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This sentence gets the development history wrong. Peter Brown told Publishers Weekly that while he was still writing The Wild Robot, DreamWorks called him about the project. A screenplay could not have been what DreamWorks bought at that stage, because the novel had not even been published yet. A separate interview from the Motion Picture Association’s The Credits says that Chris Sanders later learned DreamWorks had acquired the book, and Sanders then signed on to make the adaptation. That same PW piece identifies Sanders as the film’s writer-director. Together, these sources show DreamWorks obtained rights to Brown’s book/story, and Sanders later wrote the screenplay; they do not support the claim that DreamWorks “bought the screenplay” before the novel’s 2016 release.

The date listed for the Black Film Critics Circle award is incorrect. The BFCC’s own 2024 winners release is dated December 19, 2024 and includes The Wild Robot as the winner for Animated Film. A contemporaneous report from BlackFilmandTV.com says the votes were cast at the organization’s annual meeting on December 15, 2024. That directly contradicts the article’s claim that this award entry belongs to February 19, 2024.

The article’s date places the Chicago Indie Critics award almost a full year too early. Chicago Indie Critics’ official winners post is titled “2024 Windie Award Winners,” was published on January 18, 2025, and says the group presented their 2024 winners on the evening of January 16th, 2025. Since The Wild Robot appears among those 2024 winners, the article’s date January 17, 2024 is demonstrably incorrect.