Byron Howard

Directing · Born 1968-12-26 in Misawa, Japan

Biography

Byron P. Howard (born December 26, 1968) is an American animator, character designer, story artist, film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known as one of the directors of the Walt Disney Animation Studios films Bolt (2008), Tangled (2010), Zootopia (2016), Encanto (2021), and Zootopia 2 (2025). He is the first LGBT director to win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature twice for his work on Zootopia and Encanto. Description above from the Wikipedia article Byron Howard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• Tangled as Guard 2 / Thug 2 (voice)
• Tangled Ever After as Lantern Wrangler / Chef (voice)
• Zootopia as Bucky Oryx-Antlerson (voice)
• Imagining Zootopia as Self
• The Story Room: The Making of 'Lilo & Stitch' as Self
• Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as Himself
• Zootopia 2 as Berthold Hufschmerz / Bucky / Joel (voice)