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Citation Mr Raman HUI Shing-ngai BBS Mr Raman Hui is a Hong Kong animator and film director whose work is known to audiences all around the world. His best-known work to date probably is his work on Shrek (2001), for which he designed the characters and supervised the animation. Shrek won at least 37 awards, including one Academy Award—or an Oscar—for Best Animated Feature, and two awards from the British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA). In 2008, the American Film Institute ranked Shrek number eight among the ten greatest animation movies ever made. Unsurprisingly, Shrek was followed by Shrek 2 (2004) and Shrek The Third (2007), on which Mr Hui worked as, respectively, supervising animator and co-director. His work on the Shrek movies resulted in several individual nominations (for two Annie Awards by the International Animated Film Association, and for one Visual Effects Society Award), and in one individual award, namely, the ShoWest Animation Director of the Year award, which Mr Hui received with Shrek The Third co-director Chris Miller in Las Vegas in 2007. Mr Hui has also worked on other well-known, award-winning animation films. For example, he designed the characters and supervised the animation for Antz (1998); he was additional animator for Madagascar (2005); and he was additional story artist for Puss in Boots (2011). Many famous actors have lent their voices to Mr Hui’s characters, including Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, and Vincent Cassell. Mr Hui, in turn, lent his voice to one of the characters (Jin) in Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003). There was probably little that could foretell that Mr Hui would end up making such a career in animation, although he loved drawing cartoons from an early age. He was born in Hong Kong in 1963 into a single- parent family, the eldest of three. In 1984, he graduated with a Higher Dipl