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Lee Unkrich

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Lee Unkrich in Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Despite his family's baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector, and together, they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history.
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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.

As the director of Disney.Pixar's "Toy Story 3," Lee was also awarded an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

Lee joined Pixar in 1994, and has played a variety of key creative roles on nearly every animated feature film made at the studio. Before co-directing the Oscar-winning "Finding Nemo," he was co-director of "Monsters, Inc." and the Golden Globe-winning "Toy Story 2."

He began his Pixar career as a film editor on "Toy Story" and was supervising film editor on "A Bug's Life." Lee also contributed his editing skills to numerous Pixar films, including his role as supervising film editor on "Finding Nemo".

In 2009 Lee and his fellow directors at Pixar were honored at the 66th Venice International Film Festival with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.

Prior to joining Pixar, Lee worked in television as an editor and director. He graduated from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema/Television in 1991.

He grew up in Chagrin Falls, Ohio.
BornAugust 8, 1967
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    • Won 2 Oscars
      • 31 wins & 33 nominations total

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    Alfonso Arau, Benjamin Bratt, Alanna Ubach, Gael García Bernal, Dyana Ortelli, Herbert Siguenza, and Anthony Gonzalez in Coco (2017)
    Coco
    8.4
    • Additional Crew(Pixar)
    • 2017
    Tom Hanks and Tim Allen in Toy Story 2 (1999)
    Toy Story 2
    7.9
    • Additional Crew
    • 1999
    Tom Hanks, Joan Cusack, Tim Allen, John Ratzenberger, Wallace Shawn, Jodi Benson, Blake Clark, Estelle Harris, Jeff Pidgeon, Don Rickles, and Frank Welker in Toy Story 3 (2010)
    Toy Story 3
    8.3
    • Additional Crew(Pixar)
    • 2010
    Billy Crystal and John Goodman in Monsters, Inc. (2001)
    Monsters, Inc.
    8.1
    • Editorial Department
    • 2001

