Feature film Animation directors

1. James Algar

James Algar studied at Stanford where he developed his skills as a cartoonist by drawing for the university's satirical magazine, The Chaparral. He joined the Disney Organisation in 1934, initially as animator. He directed the classic "Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment of Fantasia (1940), as well as ...

1999 Fantasia/2000 (segment "The Sorcerer's Apprentice") 1942 Bambi (1 out of 6 sequence directors (also 1 supervising director)) 1940 Fantasia (segment "The Sorcerer's Apprentice")

2. Wes Anderson

Director | Fantastic Mr. Fox

Wesley Wales Anderson was born in Houston, Texas. His mother, Texas Ann (Burroughs), is an archaeologist turned real estate agent, and his father, Melver Leonard Anderson, worked in advertising and PR. He has two brothers, Eric and Mel. Anderson's parents divorced when he was a young child, an ...

2009 Fantastic Mr. Fox

3. Mark Andrews

Director | Brave

Mark Andrews was born on September 12, 1968 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Brave (2012), John Carter (2012) and Circle of Stone (2020).

2012 Brave (1 out of 2 directors (also 1 co-director))

4. Samuel Armstrong

Director | Dumbo

Samuel Armstrong was born on February 5, 1893 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Dumbo (1941), Bambi (1942) and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). He died on September 29, 1976 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

1942 Bambi (1 out of 6 sequence directors (also 1 supervising director)) 1941 Dumbo (1 out of 5 sequence directors (also 1 supervising director)(also 1 uncredited director)) 1940 Fantasia (segment "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" and "The Nutcracker Suite")

5. Ricardo Arnaiz

Producer | HÉROES (Sin Escape)

Ricardo Arnaiz was born on June 4, 1974 in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. He is a producer and writer, known for HÉROES (Sin Escape) (2023), Americano (2016) and Legend Quest: The Legend of La Nahuala (2007).

2009 Nikté 2007 La leyenda de la Nahuala

6. Ralph Bakshi

Director | Wizards

Ralph Bakshi worked his way up from Brooklyn and became an animation legend. He was born on October 29, 1938, in Haifa, Israel, the son of Mina (Zlotin) and Eliezar Bakshi, and is of Krymchak Jewish descent. He was raised in Brownsville, after his family came to New York to escape World War II. ...

1992 Cool World 1983 Fire and Ice 1982 Hey Good Lookin' 1981 American Pop 1978 The Lord of the Rings 1977 Wizards 1975 Coonskin 1973 Heavy Traffic 1972 Fritz the Cat

7. Bibo Bergeron

Director | The Road to El Dorado

Bibo Bergeron was born on July 14, 1965 in Paris, France. He is a director, known for The Road to El Dorado (2000), Shark Tale (2004) and A Monster in Paris (2011).

8. Brad Bird

Writer | The Incredibles

Phillip Bradley "Brad" Bird is an American director, screenwriter, animator, producer and occasional voice actor, known for both animated and live-action films. Bird was born in Kalispell, Montana, the youngest of four children of Marjorie A. (née Cross) and Philip Cullen Bird. His father worked in...

2007 Ratatouille (1 out of 2 directors) 2004 The Incredibles 1999 The Iron Giant

9. Don Bluth

Director | Anastasia

Don Bluth was one of the chief animators at Disney to come to the mantle after the great one's death. He eventually became the animation director for such films as The Rescuers (1977) and Pete's Dragon (1977). Unfortunately, the quality of animation that Disney was producing at this point was not ...

10. Bruno Bozzetto

Director | Allegro non troppo

Bruno Bozzetto was born on March 3, 1938 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Allegro non troppo (1976), La cabina (1973) and Self Service (1974).

11. Ash Brannon

Writer | Arcane: League of Legends

Ash Brannon is an Emmy Award winning writer, director and visual artist. His credits include Disney/Pixar's TOY STORY (Directing Animator), and TOY STORY 2 (Co-Director, Story Co-Creator). Ash directed and co-wrote the Sony Pictures film SURF'S UP, which earned him an Oscar nomination for Best ...

2007 Surf's Up (1 out of 2 directors) 1999 Toy Story 2 (1 out of 2 co-directors (also 1 director)

12. Gaëtan Brizzi

Writer | The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Gaëtan Brizzi was born on December 24, 1951 in Paris, France. He is a director, known for The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Fantasia 2000 (1999) and 9 (2009).

