Happy Feet (franchise)

Happy Feet
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	George Miller
Produced by	Bill Miller George Miller Doug Mitchell
Written by	Warren Coleman John Collee George Miller Judy Morris
Starring	Elijah Wood Robin Williams Brittany Murphy Hugh Jackman Nicole Kidman Hugo Weaving Anthony LaPaglia Magda Szubanski Steve Irwin
Music by	John Powell Gia Farrell
Cinematography	David Peers
Edited by	Christian Gazal Margaret Sixel
Production companies	Animal Logic Kennedy Miller Productions Kingdom Feature Productions Village Roadshow Pictures
Distributed by	United States: Warner Bros. Pictures Australia/New Zealand: Roadshow Films
Release date	17 November 2006 (2006-11-17) (North America) 26 December 2006 (2006-12-26) (Australia)
Running time	108 minutes
Country	United States Australia
Language	English
Budget	$100 million
Box office	$384.3 million

Happy Feet is a 2006 Australian-American computer-animated musical family comedy film directed, produced, and co-written by George Miller. It stars Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving, and E.G. Daily. 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 Animal Logic.

Though primarily an animated film, the film 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 received generally positive reviews from critics, and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, a first for Warner Bros., as well as the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film. It was nominated for the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature and the Saturn Award for Best Animated Film.