Rich Moore

 This article is about the animation director. For the football player, see Rich Moore (American football). For other people, see Richard Moore (disambiguation).

Rich Moore
Nationality	American
Alma mater	California Institute of the Arts
Occupation	Animation director, screenwriter, voice actor
Years active	1986–present
Employer(s)	Rough Draft Studios (1995–2008) Walt Disney Animation Studios (2008–2019) Sony Pictures Animation (2019–present)

Rich Moore is an American film and television animation director, screenwriter and voice actor. In addition to directing the films Wreck-It Ralph (2012) and co-directing Zootopia (2016) and Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) for Walt Disney Animation Studios, he has worked on the animated television series The Simpsons, The Critic and Futurama. He is a two-time Emmy Award winner, a three-time Annie Award winner and an Academy Award winner.

Early life

Moore was raised in Oxnard, California. He studied film and video at the California Institute of the Arts, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1987. While there, he narrated Jim Reardon's 1986 student film Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown. Included in his CalArts class were famous filmmakers such as Andrew Stanton, Brenda Chapman, and Jim Reardon.

Career

Television

After graduating from CalArts, Moore worked for Ralph Bakshi on CBS's Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, co-writing all 13 season 1 episodes in 1987. Moore was one of the original three directors of The Simpsons, directing 17 episodes in the first 5 seasons from 1990 to 1993, including the episodes: "Flaming Moe's", "Itchy and Scratchy: The Movie", and "Marge vs. the Monorail". He won a 1991 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program for The Simpsons: Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment, and was the sequence director on The Simpsons Movie in 2007.

In 1994, Moore became a producer and supervising director for the animated series The Critic. He then oversaw the creative development and production of Futurama as the show's supervising director. He also directed several episodes of the animated series from 1999 to 2001, including the classic "Roswell That Ends Well", for which he won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program.

Moore's other television animation directing credits include Comedy Central's Drawn Together and "Spy vs. Spy" for MADtv. He served as supervising director on the 2009 animated Fox television series Sit Down, Shut Up.

Film

In 2004, Moore directed the Warner Bros. animated short film Duck Dodgers in Attack of the Drones. In 2008, he was invited by John Lasseter to join Walt Disney Animation Studios as a director, with the suggestion that he develop a story set in the world of video games. This would become the 2012 animated feature Wreck-It Ralph, Moore's feature directing debut, and a box office and critical success. Moore also supplied the voices for the film's characters Sour Bill and Zangief. Wreck-It Ralph won five Annie Awards, including Best Animated Feature and a Best Director award for Moore, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

Moore's next animated feature film, Disney's Zootopia, which he co-directed with Byron Howard and Jared Bush, was released in March 2016, having the biggest worldwide opening for an animated film ever and the second highest-grossing animated feature film of 2016 to Finding Dory.

On April 8, 2019, Moore revealed that he had left Disney to join Sony Pictures Animation, where he would direct and produce original animated films for the studio.

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Awards

Emmy Awards

• 1991 – Outstanding Animated Program (Programming Less Than One Hour) for The Simpsons ("Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment")
• 2002 – Outstanding Animated Program (Programming Less Than One Hour) for Futurama ("Roswell That Ends Well")

Annie Awards

• 2002 – Directing in an Animated Television Production for Futurama ("Roswell That Ends Well")
• 2012 – Directing in an Animated Feature Production for Wreck-It Ralph
• 2016 – Directing in an Animated Feature Production for Zootopia (Shared with Byron Howard)

Academy Awards

• 2012 – Nominated: Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for Wreck-It Ralph
• 2016 – Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for Zootopia
• 2018 – Nominated: Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for Ralph Breaks the Internet

