Robert Peterson (born January 18, 1961) is an American animator, director, screenwriter, storyboard supervisor and voice actor who works at Pixar . He was hired at Pixar by Roger Gould in 1994 as an animator for commercials, before subsequently becoming an animator on Toy Story (1995). He was the co-director and co-writer for Up (2009), in which he also voiced the characters Dug and Alpha. His work as a writer for the films Up and Finding Nemo (2003) earned him nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay . He was also a co-writer on Cars 3 (2017) and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Animated Program for his work on Forky Asks A Question (2020).
51-449: Dug Days (also known as Up: Dug Days ) is an American animated series of shorts created, written, and directed by Bob Peterson and produced by Pixar Animation Studios initially for Disney+ . The series is set immediately after the 2009 film Up , following its main characters, dog Dug, voiced by Peterson, and his owner, 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen, voiced by Ed Asner in one of his last performances before his death. The series
102-507: A Star Trek: Short Treks episode " Ephraim and Dot " in 2019. On March 7, 2022, Variety reported that Giacchino was directing an upcoming as-of-yet untitled Marvel Studios television project for Disney+ . Four days later, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that he would be directing Werewolf by Night , which was released on October 7, 2022. In addition to his long list of soundtracks, in 2005 Giacchino collaborated with Walt Disney Imagineering in creating two new soundtracks for
153-871: A Small World operator in the film Tomorrowland which he scored. Additionally, the same year, he played First Order Stormtrooper FN-3181 in J. J. Abrams ' Star Wars: The Force Awakens . He reprised the role in the 2018 animated film Ralph Breaks the Internet . In 2019, he cameoed as a Sith trooper in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker , also directed by Abrams. Giacchino grew up with an immense love for filmmaking, often spending time making short films in his youth. He made his professional directorial debut in 2019 with an episode of Star Trek: Short Treks during its second season. In 2020, Giacchino directed in his own short film, Monster Challenge starring Patton Oswalt . In 2022, Giacchino directed and scored
204-444: A design reminiscent of his old home while also being different. They also used similar design aesthetics for Carl's neighborhood. The animators also created new animation rigging, textures, and hair for the characters in order to update their original designs due to advances in CG animation ever since the original film's release. Carl's animation and movement was altered to reflect the events of
255-407: A job upon graduation from college. He later moved to Disney, and when Disney relocated to Los Angeles, Giacchino moved with them, working in publicity, while taking night classes in instrumentation and orchestration at UCLA . His work for Disney had him interacting with the various personnel who worked in films, such as the producers who hired composers, so when a job at Disney Interactive opened for
306-506: A physical recording session a month prior to the lockdown, according to Collins. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the series was animated remotely, with approximately 100 animators working on the series, a smaller number than usual for a Pixar production. All episodes were produced simultaneously. The series also had a tighter production schedule than most Pixar productions, due to being released on streaming. For Carl's new home, animators created
357-577: A producer, Giacchino obtained the job, thinking he could hire himself to write music for the games he produced. Giacchino's composition work for Disney Interactive during the 16-bit era included the Sega Genesis games Gargoyles and Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow and the various console versions of The Lion King . However his first major composition was for the DreamWorks video game adaptation of
408-475: A short film with Pixar's Elemental on June 16, 2023. After the events of Up , Golden Retriever Dug and his owner, Carl Fredricksen, move to a new house in the suburb after Carl sells the Spirit of Adventure dirigible to afford it. The miniseries revolves around the adventures of Dug and Carl experienced in their house and neighborhood. All episodes are directed and written by Bob Peterson . The series
459-494: A track titled "World's Worst Parking Valet", and the score for Zootopia contains a track titled "World's Worst Animal Shelter" as well as the score for Incredibles 2 including a track called "World's Worst Babysitters". Inversely, the score for Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction has a track titled "World's Best Carpool Lane"; the Speed Racer score has tracks titled "World's Best Autopia" and "World's Worst Road Rage";
