Byron P. Howard (born December 26, 1968) is an American animator, character designer, story artist, film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known as one of the directors of the Walt Disney Animation Studios films Bolt (2008), Tangled (2010), Zootopia (2016), Encanto (2021), and Zootopia 2 (2025). He is the first LGBT director to win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature twice for his work on Zootopia and Encanto. Description above from the Wikipedia article Byron Howard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2026LEGO Disney Princess: Magical Mayhem — Creator
• 2025LEGO Disney Princess: Villains Unite — Creator
• 2025Zootopia 2 — Berthold Hufschmerz / Bucky / Joel (voice), Director
• Iwájú — Executive Producer
• 2022Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl — Executive Producer
• Zootopia+ — Bucky Oryx-Antlerson (voice), Executive Producer
• 2021Encanto — Story, Director
• 2019Frozen II — Executive Producer
• 2016Zootopia — Bucky Oryx-Antlerson (voice), Director, Story
• 2012Tangled Ever After — Lantern Wrangler / Chef (voice), Director, Writer
• 2010Tangled — Guard 2 / Thug 2 (voice), Director
• 2009Super Rhino — Executive Producer
• 2008Bolt — Director
• 2003Brother Bear — Supervising Animator
• 2002Lilo & Stitch — Character Designer

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2016Imagining Zootopia — Self
• 2015Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs — Himself
• 2011Untangled: The Making of a Fairy Tale — Self
• 2004The Story Room: The Making of 'Lilo & Stitch' — Self