Lee Unkrich
Lee Unkrich
08.08.1967 (56 years) (Cleveland, Ohio, USA)
Lee Edward Unkrich (born August 8, 1967) is an American director, film editor, screenwriter, and animator. He was 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 Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc. and Finding Nemo, Unkrich made his solo directorial debut with Toy Story 3 in 2010, and most recently directed Coco in 2017, both of which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. After working at the studio for twenty-five years, Unkrich left Pixar in February 2019 to spend time with his family.