The Prince of Egypt is a 1998 American animated film, the first traditionally animated film produced and released by DreamWorks.

The story follows the life of Moses from his birth, through his childhood as a prince of Egypt and finally to his ultimate destiny to lead the Hebrew slaves out of Egypt, which is based on the second of the Five Books of Moses, Exodus.

Directed by Brenda Chapman, Simon Wells and Steve Hickner, the film featured songs written by Stephen Schwartz and a score composed by Hans Zimmer. The voice cast featured a number of major Hollywood actors in the speaking roles such as Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Goldblum, Danny Glover, Steve Martin, Martin Short and Helen Mirren among others, while professional singers replaced them for the songs. The exceptions, however, were Pfeiffer, Fiennes, Steve Martin, and Martin Short, who sang their own parts.

The film was nominated for best score and won for Best Original Song at the 1999 Academy Awards for "When You Believe". The pop version of the song was performed at the ceremonies by Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey. The song, co-written by Stephen Schwartz, Hans Zimmer and with additional production by Babyface, was nominated for the Best Original Song (Motion Picture) at the 1999 Golden Globes, and was also nominated for Outstanding Performance of a Song for a Feature Film at the ALMA Awards.

The movie went on to gross $218,613,188 worldwide.

Source: Wikipedia

Production Date: 1998
Country: USA
Runtime: 100 min
Genre: Adventure/Drama/Musical Animation

Released in USA: December 16, 1998
Budget: $60,000,000 (estimated)
Gross: $218,613,188 (Worlwide) | $101,319,708 (USA)

Directed by Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner and Simon Wells
Written by Philip LaZebnik
Produced by Penney Finkelman Cox and Sandra Rabins
Executive Poduction by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Steven Spielberg (uncredited)
Associate producer Ron Rocha
Music by Stephen Schwartz (songs) and Hans Zimmer (score)
Art Direction by Kathy Altieri and Richard Chavez
Production Design by Darek Gogol
Editing by Nick Fletcher

Distributed by DreamWorks SKG

Young Moses (Val Kilmer) is thus spared death and awaiting him is a destiny. He is rescued from the river by none other than The Queen (Helen Mirren) who takes him in as her son, joining Rameses (Ralph Fiennes) in the household of the Pharaoh. Skip forward to their youth and Moses and Rameses are like any other irresponsible youths and create merriment on the streets of their city. However, after Rameses is made Prince Regent, things change a little and for Moses that is Tzipporah (Michelle Pfeiffer), a free Hebrew captured and brought to the palace as a gift for Moses. As she escapes, Moses follows and eventually bumps into Miriam (Sandra Bullock), his long lost sister. She manages to convince Moses that he is not a prince of Egypt and this leads him to eventually walk out of the palace and into the desert. He happens across the family of Jethro (Danny Glover) after saving his flock and young daughters from brigands. Jethro also happens to be the dear old dad of Tzipporah, and so Moses settles down into a new life as a shepherd, eventually takes Tzipporah as his wife and stumbles upon the burning bush one day whilst searching for a wandering ovine.

Hence, Moses has his religious experience and returns to the palace with Tzipporah to seek the freedom of his people, the Hebrews. Naturally one shepherd and a wooden staff alone cannot do much, but when empowered by God, mighty deeds are forthcoming. And so unto the people of Egypt were wrought great plagues, such that eventually Rameses, who is now Pharaoh, grants the Hebrews their freedom. With Moses leading they head to the Promised Land, with the army of the Pharaoh in hot pursuit, until they reach the Red Sea. With the sea in front of them and the Pharaoh's army behind them, Moses takes his empowered staff and parts the seas so that the Hebrews can enter the Promised Land. About the first thing he does when he gets there is to go up the mountain and have a personal tete-a-tete with God and brings down The Ten Commandments.

This was the third traditionally animated feature not released by Disney to gross over $100 million in the US, barely outgrossing The Rugrats Movie. The Prince of Egypt remained the highest grossing traditionally animated non-Disney film until 2007 when it was outgrossed by The Simpsons Movie.

