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Ronaldo del Carmen (born December 31, 1959) is a Filipino writer, director, storyboard artist, illustrator, and voice actor. He co-directed and co-wrote the story for the Pixar film Inside Out (2015), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

Early life and education[]

Del Carmen was born in the city of Cavite in the Philippines.[1] After high school, he worked as a painter on the set of Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now, which was filming in the Philippines.[2] He graduated from the University of Santo Tomas with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Advertising.[2]

Career[]

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Del Carmen at the San Diego Comic Con 2009

Film[]

After college, Del Carmen worked as an art director for print and television advertising campaigns before moving to the United States in 1989 to pursue a career in film.[2] He worked for Warner Bros as a storyboard artist on Batman: The Animated Series, and as a story supervisor for DreamWorks on The Prince of Egypt (1998), The Road to El Dorado (2000), Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) and Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003).[3] He joined Pixar Animation Studios in 2000, working as story supervisor on Finding Nemo (2003), production designer on the Academy Award-nominated short film One Man Band (2005), storyboard artist on Ratatouille (2007) and WALL-E (2008), and story supervisor on Up (2009).[3][4] He made his directorial debut with the animated short film Dug's Special Mission (2009), which accompanied Up on its DVD and Blu-ray release.[4] He co-directed the computer-animated Inside Out with Pete Docter.[5][6] The film premiered at the 68th Cannes Film Festival on May 18, 2015.[7] In April 2021, it was revealed that Del Carmen had left Pixar and is set to write and direct an original Philippine-themed animated feature film at Netflix, although he has appeared in a few roles from Pixar films in later years.[8]

Comic books[]

Del Carmen has illustrated several comic books, including Batman Adventures: Holiday Special, which won an Eisner Award for Best Single Issue in 1995, and the children's book My Name Is Dug, written by Kiki Thorpe.[3] He has also written several comic books, including the Paper Biscuit series and And There You Are.[9]

Personal life[]

Del Carmen is married and has two children.[1] His brothers, Louie and Rick, also work in animation.[10]

Filmography[]

Feature films[]

Year Title Director Writer Story
supervisor 		Story
artist 		Other Notes
1993 Batman: Mask of the Phantasm No No No Yes No Storyboard Designer
1998 The Prince of Egypt No No No Yes No
2000 The Road to El Dorado No No Yes No No Artistic Supervisor - Story
Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker No No No Yes No Direct-to-video
2002 Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron No No Yes No No Artistic Supervisor - Story
2003 Finding Nemo No No Yes No No
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas No No No Additional No
2007 Ratatouille No No No Yes No
2008 WALL-E No No No Yes No
2009 Up No No Yes No Yes Additional Screenplay Material
2012 Brave No No No Additional No
2013 Monsters University No No No Additional No
2015 Inside Out Co-Director Original Story No No Yes Additional Voices
2017 Coco No No No Yes Yes Pixar Senior Creative Team
2018 Incredibles 2 No No No No Yes
2019 Toy Story 4 No No No No Yes
2020 Soul No No No No Yes Voice of Windstar, Additional Story Contributions
2023 Elemental No No No No Yes Voice of Bernie Lumen

Short films[]

Year Title Director Writer Production
designer 		Background
designer 		Other Notes
2005 One Man Band No No Yes No No
2009 Leonardo No No No Additional No
Dug's Special Mission Yes Yes No No No
2019 Smash and Grab No No No No Yes Brian Larsen's Story Brain Trust

Television[]

Year Title Credited as
1990 Widget, the World Watcher Storyboard artist
1991 Where's Waldo?
1992–95 Batman: The Animated Series Storyboard artist, character designer
1993–94 Mighty Max Character designer
1995 Freakazoid! Director

Bibliography[]

  • Fragments (Fragments Filigree Factory Production, 2003), illustrator
  • Paper Biscuit (Half Life, 2003), writer, illustrator
  • Paper Biscuit One Point Five (2003), writer, illustrator
  • Batman: Black and White, Vol. 2 (DC Comics, 2003), illustrator
  • Paper Biscuit 2 (2004), writer, illustrator
  • Project: Superior (AdHouse Books, 2005), illustrator
  • Three Trees Make a Forest (Gingko Press, 2006), illustrator
  • My Name is Dug (Disney Press, 2009), illustrator
  • And There You Are (AdHouse Books, 2009), writer, illustrator

Awards and nominations[]

  • Eisner Award, Best Single Issue, Batman Adventures Holiday Special (with Paul Dini and Bruce Timm), 1995
  • Daytime Emmy Award Outstanding Special Class Animated Program: Director, Freakazoid, 1996
  • Annie Award, Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, 2003
  • Annie Award Nomination, Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production, WALL-E, 2009
  • Annie Award Nomination, Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production, Up, 2010
  • National Cartoonists Society, Animated Feature Division Award, Up, 2010
  • Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay Nomination, Inside Out (with Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley), 2015

References[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Janet R. Nepales, “Spotlight on Filipino Co-director Ronnie Del Carmen and His Much-talked-about Pixar Film, ‘Inside Out’,” Golden Globes, May 2015.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Jeramie Noyer, “Up: rising with Story Artist and Dug's Special Mission's Director Ronnie del Carmen!” Animated Views, November 26, 2009.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 “Ronnie del Carmen,” Pixar Talk. Accessed July 12, 2015.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Ramin Zahed, “A Dug's Life: Ronnie del Carmen Chats About His New Pixar Short,” Animation Magazine, November 6, 2009.
  5. ↑ "Inside Out (2015)". https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/5583433be9c67.
  6. ↑ Sciretta, Peter (August 20, 2011). "Pete Docter To Direct Pixar Movie Set Inside The Mind (D23 Expo)". https://www.slashfilm.com/pixar-pete-docters-movie-mind/.
  7. ↑ Gettell, Oliver (May 11, 2015). "Cannes 2015: Studios to drop in with 'Mad Max,' 'Inside Out'". https://latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-cannes-2015-hollywood-movies-mad-max-inside-out-20150511-story.html.
  8. ↑ Nepales, Ruben V. (April 7, 2021). "[Only IN Hollywood Ronnie del Carmen on leaving Pixar to direct Philippine lore-based Netflix film"]. https://www.rappler.com/entertainment/movies/ronnie-del-carmen-netflix-film-interview.
  9. ↑ Chris Arrant, “Pixar & Comics – Ronnie del Carmen on ‘And There You Are’,” Newsarama.com, March 18, 2009.
  10. ↑ Ruben V. Nepales, “Cavite-born UST alum co-directs Pixar film”, Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 3, 2011.

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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)

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