Filmography

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Year	Title	Role	Credited as	Notes
1986	Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown	Narrator, Charlie Brown (voices)		Short film
1988	Technological Threat		Character animator, story by
2004	Duck Dodgers in Attack of the Drones		Director	Short film, produced by Rough Draft Studios and Warner Bros. Animation
2006	Especial	Professor (voice)	CG-feature animation film	Animagic, Nox Film Won Best Animated Feature at British Academy Children's Awards[citation needed]
2007	The Simpsons Movie		Sequence Director
2011	Gnomeo and Juliet		Special Thanks
2012	Wreck-It Ralph	Sour Bill and Zangief (voices)	Director, story by	Won Best Animated Feature at Annie Awards, Critics' Choice Movie Awards, National Board of Review Awards; Nominated for Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film
2016	Zootopia	Larry and Doug (voices)	Co-director (with Byron Howard and Jared Bush), story by	Won Best Animated Feature at Critics' Choice Movie Awards, Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, Best Animated Feature at Annie Awards, Academy Award for Best Animated Feature; Nominated for BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film
	Finding Dory		Special Thanks
2018	Ralph Breaks the Internet	Sour Bill (voice)	Director (with Phil Johnston), story by	Nominated for Best Animated Feature at Critics' Choice Movie Awards, Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, Best Animated Feature at Annie Awards, Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
2020	Chicken Little 2 (DAF film)		Director (with Mark Dindal and Jennifer Kluska), Executive Producer	Disney Animation Films who director and producer of Rich Moore
2021	Vivo		Producer (with Lisa Stewart)	Sony Pictures Animation film

Television directing credits

The Simpsons

• "The Telltale Head" (season 1, episode 8, original air date: February 25, 1990)
• "Homer's Night Out" (season 1, episode 10, March 25, 1990)
• "Simpson and Delilah" (season 2, episode 2, October 18, 1990)
• "Treehouse of Horror" (season 2, episode 3, October 25, 1990)
• "Dead Putting Society" (season 2, episode 6, November 15, 1990)
• "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" (season 2, episode 13, February 7, 1991)
• "Lisa's Substitute" (season 2, episode 19, April 25, 1991)
• "Stark Raving Dad" (season 3, episode 1, September 19, 1991)
• "Bart the Murderer" (season 3, episode 4, October 10, 1991)
• "Flaming Moe's" (season 3, episode 10, November 21, 1991)
• "Lisa the Greek" (season 3, episode 14, January 23, 1992)
• "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?" (season 3, episode 24, August 27, 1992)
• "A Streetcar Named Marge" (season 4, episode 2, October 1, 1992)
• "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" (season 4, episode 6, November 3, 1992)
• "Marge vs. the Monorail" (season 4, episode 12, January 14, 1993)
• "The Front" (season 4, episode 19, April 15, 1993)
• "Cape Feare" (season 5, episode 2, October 7, 1993)

The Critic

• "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1, January 26, 1994)
• "Lady Hawke" (season 2, episode 3, March 19, 1995)
• "I Can't Believe It's a Clip Show" (season 2, episode 10, May 21, 1995)

Futurama

• "Space Pilot 3000" (co-directed with Gregg Vanzo) (season 1, episode 1, March 28, 1999)
• "Hell Is Other Robots" (season 1, episode 9, May 18, 1999)
• "A Clone of My Own" (season 2, episode 15, April 9, 2000)
• "Anthology of Interest I" (co-directed with Chris Louden) (season 2, episode 20, May 21, 2000)
• "Roswell That Ends Well" (season 4, episode 1, December 9, 2001)

Baby Blues

• "Bizzy Moves In" (season 1, episode 2, July 28, 2000)

Drawn Together

• "Clum Babies" (season 2, episode 5, November 16, 2005)
• "Alzheimer's That Ends Well" (season 2, episode 14, March 8, 2006)

External links

• Rich Moore on IMDb

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v - e - dAwards for Rich Moore

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) Template:Annie Award for Directing in a Feature Production 2011–2030 v - e - dCritics' Choice Movie Award for Best Animated Feature 1998–2000 A Bug's Life – John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton / The Prince of Egypt – Simon Wells, Brenda Chapman, and Steve Hickner (1998) • Toy Story 2 – John Lasseter, Lee Unkrich, and Ash Brannon (1999) • Chicken Run – Peter Lord and Nick Park (2000) 2001–2010 Shrek – Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson (2001) • Spirited Away – Hayao Miyazaki (2002) • Finding Nemo – Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich (2003) • The Incredibles – Brad Bird (2004) • Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit – Nick Park and Steve Box (2005) • Cars – John Lasseter and Joe Ranft (2006) • Ratatouille – Brad Bird and Jan Pinkava (2007) • WALL-E – Andrew Stanton (2008) • Up – Pete Docter and Bob Peterson (2009) • Toy Story 3 – Lee Unkrich (2010) 2011–present Rango – Gore Verbinski (2011) • Wreck-It Ralph – Rich Moore (2012) • Frozen – Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee (2013) • The Lego Movie – Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (2014) • Inside Out – Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen (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) • Toy Story 4 - Josh Cooley (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)