Shrek

Shrek
Offical poster for Academy Award winning Shrek
Directed by	Andrew Adamson Vicky Jenson
Produced by	Jeffrey Katzenberg Aron Warner John H. Williams
Written by	Screenplay: Ted Elliott Terry Rossio Joe Stillman Roger S.H. Schulman Book: William Steig
Starring	Voices: Mike Myers Eddie Murphy Cameron Diaz John Lithgow
Music by	Harry Gregson-Williams John Powell
Distributed by	USA: DreamWorks SKG Non-USA Theatrical: United International Pictures DVD/Video: Universal Pictures (through DreamWorks label until 2006) Paramount Pictures (2006–) Television Distribution: CBS Television Distribution (2006–)
Release date(s)	May 18, 2001
Running time	90 minutes (1:29:59)
Country	United States, Canada
Language	English
Budget	US $60 million
Gross revenue	Worldwide $484,409,218
Followed by	Shrek 2 (2004)
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Shrek is a 2001 computer-animated American comedy film, directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, and starring the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, and John Lithgow. Based on William Steig's 1990 fairy tale picture book Shrek!, the film was produced by DreamWorks Animation. Shrek was the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, a category introduced in 2001. It was released on DVD and VHS on November 7, 2001.

The film stars Myers as a large, strong, solitude-loving, intimidating Scottish ogre named Shrek (from the German word "schreck" meaning "terror" or Yiddish word שרעק, meaning "fear"), Diaz as the beautiful but very down-to-earth and feisty Princess Fiona, Murphy as a talkative donkey named Donkey, and Lithgow as the villainous Lord Farquaad.

It was critically acclaimed as an animated film worthy of adult interest, with many adult-oriented jokes and themes but a simple enough plot and humor to appeal to children. It made notable use of pop music—the soundtrack includes music by Smash Mouth, Eels, Joan Jett, The Proclaimers, Jason Wade, The Baha Men, and Rufus Wainwright.

The film was extremely successful on release in 2001 and it helped establish DreamWorks as a prime competitor to Walt Disney Pictures in the field of feature film animation, particularly in computer animation. Furthermore, Shrek was made the mascot for the company's animation productions.

Shrek was ranked second in a Channel 4 poll of the 100 greatest family films, losing out on the top spot to E.T..

In June 2008, the American Film Institute revealed its "Ten top Ten"— the best ten films in ten "classic" American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. Shrek was acknowledged as the 8th best film in the animated genre, and the only non-Disney film on the top 10.