About The Filmmakers:

ANDREW STANTON (Director/Screenwriter/Vice President, Creative, Pixar Animation Studios) has been a major creative force at Pixar Animation Studios since 1990, when he became the second animator and ninth employee to join the company's elite group of computer animation pioneers. As Vice President, Creative, he currently leads the initiatives of and oversees all features and shorts development of the Studio.

Stanton made his directorial debut with the record-shattering "Finding Nemo," an original story of his that he also co-wrote. The film garnered Stanton two Academy Award® nominations (Best Original Screenplay & Best Animated Film), and "Finding Nemo" was awarded an Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film of 2003, the first such honor Pixar Animation Studios has received for a full-length feature.

Stanton was one of the four screenwriters to receive an Oscar® nomination in 1996 for his contribution to "Toy Story" and went on to receive credit as a screenwriter on every subsequent Pixar film -- "A Bug's Life," "Toy Story 2," "Monsters, Inc." and "Finding Nemo." Additionally, he served as co-director on "A Bug's Life," and was the executive producer of "Monsters, Inc." and the 2006 Academy Award-winning "Ratatouille."

A native of Rockport, Mass., Stanton earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Character Animation from California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts), where he completed two student films. In the 1980s, he launched his professional career in Los Angeles animating for Bill Kroyer's Kroyer Films studio, and writing for Ralph Bakshi's production of "Mighty Mouse, The New Adventures."

JIM MORRIS (Producer/Executive Vice President, Production, Pixar Animation Studios) joined Pixar Animation Studios in 2005. Morris is responsible for managing the production of the Studio's features, shorts, DVD content and theme park activities. He also oversees various production departments at Pixar, including Story, Art, Editorial, Animation, Shading, Lighting and Technical Direction.

Prior to joining Pixar, Morris held a range of key positions in various divisions of Lucasfilm Ltd. He served as President of Lucas Digital Ltd., and managed its two divisions, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) and Skywalker Sound. As ILM's General Manager for more than ten years, he supervised a staff of over 1400 artists and technicians, and guided the largest visual effects facility in the entertainment industry.

During Morris' tenure, ILM created the groundbreaking, Academy Award®-winning visual effects in "Jurassic Park," "Death Becomes Her," and "Forrest Gump." Other notable projects completed under his management include "Mission: Impossible," "Twister," "Saving Private Ryan," "Star Wars: Episode I and II," "The Perfect Storm," "Pearl Harbor," "Minority Report," "Pirates of the Caribbean," "Master and Commander," and the first three "Harry Potter" films.

Morris joined ILM in 1987 as a producer of visual effects for films and commercials. He was subsequently promoted to ILM's executive in charge of production, where he supervised all of the company's production. "The Abyss," which earned an Oscar® for Best Achievement in Visual Effects, and "Always," are among his producing credits.

Before joining ILM, Morris was executive producer at Arnold & Associates, where he oversaw the company's three offices and produced national commercials for clients such as Atari and Chevron. Prior to that, Morris was executive producer at One Pass, where he headed the commercial production department. He also served in the production departments at J. Walter Thompson, and Foote, Cone & Belding in San Francisco. Morris worked as a producer and director for PBS affiliate WCNY-TV, and began his career as a cameraman and editor at NBC affiliate WSYR-TV.

Morris is the recipient of both the Producers Guild of America Digital 50 Award and the Visual Effects Society Board of Directors Award. He currently serves as president of the San Francisco Film Commission. Morris earned a Bachelor of Science degree in film and a Master of Science degree in television and radio from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University.

LINDSEY COLLINS (Co-Producer) joined Pixar Animation Studios in 1997, and has worked in a variety of production capacities on such films as "A Bug's Life," "Toy Story 2," "Finding Nemo" and "Ratatouille." She also provided the voice of the character Mia in the 2006 Pixar release "Cars."

Prior to joining Pixar, Collins worked at Disney Feature Animation for three years, managing creative teams on the films "Pocahontas," "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and "Hercules."

Collins earned a Bachelor of Arts in Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College in Los Angeles. She currently resides in the Oakland, California, with her husband and two children.

