Pete Docter is an American film director, animator, and screenwriter from Bloomington, Minnesota. He is best known for directing Inside Out, Monsters, Inc., and Up and as a key figure and collaborator in Pixar Animation Studios. The A.V. Club has called him "almost universally successful." He has been nominated for six Oscars (two wins thus far for Up and Inside Out—Best Animated Feature), three Annie Awards (two wins), a BAFTA Children's Film Award (which he won), and a Hochi Film Award (which he won). He has described himself as a "geeky kid from Minnesota who likes to draw cartoons."
Don Peri is the author of Working with Walt: Interviews with Disney Artists and Working with Disney: Interviews with Animators, Producers, and Artists. In addition to nearly a hundred interviews with creative leaders of the Disney films, he assisted director Ben Sharpsteen in writing his memoirs, giving Don an inside look at what it took to direct films under Walt’s supervision.