» The Prince of Egypt - Original Title
» El Príncipe de Egipto - Argentina / Peru / Spain
» Le Prince d'Égypte - Canada (French title) / France
» Prinsen av Egypten - Finland (Swedish title) / Sweden
» Egyiptom hercege - Hungary
» Egyptin prinssi - Finland
» Misir prensi - Turkey
» O Príncipe do Egipto - Portugal / Brazil
» Il Principe d'Egitto - Italy
» Prinsen av Egypt - Norway
» Printul Egiptului - Romania
» Der Prinz von Ägypten - Germany

USA (Premiere), Belgium and France, - 16 December 1998
Germany, Netherlands - 17 December 1998
Austria, Finland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, UK - 18 December 1998
South Korea - 19 December 1998
Hong Kong, Hungary, Norway - 24 December 1998
Argentina, Brazil, Denmark, Mexico - 25 December 1998
Australia, Iceland - 26 December 1998
Philippines - 27 January 1999
Israel - 18 February 1999
Thailand - 5 March 1999
South Africa - 19 March 1999
Turkey - 14 May 1999
Japan - 24 July 1999

» 1999 - Academy Awards
- Best Music, Original Song: Stephen Schwartz (For the song "When You Believe") (Won)
- Best Music, Original Musical or Comedy Score: Stephen Schwartz (music/lyrics) and Hans Zimmer (orchestral score) (Nominated)

» 1999 - Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films: Saturn Awards
- Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film (Nominated)
- Best Music: Hans Zimmer (Nominated)

» 1999 - ALMA Awards
- Outstanding Performance of a Song for a Feature Film: Mariah Carey & Whitney Houston (For the song "When You Believe") (Nominated)

» 1999 - Annie Awards
- Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Theatrical Feature (Nominated)
- Outstanding Individual Achievement for Directing in an Animated Feature Production: Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner and Simon Wells (Nominated)
- Outstanding Individual Achievement for Effects Animation: Jamie Lloyd (Nominated)
- Outstanding Individual Achievement for Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production: Lorna Cook (Nominated)
- Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production: Ralph Fiennes (For playing "Rameses") (Nominated)

» 1999 - Broadcast Film Critics Association - Critics Choice Awards
- Best Animated Film (Tied with A Bug's Life) (Won)
- Best Song unknown For the song "When You Believe". (Won)

» 1999 - Golden Globes
- Best Original Score - Motion Picture: Stephen Schwartz & Hans Zimmer (Nominated)
- Best Original Song - Motion Picture: Stephen Schwartz (For the song "When You Believe") (Nominated)

» 1999 - Motion Picture Sound Editors - Golden Reel Awards
- Best Sound Editing - Animated Feature (Nominated)
- Best Sound Editing - Music - Animated Feature (Nominated)

» 1999 - Online Film Critics Society Awards
- Best Original Score: Hans Zimmer (Nominated)

» 1999 - Satellite Awards
- Best Motion Picture - Animated or Mixed Media: Penney Finkelman Cox and Sandra Rabins. (Nominated)
- Best Original Song in a Motion Picture: Stephen Schwartz (For the song "When You Believe"). (Nominated)

» 1999 - Young Artist Awards
- Best Family Feature - Animated (Won)
- Best Performance in a Voice Over in a Feature or TV - Best Young Actress Aria Noelle Curzon (Won)

» 2000 - ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards
- Most Performed Songs from Motion Pictures: Stephen Schwartz & Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds (For the song "When You Believe") (Won)

» 2000 - Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
- Favorite Song from a Movie (Internet Only): Mariah Carey & Whitney Houston (For the song "When You Believe") (Nominated)

» 2000 - Grammy Awards
- Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media: Stephen Schwartz and Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds [For the song "The Prince Of Egypt (When You Believe)"]. (Nominated)
- Best Soundtrack Album. (Nominated)