Andrew Stanton

Actor · Director · Producer · Writer

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

December 3, 1965

Biography

Andrew Ayers Stanton (born December 3, 1965) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He is best known as the director and co-writer of the Pixar animated films Finding Nemo (2003), WALL-E (2008), Finding Dory (2016), and Toy Story 5 (2026). He also directed the live-action films John Carter (2012) and In the Blink of an Eye (2026). For Pixar, Stanton was additionally a co-writer on the first five Toy Story films (1995–2026), A Bug's Life (1998), and Monsters, Inc. (2001), and has had some involvement in each of the company's feature films. Finding Nemo and WALL-E earned Stanton two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature. He was also nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay, for Finding Nemo, WALL-E, and Toy Story (1995), and for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Toy Story 3 (2010). WALL-E has also been inducted into the National Film Registry. Stanton has directed episodes of various television series since 2017, including 3 Body Problem, Better Call Saul, Legion, and Stranger Things. Description above from the Wikipedia article Andrew Stanton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.