Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
10
Gender
Male
Birthday
August 08, 1967 ( 57 years old )
Place of Birth
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Also Known As
李·昂克里奇
Lee Unkrich
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.
Known For
Monsters, Inc.
2001-11-01Making 'Nemo'
2003-12-04Finding Nemo
2003-05-30The Pixar Story
2007-08-28Toy Story 2
1999-10-30Toy Story 3
2010-06-16A Bug's Life
1998-11-25A Celebration of the Music from Coco
2020-03-29Making 'Toy Story'
1995-12-02Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
2015-12-10