13. Paul Brizzi

Writer | The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Paul Brizzi was born on December 24, 1951 in Paris, France. He is a director, known for The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Fantasia 2000 (1999) and 9 (2009).

14. David Bowers

Director | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

David Bowers was born in Cheshire, England, UK. He is known for Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011), Flushed Away (2006) and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012).

15. Chris Buck

Director | Frozen

Chris Buck is an animation film director from Wichita, Kansas. He directed the Disney animated films Tarzan, Frozen, Frozen Fever and Frozen II and Sony Pictures Animation's Surf's Up. He was a supervising animator for Percy, Grandmother Willow and Wiggins for Pocahontas. He won Best Animated ...

2013 Frozen (1 out of 2 directors) 2007 Surf's Up (1 out of 2 directors) 1999 Tarzan (1 out of 2 directors)

16. Tim Burton

Producer | Edward Scissorhands

Timothy Walter Burton was born in Burbank, California, to Jean Rae (Erickson), who owned a cat-themed gift shop, and William Reed Burton, who worked for the Burbank Park and Recreation Department. He spent most of his childhood as a recluse, drawing cartoons, and watching old movies (he was ...

2012 Frankenweenie 2005 Corpse Bride (1 out of 2 directors)

17. Hendel Butoy

Director | The Rescuers Down Under

Hendel Butoy was born on December 15, 1958 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. He is a director, known for The Rescuers Down Under (1990), The Great Mouse Detective (1986) and Oliver & Company (1988). He is married to Menjette "Jette" Jumuad-Butoy. They have two children.

1999 Fantasia/2000 (segments "Pines of Rome", "Piano Concerto No.2") 1990 The Rescuers Down Under

18. Juan José Campanella

Writer | El secreto de sus ojos

Juan José Campanella was born on July 19, 1959 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a writer and director, known for The Secret in Their Eyes (2009), The Man of Your Dreams (2011) and The Weasel's Tale (2019).

2013 Metegol

19. Brenda Chapman

Writer | Brave

Brenda Chapman is an American animator, animation film director and writer from Beason, Illinois. She directed the Pixar film Brave and the DreamWorks Animation film The Prince of Egypt. She wrote the storylines of The Lion King and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. She is married to Kevin Lima, fellow ...

2012 Brave (1 out of 2 directors (also 1 co-director)) 1998 The Prince of Egypt (1 out of 3 directors)

20. Sylvain Chomet

Director | Les triplettes de Belleville

Sylvain Chomet was born on November 10, 1963 in Maisons-Laffitte, Seine-et-Oise [now Yvelines, Île-de-France], France. He is a director and writer, known for The Triplets of Belleville (2003), The Illusionist (2010) and Paris, I Love You (2006).

2010 L'illusionniste 2003 Les triplettes de Belleville

21. Ron Clements

Writer | Hercules

Ron Clements is an American animated film director who collaborates with John Musker. They directed various Disney animated films including The Great Mouse Detective, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, Treasure Planet, The Princess and the Frog and Moana. The Little Mermaid and Aladdin are ...

2009 The Princess and the Frog (with John Musker) 2002 Treasure Planet (with John Musker) 1997 Hercules (with John Musker) 1992 Aladdin (with John Musker) 1989 The Little Mermaid (with John Musker) 1986 The Great Mouse Detective (1 out of 4 directors)

22. William Cottrell

Director | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

William Cottrell was born on November 19, 1906 in South Bend, Indiana, USA. He was a writer, known for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953). He was married to Hazel Sewell. He died on December 22, 1995 in Burbank, California, USA.

1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1 out of 5 sequence directors (also 1 supervising director))

23. Andrés Couturier

Actor | El agente 00-P2

Andrés Couturier was born on February 5, 1977 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is an actor and director, known for Agent Macaw: Shaken & Stirred (2009), Top Cat Begins (2015) and A Wizard's Tale (2018).

2012 El Santos VS la Tetona Mendoza (animation director (also 1 director)) 2012 Trepsi, Nuny y Wicho - Arriba y Abajo (animation director (also 1 director)) 2010 Kung Fu Magoo 2009 El agente 00-P2 2003 Magos y gigantes (1 out of 2 directors)

24. Gustavo Cova

Director | Boogie, el aceitoso

Gustavo Cova was born on July 13, 1966 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a director and writer, known for Boogie (2009), Rouge amargo (2012) and 100 años de Carlos Gardel (1989).

