Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is a 2002 American animated epic western drama film that was released by DreamWorks. The film, written by John Fusco and directed by Kelly Asbury and Lorna Cook, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. In contrast to the way animals are portrayed in an anthropomorphic style in other animated features, Spirit and his fellow horses communicate with each other through sounds and body language. Spirit's thoughts are narrated by his voice actor Matt Damon, but otherwise he has no dialogue. This is the only hand-drawn DreamWorks film to be nominated for the Best Animated Feature Oscar.