510-558: A unique process of using spare pieces of a plane fuselage for percussion parts. The score for Lost is also notable for a signature thematic motif: a brass fall-off at the end of certain themes. Just like his counterpart Stu Phillips , he worked with the television show creator Abrams on his shows with his music scores while Abrams supplied the show's main themes on certain series such as Alias . In 2004, Giacchino received his first big feature film commission. Brad Bird , director of Pixar 's The Incredibles , asked Giacchino to provide
561-513: Is a documentary filmmaker. Giacchino began combining images and music at age 10, when he began creating stop-motion animation with homemade soundtracks in his basement. While in high school, an art teacher who mentored Giacchino recommended to his parents that he attend the School of Visual Arts in New York City . Giacchino describes visiting the school with his parents thus: I thought, wow, this
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#1732876003543612-628: Is fantastic. They actually have colleges like this? Where I can do the things that I am really interested in doing? That was amazing to me. I loved SVA. I loved the kind of freedom that it provided. It was kind of like this great experiment—okay, you're here because you like something. So let's see how much you like it. We're not going to regulate you too much. We're going to see how passionate and driven you are, and how much you want this thing. Giacchino enrolled at SVA, majoring in film production and minoring in history. During his final year at SVA, his instructor in film publicity announced an unpaid internship
663-643: Is known for his collaborations with directors J. J. Abrams , Brad Bird , Matt Reeves , Pete Docter , Colin Trevorrow , Jon Watts , Gareth Edwards , Drew Goddard , J. A. Bayona , The Wachowskis , Taika Waititi , and Thomas Bezucha . His film scores include several films from the Mission: Impossible ; Jurassic World , Marvel Cinematic Universe , Star Trek reboot series, eight Pixar Animation Studios films, multiple Disney films, Rogue One , The Batman ; and several other films. He also composed
714-604: The Spider-Man: Far From Home score has a track titled "World's Worst Water Feature"; the Spider-Man: No Way Home score has a track titled "World's Worst Friendly Neighbor"; The Batman score has a track entitled "World's Worst Translator"; the Lightyear score has a track entitled "World's Worst Self-Destruct Sequence". Notably - this tradition of pun names was omitted from the soundtrack of Society of
765-503: The 1st Children's and Family Emmy Awards , the series was nominated for Outstanding Directing for an Animated Program, Outstanding Writing for an Animated Program, and Outstanding Editing for an Animated Program (Torbin Xan Bullock). "Digged" won Best Animation/Family for a TV/Streaming Series at the 2022 Golden Trailer Awards . Bob Peterson (filmmaker) Peterson has also voiced characters for various Pixar projects such as Geri in
816-813: The Marvel Studios Halloween special Werewolf by Night to critical acclaim. In January 2023, it was announced that Giacchino would make his feature directorial debut with a remake of Them! for Warner Bros. Pictures . He is expected to score the film as well. Giacchino is noted for using humorous titles filled with puns on his soundtrack albums. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Jurassic World in particular had many ape- and dinosaur-related double entendres such as "Gorilla Warfare" and "Raptor Your Heart Out". Many of those have references to previous works of his, both in style and naming. Giacchino used themes from
867-591: The Pixar film Up (and its accompanying animated short Partly Cloudy ), for which he collaborated with director Pete Docter . This marked the first time Giacchino worked with a Pixar director other than Brad Bird. This work gained Giacchino his first Academy Award for Best Original Score : the first-ever win for Pixar in that category. Giacchino notes that he won on the same night as his SVA classmate Joel Harlow won for Best Makeup Oscar for Star Trek . Giacchino has continued his collaboration with J. J. Abrams. For
918-562: The Trenton Thunder 's minor league baseball team's tradition of using bat dogs. Special Thanks (season 2) Michael Giacchino Michael Giacchino ( / dʒ ə ˈ k iː n oʊ / jə- KEE -noh , Italian: [dʒaˈkiːno] ; born October 10, 1967) is an American composer of music for film, television, and video games. He has received many accolades for his work, including an Oscar for Up (2009), an Emmy for Lost (2004), and three Grammy Awards . Giacchino
969-832: The theme song of the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon series , in Spider-Man: Homecoming , replacing his work on the fanfare of the Marvel Studios logo for that film, and he rearranged the fanfare in Thor: Love and Thunder to make a more rock style, and Werewolf by Night , in which he directed the special. On top of that, he also composed the fanfare for the Marvel Studios Special Presentation and Marvel Spotlight logos, which debuted in Warewolf by Night and Echo , respectively. In 2015, Giacchino played an It's
