Andrew Stanton

Andrew Ayers Stanton (born December 3, 1965) is an American filmmaker and animator. He is best known as the director and co-writer of the Pixar animated films Finding Nemo (2003), WALL-E (2008), Finding Dory (2016), and Toy Story 5 (2026). He also directed the live-action films John Carter (2012) and In the Blink of an Eye (2026). For Pixar, Stanton was additionally co-writer on the first four Toy Story films (1995–2019), A Bug's Life (1998), Monsters, Inc. (2001), and has had a degree of involvement in each of the company's feature films. His films have grossed more than $4 billion making him the tenth highest-grossing film director of all-time, not adjusted for inflation.

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 directed episodes of various television series since 2017, including episodes of 3 Body Problem, Better Call Saul, Legion and Stranger Things.