
Up is a 2009 American CGI animated comedy-drama buddy adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film centers on an elderly widower named Carl Fredricksen (Ed Asner) and an earnest boy named Russell (Jordan Nagai). By tying thousands of balloons to his house, Carl sets out to fulfill his dream to see the wilds of South America and complete a promise made to his late wife, Ellie. The film was directed by Pete Docter and co-directed by Bob Peterson, who also wrote the film's screenplay, as well as the story with Tom McCarthy, with music composed by Michael Giacchino.
Docter began working on the story in 2004, which was based on fantasies of escaping from life when it becomes too irritating. He and eleven other Pixar artists spent three days in Venezuela gathering research and inspiration. The designs of the characters were caricatured and stylized considerably, and animators were challenged with creating realistic cloth.
Up was Pixar's first film to be presented in Disney Digital 3-D. It was released on May 29, 2009, and opened the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, becoming the first animated and 3-D film to do so.[6] The film grossed over $735 million, and received universal acclaim, with critics calling it one of the best animated films of all time. Asner's vocal performance and Michael Giacchino's score were praised, as was the montage of Carl and his wife Ellie growing old together. The film won two Academy Awards, including Best Animated Feature, and was nominated for three more, including Best Picture, making it the second animated film in history to receive such a nomination, following Beauty and the Beast (1991).
Cast[]
Image | Character | USA | Mex | Jap | Bra | Can(French) | Fra | Ita | Pol | Neth | Hun | Nor | Den | Spa | Por | Isr | Turk |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() |
Carl Fredricksen | Ed Asner | Tito Reséndiz | Shôzô Iizuka | Chico Anysio | Charles Aznavour | Charles Aznavour | Giancarlo Giannini | Wojciech Siemion | Frits Lambrechts | Sándor Makay | Helge Reiss | Henning Palner | Luis Varela | Carlos VieiradeAlmeida | Yossi Kanz | Erol Günaydın |
![]() |
Russell | Jordan Nagai | Irving Corona | Tachikawa Taiki | Eduardo Drummond | Samuel Jacques | Tom Trouffier | Arturo Valli | Kacper Cybiński | Jary Beekhuizen | Ducsai Ábel | Sebastian Warholm | Kasper Kesje | Julián Mora | Jasmim de Castro | Roy Raviv | Barış Onarıcı |
![]() |
Dug | Bob Peterson | Edgar Vivar | Yasunori Matsumoto | Nizo Neto | Rachid Badouri | Guillaume Lebon | Neri Marcorè | Cezary Pazura | Thijs Van Aken | Hujber Ferenc | Christoffer Staib | Robert Hansen | Fernando Cabrera | Rui Paulo | Sharon Cohen | Boğaçhan Sözmen |
![]() |
Kevin | Pete Docter | |||||||||||||||
![]() |
Charles Muntz | Christopher Plummer | Roberto Carnaghi | Tamio Ôki | Jomeri Pozzoli | Aubert Pallascio | Richard Leblond | Arnoldo Foà | Ignacy Gogolewski | Rients Gratama | Tordy Géza | Espen Skjønberg | Holger Perfort | Claudio Rodríguez | António Marques | Ilan Dar | Ender Yiğit |
![]() |
Alpha | Bob Peterson | Mario Castañeda | Hôchû Ôtsuka | Duda Ribeiro | Patrice Dubois | Xavier Fagnon | Andrea Ward | Wojciech Paszkowski | Iván Fenyő | John Brungot | JuanAmador Pulido | Ido Mosseri | AliEkber Diribaş | |||
![]() |
Beta | Delroy Lindo | Gian Marco | Tomoyuki Dan | Reginaldo Primo | Fabrizio Pucci | Marian Opania | Sander de Heer | Ganxsta Zolee | Øyvind B. Lyse | Luis Bajo | José Nobre | Liron Burns | Kerem Atabeyoğlu | |||
![]() |
Gamma | Jerome Ranft | Damián Alcázar | Wataru Takagi | Marco Ribeiro | Hugolin ChevretteLandesque | Gerolamo Alchieri | Jerzy Kryszak | Imre Csuja | Håvard Bakke | José Escobosa | Paulo B. | Simcha Barbiro | Uğur Taşdemir | |||
![]() |
Omega | Josh Cooley | Mario Arvizu | Giorgio Locuratolo | Mieczysław Morański | Espen Sandvik | Davi Beteta | Carlos Freixo | Tuğbey İstanbulluoğlu | ||||||||
![]() |
ConstructionForeman Tom | John Ratzenberger | Arturo Mercado | Naomi Kusumi | Anderson Coutinho | Renato Cecchetto | Paweł Szczesny | András Faragó | Jon Skolmen | Manuel Bellido | Paulo B. | ||||||
![]() |
Ellie (Young) | Eli Docter | Verania Ortiz | Tamaki Matsumoto | Fernanda Ribeiro | Ludivine Reding | Lou Lévy | Agnese Marteddu | Emilia Stachurska | Anna Davidson | Károlyi Lili | Sidney Lange | Emma May Morton | Claudia Caneda | Inês Felizardo | YehaliMargalit Topol | Melis Severcan |
![]() |
Carl (Young) | Jeremy Leary | Alan García | Takuto Yoshinaga | Luca Baltazar | Damien Muller | Yanis Belhadji | Arturo Valli | Kacper Cybiński | Wiet de Bruijn | Gergő Bogdán | Erlend SemHartgen | Alfred C. SchwarzJacobsen | Miguel Rius | Jasmim de Castro | Roi Niv | Tibet Töre |
![]() |
Ellie Fredricksen | N/A | |||||||||||||||
![]() |
Police Officer Edith | Mickie McGowan | Marcela Páez | Kikumi Umeda | Bia Barros | Graziella Polesinanti | Monika Węgiel | Vibeke Hastrup | Ana Isabel Hernando | Zamire Kasapoğlu | |||||||
![]() |
Construction Worker Steve | Danny Mann | Jesse Conde | Mitsuru Ogata | Mário JorgedeAndrade | Nino D'Agata | Karol Wróblewski | Attila Bardóczy | Ivar Nørve | Miguel Campos | Bora Severcan | ||||||
![]() |
Nurse George | Donald Fullilove | Agustín LópezLezama | Yōhei Tadano | Philippe Maia | Gaetano Lizzio | Mieczysław Morański | Rajkai Zoltán | Lorenzo Beteta | Rıza Karaağaçlı | |||||||
![]() |
Nurse AJ | Jess Harnell | Mario Filio | Carlos Alberto | Bruno Conti | Cezary Kwieciński | Sander de Heer | Petridisz Hrisztosz | Sebastián Álvaro | José Nobre | Yoram Yosefsberg | Murat Şenol | |||||
![]() |
Campmaster Strauch | Pete Docter | José Luis Rivera | Satoshi Taki | Garcia Júnior | Roberto Certoma | Zbigniew Konopka | Varga Gábor | Trond Teigen | Nacho Aramburu | Carlos Freixo | Volkan Severcan | |||||
![]() |
Newsreel Announcer | David Kaye | Jacobo Zabludovsky | Garcia Júnior | Davide Lepore | Grzegorz Pawlak | EspenBeranek Holm | Matías Prats Jr. | Carlos Freixo | Murat Şen | |||||||
![]() |
Title | N/A |