Hideaki Anno (born May 22, 1960 in Ube, Yamaguchi) is a Japanese animation and film director. Anno is best known for his work on the popular anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. His style has come to be defined by the touches of superflatism and postmodernism that he injects into his work, as well as the thorough portrayal of characters' thoughts and emotions, often through unconventional sequences incorporating psychoanalysis and emotional deconstruction of these characters. He married comics artist Moyoco Anno in 27 April 2002. Anime directed by Anno that have won the Animage Anime Grand Prix award have been Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water in 1990, Neon Genesis Evangelion in 1995 and 1996, and The End of Evangelion in 1997. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hideaki Anno, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2026EVANGELION 30th Anniversary Special Screening — Screenplay, Executive Producer, Production Supervisor, Original Story
• Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX — Other, Screenplay, Storyboard Artist, Key Animation
• 2025Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- — Storyboard Artist, Screenplay, Key Animation
• Shin Kamen Rider: Episode Format Version — Director, Screenplay, Editor, Costume Design
• 2023EVANGELION:3.0(-120min.) — Director, Original Story
• 2023EVANGELION:3.0(-46h) — Original Story
• 2023Evangelion Beyond — Original Series Creator
• 2023Ichikei's Crow The Movie — Judge
• 2023Shin Kamen Rider — Director, Writer, Costume Design, Editor, Conceptual Design
• 2023Special Broadcast Movie "Shin Kamen Rider" Premise/Act 1: Kumo-Aug — Director, Writer, Concept Artist
• 2022Shin Ultraman — Ultraman (Motion Capture), Editor, Motion Actor, Screenplay, Storyboard Artist, Executive Producer
• 2022The・Ultraman: Jackal vs. Ultraman — Producer
• 2021Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time — Key Animation, Executive Producer, Storyboard Artist, Director, Screenplay, Original Story
• 2020Last Letter — Yuri's Husband
• 2018The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers
• 2017Mary and The Witch's Flower — Executive Producer
• 2017Shin Godzilla vs. Evangelion Symphony — Executive Producer
• The Dragon Dentist — Sound Director, Producer
• 2016A Good Child's History Anime: The Giant Turnip (Inc.) — Executive Producer, Editor, Director of Photography
• 2016Mobile Police Patlabor Reboot — Executive Producer
• 2016Shin Godzilla — Bus Driver, Storyboard, Director, Screenplay, Sound Designer, Editor, Title Designer, Creature Design, Additional Director of Photography, Additional Sound Re-Recordist, Second Unit Director
• 2015Anno-san and Our Reckless Challenge: Japan Animator Expo
• 2015Bubu & Bubulina — Executive Producer
• 2015Evangelion: Another Impact (Confidential) — Executive Producer, Original Story
• 2015MAKING OF EVANGELION: THE PART OF LIVE-ACTION — Director
• 2015Neon Genesis IMPACTS. — Executive Producer, Original Story
• 2015Robot on the Road — Executive Producer
• 2015Three Fallen Witnesses — Executive Producer
• 201420min Walk from Nishi-Ogikubo Station, 2 Bedrooms, Living Room, Dining Room, Kitchen, 2mos Deposit, No Pets Allowed — Executive Producer
• 2014Carnage — Executive Producer
• 2014Hill Climb Girl — Executive Producer
• Japan Animator Expo — Original Story, Editor, Executive Producer, Layout
• 2014Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark — Key Animation
• 2014The Dragon Dentist — Executive Producer
• 2014Yoshikazu Yasuhiko & Ichiro Itano: Collection of KeyAnimation Films — Writer, Compositors, Editor
• 2014until You come to me. — Layout, Executive Producer, Original Story
• Ando Lloyd ～A.I. knows LOVE ?～ — Original Story, Creator
• 2013Peaceful Times (F02) Petit Film — Director, Original Story, Screenplay
• 2013The Wind Rises — Jiro Horikoshi (voice)
• 2012Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo — Key Animation, Director, Storyboard Artist, Screenplay, Original Story, Executive Producer
• 2012Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo — Producer, Writer
• 2011Director Disqualified — Producer
• 2010Death Kappa — National Guard Corps Captain
• Monster Magnitude: 9 — Passenger
• 2010The Revolutionary Animator Kanada Yoshinori
• 2009Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance — Screenplay, Key Animation, Storyboard Artist, Director, Original Story
• 2007Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone — Screenplay, Key Animation, Storyboard Artist, Director, Original Story
• Petit Eva: Evangelion@School — Characters, Creator
• 2007Welcome to the Quiet Room — Doctor Matsubara
• 2006Gunbuster vs Diebuster: Aim for the Top! The GATTAI!! Movie — Screenplay, Key Animation, Director, Producer
• 2006Gunbuster: The Movie — Storyboard Artist, Director, Screenplay
• 2006Japan Sinks — Yamashiro's Son in Law, Mechanical Designer
• Professional: Shigoto no ryûgi
• 2006Sakuran — Oretachi
• 2006Submarine 707 Revolution — Opening/Ending Animation
• 2006The Catch Man
• 2006True Love — Nishimura Keisuke
• 2005Funky Forest: The First Contact — Hasuda
• Sugar Sugar Rune — Second Unit Director
• 2004Cutie Honey — Office Worker, Director, Screenplay
• Diebuster — Producer
• 2004Making of Cutie Honey
• 2004Otakus in Love
• Re: Cutie Honey — Series Director, Key Animation, Second Unit Director
• 2004The Taste of Tea — Kasugabe
• 2003Neon Genesis Evangelion: Theatrical Edition #26 Live Action Part (Special Rush Edit Version) — Shinji (voice), Director, Writer, Original Story
• 2003Once upon a time returning to my hometown — Director
• Submarine 707R — Second Unit Director
• 2003The Railway and the Girl — Camera Operator, Director
