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Byron Howard
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Byron Howard is an American actor, film director, screenwriter, and voice actor. Born in 1968 in Misawa, Japan, he is educated at Evergreen State College. He works in film production and is employed by Walt Disney Studios. His native and written language is English.
Howard has received the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and was nominated for the same honor. He is recognized in the Academy Award Best Animated Feature collection. In literature, he is listed as an author with one work, The Art of Zootropolis.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- The Art of Zootropolis
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Film & TV
Directing · Misawa, Japan
Byron P. Howard (born December 26, 1968) is an American animator, character designer, story artist, film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known as one of the directors of the Walt Disney Animation Studios films Bolt (2008), Tangled (2010), Zootopia (2016), Encanto (2021), and Zootopia 2 (2025). He is the first LGBT director to win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature twice for his…
Known for
- Zootopia 2 — Berthold Hufschmerz / Bucky / Joel (voice)2025
- Zootopia+ — Bucky Oryx-Antlerson (voice)2022
- Zootopia — Bucky Oryx-Antlerson (voice)2016
- Imagining Zootopia — Self2016
- Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs — Himself2015
- Tangled Ever After — Lantern Wrangler / Chef (voice)2012
- Untangled: The Making of a Fairy Tale — Self2011
- Tangled — Guard 2 / Thug 2 (voice)2010
- The Story Room: The Making of 'Lilo & Stitch' — Self2004
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 49
- Total plays
- 102
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- <i>OLEX2</i>: a complete structure solution, refinement and analysis program
· 2009 · cited 31,420x
- The Montreal Cognitive Assessment, MoCA: A Brief Screening Tool For Mild Cognitive Impairment
· 2005 · cited 21,949x
- MobileNetV2: Inverted Residuals and Linear Bottlenecks
· 2018 · cited 21,928x
- Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 21,263x
- The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease
· 2011 · cited 13,446x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Howard
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Misawa
- Occupation
- film producer
- Educated at
- Evergreen State College
- Employer
- Walt Disney Studios
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Field of work
- film production
- Image
- Byron Howard.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1968-12-26
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
- Commons category
- Byron Howard
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Byron Howard
- social media followers
- 32517
- writing language
- English language
Sources (5)
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Gallery (2)
Available in 26 languages
- Español
- Français
- Deutsch
- 中文
- 日本語
- Русский
- Português
- Italiano
- العربية
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Balinese
- Belarusian
- Catalan
- Central Kurdish
- Egyptian Arabic
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Malay
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