Lee Unkrich is an Academy Award-winning director at Pixar Animation Studios. He most recently directed Disney.Pixar's critically-acclaimed "Coco", which received the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and Best Song.

As the director of Disney.Pixar's "Toy Story 3," Lee was also awarded an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

Lee joined Pixar in 1994, and has played a variety of key creative roles on nearly every animated feature film made at the studio. Before co-directing the Oscar-winning "Finding Nemo," he was co-director of "Monsters, Inc." and the Golden Globe-winning "Toy Story 2."

He began his Pixar career as a film editor on "Toy Story" and was supervising film editor on "A Bug's Life." Lee also contributed his editing skills to numerous Pixar films, including his role as supervising film editor on "Finding Nemo".

In 2009 Lee and his fellow directors at Pixar were honored at the 66th Venice International Film Festival with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.

Prior to joining Pixar, Lee worked in television as an editor and director. He graduated from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema/Television in 1991.

He grew up in Chagrin Falls, Ohio.

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Darla K. Anderson, Pete Docter, and Lee Unkrich in Monsters, Inc. (2001)

Geoffrey Rush, Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich, and Graham Walters in Finding Nemo (2003)

Darla K. Anderson and Lee Unkrich at an event for The Pixar Story (2007)

Darla K. Anderson and Lee Unkrich at an event for Coco (2017)

Benjamin Bratt, Darla K. Anderson, Gael García Bernal, Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina, and Anthony Gonzalez at an event for The Oscars (2018)

Darla K. Anderson, Lee Unkrich, and Adrian Molina at an event for 75th Golden Globe Awards (2018)

Lee Unkrich at an event for 75th Golden Globe Awards (2018)

Alfonso Arau, Benjamin Bratt, Alanna Ubach, Gael García Bernal, Dyana Ortelli, Herbert Siguenza, and Anthony Gonzalez in Coco (2017)

Tom Hanks and Tim Allen in Toy Story 2 (1999)

Tom Hanks, Joan Cusack, Tim Allen, John Ratzenberger, Wallace Shawn, Jodi Benson, Blake Clark, Estelle Harris, Jeff Pidgeon, Don Rickles, and Frank Welker in Toy Story 3 (2010)

Billy Crystal and John Goodman in Monsters, Inc. (2001)

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