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                    is a 2001 American animated comedy film, directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, and starring the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, and John Lithgow. Based on William Steig's 1990 fairy tale picture book Shrek!, the film was produced by DreamWorks Animation. Shrek was the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, a category introduced in 2001. It was released on VHS and DVD on November 2, 2001.
                    The film stars Mike Myers as a large, strong, solitude-loving, intimidating Scottish ogre named Shrek, from the German word "Schreck" meaning "terror" or Yiddish word שרעק, meaning "fear". Shrek also features Cameron Diaz as the beautiful but very down-to-earth and feisty Princess Fiona, Eddie Murphy as a talkative donkey named Donkey, and Lithgow as the villainous Lord Farquaad.

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» Directed by:   Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson
» Produced by:   Jeffrey Katzenberg, Aron Warner, John H. Williams
» Written by:   Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman, Roger S. H. Schulman, William Steig (Book)
» Starring:   Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, John Lithgow Christopher Knights, Simon J. Smith, Vincent Cassel, Val Bettin
» Music by:   Harry Gregson-Williams, John Powell
» Editing by:   Sim Evan-Jones
» Studio:   Pacific Data Images
» Distributed by:   DreamWorks Animation
» Release date(s):   May 18, 2001 (2001-05-18)
» Running time:   91 minutes
» Country:   United States
» Language:   English
» Budget:   60 million
» Gross revenue:   $484,409,218[1]
» Followed by:   Shrek 2