Kelly Asbury, best known for directing Academy Award-nominated animation films -- Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) and Shrek 2 (2004) -- has died at the age of 60. The Texas native passed away Friday morning at his home in Los Angeles of complications from abdominal cancer. His other two Annie Award noms came when he directed and co-wrote the animated fantasy comedy Gnomeo & Juliet (2011). By the early 2010s, he made a brief return to Disney to contribute storyboards to Wreck-It Ralph (2012) and Frozen (2013). He most recently directed Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017) for Sony Pictures Animation and UglyDolls (2019) for STX Entertainment.

Source: Daily Mail June 27, 2020 03:51 UTC