Welcome to the HOLLYWOOD HALL OF FAME AWARDS™ 2008 inductees. We hope you enjoy your visit.
HOLLYWOOD STAR AWARDS®
ANDREW STANTON
HOLLYWOOD ANIMATION AWARD™ HONOREE
ANDREW STANTON'S BIOGRAPHY
Academy Award-winning writer-director Andrew Stanton and Pixar Animation Studios delight moviegoers this year with "WALL-E," a computer-animated cosmic comedy about a determined robot named WALL-E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) who discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. "WALL-E" was written and directed by Andrew Stanton, who has been a major creative force at Pixar Animation Studios since 1990, when he became the second animator and ninth employee to join the company's elite group of computer-animation pioneers. As Vice President, Creative, Stanton leads the initiatives and oversees all features and shorts development for the studio.
Andrew Stanton made his directorial debut with the record-shattering "Finding Nemo," an original story of his that he also co-wrote. The film brought Stanton two Academy Award nominations (Best Original Screenplay and Best Animated Film), and "Finding Nemo" was
awarded an Oscar® for Best Animated Feature Film of 2003, the first such honor Pixar Animation Studios received for a full-length feature. Stanton was one of the four screenwriters to receive an Oscar® nomination in 1996 for his
contribution to "Toy Story" and went on to receive credit as a screenwriter on every subsequent Pixar film -- "A Bug's Life," "Toy Story 2," "Monsters, Inc.," and "Finding Nemo." He also served as co-director on "A Bug's Life" and was the executive producer of "Monsters, Inc." and the 2006 Academy Award-winning "Ratatouille."
A native of Rockport, Massachusetts, Stanton earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Character Animation from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), where he completed two student films. In the 1980s, he launched his professional career in Los Angeles, animating for Bill Kroyer's Kroyer Films studio and writing for Ralph Bakshi's production of "Mighty Mouse, the New Adventures."
