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Lee Unkrich is an American film director, editor and writer who worked at Pixar Animation Studios for 25 years. He co-directed Toy Story 2, Finding Nemo and Coco, and won two Academy Awards for each film.
Lee Unkrich is a Pixar director and editor who won Oscars for Coco and Toy Story 3. He worked on many other Pixar films, such as Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc., and Toy Story 2.
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Lee Unkrich is an Academy Award-winning director at Pixar Animation Studios. He most recently directed Disney.Pixar's critically-acclaimed "Coco", which received the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and Best Song.
- August 8, 1967
Apr 24, 2018 · The Pixar director talks about his Oscar-winning film, his research trips to Mexico, and his personal connection to the holiday of Día de Muertos. He also discusses cultural appropriation, Steven Spielberg's socks, and the similarities between Mexican and Jewish-American cultures.
- On Starting Out at Pixar
- On Pixar’s Audience
- On Being Innovative
- On Getting Older
- On Pixar’s Legacy
- On Coco
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“The very first day I started, they sat me down in a screening room to watch the story reels for Toy Story, which had just begun animation. The only thing that was animated at that point was the green army men sequence, and I was so blown away by it – I couldn’t believe that I was going to get to work on this really cool movie. All of a sudden the ...
“We don’t think of our films as children’s films, we just think of them as movies. We know that kids are going to be a big part of our audience, so we always make sure there’s nothing inappropriate for them, but I can’t remember ever having a single conversation where we think about what kids would like. Kids for the most part have terrible taste, ...
“The idea of innovation is never what drives us, or why we pick certain subject matter. It’s always in service of the story. Some movies are more challenging than others visually, but we have gotten to the point where we can do just about anything we want. It’s not like in the beginning when it was a huge deal to figure out how to do fur, or how to...
“Most of us were in our twenties when we started making Toy Story – we’ve all grown up together, we’ve all gotten married and had kids, and experienced love and loss. We’ve lost a lot of loved ones, including people at Pixar. The older that you get, you tend to start reflecting on the past more, and thinking about how it leads to the present moment...
“We think about it, but you can’t be consumed by that, because you’d never get any work done, you’d just be frozen with fear. When I made Toy Story 3, I had a lot on my shoulders. I remember feeling like I really didn’t wanna go down in film history as the guy who made the crappy sequel to two of the beloved films of all time. So there is that pres...
“When we first set out to make the film, the very first idea that I pitched was very different from what we ended up with. I was telling a story about a little American boy, who had an American father but a mother from Mexico, she had passed away, and the father was taking the boy down to Mexico to meet the Mexican side of his family and experience...
The co-director of Toy Story 2 and 3, Finding Nemo and Coco reflects on his two decades at the animation studio. He talks about Pixar's audience, innovation, legacy, and the challenges of making Coco.
Lee Unkrich is an American director and film editor who won an Oscar for Toy Story 3. He also co-directed Finding Nemo and Coco, and worked on other Pixar classics.
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Feb 21, 2018 · The director of Coco, the Oscar-nominated animated film set in Mexico, talks about his background, challenges and achievements in this interview. He also shares his views on Pixar's efforts to increase workplace and senior-level creative diversity.
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