Andrew Ayers Stanton (born December 3, 1965) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. 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 a co-writer on the first five Toy Story films (1995–2026), A Bug's Life (1998), and Monsters, Inc. (2001), and has had some involvement in each of the company's feature films. 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  3 Body Problem, Better Call Saul, Legion, and Stranger Things. Description above from the Wikipedia article Andrew Stanton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2026In the Blink of an Eye — Director
• 2026Toy Story 5 — Emperor Zurg (voice) (uncredited), Director, Screenplay, Story
• Win or Lose — Executive Producer
• 3 Body Problem — Director, Co-Executive Producer
• 2023Nimona — Thanks
• 2022A Visit to the Pixar Living Archive
• 2022Anatomy of a Scene: The Plant
• 2022Lightyear — Executive Producer, Additional Writing
• Obi-Wan Kenobi — Story, Writer, Teleplay, Consulting Producer
• 2022Ralph-E: The Art of the Color Script
• 2022Where It Began: The Origins of WALL·E
• 2020Pixar Remix: WALL·E in 16-Bit — Original Concept, Original Story
• Tales from the Loop — Director
• For All Mankind — Director
• 2019Toy Story 4 — Original Story, Executive Producer, Screenplay
• Legion — Director
• 2016Finding Dory — Crush (voice), Director, Screenplay, Story
• 2016Marine Life Interviews — Original Story, Writer
• 2016Piper — Executive Producer
• Stranger Things — Director
• Better Call Saul — Director
• 2015Inside Out — Executive Producer
• 2015Lava — Thanks
• 2015The Good Dinosaur — Executive Producer
• 2013Monsters University — Executive Producer
• 2013Toy Story of Terror! — Executive Producer
• 2012Brave — Executive Producer
• 2012John Carter — Screenplay, Director
• 2010Toy Story 3 — Story
• 2009Partly Cloudy — Executive Producer
• 2009Up — Executive Producer
• 2008Animation Sound Design: Building Worlds from the Sound Up
• 2008BURN·E — Story, Executive Producer
• 2008Presto — Executive Producer
• 2008WALL·E — Additional Voices (voice), Director, Screenplay, Original Story
• 2008WALL·E's Treasures & Trinkets — Director
• 2007Ratatouille — Executive Producer
• 2006Cars — Fred (voice)
• 2004The Incredibles — Additional Voices (voice)
• 2003Exploring the Reef — Executive Producer
• 2003Finding Nemo — Crush (voice), Screenplay, Director, Original Story
• 2001Monsters, Inc. — Executive Producer, Screenplay
• 2000Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins — Hamm (voice)
• 1999Toy Story 2 — Emperor Zurg (voice), Screenplay, Original Story
• 1998A Bug's Life — Additional Voices (voice), Screenplay, Co-Director, Original Story
• 1997Geri's Game — Thanks
• 1995Toy Story — Commercial Chorus (voice), Screenplay, Storyboard Artist, Character Designer, Original Story
• 2 Stupid Dogs — Storyboard Artist
• 1991Light and Heavy — Co-Director
• 1991Surprise — Co-Director
• 1987A Birthday — Thanks
• 1987A Story — Randy / The Goon Squad (voice) (as Andy), Director, Writer, Producer, Animation
• 1986Somewhere in the Arctic... — Bahr (voice), Director
• 1985Ouchless
• Chairman Spaceman — Director
• Loving Dory — Executive Producer
• Monsters, Inc. 3 — Executive Producer
• Revolver — Director

Appearances as themselves (12)

• 2026Toy Story: 30 Years and Beyond - A Special Edition of 20/20 — Self
• 2025Meet the Pickles: The Making of "Win or Lose" — Self - Executive Producer
• 2022Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear — Self
• 2022Embrace the Panda: Making Turning Red — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Animation Outlaws — Self
• 2019Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound — Self
• 2015Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond — Self
• 2010Breaking the Mold: The Re-Making of Mighty Mouse — Self
• 2010Waking Sleeping Beauty — Self (archive footage)
• 2007The Pixar Story — Self - Seagulls
• 2003Making 'Nemo' — Self - Writer / Director
• 1995The Making of Toy Story — Self