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Roger Allers has 0 writing credits in the Nutevio catalogue.

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Roger Allers has 0 writing credits in the Nutevio catalogue.
The recognisable elements are visual style, rewatchability, originality. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same eye, re-tuned for different registers. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is staged.
Allers set terms other filmmakers now work against: the structures, the pacing and the refusal to explain. Awards bodies have often been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
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Joe Ranft
Story
3 shared titles · Oliver & Company

Gary Trousdale
Story
3 shared titles · Oliver & Company

Chris Sanders
Story
3 shared titles · The Lion King

Burny Mattinson
Story
3 shared titles · The Lion King

John Musker
Director
3 shared titles · Aladdin

Ron Clements
Director
3 shared titles · Aladdin

Kevin Lima
Story
2 shared titles · Oliver & Company

Kirk Wise
Story
2 shared titles · Oliver & Company
Sarah McArthur
Executive Producer
2 shared titles · The Lion King

Don Hahn
Producer
2 shared titles · The Lion King

Linda Woolverton
Screenplay
2 shared titles · The Lion King
Brian Pimental
Story
2 shared titles · Beauty and the Beast
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