2026Winner
Best Director
The Sheep Detectives
Kyle Balda
Actor · Director
Tucson, Arizona, USA
March 9, 1971
Biography
Kyle Balda (born March 9, 1971) is an American animator and film director, best known for co-directing the Illumination films The Lorax (2012) with Chris Renaud, Minions (2015) and Despicable Me 3 (2017) with Pierre Coffin and Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022), with Brad Ableson and Jonathan del Val. He previously worked as an animator for Industrial Light & Magic before moving to Pixar, where he worked on three of their films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kyle Balda, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2001Winner
Best Performance
Monsters, Inc.
1999Winner
Best Director
Toy Story 2
Career Highlights
1998Highlight
Best Performance
A Bug's Life
1994Highlight
Best Performance
The Mask
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The Sheep Detectives
Monsters, Inc.
Toy Story 2