Kirk Wise

Kirk Wise is an American film director, animator, screenwriter, and producer, best known for his work at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Wise has directed Disney animated films, such as Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Atlantis: The Lost Empire (alongside Gary Trousdale). 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 Black Cauldron 	1985	Assistant animator (uncredited)
The Great Mouse Detective 	1986	Assistant animator
Sport Goofy in Soccermania 	1987	Animator
The Brave Little Toaster 	1987	Development animator
Oliver & Company 	1988	Story / Animating assistant / Storyboard artist (uncredited)
Cranium Command 	1989	Voice of Hypothalamus, opening sequence director
The Little Mermaid 	1989	Storyboard artist (uncredited)
The Rescuers Down Under 	1990	Storyboard artist / Character designer (uncredited)
The Prince and the Pauper 	1990	Storyboard artist
Beauty and the Beast 	1991	Director / Creative consultant (uncredited)
Aladdin 	1992	Storyboard artist (uncredited)
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey	1993	Executive producer
The Lion King 	1994	Additional story material
Pocahontas 	1995	Production assistant (uncredited)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame 	1996	Director
Atlantis: The Lost Empire 	2001	Director, story
Spirited Away 	2002	Director, ADR Director (U.S. production)
Oceans 	2009	Executive producer: Disneynature
Waking Sleeping Beauty 	2009	Himself, caricaturist
Chimpanzee 	2012	Creative consultant
Beauty and the Beast 	2017	Creative consultant
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