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    • Will Forte, Rhea Seehorn, Erin Keif, Dorien Maxwell, Chanel Stewart, Harlow Hodges, Flula Borg, Vyvan Pham, Lil Rel Howery, Josh Thomson, Santina Muha, Rosa Salazar, Rosanna Jean Foss, Tom Law, Jo Firestone, Kyliegh Curran, Milan Elizabeth Ray, and Izaac Wang in Win or Lose (2025)
      Win or Lose
      8.0
      TV Series
      • senior creative team: Pixar
      • 2025
    • Catherine O'Hara, Thomas Newman, Jonathan Adams, Wilma Bonet, P.L. Brown, Ronnie Del Carmen, John Hoberg, Alex Kapp, Jean-Claude Kalache, Matthew Yang King, Ronobir Lahiri, Denise Ream, Stephen Schaffer, Don Shank, Peter Sohn, Kat Likkel, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Jeff LaPensee, Innocent Ekakitie, Mason Wertheimer, Clara Lin Ding, Brenda Hsueh, Shila Ommi, Leah Lewis, David Juan Bianchi, Ben Morris, Joe Pera, Mamoudou Athie, and Reagan To in Elemental (2023)
      Elemental
      7.0
      • senior creative team: Pixar
      • 2023
    • Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy, and Quinta Brunson in Cars on the Road (2022)
      Cars on the Road
      6.9
      TV Mini Series
      • senior creative team: Pixar
      • 2022
    • Chris Evans in Lightyear (2022)
      Lightyear
      6.1
      • senior creative team: Pixar
      • 2022
    • Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Tristan Allerick Chen, Ava Morse, Hyein Park, and Rosalie Chiang in Turning Red (2022)
      Turning Red
      6.9
      • senior creative team: Pixar
      • 2022
    • Marco Barricelli, Jim Gaffigan, Maya Rudolph, Peter Sohn, Emma Berman, Jacob Tremblay, Jack Dylan Grazer, and Saverio Raimondo in Luca (2021)
      Luca
      7.4
      • senior creative team: Pixar
      • 2021
    • SparkShorts (2018)
      SparkShorts
      7.7
      TV Mini Series
      • story trust
      • 2020
    • Julia Louis-Dreyfus, John Ratzenberger, Tracey Ullman, Mychael Danna, Jeff Danna, Wilmer Valderrama, Catherine Apple, Sharon Calahan, Grey DeLisle, Chris Pratt, Kori Rae, Mel Rodriguez, Dan Scanlon, Octavia Spencer, Keith Bunin, Kyle Bornheimer, Noah Klocek, Lena Waithe, Adam Habib, Jason Headley, Tom Holland, Ali Wong, and George Psarras in Onward (2020)
      Onward
      7.4
      • senior creative team: Pixar
      • 2020
    • Tom Hanks, Keanu Reeves, Tim Allen, Annie Potts, Tony Hale, Christina Hendricks, Keegan-Michael Key, Ally Maki, and Jordan Peele in Toy Story 4 (2019)
      Toy Story 4
      7.6
      • senior creative team: Pixar
      • 2019
    • Alfonso Arau, Benjamin Bratt, Alanna Ubach, Gael García Bernal, Dyana Ortelli, Herbert Siguenza, and Anthony Gonzalez in Coco (2017)
      Coco
      8.4
      • additional voices
      • senior creative team: Pixar
      • 2017
    • Tony Shalhoub, Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy, Cai Puri-Evans, Heledd Jarman, Cristela Alonzo, and Siân Eirian in Cars 3 (2017)
      Cars 3
      6.7
      • senior creative team: Pixar
      • 2017
    • Sigourney Weaver, Willem Dafoe, Diane Keaton, Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, John Ratzenberger, Deb Fink, Andrew Stanton, Brad Garrett, Allison Janney, David Arnott, Torbin Xan Bullock, Doug Burch, Ty Burrell, Cathy Cavadini, Judi M. Durand, Idris Elba, Bill Hader, Barbara Harris, Aaron Hendry, Andy Hirsch, Carlyle King, Eugene Levy, Vicki Lewis, Angus MacLane, Jeremy Maxwell, Kate McKinnon, Daniel Edward Mora, Ed O'Neill, Kaitlin Olson, Jason Pace, Austin Pendleton, Bob Peterson, David Randolph, Jerome Ranft, Katherine Ringgold, Stephen Root, Andreana Weiner, Dominic West, Aaron Fors, Alexander Gould, Will Collyer, Nancy Truman, Regina Taufen, Liza Seneca, Willow Geer, Dylan Naber, Carrie Paff, Terrell Ransom Jr., Alex Puccinelli, Dashell Zamm, Gunnar Sizemore, Molly Jackson, Emma Shannon, Daniella Jones, Dara Iruka, Carter Hastings, Paige Nan Pollack, Hayden Rolence, Riley Lio, Veronika Bonell, Ashlyn Faith Williams, Gabriel C. Brown, Bennett Dammann, Sloane Murray, and Lucia Geddes in Finding Dory (2016)
      Finding Dory
      7.2
      • senior creative team: Pixar
      • 2016
    • Raymond Ochoa and Jack Bright in The Good Dinosaur (2015)
      The Good Dinosaur
      6.7
      • senior creative team: Pixar
      • 2015
    • Lewis Black, Bill Hader, Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, and Mindy Kaling in Inside Out (2015)
      Inside Out
      8.1
      • senior creative team: Pixar
      • 2015
    • Steve Buscemi, Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Helen Mirren, Alfred Molina, Bonnie Hunt, John Ratzenberger, Dave Foley, Kathy Griffin, Sean Hayes, Jason Marsden, Randy Newman, Lori Alan, Carlos Alazraqui, Jack Angel, Robert L. Baird, Bob Bergen, Gregg Berger, Rodger Bumpass, Tara Strong, Dane Cook, John Cygan, Charlie Day, Walt Dohrn, Paul Eiding, Jessica Evans, Bill Farmer, Dannah Feinglass Phirman, Nathan Fillion, Donald Fullilove, Teresa Ganzel, Daniel Gerson, Jan Rabson, Bill Hader, Jess Harnell, Jean-Claude Kalache, John Kassir, Tyler Labine, Dawnn Lewis, Sherry Lynn, Danny Mann, Mona Marshall, Mickie McGowan, Alec Medlock, Joel Murray, Laraine Newman, Ricky Nierva, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, Bret 'Brook' Parker, Donovan Patton, Bob Peterson, Jeff Pidgeon, Kori Rae, Dan Scanlon, Greg Snyder, Peter Sohn, Mindy Sterling, Julia Sweeney, Marcia Wallace, Jim Ward, April Winchell, John Krasinski, Sean Conroy, Bobby Moynihan, Joel Spence, Patrick Seitz, Makenna Cowgill, Greg Dykstra, Keith Ferguson, Colette Whitaker, Cristina Pucelli, Brandon Johnson, Allan McLeod, Neil Campbell, Aubrey Plaza, Matthew Mercer, Andy Fischer-Price, Elissa Knight, Raymond Ochoa, Tyler Ganus, David Neher, Samantha Sadoff, Gage Davenport, Isabella Acres, Joseph John Schirle, Noah Johnston, Patrick Carlyle, Montse Hernandez, Mason Cook, Lindsay Lefler, Beth Behrs, Davin Ransom, Dave Theune, Tyree Brown, Jack Bright, Ava Acres, Madison Rothschild, Erica Teeple, Tricia McAlpin, Nikolas Michailidis, Betsy Sodaro, Aramé Scott, Gia Michailidis, Mike Hanford, Kristen Li, Pam Murphy, Casey Barden, Natalie Jane Dang, Ethan Louis Samuels DiSalvio, Brooke Klinger, Alexis Poindexter, Ileanna Bravos, Clayton Drier, Faith Goblirsch, Calum John, Marley Pearson, Khiara Symone Threets, and Kristen Phaneuf in Monsters University (2013)
      Monsters University
      7.2
      • senior creative team: Pixar
      • 2013

