Lee Unkrich

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1967-08-08 (58 years old)

Place of Birth

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Lee Unkrich

Biography

Lee Edward Unkrich (born August 8, 1967) is an American film director, editor and writer. He is best known for his work with the animation studio Pixar, which he joined in 1994 as an editor before being credited as a co-director on Toy Story 2 (1999). Following the film's success, Unkrich served a similar role for the films Monsters, Inc. (2001) and Finding Nemo (2003) before making his solo directorial debut with Toy Story 3 (2010). The film and the second he directed, Coco (2017), won two Academy Awards: Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song. After 25 years at the company, Unkrich retired in January 2019 to spend more time with his...

Acting

2001

Monsters, Inc.

as Additional Voices (voice)

2003

Making 'Nemo'

as Self - Co-Director

2003

Finding Nemo

as Additional Voices (voice)

2007

1999

Toy Story 2

as Additional Voices (voice)

2010

Toy Story 3

as Additional Voices (voice)

1998

A Bug's Life

as Additional Voices (voice)

2017

Coco

as Additional Voices (voice)

Production

2001

Monsters, Inc.

as Additional Editing

1995

Toy Story

as Editor

1999

Toy Story 2

as Editor

2010

Toy Story 3

as Director

1998

A Bug's Life

as Editor

2013

Monsters University

as Executive Producer

2001

Monsters, Inc.

as Co-Director

2017

Coco

as Director

2008

Presto

as Thanks

1991

2003

Finding Nemo

as Supervising Film Editor

2010

2017

Dante's Lunch

as Director

2017

Coco

as Editor

2010

Toy Story 3

as Story

2006

Cars

as Other

1994

Betrayed by Love

as Assistant Editor

1994

2015

Inside Out

as Other

2015

The Good Dinosaur

as Executive Producer

1999

Toy Story 2

as Co-Director

2003

Finding Nemo

as Co-Director

2006

Cars

as Additional Editor

2017

Coco

as Story

2019

Toy Story 4

as Executive Producer

2014

Lava

as Thanks

-

Coco 2

as Director

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