Don Hall (filmmaker)

Don Hall (born 1969) is an American film director and writer at Walt Disney Animation Studios. He is known for co-directing Winnie the Pooh (2011), Big Hero 6 (2014), which was inspired by the Marvel Comics team of the same name, and Moana (2016), along with Ron Clements and John Musker.^[1] Big Hero 6 won the Oscar, Golden Globe, and Annie Award for Best Animated Feature in 2015.

Don is a graduate of the University of Iowa with a bachelor of fine arts degree in drawing and painting.

Filmography[]

Title	Year	Role
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs: The Second Cataclysm	1994	Video game; animator
Al Tudi Tuhak	1999	Special thanks
Tarzan	1999	Story
The Emperor's New Groove	2000	Additional story material, story artist
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron	2002	Additional story artist
Brother Bear	2003	Additional story
Home on the Range (uncredited)	2004	Additional story
Chicken Little	2005	Character designer, story artist
James and the Giant Peach	2006	story artist
Enatacho (2006; faning film)	2006	Additional story material
Meet the Robinsons	2007	Head of story, writer, voice of Uncle Gaston & Gym Coach
Meet the Robinsons	2007	Video game; voice of Uncle Gaston
Tinker Bell	2008	Additional story artist
The Princess and the Frog	2009	Writer, story supervisor, story, voice of Darnell
Winnie the Pooh	2011	Director (with Stephen J. Anderson), story, screenplay
Janela Indiscreta		Himself
Made in Hollywood
Made in Hollywood	2014
The Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic
Big Hero 6		Director (with Chris Williams), creative leadership: Walt Disney Animation Studios
87th Academy Awards	2015	Himself
Made in Hollywood: Teen Edition
Film 2015
Zootopia	2016	Creative leadership: Walt Disney Animation Studios
Moana	2016	Co-Director (with Ron Clements, John Musker, and Chris Williams),^[2] Story, creative leadership: Walt Disney Animation Studios
Gone Fishing^[3]	2017	Short; co-director
Big Hero 6 The Series	2017 - present	Creator: based on his 2014 film
Raya and the Last Dragon	2021	Director (with Carlos López Estrada), Story
Wish	2023	Executive producer

Collaborators[]

Chris Williams, who worked with Hall on Big Hero 6 and Moana
Stephen J. Anderson, who worked with Hall on a number of Disney features, includes co-directing Winnie the Pooh.
Mark Dindal, who worked with Hall on The Emperor's New Groove and Chicken Little

Awards and nominations[]

Won[]

(2015) - Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for Big Hero 6
(2015) - Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture for Big Hero 6
(2015) - Gold Derby Award for Animated Feature for Big Hero 6
(2015) - Crítici de Cinema Online Portugueses Award for Best Animated Film for Big Hero 6
(2015) - BAFTA for Best Animated Feature Film for Big Hero 6
(2015) - Alliance of Women Film Journalists for Best Animated Feature Film for Big Hero 6
(2015) - Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Directing in an Animated Feature Production for Big Hero 6
(2015) - Cinema Bloggers Award, Portugal for Best Animated Film for Big Hero 6

Nominations[]

(2008) - Annie Award for Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production for Meet the Robinsons
(2012) - Gold Derby Award for Animated Feature for Winnie the Pooh
(2012) - Annie Award for Writing in a Feature Production for Winnie the Pooh
(2012) - Annie Award for Directing in a Feature Production for Winnie the Pooh
(2017) - Alliance of Women Film Journalists for Best Animated Film for Moana

References[]

↑ Giardina, Carolyn. "Chris Williams To Co-Direct Disney Animation’s ‘Big Hero 6’ With Don Hall", December 31, 2013. Retrieved on December 31, 2013.
↑ Sciretta, Peter (June 29, 2016). "Disney Animation’s Big Announcement Coming Tomorrow, Here’s What It Could Be". /Film. http://www.slashfilm.com/disney-animations-big-announcement/. Retrieved August 21, 2016.
↑ Wolfe, Jennifer (January 13, 2017). "‘Moana’ Sails Home on Digital HD February 21 and Blu-ray March 7". Animation World Network. http://www.awn.com/news/moana-sails-home-digital-hd-february-21-and-blu-ray-march-7. Retrieved January 15, 2017.

External links[]

Don Hall on IMDb

v - e - dAcademy Award for Best Animated Feature

2000s

Shrek – Aron Warner (2001) • Spirited Away – Hayao Miyazaki (2002) • Finding Nemo – Andrew Stanton (2003) • The Incredibles – Brad Bird (2004) • Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit – Nick Park and Steve Box (2005) • Happy Feet – George Miller (2006) • Ratatouille – Brad Bird (2007) • WALL-E – Andrew Stanton (2008) • Up – Pete Docter (2009)

2010s

Toy Story 3 – Lee Unkrich (2010) • Rango – Gore Verbinski (2011) • Brave – Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman (2012) • Frozen – Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, and Peter Del Vecho (2013) • Big Hero 6 – Don Hall, Chris Williams, and Roy Conli (2014) • Inside Out – Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera (2015) • Zootopia – Byron Howard, Rich Moore, and Clark Spencer (2016) • Coco – Lee Unkrich and Darla K. Anderson (2017) • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (2018) • Toy Story 4 – Josh Cooley, Jonas Rivera, and Mark Nielsen (2019)

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[THRWilliams-1] Giardina, Carolyn. "Chris Williams To Co-Direct Disney Animation’s ‘Big Hero 6’ With Don Hall", December 31, 2013. Retrieved on December 31, 2013.

[2] Sciretta, Peter (June 29, 2016). "Disney Animation’s Big Announcement Coming Tomorrow, Here’s What It Could Be". /Film. http://www.slashfilm.com/disney-animations-big-announcement/. Retrieved August 21, 2016.

[3] Wolfe, Jennifer (January 13, 2017). "‘Moana’ Sails Home on Digital HD February 21 and Blu-ray March 7". Animation World Network. http://www.awn.com/news/moana-sails-home-digital-hd-february-21-and-blu-ray-march-7. Retrieved January 15, 2017.

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