Dan Scanlon | |
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 Scanlon at the 2013 Annecy International Animated Film Festival | |
| Born | June 21, 1976 [1] [2] Clawson, Michigan, U.S. [3] |
| Alma mater | Columbus College of Art and Design |
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| Years active | 1998–present |
| Employer | Pixar Animation Studios (2001–present) |
| Spouse | Michele Scanlon |
Daniel Scanlon (born June 21, 1976) is an American filmmaker, storyboard artist, and animator working for Pixar, for whom he has directed Monsters University (2013) and Onward (2020). [4]
Scanlon grew up in Clawson, Michigan. [5] When he was one year old and his brother three years old, their father died, and when they were teenagers, a relative gave them a brief audio recording of their father. Scanlon has said that these experiences helped inspire the story of Onward. [6] He graduated with a BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design in 1998.
Scanlon was an animator for The Indescribable Nth and Joseph: King of Dreams . He served as a storyboard artist for The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea and 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure . [3]
Scanlon joined Pixar in 2001, [3] where he was a story artist for Cars and Toy Story 3 . He co-directed the short film Mater and the Ghostlight . [3] He illustrated part one of Unmentionables, a comic book written by his wife, Michele Scanlon, and wrote and directed the live-action feature film Tracy. [7] Tracy was Scanlon's first feature film as a writer/director. He also served as a member of the senior creative team on Brave and Inside Out .
Scanlon directed the prequel film of Monsters, Inc. , Monsters University , released in 2013, to positive reviews and commercial success. He subsequently directed the fantasy-road trip film Onward (2020), [6] featuring the voices of Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Octavia Spencer. [8] It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, but lost to another Pixar film Soul . [9]
In February 2021, Scanlon stated that he and Kori Rae will develop another original Pixar feature film. [10]
Scanlon and his wife Michele live in San Francisco and work together on projects under the production company name Caveat Productions.
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Executive Producer | Story Artist | Animator: Character Builder | Additional Voices | Other | Notes |
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| 2000 | The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Direct-to-video |
| Joseph: King of Dreams | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | ||
| 2003 | 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | |
| 2006 | Cars | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Additional Screenplay Material |
| 2007 | Ratatouille | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Pixar Productions |
| 2010 | Toy Story 3 | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | |
| 2011 | Cars 2 | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Pixar Senior Creative Team |
| 2012 | Brave | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
| 2013 | Monsters University | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2015 | Inside Out | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
| The Good Dinosaur | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | ||
| 2016 | Finding Dory | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
| 2017 | Cars 3 | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
| Coco | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | ||
| 2018 | Incredibles 2 | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
| 2019 | Toy Story 4 | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
| 2020 | Onward | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | |
| Soul | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | ||
| 2021 | Luca | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
| 2022 | Turning Red | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | |
| Lightyear | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | ||
| 2023 | Elemental | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
| 2024 | Inside Out 2 | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | |
| 2025 | Elio | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Film Editor | Cinematographer | Puppeteer | Sound Mixer | Animator | Other | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Tracy [11] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Dan Sullivan | Extras, Artwork, Song Lyricist |
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Animator | Executive Producer |
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| 2000 | The Indescribable Nth | No | No | Yes | No |
| 2006 | Mater and the Ghostlight | Co-Director | Original Story | No | No |
| 2013 | A Monsters University Short: Party Central | No | No | No | Yes |
| 2022 | Cars on the Road | No | No | No | Yes |
| Year | Title | Notes |
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| 2008 | Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales | Special Thanks |
| 2017 | Lou | |
| 2019 | Purl | |
| Float | ||
| 2020 | Out |
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{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)Kori Rae and I are in development at Pixar, working on ideas for a new movie. We'll pitch those, and there's stuff we're very excited about.
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