Moving effortlessly from drama to sharp satire to period classics to animation, THOMAS NEWMAN (Composer) is building on an amazing family tradition in Hollywood, with a varied body of work that has earned the praise of filmmakers ranging from Robert Altman to Gillian Armstrong. To date, Newman has received eight Academy Award® nominations for his film work: he was the only double nominee in 1994's Oscar race, receiving nominations for both "Little Women" and "The Shawshank Redemption," and he has since received nominations for his scores from "Unstrung Heroes," "American Beauty," "Road to Perdition," "Finding Nemo," "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" and most recently, "The Good German." Newman also won an Emmy Award® for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music for HBO's award-winning drama "Six Feet Under."

Since the beginning of sound film, the Newman name has been an integral part of the evolution of film scoring. Newman is the youngest son of the legendary Alfred Newman, a nine-time Academy Award® winner and 45-time nominee, who as musical director of 20th Century Fox from the mid-30s to the early 60s was responsible for overseeing or composing all of the music created for more than 200 films. Uncle Lionel was a composer and studio music director with more than 50 scores to his credit, and uncle Emil was also a conductor with more than four dozen film score credits. Sister Maria is an acclaimed concert violinist, brother David has scored more than 60 films, and cousin Randy is a much-beloved pop songwriter and film composer who scored Pixar's first four features.

Newman studied composition and orchestration at USC, completing his academic work at Yale. His greatest mentor, Broadway's Stephen Sondheim was deeply impressed with Newman's originality and championed one of his earliest works, the musical theater piece "Three Mean Fairy Tales," which received a workshop production courtesy of the Stuart Ostrow Foundation.

Newman also won the support of a young New York casting agent, Scott Rudin, who brought Newman aboard director James Foley's 1984 film "Reckless" as a musical assistant. Newman's initiative on the project soon elevated him to the position of composer, and at age 29 he had successfully scored his first film.

Newman's reputation for originality and for intensifying mood and character grew rapidly with such films as "Desperately Seeking Susan," "The Lost Boys," "Scent of a Woman," "Citizen Cohn," and more than 40 other major titles, including "Meet Joe Black," "The Horse Whisperer," "Up Close and Personal," "Phenomenon," "The People vs. Larry Flynt," "In the Bedroom," "Pay It Forward," "Erin Brockovich," "Red Corner," "How to Make an American Quilt," "The Green Mile," "Jarhead," "Cinderella Man," "Fried Green Tomatoes," and more recently, "Little Children" and "Towelhead." Newman also composed the music for HBO's acclaimed six-hour miniseries "Angels in America," directed by Mike Nichols. He was commissioned to create a unique seven-minute symphonic piece, "Reach Forth Our Hands," for the city of Cleveland commemorating their bicentennial in 1996.

Multiple Grammy Award® -winning musician PETER GABRIEL co-founded the group Genesis in 1966. Together, they made seven albums before Gabriel left the group in 1975. He returned to music a year later and has since made 11 solo albums, including hit singles like "Shock the Monkey," "Sledgehammer," "Big Time" and "In Your Eyes." Gabriel has also completed film soundtrack works, including "Birdy," "The Last Temptation of Christ" and "Rabbit Proof Fence." His "Sledgehammer" video has been voted best video of all time, and his interactive work "Eve," won the Milia D'Or for Multimedia.

The musician, entrepreneur and activist is a recipient of the Man of Peace award, presented by the Nobel Peace Laureates, and the Chevalier dans Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He has received various lifetime achievement awards and BT's Digital Music Pioneer Award.

Gabriel founded WOMAD (World of Music Arts and Dance) in 1980, presenting more than 150 festivals in more than 40 countries. Additionally, the WOMAD Foundation has provided education and workshops to many schools. Gabriel's human rights work includes coordinating and participating in the 1988 Human Rights Now Tour with Amnesty International. He co-founded Witness.org in 1989 to give cameras and computers to human rights activists. Witness pioneered the adoption of video and online technologies in human rights campaigning. The Hub has just been launched, providing a platform for human rights video from all over the world (a YouTube for Human Rights). In 2000, Gabriel co-founded the Elders.org with Richard Branson, which Nelson Mandela launched in 2007. His business interests have been in the field of music, media and technology. In 1987, he founded the Real World group of companies: Real World Studios, Real World Records, and later Real World Multi Media and Real World Films. Gabriel co-founded OD2 (On Demand Distribution) in 1999, which became the leading European platform provider for the distribution of online music. In 2005, Gabriel acquired Solid State Logic with David Engelke, the world's leading manufacturer of mixing consoles for music recording, broadcast and post-production. He also co-founded thefilter.com and We7.com.

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