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Andrew Stanton

American animator, film director and screenwriter (born 1965)

Person · Open Library

Born: 1965-12-03
Works: 10

Top works

A bug's life
WALL-E
Flying the Ejet
Oxford Case Histories in Respiratory Medicine
Art of Finding Dory

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Film & TV

Writing · Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Andrew Stanton (born December 3, 1965) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and occasional voice actor based at Pixar Animation Studios. His film work includes writing and directing Finding Nemo and WALL-E; both films earned him the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Description above from the Wikipedia article Andrew Stanton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of…

Known for

Meet the Pickles: The Making of "Win or Lose" — Self - Executive Producer2025
A Visit to the Pixar Living Archive2022
Ralph-E: The Art of the Color Script2022
Embrace the Panda: Making Turning Red — Self (archive footage)2022
Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear — Self2022
Where It Began: The Origins of WALL·E2022
Anatomy of a Scene: The Plant2022
Animation Outlaws — Self2019
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound — Self2019
Finding Dory — Crush (voice)2016

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Group
Country: GB

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 3,655
Total plays: 10,960

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Academic profile · OpenAlex

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Works: 488
Cited by: 79,560
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8690-8439

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 61,493x
Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks
· 2003 · cited 44,683x
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,509x
Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,302x
SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,522x

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Key facts

Born: Andrew Ayers Stanton , ( 1965-12-03 ) December 3, 1965 (age 60) , Rockport, Massachusetts , U.S.
Alma mater: California Institute of the Arts ( BFA )
Occupations: Film director screenwriter producer animator storyboard artist voice actor
Years active: 1981–present
Employer: Pixar Animation Studios (1990–present)
Spouse: Julie Stanton ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1989 )
Awards: Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Finding Nemo (2003) WALL-E (2008)

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Key dates

Born: 3 December 1965

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Andrew
Family name: Stanton
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Rockport
Occupation: director
Employer: Pixar
Languages spoken: English language
Native language: English language

Article

Andrew Ayers Stanton (born December 3, 1965) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He is best known as the director and co-writer of the Pixar animated films Finding Nemo (2003), WALL-E (2008), and Finding Dory (2016). He also directed and co-wrote the live-action film John Carter (2012) for Walt Disney Pictures and directed the live-action film In the Blink of an Eye (2026) for Searchlight Pictures. For Pixar, Stanton was additionally the co-director and co-writer of A Bug's Life (1998), the co-writer of each of the Toy Story films (1995-present) and Monsters, Inc. (2001), and occasional voice actor for various films, most notably Crush the Turtle from Finding Nemo.

Finding Nemo and WALL-E earned Stanton two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature. He was also nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay, for Finding Nemo, WALL-E, and Toy Story (1995), and for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Toy Story 3 (2010). WALL-E has also been inducted into the National Film Registry. Stanton has also directed episodes of various television series since 2017, including episodes of 3 Body Problem, Better Call Saul, Legion and Stranger Things.