Byron P. Howard (born December 26, 1968) is an American film director,
producer, screenwriter, animator, story artist and occasional voice
actor at Walt Disney Animation Studios. He is best known as the
co-director of Bolt (2008), Tangled (2010), and Zootopia (2016), and a
supervising animator on Lilo & Stitch (2002) and Brother Bear (2003).
He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Tangled and won an Oscar
for Zootopia.Howard was born in Misawa, Japan, and raised in both the
outskirts of Philadelphia and Issaquah, Washington, United States, in
a middle-class family. He attended Evergreen State College in Olympia,
Washington.Howard began his career at Disney in 1994, working as an
animator on films including Pocahontas, Mulan, Lilo & Stitch and
Brother Bear. He was nominated for a 2003 Annie Award for Character
Animation for Brother Bear.
producer, screenwriter, animator, story artist and occasional voice
actor at Walt Disney Animation Studios. He is best known as the
co-director of Bolt (2008), Tangled (2010), and Zootopia (2016), and a
supervising animator on Lilo & Stitch (2002) and Brother Bear (2003).
He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Tangled and won an Oscar
for Zootopia.Howard was born in Misawa, Japan, and raised in both the
outskirts of Philadelphia and Issaquah, Washington, United States, in
a middle-class family. He attended Evergreen State College in Olympia,
Washington.Howard began his career at Disney in 1994, working as an
animator on films including Pocahontas, Mulan, Lilo & Stitch and
Brother Bear. He was nominated for a 2003 Annie Award for Character
Animation for Brother Bear.
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