Jim Capobianco

Career Raised in Saddle Brook, New Jersey, Capobianco attended Saddle Brook High School.

A graduate of the California Institute of the Arts, Capobianco started in the story department at Walt Disney Feature Animation on The Lion King (1994). on storyboards for films such as A Bug's Life (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999), Monsters, Inc. (2001), Finding Nemo (2003), Up (2009), Inside Out (2015), and Finding Dory (2016).

In 2007, he wrote and directed the animated short film Your Friend the Rat,

In 2009, Capobianco co-founded with Shelley Trott the Bay Area International Children's Film Festival. now in the permanent collection of the MoMA NYC. a continuation of his short Leonardo, focused on the end of Leonardo da Vinci's life in France.

Filmography Aerial Contrivance Workshop 2009: Leonardo (short film) - writer, director and producer 2009: How To be a Good Bagger - writer and director 2018: Mary Poppins Returns - Animation Sequence Director 2022: Philharmonia Fantastique - story and animation director 2023: The Inventor - writer, director and producer

As animator 1989: Baby's Bedtime

Pixar 1998: A Bug's Life - story artist

2008 Best Original Screenplay

2019 Best Visual Effects Mary Poppins Returns

2023 Best Feature Film The Inventor