Andrew Stanton
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.
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| Known For | Writing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.3725 |
| Birthday | 1965-12-03 |
| Place of Birth | Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Also Known As | Andrew A. Stanton, |
2003
Finding Nemo
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Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome...
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Finding Nemo
2003
Making 'Nemo'
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The production of the movie, "Finding Nemo," shot behind the scenes at Pixar Animation Studios.
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Making 'Nemo'
2022
A Visit to the Pixar Living Archive
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A tour through the vaults of Pixar. WALL-E writer-director Andrew Stanton unearths a few treasures, including his sketchbook, concept art, visual gag...
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A Visit to the Pixar Living Archive
2022
Ralph-E: The Art of the Color Script
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This new piece, featuring Andrew Stanton and late production designer Ralph Eggleston -- who recently died on August 28 -- focuses on the color script...
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Ralph-E: The Art of the Color Script
2008
Animation Sound Design: Building Worlds from the Sound Up
8/1
Building Worlds From the Sound Up
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Animation Sound Design: Building Worlds from the Sound Up
2022
Embrace the Panda: Making Turning Red
6.845/42
A feature length documentary about the all-women team at the helm of Pixar's original feature, Turning Red. With unprecedented behind-the-scenes acces...
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Embrace the Panda: Making Turning Red
2022
Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear
7.019/243
Explore the evolution of Buzz Lightyear from toy to human in the making of Pixar’s Lightyear. Dive into the origin and cultural impact of everyone’s f...
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Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear
2009
Waking Sleeping Beauty
7.203/116
By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovat...
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Waking Sleeping Beauty
2022
Anatomy of a Scene: The Plant
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This masterclass featuring writer-director Andrew Stanton was produced for the Criterion Collection in 2022.
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Anatomy of a Scene: The Plant
2022
Where It Began: The Origins of WALL·E
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In this program, created for the Criterion Collection in 2022, writer-director Andrew Stanton explores the films that inspired his approach to cinemat...
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Where It Began: The Origins of WALL·E
2006
Cars
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Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself u...
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Cars
1986
Somewhere in the Arctic...
5.6/24
A polar bear is hunted by Eskimos. But suddenly the hunt gets interrupted. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
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Somewhere in the Arctic...
1999
Toy Story 2
7.62/15340
Andy heads off to Cowboy Camp, leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggen,...
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Toy Story 2
2008
WALL·E
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After hundreds of years doing what he was built for, WALL•E— a robot designed to clean up the earth—discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sl...
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WALL·E
2004
The Incredibles
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Bob Parr has given up his superhero days to log in time as an insurance adjuster and raise his three children with his formerly heroic wife in suburbi...
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The Incredibles
2010
Breaking the Mold: The Re-Making of Mighty Mouse
6/1
Documentary about Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures.
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Breaking the Mold: The Re-Making of Mighty Mouse
2016
Finding Dory
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Dory is reunited with her friends Nemo and Marlin in the search for answers about her past. What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did...
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Finding Dory
2007
The Pixar Story
7.54/249
A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios - from the success of "Toy Story" and Pixar's promotion of talented people, to the building of it...
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The Pixar Story
2000
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins
6.393/340
Buzz Lightyear must battle Emperor Zurg with the help of three hopefuls who insist on being his partners.
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Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins
1987
A Story
5.72/25
A young boy named Melvin and a purple television dinosaur named Ted have happy adventures that lead them into the clutches of Randy the Killer Clown a...
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A Story
1995
Toy Story
7.988/20496
Led by Woody, Andy's toys live happily in his room until Andy's birthday brings Buzz Lightyear onto the scene. Afraid of losing his place in Andy's he...
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Toy Story
1998
A Bug's Life
6.982/9905
On behalf of "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs to defend his bustling colony from a horde of fre...
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A Bug's Life
2019
Animation Outlaws
6.3/3
Walt Disney said “We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the thing...
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Animation Outlaws
2019
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
6.905/84
The history of cinematic sound, told by legendary sound designers and visionary filmmakers.
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Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
1995
The Making of Toy Story
6.3/11
Documentary of the making of the groundbreaking Disney/Pixar animated hit movie.
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The Making of Toy Story
2015
Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
7.1/15
Retrospective looking at the revolutionary computer-animated feature film Toy Story.
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Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
2025
Meet the Pickles: The Making of "Win or Lose"
6.429/7
Discover how Pixar brought its first long-form original series to life. This behind-the-scenes documentary introduces the scrappy filmmaking team that...
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Meet the Pickles: The Making of "Win or Lose"
1985
Ouchless
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An Animated short film by Jim Reardon
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Ouchless
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Toy Story: 30 Years and Beyond - A Special Edition of 20/20
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Exploring the 40-year legacy of Pixar through the lens of its innovative and wildly successful franchise "Toy Story"; Pixar Animation Studios in Emery...
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