1020-521: The "travel log videos" shown in the queue for both the Disneyland and Walt Disney World versions of the attraction. In 2009, he was asked to conduct the Academy Awards orchestra for the 81st Academy Awards . For this project he rearranged many famous movie themes in different styles, including a 1930s Big Band treatment of Lawrence of Arabia and a bossa nova of Moon River . Giacchino also composed
1071-520: The 1997 movie, The Lost World: Jurassic Park . The video game was one of the first PlayStation (also on Sega Saturn ) console titles to be recorded with an original live orchestral score. Giacchino has since continued his relationship with DreamWorks which also included composing the score for the Small Soldiers video game in 1998, providing full orchestral scores for many of their popular videogames. He also worked with Pandemic studios to create
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#17328760035431122-512: The Abrams-directed 2006 film Mission: Impossible III . Giacchino's next musical achievement was his Paris-inspired score for the Disney-Pixar film Ratatouille , which includes the theme song "Le Festin", performed by French artist Camille . He received his first Academy Award nomination for this score. He also created the score for Abrams' 2009 Star Trek film. Giacchino scored
1173-588: The Abrams-produced monster film Cloverfield , Giacchino wrote an homage to Japanese monster scores in an overture titled "ROAR!", which played over the credits, and constituted the only original music for the film. He composed the score for J. J. Abrams' feature Super 8 in 2011. He also composed for the pilot of the Abrams-produced American television series Fringe , after which Giacchino gave scoring duties to his assistant Chad Seiter , who scored
1224-589: The Underminer , and co-wrote the theme of Black with composer Chris Tilton . He also composed the score for Alias , which was based on the television series of the same name. In 2008 Giacchino wrote music for Turning Point: Fall of Liberty . In 2007, he returned to the Medal of Honor franchise as he composed the music for Medal of Honor: Airborne . Giacchino's work on various video games led to his entrance into television. In 2001, J. J. Abrams , producer of
1275-415: The animation. Joly Herman of Common Sense Media rated the series 4 out of 5 stars and complimented Dug Days for providing positive messages such as kindness and loyalty, while praising the depiction of diverse positive role models through the characters. Dug Days ' fifth episode, "Science", received a nomination for Best Animated Television Production for Children at the 49th Annie Awards . At
1326-568: The fanfare for the 100th Anniversary logo of Paramount Pictures , which debuted with Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol on December 7, 2011, at the Dubai International Film Festival , which it carried onto the logos of Paramount's other divisions, as well as the new fanfare for Marvel Studios , which debuted alongside its logo with Doctor Strange on October 13, 2016, in Hong Kong, in which he also composed an arrangement of
1377-414: The final results from the animating process were done from the crew's homes, and the cast remotely recorded their dialogue. The first five episodes of Dug Days premiered on September 1, 2021, on Disney+. They received generally positive reviews for their voice performances, messages, role models, humor and emotional depth. Carl's Date , the sixth and final episode, premiered exclusively in theaters as
1428-517: The first Lost album, "World's Worst Last 4 Minutes To Live" from the Mission: Impossible III soundtrack, "Galaxy's Worst Sushi Bar" from Star Trek (2010 deluxe release), "World's Worst Landscaping" from the second Lost album, "World's Worst Car Wash" from the soundtrack album Lost: The Final Season , and "World's Worst Field Trip" from the soundtrack of Super 8 . The soundtrack for Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol also has
1479-511: The first half of season one . The task was then passed on to Chris Tilton , who scored the latter half of season one and all subsequent seasons. In 2016, Giacchino composed the score for the Marvel film Doctor Strange , as well as the score for the Disney film Zootopia . Giacchino also composed the fanfare for the new Marvel Studios logo, which debuted with Doctor Strange . In September 2016, it
1530-431: The original film. The score for Dug Days was composed by Andrea Datzman and Curtis Green. Up composer and longtime Pixar collaborator Michael Giacchino was approached to return for the series, but declined due to scheduling issues, and instead recommended Andrea, who in turn contacted Curtis to help with the score. The score references Giacchino's work for the original film. According to producer Kim Collins,
