Andrew Ayers Stanton (born December 3, 1965) is a director, screenwriter, producer, and occasional voice actor. He has been instrumental in the success of many Pixar films, including Finding Nemo, WALL•E, and Finding Dory, as well as help developing the Toy Story franchise.
He will return to direct the upcoming Toy Story 5.
Biography[]
Stanton joined Pixar in January 1990 and was the second animator after John Lasseter and ninth overall employee hired at the studio.[1] 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.
Stanton has also performed the voices of Emperor Zurg in Toy Story 2, Crush and the Seagulls in Finding Nemo and Finding Dory, 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: The Video Game and It's Tough to Be a Bug!.
Filmography[]
- A Story (1987): director. writer, animator, voice of Randy, voice of Goon Squad Member
- Somewhere in the Arctic (1988): director, writer, animator, voice of Bahr
- Toy Story (1995): storywriter, screenwriter, story artist, character designer, additional voice
- A Bug's Life (1998): co-director, storywriter, screenwriter, story artist, additional voice
- Toy Story 2 (1999): storywriter, screenwriter, and voice of Emperor Zurg
- Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins (2000): voice of Hamm (1 episode)
- Monsters, Inc. (2001): executive producer, screenwriter
- Finding Nemo (2003): director, storywriter, screenwriter, voice of Crush, additional voices
- Exploring the Reef (2003): executive producer
- The Incredibles (2004): additional voice
- Cars (2006): voice of Fred
- Ratatouille (2007): executive producer
- WALL•E (2008): director, storywriter, screenwriter, additional voices
- Presto (2008): executive producer
- BURN•E (2008): executive producer, story artist
- Up (2009): executive producer
- Partly Cloudy (2009): executive producer
- Toy Story 3 (2010): storywriter
- Brave (2012): executive producer
- Monsters University (2013): executive producer
- Toy Story OF TERROR! (2013): executive producer
- Inside Out (2015): executive producer
- The Good Dinosaur (2015): executive producer
- Finding Dory (2016): director, storywriter, screenwriter, voice of Crush, additional voice
- Piper (2016): executive producer
- Marine Life Interviews (2016): screenwriter, storywriter
- Purl (2018): story trust
- Toy Story 4 (2019): executive producer, storywriter, screenwriter
- Lightyear (2022): executive producer, additional screenplay material
- Win or Lose (2025):
- Coach's Kid: executive producer
- Blue: executive producer
- Raspberry: executive producer
- Pickle: executive producer
- Steal: executive producer
- Mixed Signals: executive producer
- I Got It: executive producer
- Home: executive producer
- Toy Story 5 (2026): director, storywriter, screenwriter
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References[]
- ↑ To Infinity and Beyond! The Story of Pixar Animation Studios, Paik, Karen (2007), San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books LLC.