Vice President, Creative

Andrew Stanton has been a major creative force at Pixar Animation Studios since 1990, when he became the second animator and ninth employee to join the company’s elite group of computer animation pioneers.  As Vice President, Creative he currently oversees all shorts and feature projects at the studio.  Stanton wrote and directed the Academy Award®-winning Disney and Pixar feature film “WALL•E,” for which he also received a Best Original Screenplay Oscar®-nomination.  In 2016 Stanton directed Disney and Pixar’s “Finding Dory,” which, upon release, became the highest-grossing domestic animated feature of all time and in 2019 Stanton served as screenwriter and executive producer of “Toy Story 4.”

Stanton made his directorial debut with the record-shattering “Finding Nemo,” an original story of his that he also co-wrote.  The film garnered Stanton two Academy Award® nominations (Best Original Screenplay and Best Animated Film), and “Finding Nemo” was awarded an Oscar® for Best Animated Feature Film of 2003, the first such honor Pixar Animation Studios received for a full-length feature film. 

One of the four screenwriters to receive an Oscar® nomination in 1996 for his contribution to “Toy Story,” Stanton went on to receive credit as a screenwriter on every subsequent Pixar film – “A Bug’s Life,” “Toy Story 2,” “Monsters, Inc.” and “Finding Nemo.”  Additionally, he served as co-director on “A Bug’s Life,” and was the executive producer of “Monsters, Inc.,” and “Monsters University,” and Academy Award®-winning films “Ratatouille” and “Brave.” 

In addition to his multi-award winning animation work, Stanton made his live-action writing and directorial debut with Disney’s “John Carter,” released in March 2012. 

A native of Rockport, Massachusetts, Stanton earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Character Animation from California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts), where he completed two student films.  In the 1980s, he launched his professional career in Los Angeles animating for Bill Kroyer’s Kroyer Films studio, and writing for Ralph Bakshi’s production of “Mighty Mouse, The New Adventures” (1987).