2010 Gaturro 2009 Boogie, el aceitoso

25. Eric Darnell

Writer | Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Eric Darnell was born on August 21, 1961 in Prairie Village, Kansas, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008), Madagascar (2005) and Penguins of Madagascar (2014).

26. Pete Docter

Writer | Up

Pete Docter is the Oscar®-winning director of "Monsters, Inc.," "Up," and "Inside Out," and Chief Creative Officer at Pixar Animation Studios. He is currently directing Pixar's feature film "Soul" with producer Dana Murray, which is set to release June 19, 2020.

Starting at Pixar in 1990 as the ...

2009 Up (1 out of 2 directors) 2001 Monsters, Inc. (also 2 co-directors)

27. Sam Fell

Director | Flushed Away

Sam Fell was born on November 22, 1965. He is a director and writer, known for Flushed Away (2006), ParaNorman (2012) and The Tale of Despereaux (2008).

28. Will Finn

Writer | Home on the Range

Will Finn was born on November 1, 1958 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a writer, known for Home on the Range (2004), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) and The Secret of NIMH (1982).

29. Ari Folman

Writer | The Congress

Ari Folman was born on December 17, 1962 in Haifa, Israel. He is a writer and director, known for The Congress (2013), Waltz with Bashir (2008) and Saint Clara (1996).

2013 The Congress 2008 Vals Im Bashir

30. Mike Gabriel

Director | The Rescuers Down Under

Mike Gabriel was born on November 5, 1954 in Long Beach, California, USA. He is known for The Rescuers Down Under (1990), Pocahontas (1995) and Oliver & Company (1988). He is married to Tammy Rae Norman. They have three children.

1995 Pocahontas (1 out of 2 directors) 1990 The Rescuers Down Under (1 out of 2 directors)

31. Patrick Gilmore

Director | Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

Patrick Gilmore is known for Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003), The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) and Rocketeer (1991).

32. Francis Glebas

Art_department | Aladdin

Francis Glebas was born on April 12, 1953. He is known for his work on Aladdin (1992), The Lion King (1994), Hercules (1997), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Pocahontas (1995) and Piglet's Big Movie (2003). He also worked on The Thief and the Cobbler (1993). He is married to Denise Kress. He ...

33. Nathan Greno

Actor | Tangled

Nathan Greno was born in Kenosha, Wisc., on the southwestern shores of Lake Michigan. As a child, he developed a love for drawing, which quickly evolved into a passion for visual storytelling. Influenced by comic books and newspaper comic strips, he started filling tablets of paper full of sketches...

2010 Tangled (1 out of 2 directors)

34. Eric Goldberg

Animation_department | Looney Tunes: Back in Action

Eric Goldberg is an animator, director and voice actor from Pennsylvania who is known for his work on Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Pocahontas, Aladdin, The Princess and the Frog, Fat Albert, Fantasia 2000, Moana, Winnie the Pooh and Hercules. He voiced Marvin the Martian, Tweety Bird and Speedy ...

1999 Fantasia/2000 (segments "Rhapsody in Blue", "The Carnival of the Animals") 1995 Pocahontas (1 out of 2 directors)

35. Michel Gondry

Director | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

He grew up in Versailles with a family who was very influenced by pop music. When he was young, Gondry wanted to be a painter or an inventor. In the 80s he entered in an art school in Paris where he could develop his graphic skills and where he also met friends with whom he created a pop-rock band ...

2013 Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?: An Animated Conversation with Noam Chomsky

36. David Hand

Director | Bambi

David Hand was born on January 23, 1900 in Plainfield, New Jersey, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Bambi (1942), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and The Cuckoo. He was married to Josephine Hale Marks. He died on October 11, 1986 in San Luis Obispo, California, USA.

37. Butch Hartman

Writer | The Fairly OddParents

Butch Hartman is an American animator, writer, director and voice actor who created The Fairly OddParents, Danny Phantom, T.U.F.F. Puppy and Bunsen is a Beast for Nickelodeon. He also wrote the U.S. dub of Doogal. The Fairly OddParents is one of the longest running Nicktoons of all time, behind ...