1581-432: The role due to scheduling conflicts with Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017). He conceived Pixar's The Good Dinosaur (2015) and directed the film until August 2013. Unfortunately, he had been dismissed from the project due to story problems. Peterson remains at Pixar, where he was developing another original feature film. In August 2015, Peterson voiced a dog named Derby for an E:60 profile on ESPN that chronicled
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1632-665: The score for Taika Waititi 's 2019 film Jojo Rabbit . In 2022, Giacchino composed the score for The Batman , and the score for the Pixar film Lightyear . In 2018, Giacchino wrote, directed and scored Monster Challenge. The short film is a satirical take on Japanese game shows, starring Patton Oswalt , Ben Schwartz , Dermot Mulroney , Amy Brenneman , Benedict Wong , Tom Everett Scott , Taishi Mizuno, Ann Madox, and Teruko Nakajima. Monster Challenge originally premiered at Fantastic Fest in 2018 and premiered on YouTube on March 20, 2020. He continued with his directorial efforts with
1683-468: The score for each episode features different tones and themes. The score for the series was released in September 1, 2021. The first five episodes of Dug Days premiered on September 1, 2021 on Disney+. The sixth and final episode, Carl's Date , was originally scheduled to debut on Disney+ on February 10, 2023, but instead premiered in theaters on June 16, 2023, along with Pixar's Elemental . Carl's Date
1734-923: The score for the video game series Medal of Honor and Call of Duty and the television series Alias , Lost , and Fringe . In 2018, he ventured into directing, and in 2022 helmed the Marvel Studios Disney+ special Werewolf by Night . Giacchino was born in Riverside Township, New Jersey . His father's ancestors were Italians, coming from Sicily , and his mother's ancestors emigrated from Abruzzo (in central Italy ). Giacchino grew up in Edgewater Park Township, New Jersey , and graduated from Holy Cross High School in Delran Township, New Jersey in 1986. He holds dual American and Italian citizenship. His brother Anthony Giacchino
1785-443: The series as, ultimately, "about how Carl and Dug take care of each other". Peterson said the episodic format allowed the filmmakers to explore "facets of a dog’s life", such as "territoriality" via having him face a squirrel. In addition to writing and directing the series, Peterson reprises his role as Dug from the film. Ed Asner , voice actor of Carl Fredricksen from both the film and the series, died on August 29, three days before
1836-415: The series premiere, making it his first posthumous performance ever released and is dedicated in his memory. Unused archive recordings of Jordan Nagai as Russell were used in the episode "Science", as Nagai had retired from acting by the time the series entered development. Due to lockdowns product of the COVID-19 pandemic , the cast had to remotely record most of their dialogue, though Asner managed to have
1887-404: The series. Up director and Pixar chief creative officer Pete Docter was an executive-producer for the series; Docter supervised the series so it would be faithful to the original film. Peterson said the idea behind the series was to explore Dug adapting to suburbian life and Carl as he goes through new, smaller adventures that put in practice what he learned in the film, with Collins describing
1938-597: The short Geri's Game (1997), Roz in Monsters, Inc. (2001) and Monsters University (2013), Mr. Ray in Finding Nemo (2003) and Finding Dory (2016), and Dug and Alpha in Up (2009). His most recent vocal work was Dug and Alpha in the short Carl's Date (2023). Peterson also voiced Chick Hicks in Cars 3 since Chick's original voice actor Michael Keaton was unable to reprise
1989-519: The soundtrack for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has a track titled "World's Worst Bedtime Storyteller"; the soundtrack for Tomorrowland has a track titled "World's Worst Shop Keepers"; the Doctor Strange score has a track titled "Astral World's Worst Killer"; the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story score has an alternate title for "Cargo Shuttle SW-0608" which is "World's Worst Vacation Destination";
2040-413: The soundtrack for the film after having heard his work on Alias . The upbeat jazz orchestral sound was a departure in style not only for Giacchino but for Pixar, which had previously relied on Randy and Thomas Newman for all of its films. Director Brad Bird had originally sought out John Barry – perhaps best known for his work on the early James Bond films—but Barry was reportedly afraid to repeat
