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The Old Man and the Sea (Russian: Старик и море) is a 1999 paint-on-glass-animated short film directed by Aleksandr Petrov, based on the novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The film won many awards, including the Academy Award for Animated Short Film. Work on the film took place in Montreal over a period of two and a half years and was funded by an assortment of Canadian, Russian and Japanese companies. French and English-language soundtracks to the film were released concurrently. It was the first animated film to be released in IMAX. Oscar winning animation of the classic Hemingway story.

"The fish is my brother, but I must kill him."

Genres: Animation, Drama

Starring: Gordon Pinsent, Kevin Duhaney, Yoji Matsuda

Released: July 3, 1999

Runtime: 20.0

Popularity Rating: 2.295

Dentsu Tec, Imagica Corp., IMAX, NHK, Ogden Entertainment Company, Panorama

Canada, Japan, Russia

Old Man (voice) Gordon Pinsent
Boy (voice) Kevin Duhaney
(voice) Yoji Matsuda
(voice) Rentaro Mikuni

Art — Art Direction: Aleksandr Petrov
Crew — Post Production Supervisor: Peter Measroch
Directing — Director: Aleksandr Petrov
Editing — Assistant Editor: Christian Gravel
Editing — Color Timer: Etienne Patry
Editing — Editor: Denis Papillon
Production — Producer: Tatsuo Shimamura
Sound — Music: Normand Roger
Sound — Music Editor: Guy Pelletier
Sound — Original Music Composer: Denis L. Chartrand
Sound — Scoring Mixer: Sylvain Lefebvre
Sound — Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Dominique Delguste
Visual Effects — Animation: Aleksandr Petrov
Writing — Novel: Ernest Hemingway
Writing — Writer: Aleksandr Petrov