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René Laloux

René Laloux is a French animator renowned for his 1973 film Fantastic Planet. This visually distinctive science fiction...

French Traditional Science Fiction Director

9.0 Excellent

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Sylvain Chomet

Sylvain Chomet is a French animator renowned for his distinctive, hand-drawn style. His films, such as “The Triplets of...

French Independent Traditional Director

8.8 Great

3

Paul Grimault

Paul Grimault was a pioneering French animator known for his meticulous approach to traditional animation techniques. He...

French Traditional Pioneer Director

8.8 Great

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Yoshifumi Kondo

Yoshifumi Kondō (1950–1998) was a Japanese animator and director who served as a key animation director at Studio Ghibli...

Japanese Theatrical Ghibli Director

8.6 Great

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Marjane Satrapi

Iranian-French author and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi co-directed the animated feature Persepolis (2007), based on her aut...

Female Theatrical Director French Iranian

8.6 Great

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Akiyuki Shinbo

Akiyuki Shinbo is a Japanese anime director and storyboard artist known for his long-standing collaboration with the ani...

Anime Television Contemporary Japan

8.5 Great

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Gints Zilbalodis

Latvian filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis single-handedly created the animated feature Away (2019) and directed Flow (2024), a...

Contemporary Independent Theatrical Cgi

8.5 Great

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Ari Folman

Ari Folman is an Israeli film director, screenwriter, and animator born in 1962 in Haifa. He is best known for the anima...

Contemporary Israeli Documentary Theatrical

8.5 Great

9

Peter Ramsey

Peter Ramsey is an American film director, animator, and storyboard artist. He is recognized as the first African Americ...

Sony Contemporary Theatrical Dreamworks

8.4 Great

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Bob Persichetti

Bob Persichetti is an American animator, storyboard artist, and film director. He is best known for co-directing the ani...

Sony Contemporary Theatrical Director

8.3 Great

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Keiichi Hara

Keiichi Hara is a Japanese anime director known for both franchise work and independently acclaimed features. He directe...

Anime Contemporary Japan Japanese

8.2 Great

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Claude Barras

Claude Barras is a Swiss stop-motion animation director. He made his feature directorial debut with My Life as a Zucchin...

Swiss Contemporary Theatrical Stop Motion

8.2 Great

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Vincent Paronnaud

Vincent Paronnaud is a French comic book artist, illustrator, and filmmaker who works under the pen name Winshluss. He c...

French Feature Theatrical Director

8.2 Great

14

Andrew Adamson

Andrew Adamson is a New Zealand-born filmmaker who established his career in visual effects and animation before becomin...

Contemporary Theatrical Cgi Dreamworks

8.1 Great

15

Rémi Chayé

Rémi Chayé is a French animation director and artist recognized for his distinctive work in European animated feature fi...

French Contemporary Theatrical 2D

7.8 Good

16

Mark Dindal

Mark Dindal is an American animator, screenwriter, and director best known for his work with Walt Disney Feature Animati...

Contemporary Disney Theatrical Comedic

7.6 Good

17

Sang-ho Yeon

South Korean director Yeon Sang-ho built his reputation with dark animated features The King of Pigs (2011) and Seoul St...

Korean Contemporary Feature Theatrical

7.6 Good

18

Antoine Delesvaux

Antoine Delesvaux is a French animator and director who co-directed the 2011 animated feature Le Chat du Rabbin (The Rab...

French Contemporary Theatrical Cgi

7.3 Good

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Tim Johnson

Tim Johnson is an American animation director associated with DreamWorks Animation. He co-directed the studio's computer...

Contemporary Theatrical Cgi Dreamworks

6.9 Fair

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Cory Edwards

Cory Edwards is an American filmmaker and animator best known as the writer and director of Hoodwinked!, a computer-anim...

Contemporary Independent Theatrical Cgi

5.9 Mediocre