Aleksandr Petrov (animator)
Alexander Konstantinovich Petrov (Russian: Александр Константинович Петров, scientific transliteration Aleksandr Petrov Konstantinović; born July 17, 1957 in Pretschistoje, Rajon Pervomaisky, Yaroslavl Oblast, Soviet Union ) is a Russian animator and director of animated films.
He studied at the Art School of Yaroslavl and at the Film Academy WGIK in Moscow.
After that, he was a pupil of Yuri Norstein.
In 1981 he began to work on films and was temporarily working as a decorator.
His debut as a director, screenwriter and producer, he was in 1989 with the animated short film The cow, who is based on a story by Andrei Platonov, by a Russian boy who remembers the cow of the family and its calf.
The ten-minute film was nominated for an Oscar in 1990 and received at the Berlinale in the category Short Film an honorable mention.
After dream of a ridiculous man the animated film was followed by The Mermaid, which earned him his second Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short Film and was also shown at the Berlinale.
For the first big-screen animated film ever, The Old Man and the Sea, he won the Oscar and numerous other prizes, such as a Canadian Prix Jutra and a nomination for a Genie Award for Best Animated Short Film.
The 20-minute oil – on-glass short film based on the eponymous novel by Ernest Hemingway tells the story of an old fisherman, who for days one fish at sea follows.
Petrov had worked from March 1997 to April 1999 in the film, that had taken over two years to draw the 29,000 designs, and had received support from Japanese and Canadian producers.
He lives in Yaroslavl and mainly working on commercials, including Coca -Cola and United Airlines.
His last project was the anime film Winter Days (2003 ), in which he participated as an animator in addition Isao Takahata and Yuri Norstein.
At the Academy Awards in 2008 he was nominated My love for the fourth time.
