Andrew Stanton

Andrew Stanton
Andrew Stanton, 2009
Born	(1965-12-03) December 3, 1965 Rockport, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation	Director, producer, screenwriter, voice actor
Years active	1987–present
Spouse(s)	Julie Stanton (1991)
Children	2 (Ben & Audrey)

Andrew Stanton (born December 3, 1965) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and voice actor based at Pixar Animation Studios. His film work includes writing and directing Pixar's A Bug's Life (1998) (as co-director), Finding Nemo (2003), and WALL-E (2008), and his first live-action film, John Carter (2012). He also co-wrote all three Toy Story films and Monsters, Inc. (2001)

Finding Nemo and WALL-E earned him 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).

He is currently in charge of directing the sequel to Finding Nemo, entitled Finding Dory, planned for 2016.

Career

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."^[1]

In addition to his direction and writing work for Pixar, he has also done some voice work, most notably as Evil Emperor Zurg in Toy Story 2 (1999) and Crush the laidback turtle in Finding Nemo.

Stanton made his live-action directing debut with Disney's John Carter. The film was based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel, A Princess of Mars. It was released in March 2012 and received mixed reviews from critics. The big-budget science fiction film did not meet Disney's domestic box-office expectations; they stated that they would lose $200 million on the film.^[2]

Filmography

Film

Video games

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Andrew Stanton.

• Andrew Stanton at the Internet Movie Database
• A Day in the Life of Andrew Stanton - The New York Times
• Andrew Stanton: The clues to a great story - TED