Andrew Stanton

Andrew Stanton Biography

Andrew Stanton (born December 3, 1965) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and voice actor based at Pixar Animation Studios. His film work includes writing and directing Pixar's A Bug's Life (1998) (as co-director), Finding Nemo (2003), and WALL-E (2008), and his first live-action film, John Carter (2012). He also co-wrote all three Toy Story films and Monsters, Inc. (2001)

Finding Nemo and WALL-E earned him 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).

Stanton is currently directing a sequel to Finding Nemo, entitled Finding Dory, scheduled for a June 2016 release.

Career

Stanton was one of several CalArts graduates hired by John Kricfalusi to work on Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures at Ralph Bakshi's studio.

In an interview with World Magazine's Megan Basham, Stanton explained his singular vision for WALL-E: "What really interested me was the idea of the most human thing in the universe being a machine because it has more interest in finding out what the point of living is than actual people. The greatest commandment Christ gives us is to love, but that's not always our priority. So I came up with this premise that could demonstrate what I was trying to say"?that irrational love defeats the world's programming. You've got these two robots that are trying to go above their basest directives, literally their programming, to experience love." In addition to his direction and writing work for Pixar, he has also done some voice work, most notably as Evil Emperor Zurg in Toy Story 2 (1999) and Crush in Finding Nemo.

Stanton made his live-action directing debut with Disney's John Carter. The film was based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel, A Princess of Mars. It was released in March 2012 and received mixed reviews from critics.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role
1987	A Story (short)	Randy The Goon Squad (also producer)
1987	Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures (TV series, 13 episodes)
1988	Somewhere in the Arctic (short)	Bahr
1995	Toy Story	Commercial Chorus
1998	A Bug's Life	Bug Zapper Fly #1
1999	Toy Story 2	Emperor Zurg
2000	Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins	Hamm
2001	Monsters, Inc.
2003	Finding Nemo	Crush New England Lobster Additional voices
2003	Exploring the Reef
2004	The Incredibles	Additional voices
2006	Cars	Fred
2007	Ratatouille
2008	WALL-E	Additional voices
	BURN-E (short)
	Presto (short)
2009	Up
2009	Partly Cloudy (short)
2010	Toy Story 3
2012	John Carter
2012	Brave
2013	Monsters University
2013	Toy Story of Terror! (short)
2015	Inside Out
2015	The Good Dinosaur
2016	Finding Dory	Crush
2018	Toy Story 4

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	A Bug's Life	Hopper
1999	Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue	Emperor Zurg
2003	Finding Nemo	Crush
2003	Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure	Emperor Zurg
2007	Cars Mater-National Championship	Fred
2010	Toy Story 3: The Video Game	Emperor Zurg	Uncredited PS3 version only
2011	Kinect Disneyland Adventures	Crush / Emperor Zurg
2013	Disney Infinity	Emperor Zurg	Uncredited

Award and Nominations

Academy Awards

Year	Category	Film	Lost to
1995	Best Original Screenplay	Toy Story	Shared With Joss Whedon, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow, John Lasseter, Pete Docter, and Joe Ranft
2003	Best Animated Feature	Finding Nemo
2003	Best Original Screenplay	Finding Nemo	Shared with Bob Peterson and David Reynolds
2008	Best Animated Feature	WALL-E
2008	Best Original Screenplay	WALL-E	Shared With Jim Reardon and Pete Docter
2010	Best Adapted Screenplay	Toy Story 3	Shared With Michael Arndt, John Lasseter and Lee Unkrich

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