Warner, Aron (Aron J. Warner)

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Warner, Aron (Aron J. Warner)

PERSONAL

Education: University of California, Los Angeles, graduated.

Addresses:

Agent—Jeremy Zimmer, United Talent Agency, 9560 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 500, Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Career:

Producer, writer, and voice actor. Empire Pictures, worked as production coordinator; Film Finances, former staff member; Twentieth Century-Fox, worked as vice president for production; PDI/DreamWorks, producer, 1997-2000, head of visual effects studio, 2000-02; also worked as production executive, production manager, production supervisor, production assistant, and line producer; sometimes credited as Aron J. Warner.

Awards, Honors:

Golden Satellite Award nomination (with others), best animated or mixed-media motion picture, International Press Academy, 1999, for Antz; Children's Award (with others), best feature film, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, 2001, Academy Award, best animated feature, Film Award nomination (with others), best film, 2002, and American Film Institute Award nomination (with others), movie of the year, 2002, all for Shrek.

CREDITS

Film Producer:

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, New Line Cinema, 1991.

Supervising producer, Red Rock West, Roxie Releasing, 1994.

Executive producer, Tank Girl, United Artists, 1995.

Antz (animated), DreamWorks, 1998.

Shrek (animated), DreamWorks, 2001.

Shrek 2 (animated), DreamWorks, 2004.

Shrek the Third (animated; also known as Shrek 3), Paramount, 2007.

Film Appearances:

Voice of wolf, Far Far Away Idol (animated), DreamWorks Home Entertainment, 2004.

Voice of wolf, Shrek 2 (animated), DreamWorks, 2004.

Voice of wolf, Shrek the Third (animated; also known as Shrek 3), Paramount, 2007.

Television Work; Specials:

Executive producer, Shrek the Halls (animated), ABC, 2007.

Television Appearances; Specials:

The Secret World of "Antz," NBC, 1998.

Creating a Fairy Tale World: The Making of "Shrek," 2001.

Voice of wolf, Shrek the Halls (animated), ABC, 2007.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

"The Making of ‘Shrek the Third,’" HBO First Look, HBO, 2007.

RECORDINGS

Videos:

The Tech of Shrek 2, DreamWorks Home Entertainment, 2004.

Voice of Big Bad Wolf, Shrek 2 (video game), Activision, 2004.

The Tech of Shrek the Third, Blue Collar Productions, 2007.

WRITINGS

Films:

Songwriter, "Fairy Godmother Song," Shrek 2 (animated), DreamWorks, 2004.

Screenplay, Shrek the Third (animated; also known as Shrek 3), Paramount, 2007.

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