38. Graham Heid

Director | Bambi

Graham Heid was born on November 14, 1909. He was an assistant director and director, known for Bambi (1942) and Fantasia (1940). He died in March 1976.

39. Steve Lookner

Writer | Finish Our Movie

Steve Lookner was born in 1971. He is known for Finish Our Movie (2007), Saturday Night Live (1975) and Seinfeld (1989).

40. Mamoru Hosoda

Director | Samâ uôzu

Mamoru Hosoda is a Japanese film director and animator. Formerly employed at Toei Animation, he went to work at Madhouse from 2005 to 2011. Hosoda left Madhouse in 2011 to establish his own animation studio, Studio Chizu. He first came to public attention in the early 2000s with the first two films...

41. Byron Howard

Director | Zootopia

Byron Howard was born on December 26, 1968 in Misawa, Japan. He is a director and producer, known for Zootopia (2016), Encanto (2021) and Tangled (2010).

42. Pixote Hunt

Art_director | The Pagemaster

Pixote Hunt is known for The Pagemaster (1994), The Black Cauldron (1985) and Fantasia 2000 (1999).

43. Wilfred Jackson

Director | Cinderella

Wilfred Jackson was born on January 24, 1906 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a director, known for Cinderella (1950), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and Alice in Wonderland (1951). He died on August 7, 1988 in Balboa Island, Newport Beach, California, USA.

44. Mike Johnson

Director | Corpse Bride

Mike Johnson hails from Austin, Texas where he spent a large part of his childhood bending and breaking plastic dinosaurs in a futile attempt to re-create scenes from his favorite Ray Harryhausen films.

Many years later, Johnson graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in Film/Animation/Video ...

45. Tim Johnson

Director | Over the Hedge

Tim Johnson is known for Over the Hedge (2006), Home (2015) and Antz (1998).

46. Jeffrey Katzenberg

Producer | Shrek

Jeffrey Katzenberg was born on December 21, 1950 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a producer and production manager, known for Shrek (2001), Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) and Just Like Heaven (2005). He has been married to Marilyn Katzenberg since 1975. They have two children.

47. Karey Kirkpatrick

Writer | Smallfoot

Karey Kirkpatrick was born on December 14, 1964 in Monroe, Louisiana, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Smallfoot (2018), Over the Hedge (2006) and Chicken Run (2000).

48. Emmanuel Klotz

Director | La vraie vie des profs

Emmanuel Klotz is known for La vraie vie des profs (2013), Round Da Way (2009) and Duck Ugly (2000).

49. Satoshi Kon

Writer | Tôkyô goddofâzâzu

Satoshi Kon was born in 1963. He studied at the Musashino College of the Arts. He began his career as a Manga artist. He then moved to animation and worked as a background artist on many films (including Roujin Z (1991) by 'Katsuhiro Otomo'). Then, in 1995, he wrote an episode of the anthology film ...

50. John Lasseter

Writer | Toy Story 2

Although born in Hollywood, John and his twin sister Johanna were raised in Whittier near Los Angeles. His parents were Jewell Mae (Risley), an art teacher, and Paul Eual Lasseter, a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership. His mother's profession contributed to his interest in animation and ...

51. Jennifer Lee

Writer | Frozen

Jennifer Lee was born on October 22, 1971 in Barrington, Rhode Island, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Frozen (2013), Frozen II (2019) and Wreck-It Ralph (2012). She has been married to Alfred Molina since August 2021. She was previously married to Robert Joseph Monn.

52. Kevin Lima

Director | Enchanted

Kevin Lima was born on June 12, 1962 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA. He is a director and producer, known for Enchanted (2007), A Goofy Movie (1995) and Aladdin (1992). He is married to Brenda Chapman. They have one child.

53. Peter Lord

Animation_department | The Amazing Adventures of Morph

Peter Lord was born on November 4, 1953 in Bristol, England, UK. He is a producer and director, known for The Amazing Adventures of Morph (1980), Chicken Run (2000) and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005).

54. Alejandro Lozano

Director | Matando Cabos

Alejandro Lozano was born on December 18, 1975 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is a director and producer, known for Killing Cabos (2004), Sr. Ávila (2013) and Control Z (2020).

