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 108 Minutes |
| Producer: | George Miller, Doug Mitchell, Bill Miller |
| Editor: | Margaret Sixel, Christian Gazal |
| Music by: | John Powell |
| Cinematography: | David Peers |
| Screenplay by: | John Collee, George Miller, Warren Coleman, Judy Morris |
| Estimated budget: | $100,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy, Adventure, Animation |