Andrew Stanton

Andrew Stanton is a director, screenwriter, producer, and occasional voice actor. He has been instrumental in the success of many Pixar films, including Finding Nemo and WALL•E. He is currently working on a sequel to Finding Nemo called Finding Dory, to be released on June 17, 2016.

Biography
Stanton joined Pixar in January 1990, and was the second animator (John Lasseter being the first) and ninth overall employee hired at the studio. His first duties were working on television commercials. With John Lasseter, Pete Docter and Joe Ranft, Stanton rounded out the original Brain Trust and helped develop the idea for Pixar's first full-length animated movie, Toy Story, which he received an Academy Award nomination for. Since then he has directed Finding Nemo and WALL•E—winning Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature on both films—and was co-director on A Bug's Life. Outside of Pixar he has directed John Carter.

He has also performed the voices of Emperor Zurg in Toy Story 2, Crush and the Seagulls in Finding Nemo and Fred in Cars. He and John Lasseter have cameo voices in A Bug's Life as two flies. He also voiced Hamm in the opening of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins and Hopper in the A Bug's Life Video Game and It's Tough to Be a Bug!.

Director

 * Finding Nemo (2003)
 * WALL•E (2008)
 * Finding Dory (2016)

Co-Director

 * A Bug's Life (1998)

Writer

 * Toy Story (1995) - Original Story with John Lasseter, Pete Docter and Joe Ranft / Screenplay with Joss Whedon, Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow
 * A Bug's Life (1998) - Original Story with John Lasseter and Joe Ranft / Screenplay with Donald McEnery and Bob Shaw
 * Toy Story 2 (1999) - Original Story with John Lasseter, Pete Docter and Ash Brannon / Screenplay with Rita Hsiao, Doug Chamberlin and Chris Webb
 * Monsters, Inc. (2001) - Screenplay with Daniel Gerson
 * Finding Nemo (2003) - Original Story / Screenplay with Bob Peterson and David Reynolds
 * WALL•E (2008) - Original Story with Pete Docter / Screenplay with Jim Reardon
 * Toy Story 3 (2010) - Story with John Lasseter and Lee Unkrich

Executive Producer

 * Monsters, Inc. (2001)
 * Ratatouille (2007)
 * Brave (2012)

Character Designer

 * Toy Story (1995)

Story Artist

 * Toy Story (1995)
 * A Bug's Life (1998)

Actor

 * Toy Story 2 (1999) - voice of Zurg
 * Finding Nemo (2003) - voice of Crush and Seagulls
 * Cars (2006) - voice of Fred