55. Alberto Mar

Director | Guardianes de Oz

Alberto Mar was born on December 2, 1978 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is a director and writer, known for Guardianes de Oz (2015), Invasión (2009) and El Chavo (2006).

56. Burny Mattinson

Writer | The Great Mouse Detective

Burny Mattinson's helmed the Academy Award-nominated 1983 animated featurette "Mickey's Christmas Carol." In 1986, wrote, produced and directed "The Great Mouse Detective." Mattinson's worked on"Sleeping Beauty," "101 Dalmatians," "The Sword in the Stone," "The Jungle Book," "The Aristocats" and "...

57. David Michener

Writer | The Great Mouse Detective

David Michener was born on November 5, 1932 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a writer, known for The Great Mouse Detective (1986), Oliver & Company (1988) and Robin Hood (1973). He was married to Donna Roberta Burke. He died on February 15, 2018 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

58. Mike Mitchell

Actor | Monsters vs. Aliens

Mike Mitchell was born in Oklahoma City to parents, Robert Mitchell, and Julia Baker. He graduated from Putnam City North High School, having been deeply involved with their arts programs. He then left behind his hometown and moved to Los Angeles to attend the California Institute of the Arts. ...

59. Gorô Miyazaki

Director | Kokuriko-zaka kara

Graduated from Shinshu University, Faculty of Agriculture, Goro Miyazaki started his career as a construction consultant, and he designed parks and public institutions. To avoid to be compared to his father, the world-famous filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, he initially didn't want to work on anything ...

60. Hayao Miyazaki

Writer | Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi

Hayao Miyazaki is one of Japan's greatest animation directors. The entertaining plots, compelling characters, and breathtaking visuals in his films have earned him international renown from critics as well as public recognition within Japan.

Miyazaki started his career in 1963 as an animator at the ...

61. Rich Moore

Director | Wreck-It Ralph

Rich Moore was born on May 10, 1963 in Oxnard, California, USA. He is a director and producer, known for Wreck-It Ralph (2012), Zootopia (2016) and Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018).

62. Larry Morey

Writer | Bambi

American lyricist and author Lawrence L. 'Larry' Morey was chiefly noted for co-writing (with the composer and songwriter Frank Churchill) the musical numbers for Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), including "Heigh-Ho", "I'm Wishing" and "Whistle While You Work". He also worked on the...

63. John Musker

Writer | Hercules

John Musker is an American animated film director who collaborates with Ron Clements. They directed various Disney animated films including The Great Mouse Detective, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, Treasure Planet, The Princess and the Frog and Moana. The Little Mermaid and Aladdin are ...

2009 The Princess and the Frog (with Ron Clements) 2002 Treasure Planet (with Ron Clements) 1997 Hercules (with Ron Clements) 1992 Aladdin (with Ron Clements) 1989 The Little Mermaid (with Ron Clements) 1986 The Great Mouse Detective (1 out of 4 directors)

64. Michel Ocelot

Director | Kirikou et la sorcière

Michel Ocelot was born on October 27, 1943 in Villefranche-sur-Mer, French Riviera, France. He is a writer and director, known for Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998), Kirikou and the Wild Beasts (2005) and Princes and Princesses (2000).

65. Mamoru Oshii

Director | Kôkaku kidôtai

Mamoru Oshii is a Japanese filmmaker, television director and screenwriter. Famous for his philosophy-oriented storytelling, Oshii has directed a number of popular anime, including Urusei Yatsura (1981-1984), Angel's Egg (1985), Patlabor: The Movie (1989), Ghost in the Shell (1995), and Ghost in ...

66. Nick Park

Writer | Chicken Run

Nick Park was born on December 6, 1958 in Preston, Lancashire, England, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for Chicken Run (2000), Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) and Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (1993).

67. Albert Pereira-Lazaro

Director | Lascars

Albert Pereira-Lazaro is known for Round Da Way (2009), La vraie vie des profs (2013) and Kittened (2024).

68. Bob Peterson

Actor | Up

Bob Peterson was born in Wooster, Ohio, USA, in 1961. He studied mechanical engineering at Ohio Northern University, where he took computer graphics courses and graduated in 1983. He continued his studies in mechanical engineering at Purdue University where he earned a master's degree in 1986. ...

