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 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
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)
Oliver & Company 	1988	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
Galaxy Gas 	TBA 	Director
==Collaborations==
Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise have cast certain actors in more than one of their films.
 	Beauty andthe Beast	The Hunchbackof Notre Dame	Atlantis:The Lost Empire
Jack Angel 	 	 	
Mary Kay Bergman 	 	 	
Corey Burton 	 	 	
Jim Cummings 	 	 	
Bill Farmer 	 	 	
Tony Jay 	 	 	
Patrick Pinney 	 	 	
Phil Proctor 	 	 	
Kath Soucie 	 	 	
David Ogden Stiers	 	 	
Frank Welker 	 	 	
Category:1963 births
Category:Living people
Category:Animators from California
Category:American storyboard artists
Category:American animated film directors
Category:American animated film producers
Category:Animation screenwriters
Category:California Institute of the Arts alumni
Category:Walt Disney Animation Studios people
Category:Film directors from San Francisco
Category:Palo Alto High School alumni
Category:Voice directors