Allison Abbate(I)
- Producer
- Actress
- Writer
Allison Abbate (Producer) is the BAFTA-Award winning producer of Iron
Giant and Tim Burton's Corpse Bride.
Allison has made a career of working on some of the most innovative
animated features in the business. A native of New York, Abbate
relocated to Hollywood in 1989 where she started at Disney and served
as an artistic coordinator on Tim Burton's cult classic The Nightmare
Before Christmas.
Abbate then moved to Paris for The Walt Disney Company to set-up their
satellite animation studio and co-produce the Academy Award-nominated
Mickey Mouse short Runaway Brain.
In 1996, Abbate joined Warner Bros. where she co-produced the
international hit feature Space Jam which combined classic animated
Warner Bros. characters with live action sequences. This film,
headlined by Bugs Bunny, Michael Jordan and Bill Murray, broke new
ground in animated features.
She then went on to earn a BAFTA award in 1999, as producer of Brad
Bird's internationally acclaimed Iron Giant, an adaptation of British
Poet Laureate Ted Hughes' acclaimed children's' book, The Iron Man.
She followed up her success on Iron Giant producing Looney Tunes Back
in Action, another family comedy which teamed Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck
with Brendan Fraser and Steve Martin. Abbate then moved to London in
2004 to produce the haunting musical feature, Corpse Bride with Johnny
Depp and Helena Bonham Carter with director Tim Burton. Corpse Bride
was also nominated for an Oscar in 2005.
In 2006 she joined forces with acclaimed filmmaker Wes Anderson to
produce the Fantastic Mr Fox, a stop motion adaptation of Roald Dahl's
beloved children's story featuring the voices of George Clooney and
Meryl Streep.
Presently, Allison has reunited with Tim Burton yet again, and is
producing Frankenweenie, a stop motion animated feature based on a live
action short from Tim's early career.
Giant and Tim Burton's Corpse Bride.
Allison has made a career of working on some of the most innovative
animated features in the business. A native of New York, Abbate
relocated to Hollywood in 1989 where she started at Disney and served
as an artistic coordinator on Tim Burton's cult classic The Nightmare
Before Christmas.
Abbate then moved to Paris for The Walt Disney Company to set-up their
satellite animation studio and co-produce the Academy Award-nominated
Mickey Mouse short Runaway Brain.
In 1996, Abbate joined Warner Bros. where she co-produced the
international hit feature Space Jam which combined classic animated
Warner Bros. characters with live action sequences. This film,
headlined by Bugs Bunny, Michael Jordan and Bill Murray, broke new
ground in animated features.
She then went on to earn a BAFTA award in 1999, as producer of Brad
Bird's internationally acclaimed Iron Giant, an adaptation of British
Poet Laureate Ted Hughes' acclaimed children's' book, The Iron Man.
She followed up her success on Iron Giant producing Looney Tunes Back
in Action, another family comedy which teamed Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck
with Brendan Fraser and Steve Martin. Abbate then moved to London in
2004 to produce the haunting musical feature, Corpse Bride with Johnny
Depp and Helena Bonham Carter with director Tim Burton. Corpse Bride
was also nominated for an Oscar in 2005.
In 2006 she joined forces with acclaimed filmmaker Wes Anderson to
produce the Fantastic Mr Fox, a stop motion adaptation of Roald Dahl's
beloved children's story featuring the voices of George Clooney and
Meryl Streep.
Presently, Allison has reunited with Tim Burton yet again, and is
producing Frankenweenie, a stop motion animated feature based on a live
action short from Tim's early career.