Rich Moore
Rich Moore is an American film and television animation director, screenwriter and voice actor. In addition to directing the films Wreck-It Ralph and co-directing Zootopia and Ralph Breaks the Internet for Walt Disney Animation Studios, he has worked on the animated television series The Simpsons, The Critic and Futurama. He is a two-time Emmy Award winner, a three-time Annie Award winner and an Academy Award winner.
Early life
Moore was raised in Oxnard, California. He studied film and video at the California Institute of the Arts, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1987. While there, he narrated Jim Reardon's 1986 student film Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown. Included in his CalArts class were famous filmmakers such as Andrew Stanton, Brenda Chapman, and Jim Reardon.Career
Television
After graduating from CalArts, Moore worked for Ralph Bakshi on CBS's , co-writing all 13 season 1 episodes in 1987. Moore was one of the original three directors of The Simpsons, directing 17 episodes in the first 5 seasons from 1990 to 1993, including the episodes: "Flaming Moe's", "", and "Marge vs. the Monorail". He won a 1991 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program for The Simpsons: Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment, and was the sequence director on The Simpsons Movie in 2007.In 1994, Moore became a producer and supervising director for the animated series The Critic. He then oversaw the creative development and production of Futurama as the show's supervising director. He also directed several episodes of the animated series from 1999 to 2001, including the classic "Roswell That Ends Well", for which he won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program.
Moore's other television animation directing credits include Comedy Central's Drawn Together and "Spy vs. Spy" for MADtv. He served as supervising director on the 2009 animated Fox television series Sit Down, Shut Up.
Film
In 2004, Moore directed the Warner Bros. animated short film Duck Dodgers in Attack of the Drones. In 2008, he was invited by John Lasseter to join Walt Disney Animation Studios as a director, with the suggestion that he develop a story set in the world of video games. This would become the 2012 animated feature Wreck-It Ralph, Moore's feature directing debut, and a box office and critical success. Moore also supplied the voices for the film's characters Sour Bill and Zangief. Wreck-It Ralph won five Annie Awards, including Best Animated Feature and a Best Director award for Moore, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.Moore's next animated feature film, Disney's Zootopia, which he co-directed with Byron Howard and Jared Bush, was released in March 2016, having the biggest worldwide opening for an animated film ever and the second highest-grossing animated feature film of 2016 to Finding Dory.
On April 8, 2019, Moore revealed that he had left Disney to join Sony Pictures Animation, where he would direct and produce original animated films for the studio.
Awards
;Emmy Awards- 1991 – Outstanding Animated Program for The Simpsons
- 2002 – Outstanding Animated Program for Futurama
- 2002 – Directing in an Animated Television Production for Futurama
- 2012 – Directing in an Animated Feature Production for Wreck-It Ralph
- 2016 – Directing in an Animated Feature Production for Zootopia
- 2012 – Nominated: Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for Wreck-It Ralph
- 2016 – Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for Zootopia
- 2018 – Nominated: Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for Ralph Breaks the Internet
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Credited as | Notes |
| 1986 | Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown | Narrator, Charlie Brown | Short film | |
| 1988 | Technological Threat | Character animator, story by | ||
| 2004 | Duck Dodgers in Attack of the Drones | Director | Short film, produced by Rough Draft Studios and Warner Bros. Animation | |
| 2006 | Especial | Professor | CG-feature animation film | Animagic, Nox Film Won Best Animated Feature at British Academy Children's Awards |
| 2007 | The Simpsons Movie | Sequence Director | ||
| 2011 | Gnomeo and Juliet | Special Thanks | ||
| 2012 | Wreck-It Ralph | Sour Bill and Zangief | Director, story by | Won Best Animated Feature at Annie Awards, Critics' Choice Movie Awards, National Board of Review Awards; Nominated for Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film |
| 2016 | Zootopia | Larry and Doug | Co-director, story by | Won Best Animated Feature at Critics' Choice Movie Awards, Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, Best Animated Feature at Annie Awards, Academy Award for Best Animated Feature; Nominated for BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film |
| 2016 | Finding Dory | Special Thanks | ||
| 2018 | Ralph Breaks the Internet | Sour Bill | Director, story by | Nominated for Best Animated Feature at Critics' Choice Movie Awards, Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, Best Animated Feature at Annie Awards, Academy Award for Best Animated Feature |
| 2021 | Vivo | Producer |
Television directing credits
''The Simpsons''
- "The Telltale Head"
- "Homer's Night Out"
- "Simpson and Delilah"
- "Treehouse of Horror"
- "Dead Putting Society"
- "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment"
- "Lisa's Substitute"
- "Stark Raving Dad"
- "Bart the Murderer"
- "Flaming Moe's"
- "Lisa the Greek"
- "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?"
- "A Streetcar Named Marge"
- ""
- "Marge vs. the Monorail"
- "The Front"
- "Cape Feare"
''The Critic''
- "Pilot"
- "Lady Hawke"
- "I Can't Believe It's a Clip Show"
''Futurama''
- "Space Pilot 3000"
- "Hell Is Other Robots"
- "A Clone of My Own"
- "Anthology of Interest I"
- "Roswell That Ends Well"
''Baby Blues''
- "Bizzy Moves In"
''Drawn Together''
- "Clum Babies"
- "Alzheimer's That Ends Well"