Andrew Stanton has been a key creative force at Pixar Animation Studios since 1990, when he became the second animator and ninth employee to join the company's pioneering group of computer animation innovators. As Vice President, Creative, he oversees all shorts and feature projects at the studio. Stanton is a renowned filmmaker, having written and directed the Academy Award-winning Disney and Pixar feature film "WALL.E", for which he received a Best Original Screenplay Oscar-nomination. He also directed Disney and Pixar's "Finding Dory", which became the highest-grossing domestic animated feature of all time upon its release in 2016.
Stanton made his directorial debut with the record-breaking "Finding Nemo", an original story of his that he also co-wrote. The film earned Stanton two Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Animated Film, and "Finding Nemo" won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film of 2003, marking the first such honor for Pixar Animation Studios.
Stanton is one of the four screenwriters to receive an Oscar nomination in 1996 for his contribution to "Toy Story", and he went on to receive credit as a screenwriter on every subsequent Pixar film, including "A Bug's Life", "Toy Story 2", "Monsters, Inc.", and "Finding Nemo". He also served as co-director on "A Bug's Life", and was the executive producer of "Monsters, Inc.", "Monsters University", and Academy Award-winning films "Ratatouille" and "Brave".
In addition to his acclaimed animation work, Stanton made his live-action writing and directorial debut with Disney's "John Carter", released in March 2012.
Born in Rockport, Massachusetts, Stanton earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Character Animation from California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts),where he completed two student films. He launched his professional career in the 1980s, animating for Bill Kroyer's Kroyer Films studio, and writing for Ralph Bakshi's production of "Mighty Mouse, The New Adventures" (1987).