2091-604: The styles of his earlier works. Giacchino was nominated for two Grammy Awards in 2005 for The Incredibles : Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media and Best Instrumental Composition . Like his other counterparts Joel McNeely , J. A. C. Redford and Frank DeVol , Giacchino mostly associated with Disney from early in his career up to most recently, ranging from video games such as Mickey Mania and Gargoyles to films such as The Incredibles and eventually collaborated with Walt Disney Imagineering in creating two new soundtracks for
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2142-428: The television series Alias , discovered Giacchino through his video game work and asked him to provide the new show's soundtrack. The soundtrack featured a mix of full orchestral pieces frequently intermingled with upbeat electronic music , a departure from much of his previous work. Giacchino would go on to provide the score for J. J. Abrams's 2004 television series Lost , creating an acclaimed score which employed
2193-537: The theme for Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction . Giacchino's award-winning compositions covers the first four installments of the Medal of Honor series ( Medal of Honor , Underground , Allied Assault and Frontline ), Heroes: 2 , and also the scores for several other World War II-related video games like Secret Weapons Over Normandy , Call of Duty and Call of Duty: Finest Hour . Additionally, Giacchino composed themes for The Incredibles: Rise of
2244-522: The track "U-Boat" from the Medal of Honor soundtrack in the tracks "Sawyer Jones and the Temple of Boom" and "Sub-Primed" from the 5th and 6th season Lost soundtracks as the submarine motif. In terms of naming, the score for The Incredibles contains a piece named "100 Mile Dash", and subsequently Ratatouille had "100 Rat Dash", Up had "Three Dog Dash", and Coco had "Shrine and Dash". Another series of examples: "World's Worst Beach Party" from
2295-434: The updated versions of Space Mountain at Disneyland , Space Mountain: Mission 2 at Disneyland Paris , and Space Mountain at Hong Kong Disneyland . Giacchino also composed scores for the 2005 films Sky High and The Family Stone , and the television movie The Muppets' Wizard of Oz . Additionally, he wrote the music for Joseph Barbera 's final theatrical Tom and Jerry cartoon The Karate Guard , and scored
2346-492: The updated versions of Space Mountain at Disneyland , Space Mountain: Mission 2 at Disneyland Paris , and Space Mountain at Hong Kong Disneyland . Giacchino was also contracted by Sarah Vowell , who played character Violet in The Incredibles , to compose the score to the audio version of her book Assassination Vacation . Michael Giacchino's music can also be heard in " Star Tours: The Adventure Continues " during
2397-525: Was announced in December 2020, during Disney's Investor Day, with Peterson pitched the series centering on Dug following his work on Forky Asks a Question . The animators created new animation rigging, textures, and hair for the characters in order to update their original designs due to advances in CG animation ever since the original film's release. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States , most of
2448-468: Was announced on December 10, 2020, during Disney's Investor Day. It was produced by Pixar , with Bob Peterson as its creator, director, and writer. It premiered on Disney+ , with five episodes, on September 1, 2021. Peterson pitched the series following his work on Forky Asks a Question , as he wanted to revisit the characters from Up , and felt a short series centering on Dug was the appropriate format. Kim Collins joined as producer after Peterson wrote
2499-551: Was announced that Giacchino had been chosen to replace composer Alexandre Desplat as the composer for the Star Wars anthology film Rogue One after Desplat was unavailable following reshoots. Giacchino then scored four more Marvel films: 2017's Spider-Man: Homecoming , 2019's Spider-Man: Far From Home , 2021's Spider-Man: No Way Home , and 2022's Thor: Love and Thunder . Giacchino returned to Pixar to score Coco (2017) and Incredibles 2 (2018). He also composed
2550-491: Was available at Universal Pictures . Giacchino, who was the only one interested, obtained the six-month position, which he filled at night while attending school during the day and working at Macy's to pay his rent. He graduated from SVA in 1990 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts , after which he took music classes at the Juilliard School , and then at UCLA. When Giacchino's internship ended, Universal hired him, giving him
2601-513: Was later released on Disney+ on September 13, 2023. Carl's Date was also released on September 26, 2023 as a bonus feature included on the Ultra HD Blu-ray , Blu-ray , and DVD releases of Elemental . Joel Keller of Decider found the humor of the series simple yet effective and praised the performances of the cast members, claimed that the interactions between the characters manage bring an emotional bond between them, while complimenting
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