Aleksandr Petrov (animator)
Aleksandr Petrov | |
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Александр Петров | |
Petrov in 2023 | |
| Born | July 17, 1957 Prechistoye, Russian SFSR |
| Alma mater | Yaroslavl Art School |
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| Years active | 1984–present |
| Awards | Honoured art worker of the Russian Federation, State Prize of the Russian Federation (1994), Krupskaya State Prize of the RSFSR, 72nd Academy Awards |
Aleksandr Konstantinovich Petrov (also Alexander or Alexandre; Russian: Александр Константинович Петров; born 17 July 1957) is a Russian animator and animation director known for his paint-on-glass animation technique. Many of his films are adaptations of short stories and novellas by authors such as Ernest Hemingway, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Alexander Pushkin. For his film The Old Man and the Sea he won an Academy Award.