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Years active
  
1951-1995

Name
  
Dusan Vukotic

Role
  
Cartoonist


Dusan Vukotic Oma Duanu Vukotiu News Designedrs Dizajn web portal

Born
  
7 February 1927 (
1927-02-07
)
Bileca, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Occupation
  
Film director, screenwriter

Died
  
July 8, 1998, Krapinske Toplice, Croatia

Nominations
  
Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated), BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film

Movies
  
The Substitute, Visitors from the Arkana G, Cow on the Moon, The Seventh Continent, Animated Self‑Portraits

Similar People
  
Zlatko Grgic, Vatroslav Mimica, Borivoj Dovnikovic‑Bordo, Josko Marusic, Kihachiro Kawamoto

Surogat proper Yugoslavian short films


Dušan Vukotić (7 February 1927 – 8 July 1998) was a Yugoslav and Croatian cartoonist, author and director of animated films of Montenegrin descent. He is the best known member of the Zagreb school of animated films.

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Vukotić was born in Bileća, Bosnia and Herzegovina (at the time Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes). His grandfather Mojaš "Kinjo" was a brother of Serdar Janko Vukotić, and died during the Siege of Scutari. His father Radovan was a sub-colonel in Royal Yugoslav Army and was captured during April war in vicinty of Gornji Milanovac, spending the reminder of it in Osnabrück prison camp. His mother Darinka was a daughter of Milutin Vučinić, Montenegrin army officer and one time prime minister

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In 1953 he was one of the founding members of Zagreb Film. He worked there for over four decades and directed cartoons such as Cow on the Moon.

Dušan Vukotić Dusan Vukotic Alchetron The Free Social Encyclopedia

He won an Oscar for best animated short in 1961 for Surogat ("Ersatz"), being the first foreigner to do so. Another of his films, Igra ("The Game"), was nominated for an Academy Award in 1964.

Dušan Vukotić Dusan Vukotic Alchetron The Free Social Encyclopedia

After the 1960s, he rarely made short animated films, making three full-length movies - a fantasy tale for children, Sedmi kontinent ("The Seventh Continent", 1966), an action movie, Akcija Stadion ("Operation Stadium") about the resistance of Zagreb students to the Ustaša regime in 1941, and the science fiction/horror parody Gosti iz galaksije ("Visitors from the Galaxy of Arkana", 1981). In 1963, he was a member of the jury at the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival.

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He also taught film directing at the Zagreb Academy for Dramatic Art from the founding of its Film department in 1967 until his retirement in the early 1990s.

After 1973, he was a member of the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts.

In 1994 he received Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb.

At the time of his death, Vukotić was preparing a production of his new science fiction movie, co-written by the Croatian science fiction writer Aleksandar Žiljak.

Vukotić died in Krapinske Toplice near Zagreb at the age of 71.

References

Dušan Vukotić Wikipedia