• 2002Animation Store Manager — Director
• 2002Frog River
• Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi — Key Animation, Storyboard Artist
• Petite Princess Yucie — Director
• 2002Ryusei-Kacho — Writer, Director
• 2002The Invention of Imaginary Machines of Destruction — Director, Screenplay, Original Story
• 2002The Invention of Imaginary Machines of Destruction - First Storyboards, in Motion Short Director — Director, Screenplay, Original Story
• 2001Cutie Honey Presentation Pilot Film — Director
• Mahoromatic — Storyboard Artist
• FLCL — Miyu Miyu (voice), Animation Director, Key Animation
• 2000Ritual — Director, Screenplay
• 1999GAMERA 1999 — Director of Photography
• Oruchuban Ebichu — Producer
• 1998Abunai Deka Forever The Movie — Man
• 1998Document Love & Pop
• 1998EVANGELION: DEATH (TRUE)² — Director, Screenplay, Animation Director, Original Story
• His and Her Circumstances — Director, Series Director, Writer, Storyboard Artist, Screenplay, Sound Director
• 1998Love & Pop — Director, Screenplay
• 1998Revival of Evangelion — Screenplay, Director, Animation Director, Original Story, Second Unit Director
• 1997Ano Subarashii Ai Wo Mou Ichido — Director
• 1997Evangelion Symphony — Supervisor of Production Resources
• 1997Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth — Director, Screenplay, Animation Director, Key Animation, Storyboard Artist, Original Story
• 1997Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion — Animation Director, Storyboard Artist, Key Animation, Original Story, Screenplay, Second Unit Director
• 1995Macross Plus: The Movie — Key Animation
• Neon Genesis Evangelion — Writer, Director, Mechanical Designer, Series Director, Storyboard Artist, Script, Key Animation, Creator, Series Composition, Original Story
• 1995Neon Genesis Evangelion: Genesis 0:0 - In the Beginning — Director
• Neon Genesis Evangelion: Platinum Edition (Renewal of Evangelion) — Director, Creator
• Macross Plus — Key Animation
• 1993Crimson Wolf — Key Animation
• 1993Sailor Moon R: The Movie - The Promise of the Rose — Key Animation
• Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still — Key Animation
• Blazing Transfer Student — Producer, Director
• 1991Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story I — Director, Story
• 1991Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story II — Director, Story
• 1991Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story III — Director, Story, Animation Director
• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water — Series Director, Animation Director, Storyboard Artist
• 1989Ultraman: The Adventure Begins — Key Animation
• 1988Dragon Quest Fantasia Video — Animation
• 1988Grave of the Fireflies — Key Animation
• Gunbuster — Writer, Series Director, Key Animation, Storyboard Artist, Screenplay
• 1988Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack — Mechanical & Creature Designer
• 1987Battle Royale High School — Animation Director
• 1987Crystal Triangle: The Forbidden Revelation — Key Animation
• Lemon Angel — Key Animation
• 1987Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01 — Key Animation
• 1987Royal Space Force - The Wings of Honneamise — Animation Director
• 1987Valis: The Fantasm Soldier — Director
• 1986Robotech: The Movie — Key Animation
• 1985Cow and Girl — Director, Writer
• Magical Emi, the Magic Star — Key Animation
• 1985Megazone 23 — Key Animation
• 1985Orochi Strikes Again — TV Reporter
• 1985Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise Pilot — Animation Director
• 1985The Complete Thunderbirds — Writer, Director, Editor
• 1985Urusei Yatsura: Remember My Love — Key Animation
• 1984Birth — Animation
• Cream Lemon — Key Animation
• 1984Macross: Do You Remember Love? — Key Animation
• 1984Warriors of the Wind — Key Animation
• 1983Daicon Film's Return of Ultraman — Ultraman, Director
• 1982Aikoku Sentai Dai-Nippon — Narrator, Mechanical Designer, Special Effects
• Super Dimension Fortress Macross — Key Animation
• 1981Powered Suit! Reinforced Armor — Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Cinematography, Editor, Animation
• 1981Tea Time — Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Cinematography, Editor, Animation
• Urusei Yatsura — Key Animation
• 1980A Tank Jumped Out from the Fridge!! — Director, Cinematography, Writer, Editor, Animation, Director of Photography
• 1980Aerial Replacement — Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Cinematography, Editor, Animation
• 1980At the Bus Stop — Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
• 1980Tough Tire! SHADO Tire — Writer, Director of Photography, Editor, Animation
• 1980Water — Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Cinematography, Editor, Animation
• 1979Proverb Dictionary: He Who Shoots Often, Hits at Last! — Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
• 1978NAKAMURIDER — Director
• 1978Ubekosei — Director, Writer, Cinematography, Director of Photography, Editor, Animation
• 1978Yamato — Director, Writer, Cinematography, Animation, Director of Photography, Editor

Appearances as themselves (9)

• 2026THE ORIGIN OF ULTRAMAN — Self
• 2023Documentary "Shin Kamen Rider" ~Behind the Scenes of the Hero Action Challenge~ — Self
• Hideaki ANNO and Hitoshi MATSUMOTO fireside chat — Self
• 2021Hideaki Anno: The Final Challenge of Evangelion — Self
• 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki — Self
• 2013The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness — Self
• Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai — Self
• 1997Neon Genesis Evangelion: Genesis 0:0’ - The Light from the Darkness — Self
• Extra Curricular Lesson with Hideaki Anno — Himself