The film's success prompted DreamWorks to create three sequels- Shrek 2 (2004), Shrek the Third (2007), and Shrek Forever After (2010), two holiday specials- Shrek the Halls (2007) and Scared Shrekless (2010), and a spin-off film- Puss in Boots (2011). Shrek established DreamWorks Animation as a prime competitor to Pixar in feature film animation, particularly in computer animation. The film's main (and title) character was awarded his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in May 2010. The film was also nominated for six British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards, including the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Eddie Murphy for his voice-over performance as Donkey, and won the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Shrek won the first ever Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. It was acclaimed as an animated film worthy of adult interest, with many adult-oriented jokes and themes but a simple enough plot and humour to appeal to children. Shrek also received promotion from food chains such as Baskin-Robbins (promoting the film's DVD release) and Burger King. The film grossed $484.4 million at the worldwide box office, and an estimated 47 million tickets were sold in the US. The film was also originally planned to be motion-captured, but after poor results, the studio decided to get Pacific Data Images to help Shrek get its fully computer-animated look. After Farley died in 1997 before he could finish, Mike Myers was brought in to work for the character, who after his first recording decided to record his voice in a Scottish accent. Shrek originally cast Chris Farley to do the voice for the title character, recording about 80%–90% of his dialogue. Williams convinced him to bring the film to DreamWorks in 1994, the time the studio was founded, and the film was put quickly into active development by Jeffrey Katzenberg after the rights were bought by the studio in 1995. The rights to Steig's book were originally bought by Steven Spielberg in 1991, before the founding of DreamWorks, when he thought about making a traditionally animated film based on the book. While they take Fiona to Farquaad so she can marry him, Shrek starts to fall in love with the princess and soon discovers a shocking secret about her. Shrek sets out with a talking Donkey (voiced by Murphy) and they find Princess Fiona (voiced by Diaz). In order to get his swamp back, Shrek makes a deal with Farquaad to bring him a queen in exchange for the deed for his swamp. The film focues on an ogre named Shrek (voiced by Myers) who finds his swamp overrun by fairy tale creatures who have been banished there by order of the evil Lord Farquaad (voiced by Lithgow). It is DreamWorks Animation's 5th feature film. The film's soundtrack includes music by Smash Mouth, Eels, Joan Jett, The Proclaimers, Jason Wade, sElf, Baha Men, Leslie Carter, Dana Glover and John Cale (covering Leonard Cohen). It is loosely based on William Steig's 1990 fairy tale picture book Shrek!, and somewhat serves as a parody film, targeting other films adapted from numerous children's fantasies (mainly animated Disney films). It features the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, and John Lithgow. Shrek is a 2001 American computer-animated romantic fantasy comedy film directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson in their directorial debut.
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