Andrew Stanton - my 130th pick as a Disney Legend

Andrew Stanton is my 130th choice to be named a Disney Legend. 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 has been an animator, writer, director, producer and vocie actor for the studio. In addition to his direction and writing work for Pixar, he voiced Crush, the laidback turtle in Finding Nemo.

His film work includes writing and directing Finding Nemo and WALL-E; both films earned him the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. He directed his first Live-Action Disney film, John Carter, in 2012.

According to the Pixar Talk website "Finding Nemo‘s roots back to a 1992 visit to Six Flags Marine World and started Andrew thinking about the amazing possibilities of capturing an undersea world in computer animation. The film was inspired by a fleeting moment of realization in which Stanton observed that his overprotective fatherly instincts were preventing him from properly bonding with his son. It tells the tale of a young clown fish who is whisked from the ocean to a dentist-office aquarium and his father’s quest to bring his son back home safely. As with Stanton’s other writing efforts, Finding Nemo focused on character development and provided an emotional resonance and heart rarely seem in animation."

1995    Toy Story               Story/Screenplay/Additional Voices

1998    A Bug's Life          Co-Director/Story/Screenplay/Voice Actor (Fly Near a "Bug Zapper")

1999    Toy Story 2                 Story/Screenplay/Voice Actor

2000    Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins   Voice Actor

2001    Monsters, Inc.           Executive Producer/Screenplay

2003    Finding Nemo            Director/Story/Screenplay/Voice Actor

2004    The Incredibles           Additional Voices

2006    Cars     Voice Actor

2007    Ratatouille        Executive Producer

2008    WALL-E                  Director/Writer/Additional Voices

2009    Partly Cloudy           Executive Producer

2009    Up                      Executive Producer

2010    Toy Story 3     Story/Screenplay

2012    Brave                     Story

2012    John Carter     Director/Story/Writer

2015    Inside Out       Executive Producer

2016    Finding Dory   Director/Story/Screenplay/Voice Actor

2018    Toy Story 4     Story/Screenplay