69. Jan Pinkava

Director | Ratatouille

Jan Pinkava was born on June 21, 1963 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He is a producer and director, known for Ratatouille (2007), Geri's Game (1997) and A Bug's Life (1998). He has been married to Kay Renard since September 1994.

70. Bill Plympton

Director | Cheatin'

Bill Plympton was born on April 30, 1946 in Portland, Oregon, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Cheatin' (2013), I Married a Strange Person! (1997) and Idiots and Angels (2008).

71. Lotte Reiniger

Director | Silhouetten

Lotte Reiniger was born on June 2, 1899 in Berlin, Germany. She was a director and writer, known for Silhouetten (1936), Der Graf von Carabas (1935) and Lotte Reiniger - The Fairy Tale Films (1961). She was married to Carl Koch. She died on June 19, 1981 in Dettenhausen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

72. Wolfgang Reitherman

Director | The AristoCats

Wolfgang Reitherman was a German-born American animator who was one of Disney's Nine Old Men.

He began working for Disney in 1933, along with future Disney legends Ward Kimball and Milt Kahl. The three worked together on a number of classic Disney shorts.

Reitherman directed several Disney animated ...

73. Gabriel Riva Palacio Alatriste

Director | Una película de huevos

Gabriel Riva Palacio Alatriste was born on November 26, 1974 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is a director and actor, known for A Movie of Eggs (2005), Huevos: Little Rooster's Egg-cellent Adventure (2015) and Little Eggs: An African Rescue (2021).

74. Rodolfo Riva Palacio Alatriste

Writer | Una película de huevos

Rodolfo Riva Palacio Alatriste was born on May 18, 1970 in Mexico City, Mexico. He is a writer and producer, known for A Movie of Eggs (2005), Huevos: Little Rooster's Egg-cellent Adventure (2015) and Another Egg and Chicken Movie (2009).

75. Bill Roberts

Director | Dumbo

Bill Roberts was born on August 2, 1899 in Kentucky, USA. He was a director, known for Dumbo (1941), Bambi (1942) and Pinocchio (1940). He was married to Lillian Roberts. He died on March 18, 1974 in Tulare County, California, USA.

76. Trey Parker

Music_department | South Park

Trey was born in Conifer, Colorado, on October 19, 1969 to Randy Parker, a geologist, and Sharon Parker, an insurance broker. He has an older sister, Shelley Parker. He met Matt Stone (co-creator of South Park (1997)) while attending the University of Colorado in Boulder, where he had a double ...

77. Don Paul

Visual_effects | Aladdin

Don Paul is known for Aladdin (1992), The Road to El Dorado (2000) and The Little Mermaid (1989).

78. Perce Pearce

Writer | Bambi

Perce Pearce was born on September 17, 1899 in Waukegan, Illinois, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Bambi (1942), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and Fantasia (1940). He was married to June Herrig Swan. He died on July 4, 1955 in London, England, UK.

79. Steve Purcell

Writer | Brave

Steve Purcell is known for Brave (2012), Toy Story That Time Forgot (2014) and Incredibles 2 (2018).

80. Alberto Rodriguez

Director | La Leyenda del Chupacabras

Alberto Rodriguez is known for The Legend of Chupacabras (2016), The Legend of the Mummies of Guanajuato (2014) and La Leyenda del Charro Negro (2018).

81. Carlos Saldanha

Writer | Rio

Carlos Saldanha is a Brazilian director of animated films. He was the director of Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) and Rio (2011), and the co-director of Ice Age (2002) and Robots (2005).

Saldanha was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He left his hometown in 1991 to ...

82. Chris Sanders

Writer | Lilo & Stitch

Born and raised in Colorado, Chris Sanders fell in love with animation at the age of ten after seeing Ward Kimball animated shorts on 'The Wonderful World of Disney'. He began drawing, and applied to CalArts after his grandmother told him about the animation program at the school. He majored in ...

83. Isaac Sandoval

Animation_department | Imaginum

Isaac Sandoval was born on January 15, 1975 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is a director, known for Imaginum (2005), Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022) and Wizards and Giants (2003).

84. Paul Satterfield

Director | Bambi

Paul Satterfield was born on March 27, 1896 in Georgia, USA. He was a director, known for Bambi (1942). He died on August 14, 1981 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

85. Henry Selick

Director | Coraline

Henry Selick is a film director, specializing in films with stop-motion animation. He has formal training as an animator.

