Andrew Stanton

Andrew Ayers Stanton is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and voice actor based at Pixar Animation Studios. His film work includes writing and directing Finding Nemo and WALL-E; both films earned him the . He directed his first live-action Disney film John Carter in 2012. He later directed Finding Nemo's sequel Finding Dory. For his next directing project, he will be writing and directing Toy Story 5.
On April 1, 2016, Stanton was featured with Ed O'Neill as part of an April Fool's joke. The joke involved deceiving viewers into believing that Ed O'Neill's character Hank from Finding Dory was the oldest and most coveted Pixar Easter egg in history.
Stanton also has a brother named Nate Stanton who is a storyboard artist at Pixar.
==Life and career==
Stanton was born and raised in Rockport, Massachusetts. He studied character animation at The California Institute of the Arts and graduated from the school in 1983. His earliest known venture into professional animation was at Ralph Bakshi Productions, where he worked on along with other young animators, such as Jeff Pidgeon, , , , and Jim Reardon; all of them have done worthwhile things, even Pidgeon who joined him at Pixar. Stanton joined Pixar in January 1990 and was the second animator (John Lasseter being the first) and ninth overall employee hired at the studio. He now lives in Mill Valley, California and is married to Julie Stanton. He has a daughter named Audrey and a son named Ben. In addition to his direction and writing work for Pixar, he voiced Crush, the laidback turtle in Finding Nemo. According to page 17 of the book entitled Outlaw Animation: Cutting-Edge Cartoons from the Spike and Mike Festivals by , Stanton was also friends with famed animation promoters "Spike and Mike". In one particular instance, Spike visited Stanton's home in a superhero costume, calling himself "the Centaur". After frightening the neighborhood parents and captivating the imaginations of the children near an ice cream truck Stanton had to get Spike back inside before anyone alerted the authorities. 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." Stanton later worked on his first live-action film called John Carter, which was released in 2012 by Walt Disney Pictures, albeit to mixed reception. He also directed the long-anticipated Finding Nemo sequel Finding Dory.
==Filmography==
Year	Film 	Position 	Subsidiary
1995	Toy Story 	Story/Screenplay/Story Artist/Voice Actor (Commercial Chorus) 	Pixar
1998	A Bug's Life 	Co-Director/Story/Screenplay/Story Artist/Voice Actor (Bug Zapper Bug #2/Popcorn Seller)	Pixar
1999	Toy Story 2 	Story/Screenplay/Voice Actor (Zurg) 	Pixar
2000	Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins	Voice Actor (Hamm) 	Pixar
2001	Monsters, Inc. 	Executive Producer/Screenplay 	Pixar
2003	Finding Nemo 	Director/Story/Screenplay/Voice Actor (Crush/Lobster/Seagulls) 	Pixar
2004	The Incredibles 	Voice Actor (Henchman) 	Pixar
2006	Cars 	Voice Actor (Fred)/Additional Screenplay Material 	Pixar
2007	Ratatouille 	Executive Producer 	Pixar
2008	WALL-E 	Director/Story/Screenplay/Voice Actor (Axiom Passenger #1) 	Pixar
2009	Up 	Executive Producer 	Pixar
2010	Toy Story 3 	Story 	Pixar
2012	John Carter 	Director/Screenplay 	Walt Disney Pictures
2012	Brave 	Executive Producer 	Pixar
2013	Monsters University 	Executive Producer 	Pixar
2015	Inside Out 	Executive Producer 	Pixar
2015	The Good Dinosaur 	Executive Producer 	Pixar
2016	Finding Dory 	Director/Story/Screenplay/Voice Actor (Crush/Clam) 	Pixar
2019	Toy Story 4 	Executive Producer/Screenplay/Story 	Pixar
2019	Frozen II 	Special Thanks 	Walt Disney Animation Studios
2019	Spies in Disguise 	Special Thanks 	Blue Sky Studios
2022	Lightyear 	Executive Producer 	Pixar
2026	Toy Story 5 	Director/Screenplay/Story 	Pixar
==Animated shorts filmography==
Year	Film 	Position 	Subsidiary
1989	The Making of Me 	Animator 	
2003	Exploring the Reef 	Executive Producer 	Pixar
2008	Presto 	Executive Producer 	Pixar
2008	BURN-E 	Executive Producer/Story	Pixar
2009	Partly Cloudy 	Executive Producer 	Pixar
2013	Toy Story of Terror!	Executive Producer 	Pixar
2016	Piper 	Executive Producer 	Pixar
==Television roles==
Year	Film 	Position 	Subsidiary
1995	Timon & Pumbaa	Storyboard artist (Episode: "Good Mousekeeping")	Disney Television Animation
2022	Obi-Wan Kenobi	Writer (Episode 5) 	Lucasfilm
==Roles==
Hopper in ITTBAB.jpg|Hopper(It's Tough to Be a Bug!)
Popcorn-Seller.png|Popcorn Seller(A Bug's Life)
Evil emperor zurg toy story wallpaper.jpg|Zurg(Toy Story 2)
Hamm Toy Story 1 Render.png|Hamm(Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins)
Crush-FindingNemo3D.jpg|Crush(Finding Nemo franchise)
New England Lobster.jpg|New England Lobster(Finding Nemo)
Profile - Seagulls.jpg|Seagulls(Finding Nemo)
FredCarsArtwork.png|Fred(Cars)
==Gallery==
Andrew Stanton (Toy Story).png|Andrew Stanton behind the scenes of Toy Story.
Andrew stanton at the 76th Oscars.JPG|Stanton accepting the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for Finding Nemo.
Joe and Pixar crew.jpg|Andrew Stanton discusses with Pete Docter, John Lasseter, and the late Joe Ranft about the legacy of Toy Story at Pixar in February 2005.
AndrewStanton02.jpg|Andrew Stanton behind the scenes of WALL-E.
Andrew Stanton with WALL-E at movie premiere.jpg|Andrew Stanton with WALL-E at the film's premiere in June 2008.
Andrew stanton at the 81st Oscars.JPG|Stanton accepting the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for WALL-E.
Andrew Stanton John Carter premiere.jpg|Andrew Stanton at the premiere of John Carter in February 2012.
Andrew Stanton D23 Expo15.jpg|Andrew Stanton attending the 2015 D23 Expo.
Andrew Stanton speaks D23 Expo15.jpg|Andrew Stanton speaks onstage at the 2015 D23 Expo.
Andrew Stanton supervises Ellen DeGeneres' recording.jpg|Andrew Stanton supervising Ellen DeGeneres' recording session for Finding Dory.
Andrew Stanton supervises Ed O'Neill's recording.jpg|Andrew Stanton supervising Ed O'Neill's recording session for Finding Dory.
Ellen DeGeneres Andrew Stanton Lindsay Collins Angus MacLane.jpg|Andrew Stanton with Lindsey Collins, Ellen DeGeneres, and Angus MacLane at the premiere of Finding Dory in June 2016.
Andrew Stanton TS4 premiere.jpg|Andrew Stanton at the premiere of Toy Story 4 in June 2019.
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