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Director: Andrew Stanton

Andrew Stanton co-wrote every Pixar feature of the studio’s first decade before directing Finding Nemo and WALL-E, both of which won Best Animated Feature. He is a writer first and describes story problems in structural terms more readily than visual ones.

WALL-E is his most ambitious work, opening with roughly forty minutes of near-silent character animation on an abandoned Earth. Getting a studio to fund that in a family film is remarkable in itself.

John Carter, his live-action feature, was a commercial failure large enough to become an industry cautionary tale, which has somewhat overshadowed a strong record.

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WALL-E (2008)

Andrew Stanton's 2008 Pixar masterpiece. Garbage robot finds love on dead Earth.

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John Carter (2012) Review

John Carter is one of the most unfairly maligned films of the past fifteen years and one of the most expensive commercial failures in Disney history. The production was Stanton's live-action feature debut after his Pixar work on Finding Nemo…

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Finding Nemo (2003) Review

Finding Nemo is one of the foundational documents of Pixar's golden era and one of the great American animated films of the early twenty-first century. Stanton would subsequently direct WALL-E in 2008, Finding Dory in 2016, and various other major…

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Finding Dory (2016) Review

Finding Dory is one of the more substantive Pixar sequels and one of the more thoughtful contemporary animated productions about cognitive disability. The substantial gap between productions reflected Pixar's broader sequel discipline during the period.