Event: DreamWorks Animation

DreamWorks Animation. Today is the anniversary of DreamWorks Animation, an animation studio founded on October 13, 1994 as a division of DreamWorks Pictures initially with former students of London-based Amblimation, the former animation arm of Amblin Entertainment by Steven Spielberg, co-founder of DreamWorks Pictures.NBCUniversal then acquired the studio for $3.8 billion in 2016.The studio initially made some traditionally animated films, as well as three stop-motion co-productions with Aardman Animations, but now relies exclusively on CG animation initially made with the studios Pacific Data Images (PDI) then entirely acquired by DWA.Its productions, including The Prince of Egypt, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and the Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon franchises, have received numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, 41 Emmy Awards, numerous Annie Awards, and multiple Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations, among many other awards around the world.Films produced by DreamWorks Animation were originally distributed by DreamWorks Pictures until 2005. Paramount Pictures distributed its releases from 2006 through 2012, and 20th Century Fox did the same from 2013 through 2017. Most DWA films from 2019 onward have been released through Universal Pictures, which also owns most of the rights to its back catalogue.[ Fra - source: Wikipedia]. End of the article.