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Lee Unkrich

1967-08-08 (56 years old) in Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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.

Movies

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A Celebration of the Music from Coco
70 %|Mar 29, 2020
Music, Documentary
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Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
68 %|Dec 10, 2015
Documentary
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Toy Story 3
77.96000000000001 %|Jun 16, 2010
Animation, Family, Comedy
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The Pixar Story
75 %|Aug 28, 2007
Documentary
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Making 'Nemo'
0 %|Dec 4, 2003
Documentary
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Finding Nemo
78.23 %|May 30, 2003
Animation, Family
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Monsters, Inc.
78.42 %|Nov 1, 2001
Animation, Comedy, Family
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Toy Story 2
75.93 %|Oct 30, 1999
Animation, Comedy, Family
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A Bug's Life
70 %|Nov 25, 1998
Family, Animation, Adventure, Comedy
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Making 'Toy Story'
68 %|Dec 2, 1995
Documentary

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