question: Which American film director worked on both "Flushed Away" and a film based on "a war between babies and puppies"?
answer: Tom McGrath
context: Title: Tom McGrath (animator)
  Passage: Thomas "Tom" McGrath (born August 7, 1964) is an American film director, animator, and voice actor known for co-directing (with Eric Darnell) the 2005 comedy "Madagascar" and its sequels, "" in 2008 and "" in 2012, also providing the voice of Skipper in all films, short films and "The Penguins of Madagascar" television series.  He has portrayed Skipper in every "Madagascar" installment, being the only voice actor to do so.  He has also worked as a voice actor on other DreamWorks animated features like "Flushed Away" in 2006 and "Shrek the Third" in 2007.  He also stepped in on "Flushed Away" to help make improvements prior to its release.  He has also directed other DreamWorks Feature Films such as Megamind and The Boss Baby.
  Title: The Boss Baby
  Passage: The Boss Baby is a 2017 American computer-animated comedy film loosely based on the 2010 picture book of the same name written and illustrated by Marla Frazee and produced by DreamWorks Animation.  It was directed by Tom McGrath and written by Michael McCullers, and stars the voices of Alec Baldwin as the title character, along with Miles Bakshi, Steve Buscemi, Jimmy Kimmel, Lisa Kudrow, and Tobey Maguire.  The plot follows a baby who is a secret agent in the war between babies and puppies.
  Title: Aardman Animations
  Passage: Aardman Animations, Ltd., also known as Aardman Studios, or simply as Aardman, is a British animation studio based in Bristol.  Aardman is known for films made using stop-motion clay animation techniques, particularly those featuring Plasticine characters Wallace and Gromit.  After some experimental computer animated short films during the late 1990s, beginning with "Owzat" (1997), it entered the computer animation market with "Flushed Away" (2006).  Aardman films have made $973.2 million worldwide and average $163 million per film.  All of their stop motion films are among the highest-grossing stop-motion films, with their debut, "Chicken Run" (2000), being their top-grossing film as well as the highest-grossing stop-motion film of all time.
  Title: Ronald Krauss (filmmaker)
  Passage: Ronald Krauss is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.  He directed the films "Puppies for Sale" (1998), "Amexica" (2010), and "Gimme Shelter" (2013).
  Title: Alan Zaslove
  Passage: Alan Zaslove (born 1927) is an American retired animator, producer and director of animated series.  He started in 1943 as an "office boy" for Leon Schlesinger's studios and went on to work for United Productions of America.  He did animation for "Gerald McBoing-Boing" and "Mr. Magoo".  Zaslove has also worked on several other cartoons in film and TV such as "The Alvin Show", "Roger Ramjet", "Popeye the Sailor", "The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo", "A Charlie Brown Christmas", "The Phantom Tollbooth", "CBS Library", "A Chipmunk Christmas", "Freedom 2000", "Fractured Fairy Tales", "George of the Jungle", "Carnival of the Animals", "The Hoober-Bloob Highway", "Tom Thumb", "The Night Before Christmas", "Clerow Wilson and the Miracle of P.S. 14" and "Stanley the Ugly Duckling".  Later he did work for Hanna Barbera and Disney.  At Hanna-Barbera, Zaslove worked on several of their works such as "Space Stars", "Yogi's Treasure Hunt", "Paw Paws", "The Smurfs", "The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo", "The Challenge of the GoBots", "Snorks", the 1985 revival of "The Jetsons" the 1985 animated film of "Pound Puppies" and "Galtar and the Golden Lance".
  Title: Million Dollar Babies
  Passage: Million Dollar Babies is a 1994 television film based on the fact based novel "Time of Their Lives—The Dionne Tragedy" by John Nihmey and Stuart Foxman.  It was an American/Canadian co-production by CBS, Cinar (Now Cookie Jar Entertainment), and The CBC.
  Title: Thomas Benton Cooley
  Passage: Thomas Benton Cooley (June 23, 1871 – October 13, 1945) was an American pediatrician and hematologist and professor of hygiene and medicine at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University.  He was the director of the Pasteur Institute at the University of Michigan from 1903 to 1904.  He worked in private practice in Detroit as the city's first pediatrician starting in 1905.  He worked with the Babies' Milk Fund and helped to reduce Detroit's high infant mortality rate in the 1900s and 1910s.  During World War I, Cooley went to France as the assistant chief of the Children's Bureau of the American Red Cross.  He was decorated in 1924 with the cross of the Legion of Honor for his work in France.  From 1921 to 1941, Cooley was the head of pediatric service at Children's Hospital of Michigan.  Cooley gained acclaim for his scientific work in the field of pediatric hematology and is principally remembered for his discovery of, and research into, a form of childhood anemia that became known as Cooley's anemia.  Cooley was also a professor at the Wayne University College of Medicine from 1936 to 1941.
  Title: Flushed Away (video game)
  Passage: Flushed Away is an action-adventure video game based on the animated film of the same name and released in 2006 by Monkey Bar Games for GameCube, PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance, and Nintendo DS.  It was released in Japan for the Nintendo DS as Volume 17 of the Simple series.
  Title: Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
  Passage: Rugrats in Paris: The Movie is a 2000 American animated comedy-drama film based on the Nickelodeon animated television series of the same name. and the second film in the "Rugrats" film series.  In the film, Chuckie Finster takes the lead character role as he searches to find a new mother.  The film marks the only appearance of two villains in the "Rugrats" franchise, Coco LaBouche, a cruel woman who hates children, including babies, and her accomplice, Jean-Claude.  The film also marks the first appearance of new "Rugrats" character Kimi Finster, and her mother, Kira.
  Title: Air Bud (series)
  Passage: The Air Bud film series (also known as Air Buddies or Disney Buddies) is an American film franchise based on a sports-playing Golden Retriever named Buddy, portrayed by Air Buddy.  The franchise began in 1997 with the theatrical release of "Air Bud", followed by the theatrical release of "" in 1998.  The rest of the films in the series were released in direct-to-video form.  The "Air Buddies" or "Disney Buddies" spin-off series began in 2006 with the release of "Air Buddies" and it focuses on the adventures of Buddy's talking Golden Retriever puppies.
citations: The Boss Baby Tom McGrath (animator)