Kris Bowers embraced a new challenge with his first animated film, turning his signature storytelling through music into an ...

There were five of us in the studio with Kris Bowers during this recording of Variety’s Behind the Song, and by the time he ...

There's something special about DreamWorks Animation’s The Wild Robot, which earned three Oscar nominations for Animated ...

Chris Sanders is a one-of-a-kind artist. As a kid, looking through various "art of" books for the 1990s Disney classics, you ...

Parenting isn’t easy — whether you’re a top-of-the-line robot or an Oscar-nominated composer. It’s a lesson Lupita Nyong’o’s Roz learns the hard way in “The Wild Robot,” DreamWorks ...

Before The Wild Robot made waves as a DreamWorks animated ... goes without saying that motherhood is one of the movie’s core themes, and one that Sanders felt was vital to shed light on, sharing ...

His latest film as a writer/director, “The Wild Robot,” contains all that we have ... Animation outpost at the Disney-MGM Studios theme park at Walt Disney World, just outside of Orlando ...

The themes of parental love and letting go resonated with Bowers, shaping his musical direction from the very start. More from Variety Oscars: Why the Sound Nod for 'The Wild Robot' Is Such an Unusual ...

Bower says his Oscar-nominated score for “The Wild Robot” was shaped by his expectations and worries regarding parenting: “One of the first themes I wanted to approach was the migration sequence. By ...

Scenes from The Wild Robot, Flow, Inside Out 2, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, and Memoir of a Snail are analyzed by ...