Introduction
Mark Elliott Andrews (born September 12, 1968) is an American director, screenwriter, animator, he is best known for the 2012 Pixar feature film Brave. He was the story supervisor for The Incredibles, directed the short film One Man Band and co-wrote the short films Jack-Jack Attack and One Man Band.
Andrews studied animation at the Character Animation Program at CalArts. After that he was one of five who got a Disney internship, but was fired after three months. He is also considered to be Brad Bird's "right-hand man". Some of his student films have been featured at MOMA's exhibition TOMORROWLAND: CalArts in Moving Pictures. Unlike most other CalArts alumni, he was not a huge fan of Disney films, and claimed he was a bigger fan of anime such as Kimba the White Lion, Speed Racer, and Robotech.
He is the father of Maeve Andrews, who voiced Jack-Jack Parr in The Incredibles. Andrews replaced Brenda Chapman as director of Brave (2012). Both were credited as directors, and they won the 2013 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
On January 15, 2013, it was announced that Andrews was writing and directing another feature film at Pixar. Andrews no longer works at Pixar and his new project was eventually scrapped.
In June 2021, Netflix announced that Andrews will serve as director in the upcoming original animated series Super Giant Robot Brothers, which is slated for release in 2022.
Filmography
Feature Films
| Year | Title | Director | Screenplay | ExecutiveProducer | Story Supervisor |
StoryArtist | Other | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Quest for Camelot | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Story Department |
| 1999 | The Iron Giant | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Workbook Designer |
| 2001 | Osmosis Jones | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Story: Animation Department Heads and Designers |
| 2002 | Spider-Man | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | |
| 2004 | The Incredibles | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Visual Development, Additional Voices |
| 2006 | Cars | No | No | No | No | Additional | No | |
| 2007 | Ratatouille | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | |
| 2009 | Up | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Additional Voices |
| 2010 | Toy Story 3 | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Additional Story |
| 2011 | Cars 2 | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Senior Creative Team |
| 2012 | John Carter | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Second Unit Director |
| Brave | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Song Lyrics: "Touch the Sky", Senior Creative Team | |
| 2013 | Monsters University | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Senior Creative Team |
| 2015 | Inside Out | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
| The Good Dinosaur | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | ||
| 2016 | Finding Dory | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
| 2017 | Cars 3 | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
| Coco | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | ||
| 2018 | Incredibles 2 | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Story Consultant, Senior Creative Team |
| TBD | Hawkmaster | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Short films
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Story Artist | Executive Producer | Other | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Loose Tooth | No | No | No | No | Yes | Animation Story Developer |
| 2005 | Jack-Jack Attack | No | Story | No | No | No | |
| Mr. Incredible and Pals | No | No | Yes | No | No | ||
| One Man Band | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ||
| 2007 | Violet | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
| 2009 | Alma | No | No | No | No | Yes | Consultant |
| 2012 | The Legend of Mor'du | No | No | No | Yes | No | |
| 2014 | Love Hurts | No | No | No | No | Yes | Role: Reese |
| 2020 | Circle of Stone | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Other credits
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Tracy | Pitchman #1 |
| Wild Dogs | Special Thanks | |
| 2011 | Toy Story Toons: Small Fry | |
| 2015 | Sanjay's Super Team | |
| 2016 | The Jungle Book | Thanks |
| 2019 | Smash and Grab | Brian Larsen's Story Brain Trust |
| Float | Story Trust | |
| 2021 | Nona | Special Thanks |
Television
- The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (1996) (character models, storyboard artist) (TV)
- The Powerpuff Girls (2001) (storyboard artist, writer) (TV)
- Samurai Jack (2001) (storyboard artist, writer) (TV)
- Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) (storyboard artist) (TV)
- Super Giant Robot Brothers (2022) (director) (TV)
Video games
- Cadillacs and Dinosaurs: The Second Cataclysm (1994) (animator) (VG)
- The Incredibles (2004) (writer) (VG)
- The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer (2005) (writer) (VG)