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    • Julia Louis-Dreyfus, John Ratzenberger, Tracey Ullman, Mychael Danna, Jeff Danna, Wilmer Valderrama, Catherine Apple, Sharon Calahan, Grey DeLisle, Chris Pratt, Kori Rae, Mel Rodriguez, Dan Scanlon, Octavia Spencer, Keith Bunin, Kyle Bornheimer, Noah Klocek, Lena Waithe, Adam Habib, Jason Headley, Tom Holland, Ali Wong, and George Psarras in Onward (2020)
      Onward
      7.4
      • additional editor
      • 2020
    • Tom Hanks, Keanu Reeves, Tim Allen, Annie Potts, Tony Hale, Christina Hendricks, Keegan-Michael Key, Ally Maki, and Jordan Peele in Toy Story 4 (2019)
      Toy Story 4
      7.6
      • additional editor
      • 2019
    • Dante's Lunch (2017)
      Dante's Lunch
      7.0
      Short
      • story and editorial consultant
      • 2017
    • Paul Newman, Tom Hanks, Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Michael Keaton, Tim Allen, Katherine Helmond, Bonnie Hunt, Cheech Marin, John Ratzenberger, Tony Shalhoub, Andrew Stanton, Mario Andretti, Dave Foley, John Lasseter, Jay Leno, Randy Newman, Jeremy Piven, Owen Wilson, Darla K. Anderson, Jack Angel, Michael Bell, Bob Bergen, Susan Blu, Torbin Xan Bullock, Rodger Bumpass, George Carlin, Scott Clark, Lindsey Collins, William Cone, Bob Costas, Edmund Cupcupin, John Cygan, Jennifer Darling, Paul Dooley, Paul Eiding, Bill Farmer, Brian Fee, Teresa Ganzel, Craig Good, Jan Rabson, Jess Harnell, Jean-Claude Kalache, Richard Kind, Jorgen Klubien, Jenifer Lewis, Sherry Lynn, Danny Mann, Edie McClurg, Mickie McGowan, Laraine Newman, Teddy Newton, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, Adrian Ochoa, Bob Pauley, Bob Peterson, Richard Petty, Steve Purcell, Guido Quaroni, Joe Ranft, Jonas Rivera, Lou Romano, Dan Scanlon, Stephen Schaffer, Ken Schretzmann, Bob Scott, Sonoko Konishi, Michael Wallis, Jim Ward, Humpy Wheeler, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Ray Magliozzi, Tom Magliozzi, Kiel Murray, Phil Lorin, Larry the Cable Guy, Darrell Waltrip, Dan Fogelman, E.J. Holowicki, Artie Kempner, Michael Schumacher, Colette Whitaker, Mike Nelson, A.J. Riebli III, Lynda Petty, Jay Ward, Elissa Knight, Larry Benton, Douglas Keever, Sarah Clark, Richard Cawood, Hooman Khalili, Kathy Coates, Erik Langley, Matty Staudt, Marco Boerries, and Andrea Boerries in Cars (2006)
      Cars
      7.3
      • additional editor
      • 2006
    • Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, and Barry Humphries in Finding Nemo (2003)
      Finding Nemo
      8.2
      • supervising film editor
      • 2003
    • Billy Crystal and John Goodman in Monsters, Inc. (2001)
      Monsters, Inc.
      8.1
      • additional editor
      • 2001
    • Denis Leary, Dave Foley, Hayden Panettiere, and Joe Ranft in A Bug's Life (1998)
      A Bug's Life
      7.2
      • supervising editor
      • supervising film editor
      • 1998
    • Betrayed by Love (1994)
      Betrayed by Love
      5.1
      TV Movie
      • assistant editor
      • 1994
    • Lorenzo Lamas, Kathleen Kinmont, and Branscombe Richmond in Renegade (1992)
      Renegade
      5.9
      TV Series
      • assistant editor
      • 1993

