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Yoshifumi Kondo

Japanese animator who directed Whisper of the Heart (1995) for Studio Ghibli and was considered a likely successor to Ha...

Japanese Theatrical Ghibli Director

8.6 Great

2

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

3

Akiyuki Shinbo

Japanese anime director at Shaft studio known for a highly stylized visual approach, serving as chief director of Puella...

Anime Television Contemporary Japanese

8.5 Great

4

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

5

Ari Folman

Israeli director whose animated documentary Waltz with Bashir (2008) reconstructed his own suppressed memories of the 19...

Contemporary Israeli Documentary Theatrical

8.5 Great

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Peter Ramsey

American director who co-directed Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), winning the Academy Award for Best Animated...

Sony Contemporary Theatrical Dreamworks

8.4 Great

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Bob Persichetti

American animator and director who co-directed Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), which won the Academy Award for...

Sony Contemporary Theatrical Director

8.3 Great

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Bob Cannon

American animator and director Bob Cannon worked at UPA and directed Gerald McBoing-Boing (1950), which won the Academy...

Modernist Theatrical Golden Age Upa

8.2 Great

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Simon Otto

German animator who served as head of character animation at DreamWorks Animation, known for his supervisory work on the...

Contemporary Character Animation Theatrical Cgi

8.2 Great

10

Keiichi Hara

Japanese anime director known for multiple 'Crayon Shin-chan' theatrical films and for directing the independently accla...

Anime Contemporary Japanese Theatrical

8.2 Great

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Claude Barras

Swiss stop-motion director Claude Barras made his feature debut with My Life as a Zucchini (Ma vie de Courgette, 2016),...

Swiss Contemporary Theatrical Stop Motion

8.2 Great

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Vincent Paronnaud

French comic artist and filmmaker who co-directed the animated feature Persepolis (2007) with Marjane Satrapi, earning t...

French Feature Theatrical Director

8.2 Great

13

Andrew Adamson

New Zealand-born director who co-directed DreamWorks' 'Shrek' (2001) and 'Shrek 2' (2004) before helming the live-action...

Contemporary Theatrical Cgi Dreamworks

8.1 Great

14

Joann Sfar

French cartoonist and filmmaker Joann Sfar co-directed the animated feature The Rabbi's Cat (2011), adapted from his own...

French Contemporary Feature Theatrical

7.8 Good

15

Rémi Chayé

French animation director Rémi Chayé is best known for Long Way North (Tout en haut du monde, 2015), a Franco-Danish fea...

French Contemporary Theatrical 2D

7.8 Good

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Mark Dindal

American director at Walt Disney Feature Animation who helmed The Emperor's New Groove (2000) and Chicken Little (2005),...

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

French animator Antoine Delesvaux co-directed The Rabbi's Cat (2011) alongside its creator Joann Sfar, translating Sfar'...

French Contemporary Theatrical Cgi

7.3 Good

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Tim Johnson

American animation director at DreamWorks Animation known for co-directing 'Antz' (1998) and for directing 'Over the Hed...

Contemporary Theatrical Cgi Dreamworks

6.9 Fair

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Cory Edwards

American director known for writing and directing 'Hoodwinked!' (2005), a low-budget computer-animated fairy-tale retell...

Contemporary Independent Theatrical Cgi

5.9 Mediocre