Year of Birth: 1967 - Hampshire, England, UK

theOscarSite Bio: BAFTA-winning director Suzie Templeton burst onto the international animation scene with her multi-award winning film STANLEY (2000), a surreal and darkly comic story of a man who falls in love with a cabbage. She followed this with the phenomenally successful DOG (2002), a heart-breaking and chilling film about a boy coming to terms with the death of his mother. DOG won many of the animation world's top prizes, including a British Animation Award and a BAFTA. In collaboration with BreakThru films, Templeton developed a new half-hour adaptation of Prokofiev's classic PETER & THE WOLF (2006), for which she received an Academy Award^®.

· Best Animated Short Film 2007: PETER & THE WOLF (w. Hugh Welchman)