Kirk Wise

Kirk Wise (born August 24, 1963) is an American film director, animator and screenwriter best known for his work at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Wise has directed such Disney animated films as For Pete's Sake, Raising Arizona, Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Atlantis: The Lost Empire. He also directed the English-language translation of Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away.
== Career ==
Wise graduated from Palo Alto High School and went on to study character animation at California Institute of the Arts. Early in his career, Wise worked as an animator on Disney's Sport Goofy in Soccermania (1987), The Great Mouse Detective (1986) and The Brave Little Toaster (1987), as well as Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories episode "Family Dog".
Returning to Walt Disney Feature Animation, he began work on The Great Mouse Detective (1986) as an assistant animator, but eventually joined the story department, where he was reunited with former CalArts classmate, Gary Trousdale.
After working as storyboard artists on The Rescuers Down Under and The Prince and the Pauper, Wise and Trousdale were responsible for helming the celebrated Beauty and the Beast (1991), the first animated feature to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
== Filmography ==
Title 	Year	Role
For Pete's Sake 	1979	Director, story
The Great Mouse Detective 	1986	Assistant animator
Amazing Stories 	1987	Principal animator (1 episode)
Sport Goofy in Soccermania 	1987	Animator
The Brave Little Toaster 	1987	Animation director (development)
Raising Arizona 	1988	Director, story
Oliver & Company 	1988	Co-director, writer, animating assistant
Cranium Command 	1989	Voice of Hypothalamus, opening sequence director
The Rescuers Down Under 	1990	Storyboard artist
The Prince and the Pauper 	1990	Storyboard artist
Beauty and the Beast 	1991	Director, creative consultant
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey 	1993	Executive producer
The Lion King 	1994	Additional story material
The Hunchback of Notre Dame 	1996	Director
Atlantis: The Lost Empire 	2001	Director, story
Spirited Away 	2002	Director, ADR Director (U.S. production)
Open Season 	2006	Special thanks
Oceans 	2009	Executive Producer: Disneynature
Waking Sleeping Beauty 	2009	Himself, caricaturist
2012 Disney History Connections: Colonial America	2012	Director (short)
Chimpanzee 	2012	Creative consultant
Aldabra: Once Upon an Island 	2015	Creative consultant
Beauty and the Beast 	2017	Creative consultant
== Collaborations ==
Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise have cast certain actors in more than one of their films.
 	For Pete's
Sake''	Raising
Arizona''	Beauty and
the Beast''	The Hunchback
of Notre Dame''	Atlantis:
The Lost Empire''
Corey Burton 	 	 	 	X	X
Jim Cummings 	 	 	 	X	X
Tony Jay 	X	 	X	X	
David Ogden Stiers	 	 	X	X	X
Frank Welker 	X	X	X	X	
Richard White 	X	 	X	 	
Mary Kay Bergman 	 	 	X	X	
Category:1963 births
Category:Living people
Category:American animators
Category:Animated film directors
Category:California Institute of the Arts alumni
Category:Disney people
Category:Film directors from California
Category:Storyboard artists
Category:Voice directors
Category:Palo Alto High School alumni
Category:American film director stubs
Category:Shires people