Dušan Vukotić (1927 – 1998) was an award-winning cartoonist, author and director of animated films from Yugoslavia. He is the best known member of the Zagreb school of animated films.
Vukotić was born in Bileća, Bosnia and Herzegovina (at the time Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes).
In 1953 he was one of the founding members of Zagreb Film and had worked there for over four decades.
He won an Oscar for best animated short in 1961 for Surogat ("Ersatz"), being the first foreigner to do so. Anoth