Mark_Andrews_(filmmaker)

Mark Andrews
Mark Andrews
	Andrews at the 66th British Academy Film Awards
Born	Mark Elliott Andrews; September 12, 1968 (age 55); Los Angeles County, California, U.S.
Education	Bachelor of Fine Arts (1993)
Alma mater	CalArts
Occupations	Film director; screenwriter; animator; storyboard artist;
Years active	1994–present
Employer	Pixar Animation Studios (2004–2018)
Children	1
Awards	Academy Award for Best Animated Feature; Brave (2012)

Mark Andrews (filmmaker)

American filmmaker (born 1968)

Mark Elliott Andrews (born September 12, 1968) is an American filmmaker, animator, and storyboard artist. He is best known for directing (alongside Brenda Chapman) 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.

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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.^[2] He is also considered to be Brad Bird's "right-hand man".^[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.^[3]

He is the father of Maeve Andrews, who voiced Jack-Jack Parr in The Incredibles.^[4] Andrews replaced Brenda Chapman as director of Brave (2012).^[5] Both were credited as directors, and they won the 2013 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.^[6]

On January 15, 2013, it was announced that Andrews was writing and directing another original feature film at Pixar.^[7]^[8]^[9] Andrews left Pixar in 2018^[10] and his new project was eventually scrapped.^[11]

In June 2021, Netflix announced that Andrews will serve as director of the original animated series Super Giant Robot Brothers, which premiered on August 4, 2022.^[12]

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Year	Title	Director	Screenplay	Story Supervisor	Story Artist	Other	Notes
1998	Quest for Camelot	No	No	No	No	Yes	Story Department
1999	The Iron Giant	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Workbook Designer
2001	Osmosis Jones	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Story: Animation Department Heads and Designers
2002	Spider-Man	No	No	No	Yes	No
2004	The Incredibles	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Visual Development, Additional Voices
2006	Cars	No	No	No	Additional	No
2007	Ratatouille	No	No	Yes	No	No
2009	Up	No	No	No	No	Yes	Additional Voices
2010	Toy Story 3	No	No	No	No	Yes	Additional Story
2011	Cars 2	No	No	No	No	Yes	Pixar Senior Creative Team
2012	John Carter	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Second Unit Director
2012	Brave	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Song Lyrics: "Touch the Sky", Pixar Senior Creative Team
2013	Monsters University	No	No	No	No	Yes	Pixar Senior Creative Team
2015	Inside Out	No	No	No	No	Yes
2015	The Good Dinosaur	No	No	No	No	Yes
2016	Finding Dory	No	No	No	No	Yes
2017	Cars 3	No	No	No	No	Yes
2017	Coco	No	No	No	No	Yes
2018	Incredibles 2	No	No	No	No	Yes	Story Consultant, Pixar Senior Creative Team

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Story Artist	Executive Producer	Other	Notes
1997	Loose Tooth	No	No	No	No	Yes	Animation Story Developer
2005	Jack-Jack Attack	No	No	Story	No	No
	Mr. Incredible and Pals	No	No	Yes	No	No
	One Man Band	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
2007	Violet	Yes	No	No	No	No
2009	Alma	No	No	No	No	Yes	Consultant
2012	The Legend of Mor'du	No	No	No	Yes	No
2014	Love Hurts	No	No	No	No	Yes	Role: Reese
2020	Circle of Stone	Yes	Yes	No	No	No

Year	Title	Role
2008	Bolt	Consultant - uncredited^[10]
2009	Tracy	Pitchman #1
2009	Wild Dogs	Special Thanks
2011	Toy Story Toons: Small Fry
2015	Sanjay's Super Team
2016	The Jungle Book	Thanks
2019	Smash and Grab	Brian Larsen's Story Brain Trust
2019	Float	Story Trust
2021	Nona	Special Thanks

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Executive Producer	Storyboard Artist	Character Models	Song Lyricist
1996	The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
2001	The Powerpuff Girls	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
2001	Samurai Jack	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
2003	Star Wars: Clone Wars	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
2022	Super Giant Robot Brothers	Yes	No	Yes	Comic book	No	Yes
2022	Primal	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
TBA	Hawkmaster^[13]	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No

Year	Title	Writer	Animator
1994	Cadillacs and Dinosaurs: The Second Cataclysm	No	Yes
2004	The Incredibles	Yes	No
2005	The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer	Yes	No

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Mark Andrews
Andrews at the 66th British Academy Film Awards
Born	Mark Elliott Andrews (1968-09-12) September 12, 1968 (age 55) Los Angeles County, California, U.S.
Education	Bachelor of Fine Arts (1993)^[1]
Alma mater	CalArts
Occupations	Film director screenwriter animator storyboard artist
Years active	1994–present
Employer	Pixar Animation Studios (2004–2018)
Children	1
Awards	Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Brave (2012)