Don Hahn

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Don Hahn (born 1955 in Chicago) is a film producer who has produced some of the most successful Walt Disney animated films of the past 20 years.

Hahn began his career in animation working for Disney Legend Wolfgang Reitherman as an assistant director. He later became production manager of The Black Cauldron (1985) before moving on as as associate producer of Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).

In 1988, he became producer of the benchmark animated feature Beauty and the Beast, released in 1991, which made him the only producer in Hollywood to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar for an animated film. His next production, 1994's The Lion King, set worldwide box office records for an animated film and quickly became the highest grossing traditionally-animated film in history. He also produced the Oscar-nominated animated short Lorenzo (2004).

Most recently, Hahn was interim head of Disney's animation division during its successful merger with Pixar Animation Studios.

In 2006, Hahn received his second Academy Award nomination in the category of Best Animated Short for The Little Match Girl, an adaptation of the classic Hans Christian Andersen tale which was originally intended for inclusion in a version of Fantasia.

[edit] Selected Producer Filmography

2006 - The Little Matchgirl (Academy Award Nominee)
2004 - Lorenzo
2003 - The Haunted Mansion
2001 - Atlantis: The Lost Empire
2000 - The Emperor's New Groove
1996 - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1994 - The Lion King
1991 - Beauty and the Beast (Academy Award Best Picture Nominee)
1988 - Who Framed Roger Rabbit

[edit] Trivia

Three of his films have been adapted into stage musicals: Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
In all, his films have been nominated for 18 Academy Awards.^{[citation needed]}
He directed the live-action sequences in Fantasia 2000 (1999).