Mark Andrews (filmmaker)

Mark Andrews
Birth name	Mark Elliott Andrews
Born	September 12, 1968
Birth place	Los Angeles County, California, U.S.
Nationality	American
Education	Bachelor of Fine Arts (1993)
Alma mater	CalArts
Occupation	Director, storyboard artist, writer
Children	Maeve

Mark Elliott Andrews (born September 12, 1968) is an American director, screenwriter, animator, he is best known for the 2012 Pixar feature film Brave. He was the story supervisor for The Incredibles, directed the short film One Man Band and co-wrote the short films Jack-Jack Attack and One Man Band.

Andrews studied animation at the Character Animation Program at CalArts. After that he was one of five who got a Disney internship, but was fired after three months. He is also considered to be Brad Bird's "right-hand man".Template:Who Some of his student films have been featured at MOMA's exhibition TOMORROWLAND: CalArts in Moving Pictures. Unlike most other CalArts alumni, he was not a huge fan of Disney films, and claimed he was a bigger fan of anime such as Kimba the White Lion, Speed Racer, and Robotech.

He is the father of Maeve Andrews, who voiced Jack-Jack Parr in The Incredibles. Andrews replaced Brenda Chapman as director of Brave (2012). Both were credited as directors, and they won the 2013 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.^{[citation needed]} As of January 2013, he is writing and directing another original film at Pixar.

Filmography

• Cadillacs and Dinosaurs: The Second Cataclysm (1994) (animator) (VG)
• The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (1996) (character models, storyboard artist) (TV)
• Loose Tooth (1997) (animation story developer)
• Quest for Camelot (1998) (storyboard artist)
• The Iron Giant (1999) (workbook designer, storyboard artist)
• Osmosis Jones (2001) (head of story, head storyboard artist)
• Samurai Jack (2001) (storyboard artist, writer) (TV)
• Spider-Man (2002) (storyboard artist)
• Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) (writer) (TV)
• The Incredibles (2004) (head of story, visual development, additional voices)
• Jack-Jack Attack (2005 short) (story)
• Mr. Incredible and Pals (2005 short) (storyboarder)
• Summer Belongs Movie (2005) (story supervisor)
• One Man Band (2005 short) (director, writer)
• Cars (2006) (additional storyboarding)
• Ratatouille (2007) (story supervisor)
• Violet (2007 short) (director)
• TRACY (2009) (Pitchman #1)
• The Quest (2010 short) (co-writer, second unit director)
• John Carter (2012) (co-writer, second unit director)
• Brave (2012) (director, co-writer, senior creative team)
• The Legend of Mor'du (2012 short) (executive producer)
• Monsters University (2013) (senior creative team)
• Inside Out (2015) (senior creative team)
• The Jungle Book (2016) (special thanks)
• Lucked (2020) (Executive Collaboration)

External links

• Mark Andrews on IMDb
• Mark Andrews's blog
• Mark Andrews
• Mark Andrews visits Calarts' Character Animation (Fall '04)
• Mark Andrews at FLIP Animation Magazine Retrieved December 2012

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)

v - e - dGolden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film

Cars – John Lasseter (2006) • Ratatouille – Brad Bird (2007) • WALL-E – Andrew Stanton (2008) • Up – Pete Docter (2009) • Toy Story 3 – Lee Unkrich (2010) • The Adventures of Tintin – Steven Spielberg (2011) • Brave – Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman (2012) • Frozen – Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee (2013) • How to Train Your Dragon 2 – Dean DeBlois (2014) • Inside Out – Pete Docter (2015) • Zootopia – Byron Howard and Rich Moore (2016) • Coco – Lee Unkrich (2017) • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman (2018) • Missing Link – Chris Butler (2019)