Selick was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, son of Charles H. Selick and Melanie Molan. He was mostly raised in Rumson, New Jersey. As a child, Selick took up drawing as a hobby. ...

86. Ben Sharpsteen

Director | Dumbo

Ben Sharpsteen was born on November 4, 1895 in Tacoma, Washington, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Dumbo (1941), Pinocchio (1940) and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). He died on December 20, 1980 in Santa Rosa, California, USA.

87. David Silverman

Producer | The Simpsons

David Silverman was born on March 15, 1957 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a producer and director, known for The Simpsons (1989), The Simpsons Movie (2007) and Monsters, Inc. (2001).

88. Simon J. Smith

Actor | Shrek

Simon J Smith Personal Bio

Simon J Smith is an award winning writer/director and 30 year computer graphics veteran with over 38 combined years of film, television, and post production experience in telling engaging stories with compelling characters. He is known mostly for his directing feature ...

89. Steven Spielberg

Producer | Schindler's List

One of the most influential personalities in the history of cinema, Steven Spielberg is Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. He has an extraordinary number of commercially successful and critically acclaimed credits to his name, either as a director, ...

90. Eduardo Sprowls

Director | Magos y gigantes

Eduardo Sprowls is known for Wizards and Giants (2003), Rita's Stew (1999) and The Swishy-Washy (1999).

91. Andrew Stanton

Writer | WALL·E

Andrew Stanton has been a major creative force at Pixar Animation Studios since 1990, when he became the second animator and ninth employee to join the company's elite group of computer animation pioneers. As Vice President, Creative he currently oversees all shorts and feature projects at the ...

92. Jan Svankmajer

Director | Otesánek

After studying at the Institute of Industrial Arts and the Marionette Faculty of the Prague Academy of Fine Arts in the 1950s, Jan Svankmajer started working as a theatre director, chiefly in association with the Theatre of Masks and the Black Theatre. He first experimented with film-making after ...

93. Isao Takahata

Director | Hotaru no haka

Isao Takahata was born on October 29, 1935 in Ise, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Grave of the Fireflies (1988), Pom Poko (1994) and The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013). He died on April 5, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan.

94. Genndy Tartakovsky

Producer | Samurai Jack

Genndy Tartakovsky was born and raised in Moscow, USSR. He and his family moved to Chicago, IL when he was 7 years old, after his father defected to the US. His interest in comic books and animation led him to study animation at CalArts in Los Angeles. While he was there he produced two student ...

95. Gary Trousdale

Director | The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Gary Trousdale was born in La Crescenta, California. His fascination with animation was fostered as a child, where he drew cartoons from an elementary school age. He planned to become an architect, but decided instead to study animation at CalArts, where he studied for three years. He was hired in ...

96. Lee Unkrich

Editor | Coco

Lee Unkrich is an Academy Award-winning director at Pixar Animation Studios. He most recently directed Disney.Pixar's critically-acclaimed "Coco", which received the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and Best Song.

As the director of Disney.Pixar's "Toy Story 3," Lee was also awarded an ...

97. Gore Verbinski

Director | Rango

Gore Verbinski, one of American cinema's most inventive directors who was a punk-rock guitarist as a teenager and had to sell his guitar to buy his first camera, is now the director of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) which made the industry record for highest opening weekend of ...

98. Conrad Vernon

Actor | Shrek 2

Conrad Vernon is an American voice actor, storyboard artist, writer and director from Texas. He provided the voices of the Gingerbread Man in the Shrek franchise and Mason from the Madagascar franchise. He would direct Shrek 2, Sausage Party, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, Monsters vs. Aliens ...

99. Chris Wedge

Actor | Ice Age

John Christian Wedge was born on March 20, 1957 in Binghamton, New York. After graduating from Fayetteville-Manlius High School, he went to study at the State University of New York at Purchase, where he received a BFA in film, and soon after that he went on to study at Ohio State University, ...

100. Simon Wells

Director | The Time Machine

Simon Wells was born on October 19, 1961 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK. He is a director, known for The Time Machine (2002), The Prince of Egypt (1998) and Flushed Away (2006). He has been married to Wendy Wells since June 1988. They have two children.