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Lee Unkrich

Lee Unkrich

Known For Directing
Birthday Aug 08, 1967 (58)
Birthplace Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Popularity 0.7 (history)
Updated Dec 19, 2024 (Update)
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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Lee Unkrich is an American director and film editor. He is a longtime member of the creative team at Pixar, where he started in 1994 as a film editor. He later began directing, first as co-director of Toy Story 2. After co-directing Monsters, Inc., and Finding Nemo, Unkrich made his solo directorial ... debut with Toy Story 3, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2011. Unkrich is the 2011 recipient of University of Southern California's Mary Pickford Distinguished Alumni Award recognizing alumni contributions to the cinematic arts. With the award, Unkrich joins a list of distinguished USC alumni including Robert Zemeckis, Walter Murch, Jon Landau, Gary Rydstrom and Jay Roach. A native of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Unkrich spent his youth acting at the Cleveland Playhouse. Unkrich graduated from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts in 1990. Before joining Pixar in 1994, Unkrich worked for several years in television as an editor and director.

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Coco

Coco

2017

as Additional Voices (voice)

Toy Story 3

Toy Story 3

2010

as Additional Voices (voice)

Finding Nemo

Finding Nemo

2003

as Additional Voices (voice)

Monsters, Inc.

Monsters, Inc.

2001

as Additional Voices (voice)

Toy Story 2

Toy Story 2

1999

as Additional Voices (voice)

A Bug's Life

A Bug's Life

1998

as Additional Voices (voice)

Coco

Coco

2017

Editor, Story

Inside Out

Inside Out

2015

Other

Lava

Lava

2014

Thanks

Toy Story 3

Toy Story 3

2010

Story

Presto

Presto

2008

Thanks

Cars

Cars

2006

Other, Additional Editor

Finding Nemo

Finding Nemo

2003

Supervising Film Editor

Monsters, Inc.

Monsters, Inc.

2001

Additional Editing

Toy Story 2

Toy Story 2

1999

Editor

A Bug's Life

A Bug's Life

1998

Editor

Toy Story

Toy Story

1995

Editor

Separated by Murder

Separated by Murder

1994

Editor

Betrayed by Love

Betrayed by Love

1994

Assistant Editor

Prison Stories: Women on the Inside

Prison Stories: Women on the Inside

1991

Production Assistant

Dante's Lunch

Dante's Lunch

2017

Director

Coco

Coco

2017

Director

Toy Story 3

Toy Story 3

2010

Director

Finding Nemo

Finding Nemo

2003

Co-Director

Monsters, Inc.

Monsters, Inc.

2001

Co-Director

Toy Story 2

Toy Story 2

1999

Co-Director

Toy Story 4

Toy Story 4

2019

Executive Producer

The Good Dinosaur

The Good Dinosaur

2015

Executive Producer

Monsters University

Monsters University

2013

Executive Producer

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