
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 and co-wrote the live-action film John Carter (2012) for Walt Disney Pictures and directed the live-action film In the Blink of an Eye (2026) for Searchlight Pictures. For Pixar, Stanton was additionally the co-director and co-writer of A Bug's Life (1998), the co-writer of the first four Toy Story films (1995–2019) and Monsters, Inc. (2001), and occasional voice actor for various films, most notably Crush the Turtle from Finding Nemo. 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 also directed episodes of various television series since 2017, including episodes of 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.
Andrew A. Stanton
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Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).
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Acting credits
20
Directing
16
Writing
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Other crew
Highest TMDB score (min 100 votes)
Better Call Saul
2015 · tv · Director
Stranger Things
2016 · tv · Director
Piper
2016 · movie · Executive Producer
WALL·E
2008 · movie · as Additional Voices (voice)
Win or Lose
2025 · tv · Executive Producer
Toy Story
1995 · movie · as Commercial Chorus (voice)
Up
2009 · movie · Executive Producer
Inside Out
2015 · movie · Executive Producer
Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)
By release / first air year · movie & TV merged
Animation Sound Design: Building Worlds from the Sound Up
movie · Acting · ★ 8.0
BURN·E
movie · Story, Executive Producer · ★ 7.5
Presto
movie · Executive Producer · ★ 7.8
WALL·E
movie · as Additional Voices (voice), Director, Screenplay, Original Story · ★ 8.1
WALL·E's Treasures & Trinkets
movie · Director · ★ 6.4
A Visit to the Pixar Living Archive
movie · Acting
Anatomy of a Scene: The Plant
movie · Acting
Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear
movie · as Self · ★ 7.0
Embrace the Panda: Making Turning Red
movie · as Self (archive footage) · ★ 6.8
Lightyear
movie · Executive Producer, Additional Writing · ★ 6.9
Obi-Wan Kenobi
tv · Writer, Teleplay, Story, Consulting Producer · ★ 7.0
Ralph-E: The Art of the Color Script
movie · Acting
Where It Began: The Origins of WALL·E
movie · Acting