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    • Alfonso Arau, Benjamin Bratt, Alanna Ubach, Gael García Bernal, Dyana Ortelli, Herbert Siguenza, and Anthony Gonzalez in Coco (2017)
      Coco
      8.4
      • Editor
      • 2017
    • Tom Hanks and Tim Allen in Toy Story 2 (1999)
      Toy Story 2
      7.9
      • Editor
      • 1999
    • Denis Leary, Dave Foley, Hayden Panettiere, and Joe Ranft in A Bug's Life (1998)
      A Bug's Life
      7.2
      • supervising film editor
      • 1998
    • Tom Hanks, R. Lee Ermey, Tim Allen, Annie Potts, John Ratzenberger, Wallace Shawn, Jim Varney, and Don Rickles in Toy Story (1995)
      Toy Story
      8.3
      • Editor
      • 1995
    • Sharon Gless in Separated by Murder (1994)
      Separated by Murder
      5.8
      TV Movie
      • Editor
      • 1994
    • Silk Stalkings (1991)
      Silk Stalkings
      6.5
      TV Series
      • Editor
      • 1993–1994

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      • Laura CenturySeptember 5, 1993 - present (3 children)
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      His favorite films are Raising Arizona (1987), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Blue Velvet (1986), An Angel at My Table (1990), and (his favorite) The Shining (1980). The Shining was the movie that inspired him to become a filmmaker. Unkrich also owns a website that features ephemera from The Shining.
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      [on Stanley Kubrick] Stanley's work inspired and motivated me from a young age for both his uncompromising artistry, and his dogged refusal to settle for anything less than original and interesting.

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      Lee Edward Unkrich
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      Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Toy Story 3, and Coco

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